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I haven't done anything all week because I was kinda depressed and a little busy.

Today I kinda fixed the camera, fixed some issues with some other scenes and started on the Main Menu cause I felt like it.

The game now opens to the main menu too.

Sadly I can only upload 1 video here but if you want to see the levels glitching out really badly you can see it here on Blusky.

**SEIZURE WARNING!!** just in case you do.

So first off the floor in the tiny test level is green now... I didn't do that, it's supposed to be grey and was grey last week when I last opened and closed the project.

13th & Alder was flickering it's not anymore and the frame buffer wasn't clearing for the Main Menu causing that utter nonsense.

13th and Alder still has those texture artifacts but I think that's due to a scaling issue but we will see tomorrow.

For those that can't make sense of the spinning mesh on the Main Menu that's slowly growing out for some reason that's definitely my fault, that's my little rendition of the Crystal City.

Here's a little screenshot of it in Blender.

Was thinking of trying to make it look like Portland cause the woman in the tower says “Technically, this is a recreation of home. A great distance from where you came, long ago, and far off in the future.”

And home for Claire and Kara is Portland, so a Crystal Portland would make sense imo.

I ended up moving away from that because with my quick math it would be too big and too high poly and take too long to do properly and I'd likely have to do it manually to get the poly count as low as possible cause automated tools aren't as good as I am and I wouldn't ever be happy with it.

I'll likely do a second pass on it in the future because while I kinda like it I want to try make it a little Portlandy if I can to still give that nod to Kara and Magica Riots home.

Also have a funny idea for a frankly stupid easter egg that involves a crystal lol.

I haven't coded it yet but the Crystal City as well as spinning will rotate between the colours of each member of Magica Riot cause the colour of the Crystal City is never mentioned from what I can see but I like the idea that it can shift to the colours of the Magical Girls.

I also wanted the Crystal City for the Main Menu cause I liked the idea of the player kinda getting the perspective of what I imagine the Maidensong would have gotten reaching out to Claire that night before she awakened her powers and became a Magical Girl.

So the player gets to travel from the Crystal City to the Clarion Room in Portland to play as Claire upon starting the game.

Also if you haven't read the books I think it's a cool question to have answered by them if your confused by what your looking at and why.

Another thing is I think I can fix the character controller quickly tomorrow too hopefully I think I know what's wrong with it!

Either I've messed up the math on the movement along with the axis's for the movement or I've messed up the bindings on the emulator.

Both stupid mistakes lol.

Anyway here's the usual links!

Kara's Patreon!

My Kofi!

The Magical Riot Bandcamp!

The Magica Riot Website!

We're finally back with an update!!

It's kinda good news too!

I have movement kinda working again!! Only issue is it's extremely sensitive atm lol and I broke the camera somehow.

I'm not entirely sure how I broke the camera tbh I haven't touched it's code.

I also have no clue whats happening with the textures.

Lots of problems to solve but at least I've kinda fixed one!

The movement only kinda works too cause you can seemingly only move in that diagonal direction.

I'll figure it out though and get everything back up and running.

I also am mostly recovered from getting my wisdom teeth out!

So It'll probably take until next week till I properly feel up to speed tbh cause I still get really tired at random but the pain has been mostly gone for the last week now with only a few aches and pains every once and a while now tbh.

I wanted to get something done this week though cause I have missed working on this tbh and want to get proper progress cause I feel like the last month or 2 I've been working pretty slow.

I'm also gonna stop making promises for what I want to get done every week so I can help myself not burn out.

I'm also gonna try get updates out around this time of day from now on cause my sleep cycle has shifted to a little earlier the last 2 weeks and I need to find a job which means I need to be up earlier so I can look properly and it's around midnight here which is a better time than 3am.

Otherwise enjoy the kinda funny video of things sorta working with the new rigidbody system!

Here's the usual links too!!

Kara's Patreon!

My Kofi!

The Magical Riot Bandcamp!

The Magica Riot Website!

I have fixed the code that was crashing the game!!

Still haven't gotten around to fixing some other stuff and currently movement isn't working.

I'll be starting with getting the movement working properly next week when I'm hopefully feeling better.

I also redid the scale of everything because it was too big tbh and that made the math kinda weird and meant things were ultimately scaled weirdly. So there's no real difference on the player side but the math should be lighter on the CPU and easier for me to figure out.

There isn't much else I've done tbh I didn't spend too long on anything today but I have a lot set up for me to work on when I've recovered properly from getting my wisdom teeth out.

I'm glad to have things kinda working again before I take another break though.

For Pride Month the Magica Riot books that this fan demo is based on are 40% off on Itch so if you haven't already you should 100% go buy and read them and support queer art!! It's 7 USD for all of them which is around 6 EUR or 5 GBP!

I have been in the coding mines all day!

I have almost finished converting the character controller!

I was hoping to have a small video to show with it but atm there is an error that causes the game to crash at launch that I need to fix tomorrow.

I've actually been really productive today with how much of the code I've been able to convert over and optimize a little, obviously still needs more work but it's getting there.

Hopefully I can finish it up tomorrow and fix the bug.

It's causing a Float point overflow so it's gotta be math related.

I have a few guesses as to what's causing it but I'm too tired to tackle it tonight tbh so I'll be tackling it tomorrow.

I won't be getting as much done tomorrow probably because I have to prep for getting my wisdom teeth out so I'll hopefully get the game to not crash again at the very least.

For Pride Month the Magica Riot books that this fan demo is based on are 40% off on Itch so if you haven't already you should 100% go buy and read them and support queer art!!

It's 7 USD for all of them which is around 6 EUR or 5 GBP!

Kara's Patreon!

My Kofi!

The Magical Riot Bandcamp!

The Magica Riot Website!