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Survive the Wild late July update

Sam Tupy — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:09:56 GMT

Hello everyone. I am here with an update or more of an announcement about Survive the Wild, and sadly it is not good news this time. The short of it is that after a couple months during which players can enjoy their store bought items, Survive the Wild is going to shut down for the foreseeable future. The store will be disabled within no more than 7 days after the publication of this post, target date for store shutdown is this Friday. If the game ever does return in the distant future, it will not be in a beta state and will retain all data, at such a theoretical time we would pick up all of the pieces such as choices of January 11th inventories, dealing with credits purchased during the beta etc. The remainder of this post will describe what finally lead to this decision.

Survive the Wild Very Very Late March Update

Sam Tupy — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:11:27 GMT

Hello everybody! After many months more blog silence than I originally wanted to create, I’m finally back with a huge update post about Survive the Wild! From what’s been going on behind the scenes over the last few months to the list of tasks required to finish the beta to a frequently asked questions section to an important change to the end of beta plan to a link to an interview I did with the Tony Gebhard show to an update on my personal life and more, this post has it all and should insure that every player who enjoys the game finally feels communicated with again! I am truly sorry for how long it took to finally get this done, I think everyone would have agreed that it was OK for me to miss a post following the release of the beta and maybe even the one 2 weeks after that due to general post-launch hecticness, but certainly I am disappointed in myself for not being able to resume the previous blog schedule at least after a few weeks of the beta being online. There are several reasons for this from the fact that there has always been a lot to do since the beta launch to the fact that much communication has been happening on the running game as well as the discord server making this harder to prioritize in my mind over fixing bugs/brainstorming/etc so that the beta might end as fast as possible to the burnout I’d mentioned in the stw English discord server in January, however I’ve still wanted to post here since a few weeks after the beta launched at this point and am sorry for not doing so before now. Honestly, this post has been in development for months, I mean since like last July or something. I would nearly finish it, then something in my personal life or another issue coming up with the game would distract me and delay it again, this repeated a couple of times. Lately I thought of just rewriting it from scratch since I felt like the post I had been writing was a bit too stuck in the past and a bit too hopeful in the short term, and actually wrote 25kb of a new post which was too negative, before remembering just how hard I’d worked on the one you’re about to read and deciding instead to combine both posts into a giant record containing information all the way back from when the beta launched to the current state of things in late March 2024. Since this post was written over a long period of time, I apologize if while editing it I missed any incongruity with the timeline and/or tone of the writing (I have done my best to insure it flows smoothly). Another consequence of this post being written over time and my resultant wish to fix the communication gap is it’s utterly massive size, I apologize if I overdid it for some! Again I am super sorry for how bad my communication on stw has been lately, and hope that this large post will begin the process of undoing the damage caused by that. Well without further ado buckle up, and lets begin!

Survive the Wild Early May Update

Sam Tupy — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:50:42 GMT

Hi all, sorry I’m a little late! So you guys have all gotten used to rather long and wordy blog posts with very detailed news as to exactly what’s been going on with every system in the game we are able to talk about. Unfortunately, there is so much going on right now that it would be unwise for the game’s release schedule to write such a post at this time. As such, I’ve got just a little something else here for everyone instead. You tell me, does the below make up for the lack of a long wordy post?

Survive the Wild late April update

Sam Tupy — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 07:49:02 GMT

Hello folks! The last 2 weeks have been very busy and things have gone extremely well in regards to Survive the Wild development, and the staff team and I are beginning to get very excited! I’m happy to say that we have completed 2 of the major tasks mentioned in previous posts, and I will describe those and more to you now.

Survive the Wild early April update

Sam Tupy — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:58:05 GMT

Hello again everyone, it’s time for another dollop of Survive the Wild development news! We’ve had a productive couple of weeks touching on a lot of random systems, so without further ado lets just get right into it!

Survive the Wild late March update

Sam Tupy — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 06:11:44 GMT

We’re getting closer, and closer…
Hello everyone! It’s been about 2 weeks since the last update, so it’s again time for the accounting of all that’s been done since I last posted in regards to Survive the Wild development. We’ve made good progress! A few things came up and then were resolved, some items in the todo list were completed, and as always random bugs have continued getting solved while tiny features and changes were added here and there. Again this post may get technical for some of you as I wish to describe everything in as much detail as anyone who is interested in such information may want, and so I apologize if the post gets a little wordy for a subsection of readers. Anyway without further ado, lets get into it!

Survive the Wild early March update

Sam Tupy — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:24:30 GMT

Hello everyone. It’s been a couple of weeks, so it’s time for another official update about the status of Survive the Wild. I’m going to try to post these either once every approximately 2 weeks, or whenever something particularly significant happens. We’ve had some awesome successes, a couple of setbacks and a more thorough todo list. Though some of it gets a little technical this time, I will describe all of it as it stands in this post.

February 2023 outage update 1

Sam Tupy — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:20:21 GMT

Hello everyone, I just wanted to give a formal update as to what’s been going on over the last couple of weeks since I’ve posted last. There have been some developments, but my communication has been a bit fragmented, taking place mostly on the Survive the Wild discord server as well as one blog comment reply. I’m here to fix that.

February 2023 outage information and updates

Sam Tupy — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 09:38:02 GMT

Well, I guess I will be using this blog after all. This isn’t exactly how I’d hoped to start my sojourn into blogging, but such is life, I guess.

Will I blog?

Sam Tupy — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 08:36:41 GMT

In an attempt to make my front page somewhat more visually appealing, to gain some experience creating webpages without actually coding them using a popular framework, and maybe to blog, I’ve decided to try using WordPress to display samtupy.com instead of coding it myself in html/php. Initially I had more negative than positive mixed feelings about it, but found that I’m enjoying it a bit more as I begin to understand the accessibility caveats of the WordPress administration interface.