I coded expressions up to the freetime option --although I did skip nurse Jordan and have to return to them another time. Still, wahoo!
I made a few minor line edits while I was coding, since some of the text felt clunky.
I also went in and wrote some code to display all the messenger icons in a grid. For this one line.
...And while writing this devlog, I discovered something rather strange.
The ~freetime~ sequences typically begin with messaging your chosen LI. MC's message appears at the top as the very first message. Pretty normal, right?
But if you choose to message Myster... his supportive message from yesterday remains at the top.
Nani? Why only Myster?! This spooked me a bit, but then I saw that Warden and Griffin had "nvl clear" code put in to clear the screen just before their sequences began. Myster didn't have that code is all. Lol.
Anddd I backed up my files after not doing so for..a couple months.
Oh-- and I officially set up my second monitor!
This is a big reason I made so much headway on expression coding <3 I wasn't thrilled with the monitor at first bc the colors were screwy (Warden's eyes were desaturated and his skin was apricot orange????) but after spending hours on the screen settings I think it's as good as I'm gonna get it.
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The trailer for the steam page is done!!!! AHHHHH.
It took months of practically nonstop communication and hard work from the very lovely and professional KotoriM, but it's here. I posted about it briefly in a different post, but here's the video for the devlog.
Shoutout to @brightbone too for the stellar music!
Maybe I should do a standalone post with just the video...
Progress-wise, I was able to write a bit and coded in more expressions.
6 script files have expressions complete, only 5 more script files to go...
That may sound like I'm a little over halfway done, but 3 of them are one-on-one "date" scenes so there shouldn't be too many expression changes. Hopefully.
And I meant to talk about this last week:
I recently had a bad coding day! I set out to accomplish two small tasks and was able to complete neither! The first was extra credit, so it didn't matter too much: I wanted to make some tooltip text appear when hovering over a locked CG, to give the player a hint about where the CG can be found in-game. ...I was only able to make the text appear when the CG was already unlocked, which rather defeated the purpose.
The other task was rather more important and frustrating, and it's gonna haunt me until I can get it figured out: for the Griffin driving CG, when you click on it it should switch to the fem version. For the most part, it makes the switch.... but it won't show Griffin's fem ponytail. It instead makes Griffin bald.
Or.. maybe more accurately, it carved out her brain and much of her skull meats...?
You may laugh. The sight makes me want to rip out my own hair, but you may laugh. I myself thought it was funny at first, but it got crazy infuriating after a couple of hours of the game insisting the ponytail image file could not be found.
...Yeah all in all I just want to mention some failures and disappointments once in a while - to keep expectations curbed and make sure people don't forget I'm human l o l.
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I'm not ready to commit to the idea yet, but I've been thinking about running some sort of 'final push' crowdfund campaign to help me afford some final art assets. Not yet though. I'm stubborn and it's scary to ask for help ("what if for some reason I can't finish my parts of the work, it'll look like I ran off with peoples' money") so I want to get the next episodes' release closer to done before then.
I pretty much only have one scene left to write, but a lot of expression code left to do... and music and sfx to secure and input. Probably a handful of other tasks that's slipping my mind at the moment as well, and once the actual game build is done it still has to be approved by steam.
Good news(?) though, I went through and put all my scene titles into a list, and realized I had written a lot more game than I realized!
The Super Demo would've been roughly 2 episodes and the prologue. The stuff I've written since then was intended to be 1 episode.
...but I think it's fair to count the new stuff as 2 new episodes. I'll be releasing them both of course, as the scenes were all intended to be played together.
I've been trying to code in a few expressions per day. I think I had a similar goal before - last year? - but fell off the wagon. It might help me to capture and share the occasional screenshot like this though.
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