I'm not really liking full open source at the moment because I fear it will fragment the game, i.e. several people will copy and maintain their own separate versions of the game, causing several different/diverging versions, all downloadable at different locations, and it won't really help anyone except those individuals.

Possibly a better option is for me to leave the game on Steam as a free game, and make the source code public on my Github account, (or maybe the TM Community Github account). This would retain an 'official' version of the game, and allow anyone to collaborate (make changes) to that version of the game and hopefully reduce the problem above. I would also have to allow a number of people access to the Steamworks page so that they can upload new versions to Steam as they are developed.

Also hopefully we can continue hosting the forum.

Hello everyone.

Seven years and nine months after the first release of Total Miner: Forge on the Xbox 360 Live Indie Games channel, I have reached bedrock and am unable to continue development. Add another 6 months for the development time before the initial release and this wonderful game has dominated my life for the better part of eight years.

It takes a tremendous amount of drive, energy and enthusiasm to work on an ambitious indie computer game. I no longer have the necessary drive to continue on this game.

I will keep the game open on the Steam store until the end of May, at a reduced price, and then remove it from the store, permanently. At that time I will also delete the TM twitter account, facebook account and end the hosting of this website/forum. I'll keep the youtube channel open.

I will do whatever is necessary to ensure the game is still playable/downloadable after removal from the Steam store.

For people who only know the game from Steam, I apologise for not being able to come through and get the game out of early access. The burden is too great for me now.

To all you 360'rs, thanks for the memories, it's been a blast. I couldn't have hoped for a better community supporting the game. I can't thank you enough. You've all given me so much joy. I will never forget you guys.

My friends, I wish you all the very best in your lives ahead.
Craig.

That is exactly what it was.

Now, when I hit the NPC, it plays the default player model noise. I supplied a sound file, and called upon ot for the ActorAudioData, but the sounds to not play. Do they have to be in a specific file format? I have them in .wav

ActorAudioData.xml doesn't yet support specifying external sound files. It only allows specifying sound 'keys' used to identify the games existing built in sounds. I can post a list of these keys if you think it might help. To use external files, currently you need to do that using C#. I have plans to support external files from XML but it will be after multiplayer.

@Dauntless395 I have a copy I could throw up to the downloads page :p

No, keep the folder/script names long (fully descriptive). Use the alias name for menu commands etc, that's what it's for.