09/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

01/09/2024

Ramble

Hellooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week!

Let's jump in!

Summary

• Started Daaz's play test

• Finished the flowchart for Chapter 2

• Coded the expressions through the bonus scenes

• Fixed some features on the flowchart screen

• Fixed some other lurking bugs

Features

This week I focused on finishing the flowchart for chapter two - which is massive because chapter two is large.

That is now complete, but I still have go in and add the activation statements. (That usually doesn't take long.

Once that was done, it was time to tackle some of the flowchart screen functionality where buttons and things weren't quite working right.

Feniks helped with that and though there's still one residual issue we'd like to improve, for the most part it all works properly now.

I also fixed another bug that had been lurking for a while but had a fairly simple fix once I spotted the issue. Huzzah!

There are still a couple of other tweaks I'd like to make but slowly stamping out those minor issues.

I also went through and coded the sprite expressions in the bonus scenes and set those up to unlock properly.

There is about 8000 words of bonus scene content for Chapter one so that is a fair amount of content to do expressions for.

But that is now also complete.

Play Testing

I started working on Daaz's play test this week but got sidetracked a bit by the flowcharts. And David being a brat again.

But I did get at least a bit of the way through Daaz's route. I am currently in chapter 5 - so not quite halfway.

Upcoming Week

This upcoming week I want to continue Daaz's playtest and finish a few of the remaining minor functionality things lurking.

I'd also like to finish Cim's sprite this week in terms of the remaining assets. Cim is a fairly minor character. She only appears very briefly in this chapter but still needs a sprite.

Beyond that we are getting to the point that my personal play test and the remaining CGs and stuff are the big things left for this episode to be ready for beta.

My To Do list has dwindled significantly at this point.

In the meantime, here are a few quick clips from the game.

First - a run through some of the new features and extras!

Episode 1_Snap 1 - Watch Video

In this clip, you get a brief peek at a group scene that occurs in Chapter Two, where Wil is starting to get to know the crew of The Ophelia.

Episode1_Snap4 - Watch Video