Artemis DevLog CH7

Happy Monday!

Short break was nice. Still hectic trying to get my place ready, but was great to spend time with family. In between I worked on some code and realized a small hitch in my goal to split the books. Chapters wise, no big deal. But things like the SDCards, wallpapers, music, sfx, etc. These items get used all across the board, so I'll be making some tweaks and re-organizing how I package things. This does mean for those of you who mod, will most certainly break things. And a reminder that I don't care if you mod, just keep in mind when something breaks due to modding, that's the risk you take. When I work on code and do things like re-organizing, that's just me working autonomously. Another reminder of why I'm doing this, it's to better organize the releases. If I don't start splitting the books, downloading all 7 chapters on release day will be about 20+GB. And use I do use compression methods like WEBP and WEBM, tuning it so it's a balance of quality and size. Splitting the books will reduce that size. It will also leave Book 1 code untouched. Meaning something like a change in future chapters won't affect previous books. If something from say book 2 breaks, your book 1 saves should not be broken and thus saving you from having to completely start over. So, it's more than one reason that I'm splitting the books into separate executables. No save transfers needed or anything like that. As said before loading Book 1 saves while on Book 2 will just prompt you to run Book 1 exe to load that save and vice versa. Also, should you wish to combine the exe's...in theory that should work. This will be something I'll confirm once I've got it dialed in.

Back to the grind! Have yourselves a great week and stay warm!

- digi