Can you please share status - when to expect the next version, final version?
Hi - as far as timeframes, I'm afraid it's just "soon(tm)/when it's ready", as always. As far as blog posts, yeah, it's been a bit, though the most recent one is from July 8th:
http://fractalsoftworks.com/2019/07/08/skills-and-story-points/Basically August has been a bit of a wash just due to *a lot* of extra acitivy, support requests, and so on, resulting from Sseth's video - not that I'm complaining! After that, I made a detour into adding 4k support - not something I was planning and not blog post worthy, but it took a little bit. After that, I've been going through and adding more story point uses to the campaign, along with making a large number of QoL improvements and various bug fixes as a result of the recently-increased feedback and bug reports. Also did a fair amount of playtesting with the new skills at some point along the way.
Still have a number of story-point/skill system related things to add; after that it's on to new stuff! Deciding between one of two things at this point; this'll get a blog post once it's a ways into implementation, so unfortunately, it'll be a bit. On the bright side: a lack of a blog post does not mean a lack of progress.
Some of this is, I think, just part of working on content-type things - they're not very interesting to write about much of the time, and it spoils them besides. So that's not something I'm super clear on how to handle; will hopefully figure something out.
How we can help?
Thank you for asking that! The main thing that helps - and that I really appreciate - is everyone's patience. I can't really do this any faster, regardless, so if I was getting bombarded with "when" type questions (present thread excluded!), all that would do is increase my stress levels and probably slow things down a bit. So, I really appreciate that this is not happening, and in fact am actively grateful for it. Also, helping out new players on the forum, answering questions, helping resolve technical issues (especially in the modding subforum) really helps, since it takes some of that off my plate, and I appreciate it a lot.
According to this dev time chart we are at least 1 year away from the next large update, assuming a similar scope from the previous ones.
Oh, good, thank you for putting together the chart! Saves me the trouble of figuring out when to make the next release
Alex is the main dev and handles... Nearly everything. David is art and some lore. That's it.
(Just wanted to say that David does more than "some" of the writing! Most of the writing you see in the campaign is his.)