Progress Report #55 - Kevin's Diner remake
Hey lads!
I know, I know, I promised v0.23c ages ago, but it's simply not ready yet and I'm putting extra hours into finishing it, so I'm sure it will come out still in January. Doing my best here, so please bear with it a little bit longer.
There are 3 reasons for the delay. First, the most important one, is me remaking all of the code/scripts at Kevin's Diner from scratch, and this location alone had more scripts and variables then rest of the game altogether (yes, it was that big and messed up at the same time). I had to do it, because expanding Kevin's Diner with new stuff was hard as hell and really easy to bug-out, and if I released this update too soon and left something weird I wouldn't be able to fix your saves later the way it's programmed.
Second reason is bald guys. For those who didn't play, the first quest with them (when Jane has to take their order) is the biggest and most complex event in the game. Yes, it's really huge and it's a one-time event, so you have only one chance to see it, yet it takes so much stuff into account and requires even high stats at times despite it being one of the very first events, it's really stupid from me to design it this way. I'm sorry. So I turned this 1 huge event into like 8 smaller events as bald guys' quest chain. This way you can see most of the event in one playthrough, instead of skipping around 80-90% of it with one bad choice or by having to cheat and load the game multiple times.
And thirdly, my shitty health, as always. Lately my life wasn't very nice to me, and my hospital causes me multiple problems, so in advance I apologize for my foul mood and probably lowered productivity, because this stuff won't get resolved in the upcoming days and might last for weeks.
In the meantime, I fixed eye coloring, so it finally works, and upgraded art of eyes and lips (especially ahegao type), tweaked facial expressions and also did some small tweaks here and there.
In the next progress report I'll show you an upcoming location, while in v0.24 I'm gonna focus on events with existing characters, mainly Ben.
Take care!
Comments (2)
Hey, buddy. There was an eye shape that I liked very much in the 0.22 version. It was the biggest and most lively eye shape. When I played the 0.23 version, you deleted that eye shape. Please restore that eye. To be honest, not only the eyes but also the lips and eyebrows were much better version 0.22 than version 0.23. no offence, but the 0.23 version of customization options are worse than the 0.22 version. Eyes, eyebrows, lips, and nose... I want you to restore them all please.
Hey, mate. I'm pretty sure that I know which shape you means, because there was one that I really liked myself, but could you give me a screen or number of the eye from v0.22? Well, v0.23 face was created by different artist, so the style is also different. We are still experimenting, testing, and we needed to do something and get some feedback before we could move forward. The plan is to mix few styles (western, manga etc.), but not everything at once. I can't restore them, but I can ask artist to create them from scratch, but no, not all of them. Anyway, v0.24 will have more face parts to choose from in manga style. Cheers!