Beginning Spring - Bugs 続々

Hello! Even though April isn't here yet, I'll pretend that it is.

Over the weekend, I have received two bug reports, both referencing the same issue which I'll go into detail below. Otherwise, not much to report. I hope the content is stable and nothing got broken due to my "QoL improvements", because we're pretty much at the point where development on the City can finally start.

My list for this week is short:

• Release a hotfix that includes nothing other than a potential fix for a teleportation bug that, surprise, only happens on German devices. At least this is my assumption because it does make some sense. The idea is that when I teleport the player to face another character or an object, I use a string like `0.8` which serves as a multiplier to the distance between the player and the object, so normally this would teleport the player character close to the other character/object, but on some systems/locales (you might be familiar with the Japanese locale, required in the past to play older Japanese RPGMaker games), that `0.8` is interpreted as something strange, probably as `8.0` which of course will lead to the player being teleported very far from the target. C# has a library I can use to force the parser to expect a period as the decimal operator, instead of a comma. It was/is pretty difficult to figure this one out because my locale is set to en_US so it'd never happen to me.

• Make a public release this week. Last public release was a few months ago and it can help me get more wishlists which can really help with sales later on.

• Start working on dialogues and flow to the City. I've been doing some planning on the City since Thursday and I believe we have a good draft of what's to come. The reputation system I have developed some time ago will finally come into play in the City, and there'll also be jobs with minigames which have been part of the plan for the City for a long time, but this time it actually makes sense and it serves to advance the game to its conclusion on the planet.

I will release the hotfix maybe tomorrow or Wednesday, in case I'll get other reports until then.

Thank you and I hope this month will be a positive one for all of us.