19/03/2022 Patreon Devlog (Patreon)

19/03/2022

This Week's Summary:

• Finished play testing Jack's route
  • Mini-CG
  • Corrections
  • Guide additions
  • SFX
• Started Lance's play test (up to ch 11)
  • Corrections
  • Guide Additions
  • Some CG corrections
  • SFX
  • New sprite variations
• Updated UI buttons with alt text
• Updated *some* of the flowcharts with alt text
• Updated in-game profiles
  • No longer using images
  • Updated text
  • Morgan's profile image uses variables now. If you load from title, she is always default name/colours. If you load from in-game, she will have the player's name and customisation colours

The Ramble:

Hellooo everyone.

So this was another week of play testing purgatory. I finished up with Jack's route, inserting his mini-CG and completing his guide and making corrections.

Then I started Lance's route. And I'm up to Chapter 11- so nearly done. There haven't been nearly as many SFX or visual effects to add because of the nature of Lance's story. So I feel like I've gone through it much faster.

I have obviously corrected a ton of typos and have added in some sprite variations like a new hairstyle for Morgan - or adding a detail to Lance's sprite in one scene. I haven't done Lances' mini-CG as I just went through that chapter laaaaaaate last night and wasn't up for art (plus my hand was really hurting a lot yesterday).

I have made some CG corrections. In some cases I just had Morgan's hair layered wrong and in another, I wanted to fix something about Lance. But there's not been too much of that either.

The other thing I've been doing is adding alt text to all the buttons. Most of the buttons in GS are image buttons or image maps which means they do not work with the self-voicing feature. Adding alt text to them just means that anyone who needs to use self voicing as a screen reading function can still utilise the UI properly.

I am also adding alt text to the flow charts so each individual hot spot with a scene title gets read allowed. I am like...20% through. There are something like 1300 hot spots so it's about an hour of adding alt text to them per route.

I also re-vamped the character profiles to be text (they were image based before) - and updated them. Some of them were a little out of date.

I still have a fair bit of stuff to update with alt text so I kind of work on that when I want a break from play testing. So for anyone keeping count, I'm about ¾ of the way through this play test with self voicing on.

I technically haven't done the common route yet and I still have 3 more chapters left for Lance, plus Magnus' route.

I have fixed so many typos during this play test. SO many. Not just typos but also some repetitive text and I've caught some continuity issues in Lance's route as well. So even though it's taking a long time, it really has been incredibly beneficial as well. I am glad I decided to do this in this way.

Sneak Peeks and Previews:

Some sort clips from Lance's route have been attached to this post (it's hard to pick out things to show for his route due to spoilers. But here are two relatively innocuous moments from early chapters).

Upcoming Week:

Finishing up Lance's play test, then starting on Magnus. I need to get Lance's mini-CG done (probably today actually) so I can write his route off as complete.

I'll also probably work on the alt text situation some as well so I can get that finished.

And that's it for this week's update. I will see you all next week!