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Hello! This week, I worked a lot on polishing up the character bios! They've all had a bit of a writing pass, plus a much nicer appearance. It's still not quite finished, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. Adding all of that formatting by hand was a lot more time consuming than I expected it to be

I've been dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety lately, so I'm not really happy with how much has been done so far these past two months. Either way, this new build has two big things: Updates to the lapdance minigame, and a new polish change for waiters! Waiters will now telegraph that they're a

This week, I got a good handful of tweaks and fixes in! I actually can't quite remember them all, but here are the main ones: Fixed scoring being bugged again Changed all the preexisting time pars to be 10 seconds longer Added time pars for levels 5 and 6 Made it so the message popups in the tutoria

This week was all about polishing level design in week 2! It's a lot of trial and error, and I think they're starting to feel better. The biggest change is that I've swapped the levels of the first and second days, because they were thematically backwards. I'm still thinking about how to make 6-2 an

This week, I worked on making the nightclub shader look better, plus I started my polish pass on the second week. I might make it even flashier still, but it's a delicate thing to balance. I don't want it to be so in your face it makes the game hard to read! As you can see, the difference is pretty

This week, I fixed yet more bugs with how the game was saving and reading time pars and scores, plus I worked a bunch on how the thought bubbles are rendered. Now they properly align with each character, and taller characters have a different looking bubble so it stays within the frame. I know it's

This week, we've been working on thought bubble images! The context for many of these is very dependent on the conversation they show up in, but I thought it would be fun to show them off. Here are my sketches (minus the first one, obviously): Can you guess what part of each day's cutscene they fit

This week, some good progress was made on new emotes for Nina, and I made it so the game now saves your best time on each level and has a more accurate par time system. Isn't she adorable with her glasses on? Next week, I plan to try to polish up the story and writing. Wish me luck! ---- Monday: Add

Phew! You may have noticed that I didn't post a report last week. That's because I was super busy getting animations to sync to music! Turns out it's actually quite difficult, but I figured it out. Now Foxdrop's animations and the lights (which look much nicer now might I add) are synced perfectly t

This week, we worked on some more visual polish. Early on, doors were sized based on Carol and the patrons, but we've added quite a few tall characters since then! Now doors are sized to fit Rory, because she's the biggest character that can fit within the grid size we already used. Sorry, Helen...

This week was kind of a polish week! I decided to finally get around to fixing up the controls so it's more responsive. Before now, holding two keys at the same time would make neither of them count, which made rapidly pressing them or holding one and then holding the other feel laggy. Now it'll jus

I've been working hard trying to update the first week's levels, so there's not really a lot to say. It's pretty slow work, but I'm trying my best to get a new monthly build out this week that's pretty close to what will be in the demo!

Yes, this weekly report took a little over a week to get out, but it's worth it. Club Valentine now has a new mechanic: Elevators! These are similar to doors, but are linked together in a set pattern and will automatically whisk Carol away to her destination whenever she steps into one. You can also

This week, I decided I didn't really like the cramped feeling of day 1-2, so I spent some time remaking it. Here's a before and after: The original 1-2 has hardly been changed since the game jam version! I mostly just added new visual stuff, but I feel like it sort of turned into too much of a test

We're back! Though this was a bit of a slow week because I've been having to switch my brain back to programming mode, I did make a bit of progress this week. Specifically, there's now a tutorial. Adding the tutorial was a bit of a challenge, because I had to make it so you can choose if you want to

Unfortunate news this week: I recently got a medical bill for $400, so I'll be taking the next week or two to do commission work until I can pay it off. Until then, development that isn't Dakk's art will be slow if at all. Anyway, here's the finished background for Carol's lingerie photoshoot... Clu

This week was pretty much all about the backgrounds, but I also added in a really nice multiple picture montage display for the cutscene engine. It'll be used in the photoshoot as well as maybe in a few other places. Placeholder blank boxes for now. They can be positioned anywhere on screen and can

This week was a little slow, but graphics work can be like that. We've nearly finished two more backgrounds, and the photoshoot on the first Friday is coming along nicely! I'm particularly happy with how the background in Nina's room is coming along. Here's a sketch I did of it that I then pixeled o

This was a busy week for me personally, so not a lot of stuff got done. It's just like that in indie dev sometimes! So this week I'm going to release February's monthly build. It was getting a bit late in the month anyway. The biggest thing I did this week was try to tweak text centering to actually

This week, we worked on backgrounds some and I did a little polishing on the menu controls. The cafe isn't quite finished yet, but I think the break room is final! I also started on a new song for the menu, but it's not done enough for people to hear it yet... ===== Sunday: Fixed gamepad buttons to

So! We've started trying to get things finished up enough to get a demo of the game's first two weeks out publicly! I think having a closer set goal will greatly help pick up the pace of development. This week we worked on graphics for cutscenes, I polished some writing, and did some other little tw

Some little visual updates this week! Now the trampolines have a finished sprite, and I've added the patreon submitted color swaps I've received so far. It's subtle, but patrons will also drink the actual drink Carol's served to them now, too. Tuesday: Added in new sprite for trampolines. Thursday:

Some little visual tweeks this week. The timer is now a rolling counter like the score counter, and whenever you're missing drinks, the bartender will show which ones above them. (gif taken before they were colored) Also, whenever Carol trips, you now tap right and left quickly to recover. The more

Unfortunately, my laptop had a failure this week when I tried to replace the battery. It would turn on, but immediately turn off before booting. It's still in the shop and I'll likely get it back Monday or Tuesday. I don't think it was a hard drive problem, so if I'm lucky, the only thing I've lost