Change of Plans 🥲
Hello! I've really been "crunching" this week to get everything done, and I even managed! However, there were a ton of non-game related responsibilities this week and they not only wore me out but took about most of the free time I had left, so even though I have managed to actually finish everything I had set out to do, there's no time for the polishing part so it's better if I do the release on Tuesday-Wednesday. Worry not, I have tested the latest content myself and it works pretty well for the most part, so the need for a bugfix is very unlikely to be there.
Now about my tasks:
Add the x-ray scene to the game together with its dialogue and allow players to reach it. ✅ Added and fully tested, looks fine.
Design and implement in the game the interior of the Council building, which will be your first target when you reach the Village before the stamps gathering quest begins. ✅ Also did this, but I need to tweak the lighting a bit to make it look better and give the girl on the right her own unique dialogue animator (she already has sprites, but there was no time to also add them)
Design and implement in the game the Council leaders in the Council building, four aliens, amongst which one is a female Likurieris. ✅ As you can see above it's designed and implemented, but can be tweaked a bit. I also thought that if the room is too small for the boundaries of the camera, the game should automatically zoom in. Will test that out next week 🤔
Finish the Village intro (all the dialogues are written, but the flow isn't yet implemented fully so I need to allow you to progress forwards after reaching the Village) ✅ Did this as well, put in all the dialogues I had meant to put, implemented and tested the flow…
Test and test and test every part of the village intro including talking to the council and getting the quest to fetch the stamps. ⌛ This is the part I'm at right now and why I decided to not waste 2 hours making builds I'll need to update on Monday/Tuesday, those 2 hours would be better spent on actually polishing the game's latest content.
Make sure all the scenes prepared for the village intro are added. ⌛ I'm also still on this part, the scenes are drawn but there are still placeholder in the games for where the scenes are supposed to show so I didn't want to miss one by accident because if you're going to check out the latest content you're probably not going to replay it when the missing content is added back.
So that's about it, I've managed to do most of what I set out to do but due to a lack of time and too many responsibilities that sadly affect me and are out of my control, I didn't finish the final part which is polishing and making sure everything is in its place.
Luckily we still have 3 days next week before the billing cycle ends and I'm confident I'll manage all of it most likely by Tuesday evening, with Wednesday marked as a release date for the patron builds.
Thanks a lot for your understanding and I wish you a pleasant weekend!