Devlog (Feb 2, 2025)

Hi, here's what happened since the last devlog.

First, I did some thinking about what to do next.

I considered doing:

• main campaign / Seri events

• Pila events (given that she came in 2nd in the character poll this is overdue)

• dialogue choices + love/lust stats

• town overhaul (buildings, furniture, npcs)

• character progression systems (e.g. experience pts, ffv-like job system, tutors)

• just add a shitton of items to support more character builds

In the end I decided to do the main campaign / Seri events. The reason is bc I want to consider the main campaign when I write future events (whether the future events reference it or not). For example, I think npcs should be able to talk about the demon lord... but if I don't know the main campaign, I won't know what the npcs should say.

So then, I did some thinking about the main campaign. I think bc it's the main campaign I put more pressure on myself to make it "good" than usual, which caused me to do a lot of overthinking. However I think I was able to recognize this, put less pressure, and move forward. I determined a high level plot and determined the minimum set of scenes I have to write (w/ the intention to "fill it out" in later updates). And I'm proud to say that after being in overthinking hell I managed to write ~2 of those scenes. Hoping to grind out the rest over the next week. After the "minimum" main campaign is done, I feel like I can basically work on anything in any order; will probably put out a poll w/ the rest of the aforementioned items later.

Also thanks for voting in the sex scene poll! Right now the artist is working on "Paila cowgirl", "Bell doggy", and "Seri fingering". And I will continue to look at the poll for later requests.

Finally the new musician started working on the new ost! I'll post previews in later devlogs.

Aggregate changelog for 0.8.44-0.8.56

Fixes

• Fix outdated bits in guide (e.g. you don't have to visit Seri alone)

• Fixed bug where ranged weapons auto-attack through walls (e.g. glass walls, normal walls when you have x-ray vision)

• Fixed bug where dash attack errors when it doesn't hit a monster (e.g. when dash attack is selected from abilities menu)

• Fixed bug where it shows placeholder for miran_bedside_shocked

• Fixed bug where Viola/Miran exit the party but don't exit the dungeon during Seri's 1st event

• Fixed bug where menu footer text errors when up/down/select/cancel have no keybindings

• Nanako refers to you as "pest" instead of "pests" if you are alone

• Allies avoid your fireballs and slow attacks more

• Slow attacks get auto-assigned to hotkeys

• Fixed typo in startup status "You are is in the middle of an action" -> "You are in the middle of an action"

• You can re-add companions after removing them in the dungeon

• Fixed bug where spider bite puts poison even if the bite killed

• Fixed bug where going to the dungeon (via game menu / map edge) when you have a quest clears the quest

• Fixed bug where tome of explosion doesn't appear outside of Torne event-associated rooms

• Fixed bug where companions didn't use tome of explosion