Dialogue Animations!

I know I promised to showcase the injury system, but I really need the new sprites to be completed for that and I'm still waiting for them. Thus, here's a completely different thing I've been working on!

Old timers might remember that I tried out this style of dialogue animations back in the original unfinished Maple Hills game in '22-23. Obviously that project went nowhere, so I'm happy to port this system over to Domina.

Also showing a sneak peek of Madeline's new throne room. I've been fighting with getting a good 60fps performance in the game, both for the classic PC version and the mobile port. The lighting and stuff isn't too bad, but adding shaders to the mix (so we can have some Depth of Field / Tilt Shift and Bloom effects) really just nukes the fps down to 30 on my mobile and crappy old laptop. This was frustrating because I've been developing the game on my desktop, which has been showing no problems with fps, so I ended up making some locations a bit too detailed for lower end devices, and I had to go back and remake them for better performance. I also spent a few days ripping out the original lighting system and rebuilding it in a new system that both looks better and runs better, but shader effects are still hard on lower end devices (this is a single-threaded engine lol). Some of the environments I already showcased in Katrina's realm will look a bit different/better now because of this (but nothing radical). Anyhow, the solution I've come up with is that the shader effects will ship with the game but stay optional and you'll be able to enable/disable them from the Options, like any other game allows you to.

Cheers.

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