Joining the team
As the most recent member of the team, I joined as a programmer back towards the end of August, recruited to assist with coding and the rewriting of the game's code.
While familiar with the game since before I joined, I had no real knowledge of how the game worked code-wise and the methods used by the group.As such, I spent much of my initial time in the group looking at the code and structure of the game, getting an idea on how I should work during the rewrite. More recently I have been working on rewriting the controller support, ensuring the game can be played with a controller to give the player more options for how they prefer to play the game during testing. Despite some initial issues, the support script works relatively well at this point.
All in all, it has been interesting to start working with Runes of Kalevala, both from the perspective of the coding and the group dynamic, and from reading up on myths, legends and stories I was unfamiliar with before. I look forward to learn more of the stories of the Kalevala, and to keep working on the game and help getting it out to players soon enough.
