This thing keeps getting longer and longer and now this is only the first half❤️

It isn't news to most, but Deltarune Chapter 5 came out! Now that a little time has passed, I thought I'd talk a little about of my work on the game!

In Chapters 3+4 it was a little easier to point at broad portions that I was responsible for, but in this chapter I was a little more scattershot as we were working on this one concurrently with the release of 3+4, and all of the work leading up to and after launch. This meant I was bouncing back and forth like a well filled basketball, tackling whatever needed to be tackled.

Something I had a lot of fun with in this chapter was adding some kinetic energy to things where it wasn't always totally necessary. Aqua bouncing around during her introduction, Yellow bouncing his hat when startled, and Flowery cracking open a fresh orange of juice were some of my favorite bits.

Some of my favorite bits to work on were Yellow punishing himself, Flowery joining your party, and whether or not you turned off Voice Clips or Ralseis. It's always a lot to make a scene work where you can have a lot of player choice and have responses to that, but it's so rewarding when that works out.

I know most folks who have followed me for a while know me for my platforming games, but that's one aspect of this chapter I didn't touch! The folks on the team responsible for that did an incredible job, and I loved being able to play and test it as it grew.

(I'm very proud to get to be responsible for the first use of spr_susie_splat)

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

This was inspired by the songs "And Now For Today's Sponsors...!" and "MIKE, the BOARD, please!"