Hey everyone, Happy 20 Years of Half-Life! As announced this past weekend, today we are releasing another content pack for A Place in the West! The app has been updated to include the Russian Translation of Chapter 5 (Thanks to Vsevolod Stepanov and Pavel Lapinsky), as well as adding Containment, our new interlude that takes us back to Black Mesa, to the place where it all began. Theres also a new Extra involving Containment, for which we give thanks to Rikki "Marphy Black" D'Angelo, that Ill let you explore for yourself Containment and the Chapter 5 Russian translation are both available in PDF form as well. Finally, were releasing Volume 2 of our soundtrack today, with 9 new tracks from Chris Jolley!

Celebrating Half-Life

What's Next?

• Chapter 6 is going into Production in December! We werent able to produce nearly as much this year as I would have liked because of financial reasons, and its great to be getting back to it. My hope is that we can have multiple chapters release next year.
• Weve also been working on getting everything down on paper. Often when were producing, we have the next chapter or two written, but now were extending our lens further. Ross has been hard at work over the last few months forging ahead into the later chapters. As production is approaching the storys halfway point(!), were spending a lot of time looking at wrapping up threads and character arcs. Currently we have up through Chapter 11 written (at least as rough drafts), with the plan being to finish the remaining chapters by the end of the year.
• Over the next month, I have some homework to do myself: Im going to rewrite the APW App to try and solve the Windows 10 problems that have been plaguing us for quite some time. Im also going to be getting back into the world of video editing - cutting the Stream Highlights video together for YouTube and getting back into making the Commentary Tracks. We have commentary audio for Chapters 2, 3, and 4 recorded, and the audio mixing for all of them nearly done, I just need to finish the videos themselves (and add subtitles, which was a popular request with the last Commentary video).
• Finally, Translations! These are something that I really dropped the ball on this year. We have translations for Chapter 2 that have been sitting around (largely due to financial strains) so the plan will be to get those lettered and shipped out, and then to do more prep with the published chapters and try to get the translators to help us out some more. I dont want to make any promises about how much will or wont be done, but I am going to make it much more of a priority than I have so far. Stay tuned for hearing more about that in early 2019.

What is A Place in the West?

Do I need to be familiar with Half-Life?

Features

• Immediate language support for English and Russian, with further plans to include more translations in the future.
  
• A fully-animated menu screen, complete with audio, in the vein of Half-Life.
  
• Support for multiple platforms, including Linux.
  
• A "Behind the Scenes" video featuring a commentary track by the writers, which will include excerpts from the script, various pieces of concept art, ideas that never made it to the page, and scrapped pages.
  
• Taking the new pages into account, the first issue comes to a total of 38 pages.

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