@toto, although we will be doing some Crimson Eclipse trailers at some point, our key focus at the moment is the game design team transferring all their design work into Sable, whilst our sound designer completes creation of all the unique sounds which make up Crimson Eclipse for things like music, soundscapes and cut scenes, all of which will bring Crimson Eclipse to life, once we have that all input into Sable, , then at that stage we’ll be able to look at getting some trailers done.
@Naruto,  although we’ve not put much thought into the Sable manual at this stage, as it will be something me and the game design team focus on more after the launch of Crimson Eclipse, but what we do know is that it will be much more comprehensive than the manual which went out with the Alpha test  build last year. since we never intended a public release last year, as it was originally only meant to be a small private team of testers  we had to rush to put a manual together so all the public testers had some documentation/explanation of how Sable worked. For the full release we’ll take a little more time over the manual to ensure everything is covered. Although I don’t have specifics on exactly what will be in the manual, since we just haven’t discussed that in any great detail just yet, but I’m sure when it does get built that there will be a glossary in there somewhere.

Paul Lemm

@Brian, you sound super excited about both the game and Sable, from a developer stand point that’s fantastic to see people like yourself and others still so excited about the project. I’m very excited to be almost finished with my testing, I feel like I’ve been working on Sable for so long now that I don’t actually remember a time in my life where I wasn’t working on Sable hahaha. I’m also really excited about the game too, even though I’m obviously part of meetings where the game and its content are discussed and we all share ideas and we can all give our input, it’s really a creation of the game design team, as my focus is more on Sable, so although  I’ve read the script and know a lot about the game, since I’m not directly  involved in the design of the game , to me its like getting a new game  to, so I’m excited for the game but also to see what the game design team produce using Sable.

Paul Lemm

Well, I've always felt that RPG's were something the audio game market sorely lacks, although I know there are some who'll disagree with me. But when I first discovered the audio gaming community back in 2004 (my first actual audio gaming experience was with Grizzly Gulch Western Extravaganza back in 2003), I was extremely disappointed with how simplistic most of what was on offer at that time was. But then again I grew up on games like Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy and, my personal favorite, Lufia, which although I needed sighted help to play were still excellent games. So then I stumbled on this site and its database and most of what was available just seemed so bland by comparison. It wasn't until around 2008 or so, well 2009 if you want to get down to actual release, that we got our first real audio RPG which was of course Entombed. So Crimson Eclipse and by extension Sable is a major source of excitement for me. I want to see both projects succeed and will certainly do my part to help with that. I do think it's cool that you seem to be incorporating the ability to have multiple game endings even into the initial release, if I'm reading the last change log correctly. I've been toying with the idea of incorporating a bad ending into Ravenscroft, although that may have to wait till a hypothetical version 2 since it would involve being able to answer no to a question which, unless I'm much mistaken, isn't currently an option. But I figured that during Luke's conversation with his potential mentor, he'd have the option to say yes or no to the big question three times, and after the third refusal it would switch to a cutscene with dark music and ambiance, which would explain how Luke's refusal to take up the weapon of the hero led to the world's decline into darkness. It's sort of like how in the first Golden Sun game the player had the option to refuse to embark on the quest, and after a certain number of times the game would just display a little message that said "and so the world began drifting toward its inevitable destruction. Of course in my case there would actually be a cutscene that would showcase the ominous changes as society broke down and evil took over. Again this might be beyond the scope of what Sable will be able to do in its current form but I've always enjoyed when games had dark endings in addition to the good ones.

The main difference in our gaming backgrounds seems to be that I've been blind my entire life. But yeah, I remember that video you mentioned. I still say Holly's Beyond the Ice video was my favorite though. It was obvious she'd put a lot of thought into her project as far as the story. It definitely left me interested to see where it ultimately went, which of course is the mark of a well-written project.

LOL my ex fiance could speak French and she taught me a few of the shall we say, more colorful phrases. Of course I don't remember them. But I was just thinking about the fact that once you finish polishing the section you're currently working on, Sable will for all intents and purposes be finished, this version of it at any rate. But yeah, Beyond the Ice definitely had a lot going for it. The world sort of reminded me of the lands beyond the wall in A Song of Ice and Fire.

The difference is that we had the opportunity to experiment with an alpha of the product which, while it certainly had and will certainly still have some cludginess to contend with upon initial release, could still do an impressive amount. Paul has already said he might look into adding scripting if and when version 2 of Sable is released. That will certainly give those with more mathematical minds than myself the ability to add extra features to their titles. There's also the fact that EbonSky has been extremely receptive to user feedback, which we haven't always been able to say about developers. Audio Game Maker cough cough.

Wow. Hard to believe in just a couple days it'll be exactly a year since the public alpha started.

o yes
BryanP o yes
and equal to every day we are approaching the release date of this wonderful tool

I fully agree this huge work and it will certainly allow people who don't know how to program to create and seduput their dreams in the rpg games category

Hey BryanP!

If you need music I'll compose the music for you. I just sold my Yamaha Tyros3 to purchase the Roland FA-07. This is the keyboard that can do everythings. Just let me know.

@lem
we've already missed you

I for one just watched my way through all the Sable videos on the EbonSky YouTube again. I'd really like to see Holly continue developing Beyond the Ice. Now there's a game I could see myself buying.