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Wishlist on Steam Now!

Hi gang,

We’ve been keeping this news a secret just so that we could celebrate Pride Month with a BIG reveal! 🌈 The sequel to our award-winning visual novel dating game LongStory is coming to Steam and Switch in early 2024!

💚About the game

LongStory 2 picks up right where we left off, which means… Our cast is just days away from starting high school and things are about to get even more AWKWARD. Hey, that’s life!

If you’re not familiar with LongStory, now’s a good time to check it out on Steam, Switch, iOS and Android.

👀 Demo when?

We’ve got some exciting plans leading up to launch (YES, we’re working on a demo) but first, we want to hear from YOU to *Insert Rupaul's voice here* make some decisions.

We’re planning a Kickstarter campaign that will allow us to collect the funds needed to polish the game and add some key features.

By taking 1 minute to 👉fill out this form👈, you’ll be helping us decide on the best rewards, stretch goals and the things that actually matter to you when it comes to supporting the development of indie games.

A HUGE thanks to all of you and we hope to share more details in the coming months!

C# Advanced basics post-mortem

This time I decided if I want to make bigger projects, I needed to understand more specifically about the C# programming language I use and how it works so I can understand it to make the best fun games as possible.

I even made 3 short mini games as a little exercises to warm myself up.

What I learned

 different types of variables like doubles, characters, and colour.

different ways of how variables/ parameters add with each other, e.g.  float sum = (2 + 3) * (4 - (4 / 3)).

A better understanding of Enums and how the states can be used. e.g played dies or at main menu waiting for player to press play or restart, what happens next?  does he move a inch or not?

The calculated difference of float and int when dividing them respectfully such as calculating the nearest inside numbers (part of floats).

 Casting: Converts a variable to another variable. Eg int a = 5 into float a = 5.0f.

How more robust Lists can be, such as being counted, added, removed specifically or all selected, reversed, removed at range and etc. Also, an idea of what its generics are <>.

Different types of functions that can be used like voids, ints, floats and returning their parameters such as strings, ints and floats.

Functions store many parameters as much as they need. Also different types of functions can share the same name, except for the same types.

How effective and distinctive behaviour of If, if else and else statements of controlling mechanics.

Not to have so many if statements in a nested code otherwise it may affect performance of the game.

More detailed info, cleaner code, similarities to the ifs, if else, else statements and how complex switch Statements of how they execute with different variables to run code inside each of the cases and defaults.

the unique behaviour of breaks that break out of the code to execute outside code.

The Different types of loops such as For loops, for each loops, do while loops of how their used respectfully so it doesn't crash the computer on the wrong use.

Better understanding of Arrays of what the elements can contain such as ints, game objects, floats, bools, strings, doubles etc and how it can only be programmed to access their elements not outside its index or length.

How you can change array element values by code without setting its variables.

How for loop doesn't need to be specialised how many times to repeat the loop so it doesn't crash.

Advanced use of Coroutines such as Stopping Coroutines, waiting for seconds in real time (no matter how slow or fast the game is with time scale), how they can pass Parameters and strings to reference other functions and how the waitforseconds can be slowed or speed up by Time.TimeScale.

Passing arrays into void  returning functions like ints. The parameters can even have the same names of its variables and it won't cause an error.

How interesting is to model objects from classes each with their variables and to update them overtime.

How useful are constructors when passing variables.

How "this." refers to the class variable and outside the function parameters.

Difference of Objects create that get passed in Memory as references and values.

 More detail of Data encapsulation/visibility modifiers other than public or private. I learnt more such as Internal, protected modifiers, setting and getting variables.

 A deeper understanding of inheritance such as from Mono behaviour and from other classes such as behaviours, functions, properties and variables.

How Inheritance works with child game classes using override functions to override the virtual function from their parent classes to do something else.

Most functions, datatypes values including transforms which are inherited from Mono behaviour.

The pros and cons of method overloading, while good to use a variety of functions and parameters, but needs to be specific of which function and parameters to run.

The use of the Ternary Operator such as using ? (if) and : (else) respectfully like if statements.

Variable Attributes and such as [RequireComponent], [ExecuteInEditMode], [AddComponentMenu], [HideInInspector], [Range]and [TextArea] which are broadly useful to read and get components to reduce unexpected issues, and makes the life's easier for designers, respectfully.

 How static variables and functions can work together with each other's scripts without get components and creating objects. They also don't work with non-static variables and functions.

How Delegates can be used to subscribe or call events from scripts including statics

How to return value answers when adding or subtracting.

How to make log warnings and log errors execute by code in the console depending how the script is written.

-Pumpkins and Golems

The possibility that I can make a game based on its rigid body physics a little more than complex code. E.g dodging rolling pumpkins from a slope, etc

-Bombs Away

Being able to spawn bombs in-between min and max distances with floats randomly from one transform variable.

Being able to restrict players movement with floats, Vector 2 and if statements without using a box collider.

-Knife Hit

Able to add force on knife with either Space or Mouse keys respectfully without causing unwanted design issues or bugs.

Able to set the knife game object to be parent of the wood by collisions and turning off collisions with "Detect Collisions" by turning it false on the knife once collided.

Overall

Hey fam, so I created a Patreon for a game that I'm working on!