Weekly progress report

Hello guys! It's friday again and it's time for our usual report, this week I focus mostly on making the game playable and polishing stuff.

As always we start with the 2D side, this week we got a new minor character. She'll be in the library and it's part of Catalina's quest to join the group, I comisioned 2 guys that will appear in v0.3 earlier this week but I think that when that's done I'll start comisioning the portraits of the new enemies for v0.2 and after everything from v0.2 is ready I'll comision Nicole's remake and her new clothes, so that would left only Sofia with the old art style.

So, for the new in game stuff. I'll separte it in categories and the first one is Catalina's stuff, she got combat animations and her unique skills. Catalina's unique skills are a bit different from the rest of the party, instead of opening them and getting a list of their skills when you pick "Chaos magic" the game rolls a die and cast a random skill if you're lucky, so my idea here is to make Catalina's skills overpowered but she's super inconsistent and sometimes she just explodes.

Our new character, she's a librarian

Speaking about maps and events, this week I added the other party members and animations to all of the main events so there is more movement and some camera changes during those events. This week I left the mall a bit to focus on the party's base, which is an mostly empty house, but still it needed some more events or even areas with some changes like the kitchen or bathrooms need to look diferent from a hallway even if they are empty. As every week I keep working on the mall, and now I can say that we got it mostly ready there are two shops that I think will be filler to have their stuff, but the ones that have mechanical or story relevance are ready.

Now for combat, I added the enemies to the main story as well as the optional enemies to the game. For the optionals now you can only find one in the main hub but I'm adding a couple to the library so you can do something aside from shoping and talking. I did give Erica a new skill for level 10 and buffed Catalina's stats.

Now in really minor stuff, I changed some small details on the game intro where Nicole and MC talks before the flashback, I think I'll give Nicole more animatons for that even and I want to add items that are too expensive to buy to the mall, so you can see something that you can't have yet.

So, for a release date on 0.2. I think I need to have the library more or less finished to say, after the last 2 weeks that I didn't have much time to work, in any case I think it's time to force my friends to play again to start fishing for bugs.