#shimeji updates

It's been awhile since I've posted an update on what I've been doing. Progress on shimejis have been going steady, the Hollow Knight Shimejis are still on hold for the moment as I'm working on other projects.

Main projects I'm working on is Cookie Run characters making my "digital pet like" shimeji with stats that change the shimeji's mood.

Manju Cookie and High Forkbearer I'm considering doing a revamp on to make the art look closer to the style in the Cooke Run games instead of my normal style I do for Shimejis. I did that, as you can see, with Fire Spirit Cookie and I'm happy with how it looks like the game style. ^^

Work on the code has been a slow process, mainly cleaning it up and figuring how I want some of the behaviors chain together. Since these Shimejis work like digital pets with mood stats there's a "hotspot" clickable area to bring up their stats.

Clicking the hotspot brings up the "menu" to choose to check the shimeji's mood or promote them. You have to gain soulstones to promote, just like in the game. (not as many as you need in game though. Just one soulstone for each promotion/Ascend, so a total of 10 to get the max.) if you have a soulstone, there will be a little green arrow that bounces above the promote button. The character will play their voice lines that happen when they get promoted as well.

Clicking the mood button will show the shimeji's current mood stats

The shimeji will create the screens to show the stats, play an emote based on the mood and have a little emote bounce next to them like the ones in game.

I'm planning on revamping the stat screens to match the Cookie Run style, such as the font and maybe some other things. I haven't fully decided just yet how it will look tbh, but it will look different.

Fire Spirit Cookie is mostly functional, with most of the bare minimum actions finished. Most of the stat related scripts aren't implemented yet, besides the one relating to energy, as I'm going though it one behavior at a time.

Sleep is going to be an a more complex behavior since it will change based on the energy stat. The W.I.P image you see above is if energy is full, he will relax instead of sleep.

Will for sure be my largest shimeji I've ever made once it's done. I'm also going to make a guide for how to take care of these shimejis along with how all the hotspots work, since it's a lot more involved than most.

And yeah, that's most of the things I have set up, most other things are still very early W.I.Ps that I hope I'll be able to share soon.

it's been awhile since I've posted any of my shimeji projects. So I decided to make a post on all my current work in progress shimejis.

Please note with the nature of these being work in progresses things are subject to change. G.I.Fs are sped up and the animations are smoother in the program.

G.I.Fs need to be click on to see the animations.

Yesterday I made some updates to older shimeji that added in splash screens that pop up the first time you launch them. They give you info on hotspots and other custom code things to know about.

Other updates were mainly code related, fixing up some errors with the when you drag the shimeji around.

The biggest update was for Eternal Emilitia, adding in variables to her read action that made it when you click the hotspot to see the topic of her book, the topic she tells you it's about won't change until she starts the action again.

All these shimejis can be found on Cachomon's website. Searching my name in the search bar will give you all the shimejis I made that are currently on the site.

Something I wanted to do was add in little icons for each of the shimejis I have made so in the shimeji chooser they'll be custom instead of just "shime1" AKA the standing frame.

This here is an example with the custom icons in place in the program. I think it gives it a cleaner look.

These are all the ones I've done so far. Still a few icons to make of my finished shimejis, but close to being all caught up.

Another thing I've been working on is adding in "splash screens" for past shimeji projects, these screens will pop up when the shimeji is opened for the first time letting users know key features of the shimeji, such as "hotspots" AKA clickable areas, such as petting.

Something I have wanted to do for awhile but just haven't gotten around to doing. While most of the shimeji will have all the info on the splash screen it's self, some will ask you to check a folder for more info, this will for sure happen with Fire Spirit Cookie when he is finished as he as to much stuff to mention that will fit on this one screen.

Been working on some stuff to edit the code for past shimejis to make the code a bit cleaner and for some things to run smoother and hopefully will have that done soon so those shimeji I posted (mainly the Hollow Knight ones and others) will be up to date.

Other things been working on the shimeji chooser icons and possibly adding in splash screens for past shimeji for details on extra actions (such as hotspots, AKA the clickable areas that do things)

In experimenting with shimeji chooser icons I found a way to make them look cleaner, just need to be sized at 60 by 60 pixels. (you can tell the difference between the bunny shimeji and Gorb in how the lines look choppy for the bunny. Bunny icon is set at 128 by 128 pixels.)

Currently trying to figure out how I want them to look so might end up looking different once I finalize it.

The only shimeji I have made that has a Splash Screen is the bunny shimeji. It pops up the first time you launch it and then doesn't pop up again unless you change the settings.

Also still working on new shimejis in general, most of them are still Hollow Knight characters. Markoth is getting close to being finished and once done will be free to download. Pomni Shimeji from the digital circus is getting close to be finished too, this one will be a campaign though, so will be free once the campaign goal is reached.

I had to remove 5 of them to save.