Family matters It was just a month ago that we announced the official release date for the Town Square module. Since then, we've been hard at work turning that promise into a reality. Team expansions, UI drama, family additions and a whole new Unreal Engine amounted into a crazy time! For me, the biggest news this month was the arrival of my second beautiful daughter, Aria, on the 19th. It's been a lot of fun and not as sleepless as I expected. It meant a week off for me although the team in the office hadn't skipped a single beat while I was away. My week away was the first week of work for two new developers here at the office. Andrew (McWOLF), a gameplay programmer, and Artur (Archer), a UI/UX designer and developer have joined the team. Both have already proven themselves to be great at what they do! You've got questions, they've got answers Identity's community members and YouTubers have interviewed the developers. Your questions have been asked; check it out to see what the developers say about the way Identity is played! IDENTITY RPG DEVELOPER Q&A NOVEMBER, 2017 Identity Game - Podcast - Developer Q&A - #2 Join us on Twitch at 4PM EST on Tuesdays and Thursdays to watch Identity's developers at work. Most of these streams also have other developers present to answer the questions of those watching, live! Are you interested in hearing answers to other questions? Our developers have been answering questions on live streams for some time now and Brandon (BeachBall), our community manager, has compiled an enormous list of questions and answers. Check out the TWITCH CLIPS DIRECTORY forum thread. The little engine that couldn't We're really excited to show you gameplay footage, not only of the Town Square module but what you can expect to see beyond the modules! We've been hard at work on this, but our aging build of the Unreal Engine just couldn't cope with the advanced vehicle physics systems we're implementing in Identity! This meant it was time for the dreaded engine merge, something our lead programmer Sone has been fearing for years! Every once in a while (usually every year or so) we have to merge all of the modifications we've made to the core Unreal Engine into the latest release. It's an absolutely enormous undertaking, but it's done and good to go. Now that we're running the latest version of the engine, we can support more advanced technologies and we can bring you a more immersive experience, even in the Town Square. Just wait 'til you see what we're doing with vehicles! The UI disaster! Early in the month we hit a road-block. Our licensed middleware system for the user interface in Identity, Scaleform, was discontinued! The industry leading system would be no more, and we had to make the tough decision to abandon it now to save grief in the future. It was like a slap in the face. All of our user interface code had to be scrapped and replaced! While Scaleform was a Flash based system, our new UI would not be. We've signed on with Coherent Labs, and the new UI is under way. While unexpected, it's actually a blessing in disguise! Our new Coherent system allows for faster development, and while it's a minor setback now it'll speed things up considerably going forward. Our new guy, Artur, is dedicated to the user interface in Identity and our UI will be stronger now because of it. With Artur's help, I don't expect this to affect development time for Town Square even at all. We have more hands on deck to cover the added work. On the horizon With our expanding development team, we're able to focus our efforts in more areas of Identity's development. With vehicle and weapon systems now getting attention, we're once again progressing towards a short but feature packed gameplay video for you guys to check out. Keep your eyes out on Identity's Twitter and Facebook! -- John VanderZwet

Hey its Dragonfly Todd and this is my newest Q&A:

There is gameplay video currently out and the meth shootout video is in production. We are determined to get it out March 21, just some stuff we need to sort out and bug fixing!

I myself get on every once in a while as I have few things bookmarked, and the forums is one of them, but I'm mainly just waiting for release now. Edit: I know I'm late to make the post, I just thought to myself how I checked the forums considerably less, and have changed the title from "Now that we have a release date" to "Since we have a release date."

There will not be, things available in the TS are karaoke bar where you can also purchase food and eat, go to the restroom, the Cinema that plays real movies, VOIP to interact with other players, a friends list on your cellphone, Art gallery where you can have your paintings displayed, writing books, Apartments and customization for them as well as character creation. More will be added in updates!

The Wanderer pushes White Mask up against a tree. Lifting him up from the ground. ”Stop fucking around. For once in your miserable life don’t let your ego talk for you. You and I aren’t different. We want nearly the same things.” Wanderer steps back and lets White Mask down. “I feel like you and I could change things on this Island. We could shape it for ourselves. With your..” Looking White Mask up and down. ”Untapped insanity and my training I’m sure you and I could make a good team. That is if you’re not too busy kidnapping unknowns and streaming it to the internet for shits and giggles.”

White Mask enters the park as snow flurries begin to drop from the sky. Still wearing his stylish all white Suit from head to toe. “Well isn’t this lovely…Snow falling from” The Wanderer jumps out from the tree right in front of White Mask. The most girly scream sound comes out of White mask’s mouth and jumps back holding his chest. “What the hell is wrong with you?” White Mask walks back up to him Wanderer. “Man your boy here is all dressed in white looking fresh and you jump out of the damn tree like a monkey! You Almost made me shit my pants! And I’m wearing all white as you can see! That’s not cool.” He stands there looking at the Wanderer and folds his arms over his chest. “You know I like meeting my fans but you could have just called, or put up the bat signal or something and I would of come to you.” He laughs. “ Ok not much of a humor kind of guy I see…so where do you want me to sign my name on your shirt? Your cute little Vest here?, Or your Chest? I mean that is kind of weird but anything for a Fan. White Mask reaches into his jacket pocket pulling out a Sharpe. (Wrote this at work on my phone so no color sorry)

The Wanderer was sitting in a tree awaiting the arrival of The White Mask. Reminiscing about times before he disappeared. After reading about himself in the paper The Wanderer was rather displeased, the less people know about him the better. It’s easier to do his job when nobody is waiting for him. As The White Mask approaches the park The Wanderer drops down from the tree standing still. ”You’re a difficult man to reach. And trust me, I had to learn a entirely new language for my work so that’s saying something.” As the cold air blows a light snowfall shrouds the two men in the open park.

5 hours later... Ghost is in his apartment at a small table cleaning his pistol. The table has a few boxes of ammo along with his cleaning gear. The apartment is nearly bare as aside from a table and one chair there is only a bed in the corner of the room. The cell phone rings as Ghost picks it up. “Go ahead.” Says Ghost. “Midnight at dock 7 in the port.” Replies the voice on the other end. Ghost hangs up the phone and assembles his pistol and performs a function check. Then inserts a magazine and racks the slide back letting it slingshot forward seating a round in the chamber. Ghost places the pistol in his shoulder holster then takes out a new pistol he picked up that day and strapped it to his left ankle. Ghost grabs his mask and knife then heads out door. Its about midnight and Ghost atrives at the designated location. There are 3 guys standing at the end of the dock talking and clearly armed. Ghost slips his mask over his mouth and nose as he approaches them. One of the guys sees Ghost coming toward them. Man 1: “Look it’s Ghost.” The rest of the crew look up and one of them speaks up, “You sure that’s the Ghost?” The first guy responded back “I’d say so, he’s wearing the mask.” Ghost makes it to the crew as the lead guy speaks up. “Just a quick run down Ghost. Boss will be coming by boat with the hardware, just help us unload the boat since we are a man short tonight.?The Chinese said they’re only being 5 guys to the swap, shouldn’t have a problem especially since you are here.” Ghost nods at the men and positions himself at the corner of the dock and crosses his arms. Moments later a 2 black sedan pulls up to the dock and 5 men gets out of the vehicles with one carrying a silver brief case. The group of men, all dressed in suits, make their way down the dock and stand before Ghost and the three other men. Eyes dart back and forth as both crews size one another up. In the distance a low rumble can be heard as a boat can be seen headed toward the dock. One of the Chinese gang speaks up. ”I see you hired the Ghost, your boss expecting trouble?” The first man replies, “No just insurance for our first transaction.” The boat gets to the dock as one of the men ties the boat to the dock. The boss steps off the boat. “Unload the crates.” The leader of the Chinese gang says “Nice to finally meet you Stephanie.” The woman gives a smile toward him as the engage into small talk. Two of the men head to the boat to grab a crate. The third man says to Ghost “Give me a hand Ghost with the second one.” Ghost walks over to the boat and grabs one end of the crate as the man grabs the other side. The man says to Ghost “Easy with this one it has the big hardware” and winks at Ghost. The two move the crate next to the other one and slowly place it on the ground. Ghost stands up straight again as all of a sudden he feels a barrel press against the back of his head. Ghost looks at the guy he help move the crate as he pulls out his pistol and aims it a Ghost. The other man from Stephanie’s crew is standing off to Ghost side with his weapon already drawn and aimed at Ghost. Stephanie turns around with a wicked smile on her face. Stephanie speaks sternly “His pistol is in the right shoulder holster and his knife is on his back.” The man directly behind Ghost removes his knife as other one takes the pistol from the holster. Chinese Leader “This is just business Ghost, we needed the weapons, but you are basically a ronin, and expendable.” Stephanie says “But it’s personnel for me, give me the knife.” The man with Ghost knifes hands it to the one with the pistol as he keeps his trained on the back of Ghost’s head. Stephanie takes the knife and examines it. “It’s been years since I’ve seen this...yet I see it in my nightmares every night.” She pulls down her turtle neck revealing a huge scar that goes across her throat. “I never forgot that day Ghost, as I’m sure my father was just another hit for you!” Stephanie stepped forward as she plunged the knife into his right shoulder then jerks the knife back out stepping back. “And I just accidently walked in on the great Ghost and cut my throat, but you didn’t confirm your kill that time. How poetic your mistake 5 years ago will be your death.” Stephanie holds up a pistol “I doubt you have anyone to even miss you.” Ghost moves his head to the side while ducking and spinning around the man behind him. Stephanie shot strikes the man in chest, causing him to squeeze off a single round toward her that whizzes over her head forcing the Chinese gang and Stephanie to duck down. Ghost grabs the pistol out of his ankle holster. The Chinese gang pull out their weapons and begin firing toward Ghost. Ghost jumps backwards kicking the man Stephanie shot launching himself toward the boat as he returns fire, Ghost is struck once in the side and another in the thigh before landing in the boat. He then kicks the throttle forward to the max and fires a round to snap the rope holding the boat to the dock. The body of the man that he sprung off of smacks into Stephanie knocking her to the ground and losing her gun as well. The Chinese gang and two remaining men continue to spray bullets toward the boat as it speeds away. “No! He’s not getting away!” Stephanie flips open the top of the crate and removes a RPG launcher and a rocket loading it quickly. Ghost looks back Just in time to see the flash from the launcher go off, the sudden blast has the men duck for a short duration as none of them were expecting it. Ghost runs to the front of the boat and dives off just as the rocket strikes the rear of the boat exploding it into a million pieces. Sirens are heard in the distance. Chinese Leader “Jeez lady! Grab the hardware boys lets roll the cops are coming.” Man 1: “Boss we got to go! Cops will be here soon!” Stephanie replies “I need to make sure he’s dead!” The 2nd man pulling on her arm says “He’s dead no one could survive that explosion, and if he did he was shot a few times and stabbed he’ll bleed out!” The first man chimes in “Plus he will freeze to death in the water, it’s the middle of winter!” The Chinese gang return to their vehicles and speed off as Stephanie and her crew get into the car the men arrived in and take off as well. Ghost breeches the surfaces as he floats on his back, he was shivering all over trying to stay awake. A fish boat passes near him as a life preserver lands next to him tied to a rope ghost grasps it as he is pulled on board and instancely falls unconscious. “Captain we got him and are taking him below deck. Should we alert the authorities?” The Captain replies “No. The fellow is wanted dead and we aren’t going to witnesses are caught up in that. We are headed out to do our season if he lives great if not, we’ll dump him out at sea, no one will know.”

"Whats that muffled music in the background?" he opens his eyes, still a bit blurry from passing out. He looks around trying to find his surroundings. He spots a man in an all white suite. "it's beginning to look alike like Christmas....." The music starts to come in clear and his vision comes back. "Where am I" Police Commissioner Baron starts to struggle in his chair and looks down as he is wrapped in a rope with garland that is red and green wrapped around the rope. "What the hell?" White Mask turns around and raises his arms up "Yay! you are up Commiss!" White Mask is all decked out in white, White gloves, White mask of course, white slacks, and white shoes. but he also is wearing a Santa hat and a black vest that has Christmas lights attached to it. and yes they are blinking. White Mask skips over to the tied up Baron and gives him a hug. "Merry Fucking Christmas Commiss!" he lets go of him and stands in front of Baron. "How do you like my Vest? doesn't it just scream Christmas????????!" He claps his hands together. "Oh shit I forgot I got something for you!" He turns around and then back sticking a candy cane in Barons mouth. "Perfect right?!" White Mask turns around and skips and claps his way towards what looks to be a tree, with Christmas decorations on it but it was a dead tree..hell it looked like a branch that he buried into the pot of dirt sticking up, it had lights and one Christmas ornament hanging from a small twig on the branch. Baron looks around and see a TV that is showing 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.' Baron eyes narrow and then see his dog. Baron spits out the candy cane. "Spike?" Baron says looking at his dog that is now wearing another branch that is tied to his head. "Spike? Spike? ummmm excuse me his name is Max....now" White Mask says "that's my dog" Baron says as he struggles in the chair. White Mask storms back to Baron and smacks him across the face and points at Baron "His name is MAX" he touches Barons nose "Boop" White Mask says and then laughs turns around and heads back to his branch Christmas tree. "We break this Christmas movie special with a important news bulletin." White Mask stops dead in his tracks and looks at the TV. "After the escape of the Notorious Villain White Mask." White Mask perks up and looks at Baron and points to the TV. "heh...Notorious." He looks back at the TV. "The Asylum was broken into yet again this time attacking the Warden. Here is what the Warden had to say." Warden Doctor Allen: "Tonight a man that calls himself the Wanderer came into the asylum looking for the man I have been treating name only as White Mask. This man tried to kill me all because of White Mask escaping the asylum." White Mask kicks over the TV. "What! Who is this man the 'Wanderer' the 'Wanderer' does he wander around selling cookies? does he wander around selling Meat door to door? piss on his head now I must find out who she, He HE IS" White Mask puts his hands on his hips and looks over at Baron. His Christmas vest blinking with Christmas joy, as he thinks. "Alright time to go meet a new fan." White Mask walks over to Baron, removing his Christmas vest and tossing it to the side. He then removes his Santa hat placing it on top of Barons head. "Keep that warm for me would yeah brother?" He then reaches down grabbing a big bow and smashes it on Barons chest. "Alright me and you are not done you and Max play nice listen to the music and I will be right back" White Mask smack taps him across the face and then punches him across his face knocking him out so that he would not scream. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.." He shakes his hand out and makes his way out headed to the park. Where he will wait for this man called Wanderer.

The hype will begin again around Release/March I'm sure, so the forums are expected to be a little lonely then haha. Cheers <3

Yes. I've been mainly checking the forums for updates but now, I'd like to engage in other forum discussions and community activities.

Lets see if they manage to get it done to the date they gave us. i dont think so but who knows. The few Design streams they do are not realy much tbh. YES even I start to get annoyed and im thinking of requesting an refund.

See, i always wondered if there was a specific word for that...and after looking it up, it turns out there is LOL thank you sir! but i couldnt agree more

this is what's going to turn this game into vaporware.

They keep saying this is only an estimated release date they think it might be ready by, and if it isn't I hope everyone refunds. They still haven't given us n ee gameplay, sure they have design streams and some concept art but for a release date 4 months from now it's not good enough

Yeah I already lost interest like 3 months ago. I've known about this since December of 2016 I occasionally go to the forums, but at one point I was posting several times every day, now I do it maybe once a week or two.

Goodmorning/ afternoon civilians! This is just an update post to the announcement that we are taking moderator applications. With the release date for Module 1 finally revealed as March 21 the traffic on not only on the website, but twitter, twitch and our discord will increase drastically leaving you with the opportunity to join us at Asylum Entertainment. I am here to announce that after 32 applications, we narrowed it down to 2 new moderators! We have messaged the new people joining our team so check those inboxes! We will actively keep looking at the applications we have received if we notice more activity that may need assistance so don't forget to keep your eye out! *insert eye emote here* (as beachball likes) If you didn't make it this round, don't be ashamed! We had SO many good applications making it very difficult to pick just 2. While the module's release date might seem like "forever" away, we will be looking for more moderators pretty soon considering the traffic we will get once the game actually is in your hands. Well, that's all I have for now, HAIRBALL OUT! *poof*