NEW ROLES

[CanadianJason]

Devs of Town of Salem
Can you please make new roles in this game cus it has literally been like a year since you added a new one like idk maybe add one new role in like an update or things like that

[Flavorable]

Unity port has priority. I'm sure the developers will assess the necessity of new roles after they're done with Unity.

[CanadianJason]

Wtf is Unity?

[MysticMismagius]

Wtf is Unity?

Pull up a chair, this is a long story.

So Town of Salem currently runs on Adobe Flash. Flash has been used as an engine for online computer games for a while, I think over 10 years now. Adobe, the guys who made Flash, decided that they were suddenly going to pull the plug on Flash, and stop supporting it. They are going to do this in 2020, and when that time comes, all games that run on Flash will die with the engine. Adobe gave everyone about a year and a half advance warning so that developers of Flash games, like BMG, could figure out how to keep their game running when their engine goes kaput.

BMG’s solution was to port Town of Salem to the Unity game engine, which is more recent and doesn’t have some of the problems Flash has. This basically requires a complete overhaul of the code in order to make the transfer. Due to the immense amount of effort this takes and the fact that they’re on a time limit, BMG is tunnel-visioning on completing the Unity port as soon as possible. They won’t even spare a second thought to anything else that would take a significant amount of time, unless it’s an absolute emergency like the data breach was. So everyone who wants a major change to the game is being told to wait for the Unity port to finish, because realistically nothing big is going to happen until then.