24/11/2024 Patreon Devlog (Patreon)

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update. 

The big update is that I released the beta version of Episode 2 to the Black Tea Patrons! Several of them have been studiously finding errors and bugs - including some really significant ones. So thank you to them!

Aside from that, I have been working on other things as well. So...let's get into it.

Summary

• Worked on the bonus scene

• Made a lot of corrections to stuff

• Finished another Kav CG

• Started a new Asher CG

• Added glossary articles

• Released the beta 🦑

• Worked on the Patreon Guide

Writing

The bonus scene has been sitting around in outline form for a very long time. And I have finally started writing it. This time around it's a group scene instead of everyone getting individual scenes. 

And that's it. I started writing that.

I also wrote up the new glossary articles, which there were more than I expected. I sort of thought there were only 3 or so but there were a lot more than that. So...fun times.

I did work on the Patreon guide as well. It's not quite done yet just because it's a time consuming thing to put together. And then I messed up some pages and had to re-do them which was really annoying. 

So it's not done yet. But it's getting there.

Art 

This week I finished up one of Kav's CGs. It is the last of his solo CGs. 

And I've started working on the first "couple" CG (IE a CG with Wil in it.).

I've only done one CG showing Wil and it was the beginning one where you can only see part of their face.

This CG is the first one where you can see enough of their face and body that I have to redraw the different options. I'm remembering just how I need to layer things so that they can be recoloured properly and I'm getting a feel for how much work these customised CGs are going to be. (A lot. That's why there aren't many of them).

I have six of these to do and I'm on the first. So yeah.

Coding and Other Stuff

So coding wise I didn't do too much outside of simple things like coding CGs.

I have made some corrections to stuff and there's currently a pretty significant bug in the Chapter 4 flowchart.

I know what's causing it but I do not know how to fix it yet so zooming in and out of that flowchart will crash the game. Which is not great. 

Funnily enough there is one (1) connector that is causing the issue. This guy. All the problems are because of this one connector.

So yeah. Trying to figure out how to solve that. And by "Trying to figure it out", I mean Feniks is trying to figure it out for me. Ha ha.

Upcoming Week

• Writing the bonus scene

• Working on CGs

• Making corrections

• Working on the guide.

That's basically it. I will be rotating between all of those things for the next few weeks until they are complete.

Episode 2 is shaping up but there is a lot of work to still be completed. I'll probably push out a patch for the beta when we get the big error in the flowchart fixed. And hopefully I have some more art and CGs to update at the same time.

See you all next week.