15/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week! Let's jump in!

Summary

• Finished Daaz playtest

• Started Asher playtest

• Finished Cim sprite art

• Coded Cim sprite

• Some QoL fixes to various screens

• Finished up flowchart screen

• Finished setting up flowchart activation through Ch2

• Made correction from an alpha tester

• Started Asher's CG

Art 

This week I finished up Cim's sprite and have added her and her expressions into the game. She only appears for a couple of seconds in Chapter 2 as she's quite a minor character but she does have bigger appearances in later chapters.

I went ahead and coded in the finished CGs (then made some corrections to one of them. Ha ha. As usual.)

I also started on Asher's CG - for Chapter 2, I only have his and Daaz's left to complete. I'm currently working on the rendering as I've already done the lineart and colour flats for Asher.

Also received yet another BG.

Features

This week I went through chapter two and put the activation statements for the flowchart to make it light up as you progress through the story.

With the help of Feniks, I also added some QoL fixes to the flowchart screen and a couple of other areas.

The screen now has its full functionality. There is a minor performance related issue (just a bit of lag as Renpy loads the screen) but right now we don't have a fix for it. It's not that big a deal. It just takes a couple of seconds for a new screen to load in.

And the struggle with adding a loading screen is that right now there doesn't seem to be a way to determine if the screen is refreshing or loading, which makes a "load" button flicker in every single time the screen refreshes.

Anyway, there may not be a fix but, again, it's not that big a deal.

Play Testing

I finished up Daaz's play test this week, making a fair amount of corrections to his end chapters - which doesn't surprise me given what that process was like.

And I started Asher's play test. I'm about 50% through that right now.

I did also make a ton of corrections spotted by an alpha tester who has been helping me out. So yay for that!

Upcoming Week

At this point my main focus for the upcoming week is:

Finish Asher's playtest

Finish Asher's Ch2 CG

A couple of remaining QOL fixes

Finish Daaz's Ch2 CG (???) Maybe. At least get started on it.

To be honest, once I get Daaz's CG done, I will probably release the first episode to the tiers that have beta access - even if a few of the QoL additions aren't ready yet.

So that is LOOMING for sure.

For future episodes I probably won't necessarily wait for the CGs to be done before I release the beta test version but this time around because of the play testing of each route in its entirety for continuity and other things I ended up having time to complete them before that was done anyway.

So yeah.

That is where things stand now.

It's so close.

Soooo close. 😭😭