Development Overview

Overview

Limit Theory is being developed by Josh Parnell and was founded December 2012 via Kickstarter.

Kickstarter

Within his campain he had 5449 backers, who pledged $187,865.
Besides his long article he also published a set of videos:

Development Videos

Recent videos also can be downloaded in Ultra High Quality, via torrent. See this thread within the forum.

Road To Beta

After the 21st video update Josh announced that there would be no more video updates due to the stress the format induced. Later, at the start of January, he announced the new update format, called Road To Beta.
The update exists of a small weekly update existing mainly of text and images to convey how LT has grown towards a more complete game in the past week. [1]

  • RTB Chapter 1 HUD, Hardpoint control groups and HUD customization
  • RTB Chapter 2 Object overview, cargo management and general UI finalisation work

After week 2, no further RTB updates have come out. There are indications that Josh is still working on LT, however, since he has also gone silent on the forums (probably lurking [2]) no info on the future of the RTB updates is known.
Here's Josh's last post before disappearing, out of which the reader can draw their own conclusions. Link

Post-RTB

On April 8th 2015 RPS posted that they received an email from Josh stating that he is currently working on Limit Theory despite unrelated matters which limit his communication.

On May 31st Josh made a long post on the forum explaining the reasons for his silence (in short, a serious case of burnout and related mental health issues) and announcing his recovery and return, and stating updates will resume at some point in the future when Josh feels ready, but he is working on LT.

On Augustus 14th Josh made another forum post, this time explaining his current way of LT development; he got an office at the Lousiana Tech Park, and is working normal healthy hours, with weekend breaks.

On September 17th he made a new Kickstarter update explaining what he said in the previous forum posts to the backers, and also releasing the full LT flickr album plus some photo's of his new office to the public.

Since then he regularly visits and posts on the forum, usually not getting into specifics but indicating that development is continuing fine.

November 16th Josh makes a post where he explains why there aren't any 'shiny' updates at the moment: the engine has become too complicated so he is currently working on separating the different components of it to make it efficiƫnt enough and easier (or, possible) to debug.

December 5th Josh makes a post about why this is necessary, after getting critique for working on the engine instead of on the gameplay.

January 20th 2016 Business Report released an article interviewing (among others) Josh which states he hopes for a beta release in about 6 months. Josh then stated this was not actually supposed to be disclosed, so take that number with a grain of salt.

January 22nd Josh makes a post about him giving a presentation to the LTP (the office he currently works in) which was a succes, making him an official tenant now. Some of the board members also volunteered to be his advisors.

February 24th Josh makes a post detailing his engine work, stating it has come to fruition, development is going great and he is working on game code along with finishing the last engine parts.

March 9th Josh makes a post detailing the new structure of the engine, restating game code is being worked on now.

March 23rd Josh makes a post telling about his experiences at GDC 2016.

April 5th Josh makes a post giving more info about the new engine, stating that the new scripting language used in LT and for modding is Python 2.7, and providing proof of development by showing screenshots of his version controll.

April 27th Josh makes a theorycrafting post about module instancing.

August 12th Josh makes a post restating development is continuing, explaining recent real-life events that made him appear less (TLDR both him and his gf needing to find a new appartement and moving) and promising a more detailed update at some point in the future.

Development Log

A daily report can be found in his development logs, reachable through his forum.

Two summaries exist, one which includes all past devlogs and one which includes the weekly summaries

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