#spaceship thoughts

Week of February 17th:

Accomplishments this week:

Real-time chatrooms! This was a big project and took me about the whole week to get working to satisfaction. More testing required of course (especially since testing real-time can get very tedious since... y’know... waiting a real-life day to ensure the program is indeed making chatrooms expire properly...)

You can toggle real-time on and off from the settings screen (the alternative being sequential chatrooms)

Chatrooms expire appropriately and you’re able to buy them back (for free since it’s not a F2P app and I don’t have hourglasses implemented woohoo)

You can buy (...for free) the next 24 hours’ worth of chatrooms in advance

It also shows you at the bottom of the timeline when the next chatroom is scheduled to trigger

If you buy the next 24 hours and go through a plot branch, it’ll continue to make the chatrooms after the plot branch available until the time you originally bought the chatrooms in advance

Backing out of an active chatroom expires it (both real-time and sequential mode)

Loading your auto-saved file advances the days as many days as you’ve missed, whereas manually loading a save file puts you a maximum of 24 hours ahead of when you saved that file (it warns you of this when you load a file)

Other than adding real-time, there were also a few minor cleanup things:

Text message delivery made a bit more efficient

The ‘Today’ sign on the day select screen now points to the day where you have remaining chatrooms and/or story mode sections to play through in the event that multiple days have chatrooms available (e.g. if you’ve bought the next day in advance, or if a lot of chatrooms have expired)

Text/email/ringtone names show up properly now

Goals for next week:

I didn’t get to some of the ones from last week, so fixing email notifications and disabling pre-packaged shortcuts is still a goal

Need more testing on real-time; ensuring days trigger properly etc, especially in the auto-save file after 2+ days have passed IRL

Fix up menu screens (esp. with regards to clicks unintentionally dumping you into a chatroom or VN mode under certain circumstances)

Thanks again for the support in fixing up the program!

Beta testing is in progress! Join the Mysterious Messenger Discord server for more information.

To learn more about the program, check out my #MysMe Program tag

Bonus:

Zen Route: Day 1 (Day 5 overall) Thoughts

"I was browsing 'Instagram' as they call it when I came across a post about a cat show. Naturally, I searched it up, only to find it was a money scam. How unfortunate, I would have liked to fund such a project. Be careful of social media"