06/08/2022 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this weeks' devlog

This Week's Summary:

• Completed and coded Aritz's sprite
• Completed and coded Vic's sprite
• Coded in Neel's sprite
• Coded sprite expressions up to part of ch 8
• Started building the flowchart templates

The Ramble:

Had some rough days this week (mostly due to insomnia and being ultra dead during the work day).

But I powered through (mostly).

This week I completed and coded the art for Artiz' sprite, Vic's sprite, and I coded in Neel's sprite (though his artwork was already complete.)

I coded sprite expressions up to ch 8 including a very big group scene. These always take much longer to code because there are a lot of characters popping in and out at different positions and there's just more consideration needed for that aspect.

I also went through a fairly emotional scene involving Rory. And I did some editing of it as I went along, which is pretty standard. Since I have to go line-by-line through the script to figure out what expressions to use, it does mean re-reading everything.

And sometimes I see continuity issues I didn't see before or other errors that have been overlooked.

Finally, I have been setting up my flowchart templates.

So for those who are new and don't know the process there, I usually make a template in a flowchart software first so I can figure out how all the connecting points to various scenes will need to work. And then I later build the in-game images from a set of templates that I have.

I've realised that a lot of Quill's branching comes from the fact that he has a lot more personality locked choices than the other characters. I don't really know why this happened. He has fewer small personality branches but a lot of the three-choice situations that involve a locked choice.

Sneak Peeks:

Finally, I have some proper screen caps to show you all.

(Locke, Quill, Vale, Aritz)

A familiar face...

Uh oh. Faces are warming up! Unfair smiles are happening. =O Sound the alarms!

Upcoming Week:

Just continuing with sprite expressions. As I said, it can be difficult to predict how long this takes. It's very tedious and I have to take breaks from it because I start making more mistakes as time goes on. So sometimes it is a slow process and sometimes it goes quickly.

I have started on chapter 8 and will just be continuing from there.