30/06/2024 Patreon Devlog

Ramble

Helloooo everyone!  Time for this week's update!

Summary

• Finished drafting Kav's ending

• Started Noel's ending

  • About halfway through with it

• Lots of UI stuff!

Writing

This week I finished drafting Kav's ending. Of course, I still have to edit it and proofread it, which I'm going to wait to do but the draft is totally done.

And I started on Noel's ending. My goal is to write at least 3000- 5000 words a day until the endings are complete because I am, shall we say, keen to be done. As in. I want it to be done tomorrow but that is not possible so I'm just going to try to settle on what I know is a doable amount.

I have a specific 'fast drafting' strategy that I use to help myself write quickly and I'm going all in on that so I can get these endings wrapped up as quickly as possible. I have Noel, Raif, and Yren to finish.

They are all fully planned out so that should help.

Focusing on drafting as quickly as possible means that I get to tick a major part of game development off the list.

When the draft is fully complete, that's the biggest chunk of work for this game done

Even if I have to heavily revise the quickly drafted portion, revising will never be as much work or take as long as drafting. That's why I prefer to create potato drafts then revise and edit them up to the standard of the rest of the game.

Art 

Received a new BG sketches and a new completed BG. Backgrounds are about 75% complete.

Other

I worked on UI stuff this week as well. This included implementing a lot of small changes and fixes as well as doing re-designed mock-ups for a lot of the other screens - including some I'd never made mock-ups of before.

I have some friends helping with the remaining UI and screens so I don't have much more to do in this regard myself other than complete the mock-ups and prep photoshop files for the others.

I'll be working on getting this stuff set up when I've hit my word count goals each day.

Upcoming Week

Barring any major distractions or issues, I should finish up Noel's ending set this week and get started on Raif's.

That is going to be my main focus this upcoming week. 

When I have some of the additional screens ready I want to do a feature post where I just talk about different features I'm experimenting with. Maybe that'll be in the next few weeks sometime! OwO

But that is all for now. I will see you all next week.