05/03/2022 Patreon Devlog (Patreon)

05/03/2022

This Week's Summary:

• Finished playtesting Caleb's Route
  • Corrections
  • Mini-CG(s)
  • SFX and Visual effects
• Started Jack's route!

The Ramble:

I have finished up playtesting Caleb's route and have started on Jack's route. Like Caissa's route, Caleb's route had a fair amount of small issues and broken hyperlinks to the glossary.

When I started Jack's route, I ended up timing it and coming to the conclusion that it takes 1.5-2 hours per route with self-voicing on. Depending how many corrections I need to make. That's basically around 20-28 hours of testing per route. 😱

Caleb's route has two mini CGs and both of those are completed. Added in a fair amount of visual effects and the like for the fight sequences. There's one more BG I'd really like to animate but if I'm being honest I'm not sure how to do it. So that's kind of on hold while I work on other things.

Caleb's route also had some sprite variations and outfits that I had completed but never coded so I got those actually coded properly and put in the game where they should be.

I think Jack is going to have some of those too - but I'm not sure if I ever properly saved his. One example is where Jack gives Morgan his jacket at one point. I did draw a version of his coat for her to wear but I never put it on her sprite in the game. So I'll be coding all of those things as I go along and test.

I'm still fixing a ton of typos and little issues like broken glossary links and the like. I also found and fixed an error with Ari's sprite that someone reported AGES ago. But they gave me so little information I really couldn't find it or understand what was happening. I ended up coming across the error during my play tests and was able to fix it.

A lot of the fixes I'm doing are things like missing articles (a, the, that, etc) which, in my opinion, are definitely "quality improvements" over minor aesthetic fixes. So it's important to get all that stuff cleaned up even if it feels like I'm in dev limbo. 😔

Sneak Peeks and Previews:

I haven't recorded any clips from Jack's route yet so I'm attaching a short clip from Ari's route. Mostly just Morgan talking and then Magnus being a troll. LoL

Upcoming Week:

I will be finishing testing Jack's route. Maybe some writing for Quill over the weekend.

And that's it. I'm just going to be residing in play testing purgatory until I'm through with all the routes.

I think I'll be posting some extended game clips for higher tier beta testers soon. If you are in the red or black tea tiers and have a character you want a sneak peek for, let me know!

 I'm getting so antsy for release but I know I need to take my time and test all this stuff properly so what gets released is the most polished form of the game possible.

So I'm just trying to buckle down and get the testing done.  😣😣