Hello citizens! It's been too long since our last developer blog entry, so I wanted to take the time today to update all of our backers on Identity's current state of development, as well as give a little more insight into the process behind the scenes. During the first year and a bit of development, most of the time was spent developing key backend systems. Networking modifications, weapon physics, character customization, voice communication and so on. That's all behind us now, and I'm happy to say it's gone as well as we could have hoped. Now and for the past couple of months we've moved on to gameplay development, making those backend features do the fun stuff. This Month in Development In this last month our lead character artist, Miroslav, has finished up everything we need for your characters going into the Town Square release. We're always going to be adding more character customizations over time, but to start you'll have the choice between 4 male and 5 female race options. After selecting your base race you can customize further with skin tones, blemishes, scars, eye color, hair styles, hair colors and tweaks to facial features. Identity is expanding on the usual character customization, though, as some of the options available can only be gotten through achievements. Prison tattoos are an example; if you see someone with such a tattoo you know they've done something to earn it. A lot of work this month has also gone into the player housing systems. In following our previous messages, our home customization system has been in place for some months although we've been expanding the floorplans in preperation for the Town Square module release. Sean, or Motown as you may know him, has prepared the various apartments you will have in the Town Square. If you have made a smaller pledge to Identity and do not have an apartment yet, we're going to be giving you access to a temporary (small) home in the Town Square so that you can play with the cusomization features. If you've pledged for a package containing an apartment, Town Square will show what you'll have in the full Identity game upon release. Just this morning our lead programmer, Henrik (AKA Mathalion), finished up the karaoke systems. It's a minor feature for Identity as a whole, but it's going to be loads of fun in the Town Square module! Just off the lobby of the hotel is a slick little bar, complete with a karaoke stage. You'll be able to queue up your favorite songs on the karaoke machine and see the lyrics on one of the monitors around the stage. The microphone on the stage really works, too, amplifying your voice out of the speakers so that your singing can be heard by everyone there! Most of us are terrible singers, so karaoke is going to have a lot of hilarious moments. If you're just there to watch, the restaurant by the stage is fully functional, too! It's Been Too Long I'll just come right out and say it: we at Asylum Entertainment have really had poor PR these last months, and you guys deserve better. You deserve much more frequent updates, and we're committing to give you that moving forward. We're a relatively small development team today. Currently a core staff of 5 incredibly talented full-time developers, I'm amazed every day with what this team can accomplish. Outside of our core we have a handful of part-time workers, mostly artists, who are also very skilled. Because we're a small team, many of us have to wear several hats. For example, Sean is our community manager but also a 3D artist. I myself am the project manager, a programmer and interface developer. This leads to few resources to dedicate towards PR as there's so much work to be done on the game itself. This is something we knew though, and we're going to set some time aside regularly to keep you in the loop. The Town Square module is coming soon. We're in the final months of 2016 now, and you'll finally be inside the first piece of the Identity world in the first quarter of 2017. It's a little later than we originally hoped since we're dedicated to making sure everything is smooth and stable from the first moments. Identity is an enormous undertaking, but the most difficult bits are behind us and we're drawing near! What to Expect The first stage of game development is always very boring to talk about, and also doesn't give us much to show you. Creating those backend systems that drive the game behind the scenes is one of the most important phases, but it's not very glamorous. It's for this reason that most games aren't announced until they're a couple years into development. Now that we're past that point, we're going to be able to start showing you real Identity gameplay. The first gameplay video you'll see is going to be in November and will show you just how detailed and in-depth Identity is becomming! You'll see a walkthrough of our housing system, showing just how far it can be customized and some of the cool fun features you'll find in there. Following that video we'll give you a glimpse of the Town Square features, leading up to its release. It's been a ton of work and a long time coming, but we're moving forward at a great pace and everything is about to get very exciting over here.

ABOUT ME Hello,my name is Logan Wolf,I am 16.I enjoy Serious Role-play and when I say Serious I mean serious. You may be wondering what makes me a 16 year old English guy can do with a server? Well even if you wasn't I'll answer it now,I have owned a Serious Role-play server in the past along with my co-owner Jim Wolf,We amassed around 24 players constantly,that may not seem like much but they all seriously role played. I have role played for around 3 years. I have enjoyed different types such as Altis Life and DarkRP(although this cannot exactly be the best I made it the best I could.) I also am currently doing Computing/Game/Software Development which means I do in fact know a decent amount about coding and programming. HOW THE SERVER WILL BE The server will be ran to an amount very strictly and we will deal with any rule breaks very quickly and professionally. The rules will be like a lot of Serious servers,although certain things such as RDM and other rules will have to be edited when the server is finally able to be up and running and we get a feel of what the game is like. The server will have minimal staff and only have as much as needed. It will be white listed but if we do not hit enough players by the time it is opening then it will not be whitelisted until we have enough people returning which could take 1-4 weeks. I took this idea from @JamesLuck01 I hope you don't mind To get white-listed go to our forums and look at the applications. Restrictions: Police Force: There is no limit on this but there is a limit on how many we can have on at once. I would like the limit to be 30 on at once. Fire Department: There is no limit on how many can be firemen/women but there is a limit on how many can be on at once. The limit is 15. Paramedics: There is no limit on how many can be paramedics but there is a limit on how many can be on at once. The limit is 20. Other: This is your criminals/citizens. There is no limit. We are currently accepting donations but this will go into a paypal and will be used for website hosting currently and server hosting when the game is released. You will receive only a few things for donating such as: A special tag on our forums. A personal Discord Channel. More in the future as long as it does not equal a pay to win function. Donate here A few words from my co-owner Jim Wolf: Check out @JamesLuck01 server post: LINKS Radio Station This is more so you can talk to each other and listen to music at the same time,this is just a lot of fun from experiences. Discord This is for talking to other people such as me or Jim. Steam Group Use this to see announcements and also to add people on steam. Website Use this to get white-listed and set up your profile and show us your support. My Steam Profile Use this to talk to me directly. Police White-list Fire Department White-list Paramedic White-list Citizen White-list Rules For Everything Use this to get to grips with our rules.

ayy i got whitelisted on this server and the staff seems pretty cool

Thanks @JamesLuck01 Same to you,and I don't know about whitelist for the start.

Hello my goodfellas, I can't wait to join the Town Square with all of you. I am a patient guy and I always choose quality instead of quantity. See you soon mates!

I think having choices would be great too. Especially for deaf people and the hearing impaired. Of which I am. I know having a built in system that can translate what people are saying into text would be super useful and would give people using text something to reference in their reply

Personally, I think it could be fun using voice, but it would be even better if we could use a voice that would make sense for the character, i.e. a voice changer, be it integrated or through a 3rd party application. Also, it's important to note, many people don't like talking/chatting in voice. Having ONLY voice as an option would really put off a lot of people. It's always better to have choices, rather than be pigeon-holed into anything.

As restricting as it may be for some people, I am a firm believer in roleplay ingame strictly being through voip. Text based roleplay in a game like this creates unnecessary delay and can ruin immersion immensely.

It's not set in stone, but the plan is to allow you to choose which town the apartment will be in. Later we'll be selling specific locations, so the universal pledge right now is sort of a limited thing. Different towns will have different floorplans. Ash Hill apartments are large for the price while Roseport are more in line with those you'd have in a city like New York.

You had me at mustang! I would love to have a Ford Taurus SHO

Yeah.......ummm no, I stated facts which we were given by the devs, So what do you mean by disagreeing with me. Also no kids in Identity and its a 18+ game but yeah the devs don't really mind kids playing but also they are not adding them into the game. You can RP as another persons kid but as a Adult. So get your facts straight before saying otherwise and i would not state something if i didn't get it from my source like devs on twitter.

A large list of Harley Davidson / chopper-styled motorcycles and Moto Guzzi's.