😈 Dev log: Welcome Yandere!

Hi guys!

Most of the time this week was spent on re-sorting texts. So the first of new personalities is finally assembled and rolled out on beta. So now you can (finally) see how it’s going to look like. And it looks cool in general!

Now let’s go over the (technical) details:

Around 1100 phrases from google spreadsheet were rewritten, added some variations, rephrases, shortened versions to be used in low mind state. Thus were converted into about 2000 in-game lines. I’ve tracked the time just for fun and it took ~1.3 minutes per line, so about 3 working days in total. The joke is when I tried to use an AI-based bot for this, it took even more time :-D. 

In the end some of the phrases appeared to be too long and it looks a bit overloaded when playing the game. So this probably needs one more round of review (mostly heartless crossing out of previously done work). The main issue is how damn time-consuming everything is. However I’ve already spent too much to give up!

Other than this, splitting texts between personalities and all the rewritten code works fine.

We got new synonyms mechanics, randomizing the girl’s vocabulary (of most often used terms) per character. This works pretty well. Also the phrases were split into subsets and each character is going to be limited in her talks. So even if you have 2 girls of the same personality, they will talk slightly differently. Note, this sub-variation is not saved at the moment, as we’re still testing and I don’t want to mess your saves with unfinished stuff.

‘Gagged’ phrases are now generated in runtime from usual ones. We tried to set up a bunch of rules on how to deform text for it, and it already works pretty funny. BTW English appears to be a ridiculously difficult language for this, so the list of exclusions is going to be much bigger than the list of rules – LOL. So this is still work in progress.

Okay guys. 
Now it’s your turn to try it. Feel free to report everything weird!
And have a good weekend!