Hey there

[cottoncandycrow]

Alright things have changed yet again!

I haven't posted on here in a bit so I'll split this in 'over the past months' and 'today'

Over the past few months I've:

- Rewritten day 1 again

- Worked on the general flow of the entire game. What will happen each day, systems, dynamics, mini games, etc...

- Wrote a few things going on in the background the player may or may not intervene with

- Settled on some characters

- Did a height chart which honestly is oddly important to my brain

- Decided to redo character designs. I haven't started any, and most won't see huge changes but Maria looks so plaaaain

- Decided to finally switch engines. Rpgmaker MV is cool and all but it's quite limited, and I wanna do some programming myself

NOW for the things I've done ✨today✨

- Chose Godot as the game engine to work with. Seems easy enough!

- Created the placeholder PC with idle animations and a script to move

- Created a first scene with placeholder assets, learned how to use the tileset layers and how to set physics boxes do the PC doesn't go through everything

- Also, make the PC able to walk BEHIND parts of tilesets. Don't ask me how long this took

- Made a camera that'll follow our PC!

Aaaand that's all for today. Not too much but I'm sick again so...

Next I wanna implement dialogue mechanics. Might look into plugins for that, we'll see

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Dev blog give it up for dev blog

Not much of note! Only have two events to write on day 1 which is pretty exciting~

Once this is done I'll be going over day 1 to add flavor text, then we can proceed to Day 2 (gasp)

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Yesterday's progress:

Did you know that a single line of code can kill you? Yeah? Well guess what.

It's sorted now. Will continue to work on the circus scene, want to finish day 1 next month. I don't have to a degree to a singular style. So I won't.

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Picks up game after way too long. Dusts it off. Anyway

Uhhh the circus portion of day 1 is almost done! I played around with editing some conversations and variables mostly. Need to get back to the phone conversations someday. I really think they'd be a neat detail. As well as our dear MC kicking her feet when sitting on something. Gotta learn how to do that.

Hope to write in here within the next month lon!

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Oh fuck shit still working on this. Got design for another outfit for maria and continued making a cutscene. Hate mapping i hate it so much

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Not much, just to note that I've been slowly changing all the messages to busts~ keep finding issues around so, might take a bit.

Got some help for a lock picking mini game 👀 so that's gonna be fun~

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- Added flashlight light

- Added lighter light

- Made a sprite for braid + normal outfit

- Decided to scrap batteries for flashlight (Rip, didn't know what to do when it hit 0 though)

- Sanity system keeps breaking and then working. Such is the curse of a game dev

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- Made the other two npcs' sprites

- Made short hair in sprites

- Started working on clothes for a route

- Working on more talking sprites. Done 5 arms and body~

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Hear ye hear ye, one of the pixel art characters has been done.

I've fixed the sanity system so it actually works now, need to actually add stuff to it now~

Started mapping some parts of job™ I think I'll actually have to do parallax mapping rip

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Short, list update

- Have written the scene that'll lead to lockpicking

- Have written a simple base script for the way the phone works, so different days and scenes will lead to other interactions

- 3 character designs are done, need to pixel art 'em

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The shorter kind of update

I'm too tired, I'm afraid. So this'll be a quick and asy to read update

- Have tried my hand at paralax mapping, we'll see where this ends.

- All the busts for pjs are done

- Pixel art for when you're wearing pjs are also done

- General plan of what to do in the first floor of the mannor has been written

- Added busts in the game for a trial. This isn't the sprite to be using here but I wanna show off

There she is! Child.

- Programmed it so your clothes actually change at the beguinning of the day. Yes this took me 5 minutes yes 4 of them were watching a video about it.

Thats all!

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A bit over a month

I’m Hi and welcome! Today’s upgrade it a little different.

It’s been over a month since I first started working on this still unnamed project. It’s been quite a ride, hoenstly. I’ve done so much despite not havigng a lot of free time due to my work schedule, so I wanted to quickly jot down everything I’ve done in this past month and 11 days. Beware: it’s a very long post

Writing

I’ve written 100 pages! Wild. Some of these include notes and I’ll definitely have to polish a lot of this, but it’s so strange seeing how much I’ve done.

I have... maybe 7 endings, 5 more on the way unless I find something more to branch out on, cause I do not control the narrative.

There’s probably more writing since I’ve done a lot of the flavor text about things around the house directly in the game engine. We’ll have to wait and see

Art

The art department Doesn’t have that much special. I’ve designed the most important characters- these being our protagonist, her partners and her brother. And her cat, of course, how dare I forget. Here are some drawings for teh designs + the pixel art

There they are, love ‘em. I’ve tried making a special art thing for the month but I didn’t have the time. 

There’s also the talking sprites. Maria has entirely too many clothes and expressions, as well as hairstyles, so I’m slowly working my way though them.

- All haistyles are done - All arms are done - All Daily clothes (including the arms) are done and rendered - All but two pyjama clothes are done

I should start making the clothes and haistyles into pixel art, that might take a while.

Game engine

I’ve done the entirety of the first scene (Waking up, getting the obejctive of going to the bus, going to catch said bus and the conversation inside) mapped out (it still needs changes), written out and sent into the game engine. There’s multiple switches that needed to be made and I need to make some animation for our main cahracter to get in and out of bed. Footsteps have been added, and they vary depending on where Maria is walking on. 

I’m working on a different map for the city, this one is nice but it’s a tad too small.

I’ve begun working on a few other things too. Basically, at work is where you’ll figure out how to do some things like lockpicking or how to use a flashlight. I think it’s a good way of preparing you for the big choice of main route you take later on.

There’s not a lot of deaths/game over screens. I might have to change that. I’ll probably keep the player’s ability to save whenever they want to though, it just sounds right.

Unsure if the sanity system will be visible. Maybe it will be? We’ll see.

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Woo dev log

I actually got a bit of work done yesterday but i finished working on stuff at almost 2 am. Almost all pyjama arms are done! Which means the two main outfits are almost complete! Managed to get some help to make ocs for when you go to work. I think that’d be a good place to show the player some mechanics with low stakes. Yay. Outlined manor route. Still unsure on how to write cult route, not gonna lie. Finished up some coding for parts of the city and 4 types of footsteps. It’s not much but it’s honest work and it took me more than im willing to admit.

Here’s a talk sprite~

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Short update!

Daily clothes pose 100% done. Moving onto sleeping clothes~

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Oookay let's go!

I basically drew. Why is Maria so expressive and why did I make this so difficult for myself. Uhhh I've done mainly faces today, finished one hairstyle and that's about it. I'll show process pictures some other time~

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Another dev log

Truth be told I haven't had much time to work on anything. I shared a piece of script with some friends and it was fun! But now I fear I won't live up to whatever expectations those pieces of script set.

I've re-worked one of the endings-turns out a certain charavcter simply wouldn't have shown up where I thought she would.

The starting scene is longer now, but I'm unsure if I'll keep it that way. Our main character already alludes to the beguinning basically being triggered by the death of a patient, but... Idk

Added another small scene on the first day. It's one of the shorter days and I think that's kinda sad so, expanding on it.

Might add some scenes from Maria at work but I don't see how those would help with anything, other than giving us a wider scale. I need to build a world to make it feel empty after, I guess.

Finished working on the outside street map. Might re-do some parts but it's working out alright thus far. Started working on the mansion! I found some place that makes 3d manors and it's coming in handy. I'll try to add the model I generated in an edit or next time I post

See ya later!

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And another dev log

Hey! Happy new year! I think ive said this in my last post but imagine being bothered to confirm.

Let’s see what got done today! 

- Nothing in the writing department. I did learn that I need to re-write multiple scenes, mainly because I got where a certain cahracter lives wrong (Thought it was at a different building further away instead of the same building, just a different floor.) Also got wrong that that same character would appear as an ending in the Tree route. Yay. At least its not coded in so it can still be changed.

- Started messing around with sanity system, don’t have much of anything yet.

- Started working on the big city map. I really need other tilesets and also learn how to map. But that’s... for furture me.

- Coded the first... 10 minutes of the game? It has a few variables okay, I’m making my way though.

Here are some screenshots of the maps!

I really need to work on the living room, it has too much dead space in the center and although there will be a whole couch/tv situation somewhere in there, its still a lot of dead space.

Just a room, nothing to see here! I might edit this a bit to give it a more mirred look

And that’s about it! I need to start re-writing and working on other areas!