Development Update #38

Hello there! Today I'm gonna talk about what I'm doing in the game.

Those last weeks are full of stuff for me to do, I've found some bugs on the game so here I am fixing them, some of those bugs are due to new stuff coded on the game.

The new Gallery System for the Music Library caused bugs on the dialogs, I don't know why. So I'm fixing them.

The gallery system however fixed some issues, for example, some bugs with buttons not working on the gallery after closing and reopening are fixed or that you could not play the previous music you were listening if you close and reopen the music library on the gallery. Those small bugs are all fixed.

A good new thing is that if you click on the Artist link for the Music or the License link for them you will be redirected to the respective webpage.

And finally, I had to find a piece of new music to replace the Park one (I believe, I forgot what music it was, you can check by playing the previous alphas gallery songs), because the license for that music suddenly changed (or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention to the day I was doing my music research).

I added a pause system on the dialogs, now every comma the text will pause for 0.3s, and for every period it will pause for 0.5s. This will create a more natural flow of realism for you as the player to see for how long Aiden or any of the characters stop to think before continuing to talk.

After that done, I spent a month and two weeks looking for the royalty-free background I could mess with without having any legal issues in my game, I found some and in the next alpha that I will be released by the end of this month, you guys will be able to check them. Since they are not images done for the game, I don't see a reason to post them here.

All of the new backgrounds are temporary but they are protected by a CC0 License or other licenses that work in the same way: They're free for you to use commercially or not, for you to edit and to use the way you want. You can give credits for the photographers but you're not forced into it. That being said, I took more time from myself to create a section in the credits of the game for you all to check who took the pictures, their personal links, and the license each image is under protection. 

So, now, after finishing all this work, I've also been thinking in my spare time about the next part of the story of the game. I have a general idea of what will happen, but I need to make a small text to become a huge one and it needs to be a good text. I'm glad for a lot of you who are supporting me, and please continue supporting me from now on. I'm doing my best to give you all as many updates as possible with the game.

--- I also worked a lot to make some changes to the title screen!

So for now, the 4th day is still under creativity development, this means I'm thinking of the plot points of that day that need to happen with Karnal and Wagner, after I decide what the plot points will be, I start writing thinking on that outcome.

Note that those plot points aren't the plot about the game itself. I pretend to start writing the story of the characters after I release day 4 for Wagner AND Karnal and after I start the new character first to the fourth day too. I'm pulling those story bits later in the development because I need you guys to really like them and I need to make sure they're as good as the normal days (The plot routes, are routes that will happen on the second day onward, between the 2nd and 3rd act. You can unlock them if you're having a perfect score with the character you're bonding with), they are necessary for you to develop the true ending with each character but they are not necessary if you only want to check on the sex scenes. Those scenes will be available as long as you get enough points by the end. The plot routes will only influence the end game scene.

So yeah, I'm trying my best guys. I'm sure when I release the open demo for this game I'll be able to get more patrons and with it, more money, with more money I can pay for music, animations, opening, all that good stuff I need to pay but I can't right now.

Oh, there is a thing I will warn you all, by November now, I will be deleting the previous alphas from the patreon. 

The reason for that is that I want to avoid any legal issues with the old backgrounds I was using. I thought they were royalty-free but in the end, I found out that they may not be. It would be WAY safer for me to find new "temporary" backgrounds until the ones Wagner's making are done, rather than keep using those and someone get mad because their picture was being used without consent. 

Again, by the time, I choose to use those pictures I thought they were Royalty-free but it comes to my knowledge that since I didn't have the source for them anymore I could not prove that, and I want to avoid problems. Better this early than later. 

SO, if you're curious about the old versions of the game you should check them before I delete those old posts.

I won't delete anything after the new alpha 0.20 I'll be releasing later this month, don't worry.

Anyways;

Thank you all for your support, if you're ever in doubt about this project, please come and talk to me. I'm really glad I have all of you here with me. Thank you all, and have a nice week!