Development Log : Week of June 30 - July 6

Since I don't want to be continuously spamming everyone's e-mails every day with my progress report, I'll be editing this pinned post throughout the week instead.

Current Stretch Goal

• $300 per month to unlock spicy side stories  (Achieved!)

• $600 per month for extended character Question & Answer sessions (Currently: $639/$600)

Browser Compatibility:

Works: Chrome, Opera, Safari (Mobile), Brave (Desktop)

Doesn't Work: Firefox + derivatives (whyyyy), Midori

June 30

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~300+ Lines of Code. (Line 1355 out of 4414, Approx. ~1700+ words)

• The News Report begins (all the gosubs hopping everywhere 😵). Reporter MC branch finished.

• Created sound + text effects.

• Created the Genius Pseudonym MC preview

July 1

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~375+ Lines of Code. (Line 1730 out of 4487, Approx. ~2000+ words)

• Finished the best-case to second-to-worst case scenarios for the news broadcast

• Still gosub hopping everywhere, which needs to be quadruple checked. I can't wait until this section is finished.

• Oops, forgot to pin this post yesterday.

July 2

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~400 Lines of Code. (Line 2120 out of 4618, Approx. ~2900+ words)

• Report on apartment fire done + the news section on basketball at the Olympics

• Suggestions request posted to Patreon

July 3

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~130 Lines of Code. (Line 2253 out of 4704, Approx. ~1100+ words)

• Lorelei cameo + news report done. Start of the nondemonic AOE spell. Too much else going on today, so not much progress here, alas.

• Created animated gif

• Created Open Beta + Quick Test/Random Test x 10,000 Passed

• Updated Alpha + Closed Beta with all recent bug fixes etc. (And then fixed what the bugfixes broke)

• Posted monthly Background Notes to Patreon

• I somehow lost all my archery background notes and had to look them all up again for Lorelei. 😭

July 4

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~100 Lines of Code. (Line 2355 out of 4765, Approx. ~706+ words)

• Finished the descriptions of the spell depending upon MC's magic perception + started working through the reactions

• Created sound effects

• Yeah, pretty much jacksquat done here today due to the Public Beta eating up all my time. Hopefully, things calm down more tomorrow.

• More bugfixes for the Alpha + Closed Beta

• Public Beta & all attending PR posted

July 5

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~300+ Lines of Code. (Line 2660 out of 4869, Approx. ~2300+ words)

• Reactions to the AOE far spell done, it's counterspell time!

• Created text effects.

July 6

• Checked/Edited/Polished ~350+ Lines of Code. (Line 3015 out of 5040, Approx. ~2700+ words)

• Finished reactions to the "surprise" if MC didn't warn the others about the rest stop demon attack. Off into the woods, do we go!

• Posted Far Futures Snippets poll to Patreon

• ... so many bug reports from the Open Beta