First off, thank you all again for your patience. We realize every time you hear from us, you are hoping we’ll announce the official release of the game. We all wish that were the case as well. The main reason for this update being so late coming is because we were feeling like the problems would be resolved within a couple of more weeks of development.  That mindset kept going on and on. All we can do at this point is assure you that the game is going to be released and that we are very close to finishing.  

SO WHERE ARE THINGS WITH THE PROJECT RIGHT NOW?

Within this whole year, the main focus has been to fix existing bugs and to finish the save load system. After doing more testing and purposely trying to break things, we discovered even more issues with our existing system. Unfortunately this means further time spent in development. The issues discovered weren’t just on the save load system itself but on how certain scenes of the game dealt with relating information back in ordered to be properly loaded. 

We do have some encouraging news on that though. In the next two weeks, a couple of our developers  (one of which is the lead programmer) are going to get together in an office and put in some 16-18  hour days to try and solve these existing issues. We are feeling pretty confident that this will stamp out the remaining bugs on the system and get us where we need it to be for releasing the actual game. 

As soon as we have more to update you all on, we’ll post it here.

BESIDES THE SAVE LOAD SYSTEM, WHAT ELSE HAS HAPPENED DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS?

NOTE: This info will be especially helpful if you played the Beta

• Bugs have been fixed in the Nostradamus areas of the game
• Missing narrative comedy has been added to the Nostradamus area of the game
• Missing SFX have been added to the Nostradamus area of the game
• Bug fixes for the objective system not working correctly in the Escape Pod area of the game
• Bug fixes on the cutscenes between the Nostradamus and Scraps Garage areas of the game
• Bug fixes in the Scraps garage area of the game including issues where sequences weren’t happening in the correct order
• Bug fixes have occurred involving the Objectives System for helping players know what they have accomplished
• A SFX has been added for when the player has scored points
• New 3D music added for Scraps radio being heard higher or lower depending on which area you are in
• New music has been added to the Rooter Repair sequence
• A “Wimp out” (Think Space Quest 4 Monolith Burger) button has been added to the Rooter Repair sequence for people that really don’t enjoy the kind of puzzle that is being used in that area
• In the Crane Pit area there have been some much cooler polish animations added 
• In the Crane Pit area there has also been a lot of polish added to SFX management involving junk piece collision
• Bug fixes have been added to the Crane Pit area involving Aces PDA not working correctly for downloaded Apps in the game. 
• Bug fixes to landing on Tatoorakis
• Bug fixes to Tatoorakis Hydrolator and Desert areas of the game involving a missing component sometimes not be available for finishing the sequence
• Bug fixes to the finishing cutscene for the Tatoorakis area of the game including ship take off
• Bug fixes to landing at Taco Nova
• Improvements to the Taco Nova mini game including a fun reason to get a high score
• Some artwork changes to Andromecon, including some additional alien creatures added

ART BOOK TEASER

One of the things that Mark Crowe has been working on along with game testing and artwork polish is the official art book for SpaceVenture. This is something he had not spent time on putting together since the game artwork wasn’t officially complete. Now that 99.9% of the artwork is complete, he was able to put some time in on getting it together. We wanted to show you all a little teaser of what it will look like.

Remember, even though he has completed the book, this is just a teaser. The full artbook contains over 30+ pages.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL TEASER or use the QR Code from your phone

JUST A REMINDER

Please do not message us your updated address information for rewards. We will eventually send out a survey that will allow you to put your updated information in there for us.

KEN AND ROBERTA WILLIAMS ARE MAKING A NEW GAME

Just in case you’re out of the loop, we wanted to do a shout out to Ken and Roberta Williams along with our friend Marcus Mera. They are knee deep into remaking the game “Colossal Cave” into a new 3D/VR adventure game. We are really excited for them and can’t wait to play their new game!

Please go check it out when you have some time!

As a celebration to the beginning of Larry’s adventure… Who can we thank? Check the credits page!

Have you checked out the Leisure Suit Larry 1 Promotional Videos?

You can also check out the screenshots from Leisure Suit Larry 1 and check out all the characters that were in Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Inventory Items.

Did you know you can teleport and get items… All by using Debug Mode.

Need help? We have a Walk Through for the game! Oh? You can’t get past the age check? We got you covered.

So while the InnBarn website relocates to a new server, I’ve hosted the install files here on LarryLaffer Dot Net.

• Windows Installer (Includes DOSBox) by Collector from The Sierra Help Pages (link to SHP Page with the Installer)
• INNProxy Updater (Direct File Link Hosted Here)
• INNBarn Installer Instructions (PDF) (Direct File Link Hosted Here)
• MacOS (Zip File) (Direct File Link Hosted Here)

Maybe I should forward this great podcast that one of my friends did – about dog training and expectations to Eve so she can train Brutus to be a little more polite…

https://scentworku.podbean.com/e/managing-expectations/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-about-scent-work-podcast/id1394764765?i=1000557068536

All kidding aside – Give it a listen and pass it around. My friend Jessica was on this episode and she knocked it out of the park (they all did).

Whoops – this was supposed to be posted April 1st.

Under Ken & Roberta’s new company –

And if you’re wondering why they went with Colossal Cave for their game… This might explain it…

AT&T Unlocked Games Winner Reveal Stream Tuesday at 5 pm PST – Lori is a finalist!

Join Lori at the AT&T Unlocked Games finalist stream

AT&T recently started a competition for women game developers that they call “AT&T Unlocked Games.” We entered their second competition last November, and were thrilled to learn that Summer Daze at Hero-U: Tilly’s Tale has been chosen as one of the six finalists!

The winners will be announced during a livestream on Tuesday, March 8 starting at 5:00 pm PST on the ATT Twitch channel – Twitch.tv/ATT. We need a great turnout of Hero-U fans to help Lori win the Gamer’s Choice prize and to encourage AT&T to continue running this great competition. And of course to learn about the other five great indie games being developed by women!

Here’s AT&T’s teaser trailer for the event:https://youtu.be/zXhTsG7chL0

Our next development stream will be on Saturday, March 19 at 2 pm PST. I originally announced this Saturday, March 12, but we have a “real world” conflict that day. I plan to continue playing the AGD remake of Quest for Glory 2: Trial By Fire. As I stopped on day 1 last time, maybe we can make it to day 2. 🙂

Tomorrow as I write this (probably today as you read it), on Saturday, Feb. 12 at 2 pm PST, we’re doing a livestream in the usual place: https://www.twitch.tv/transolargames. We’ll run about two hours, or possibly longer. Lori and I plan to play the AGDI remake of Quest for Glory II: Trial By Fire. This is a point & click version of the game (with a typed command option) made by the fan group that later became Himalaya Games. The stream title is “A Katta’s Tail of Two Cities.”

Sunday night, Feb. 13, starting at 5 pm PST, I plan to stream a World of Warcraft event I’m doing with my guild. We’ll be chain-running Mythic+ dungeons starting from a single level 13 key, and trying to see how high we can build it in three hours. The stream is subject to whether I can get some technical details to work. I’ll be playing Maramacci, a Dwarf Shadow Priest (ranged damage class).

We will not do a stream on Feb. 26 because we’ll be on vacation with our son’s family. The next regular livestream will be on Saturday, March 12 at the usual 2 pm time.

There will be another special stream on Tuesday, March 8. I’ll post more about this very exciting event when it’s publicly announced. It will be on a different Twitch channel than our usual, and we will want as many fans to come as possible, for reasons we’ll make clear in the next post.

Collector, over at the Sierra Help forums created a Leisure Suit Larry Art player based off the King’s Quest VI art player (which he also recreated to run on modern machines, as well as created one with upscaled images). The Leisure Suit Larry VII art player uses images from PlayerNone’s blog about Leisure Suit Larry VII upscaled images.

• King’s Quest VI Art Player (SierraHelp)
• King’s Quest VI Art High Res Player (SierraHelp)
• Leisure Suit Larry 7 High Res Art Player (SierraHelp)
• Leisure Suit Larry 7 High Res Art Player (LarryLaffer.net – Mirror)