Ch5 devblog 12/01/2024

It's officially December! Starting off the month with a super Sunday Blog!

First off, Episode Megumi dropped yesterday! Just in the nick of time for a November release. Phew!

I hope you enjoyed it! This new side story was written by guest writer Beriya and I believe his experience in writing FMG stories really showed in the FMG scenes. Seems like the more detailed descriptions were well received.

If you missed the update you can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-megumi-117032978

This side story also has the newest version of the UI in it!

Introducing new textboxes:

This week has been busy with changes and additions. Now the game features colored textboxes with sprites of the character talking on the side. You can see examples in the screenshots:

The great thing about this system is that no character is left behind! Every character gets their unique color and sprite displayed properly. It is a system that will have us covered for every new character added too.

Previously we had to go into photoshop and create individual portraits of the character and match it to their character color. Not ideal.

Next huge improvement:

Introducing the improved UI!

Noticed in the screenshot the new UI buttons?

I am talking about these icons:

In the past I didn't like how we had tiny text for clickable settings at the bottom. It is the default renpy UI and it feels like a placeholder. Gobbo suggested we did something about it. After some planning, I decided we should have icons that can be toggled on and off.

Each button will have nice clicky sounds and colors when toggled. If you don't know what the icons do, then there is a little explanation that shows when hovering over the icons.

I decided to keep 2 buttons always visible: The back button, and the hide UI button. I want you to be able to go back whenever you want. Hiding the UI is also crucial when wanting to better look ;)

What's next:

With Megumi finished, I am working on Yuka's route. Will finish up Yuka, Manami and finally Naomi in the coming days. Stay tuned!

I will post the story poll for next months story as well. Then Ultra tier will get unused content from Megumi.

That's it for this week! Have a fantastic week ahead!