SID Gaming

1-28-21 Progress Update

Added 2021-01-28 14:01:01 +0000 UTC

This week, the main work has been done on two fronts: music and coding. We don't want to spoil too much on the audio front, but there has been a lively discussion on our team Discord about finding the perfect sound. It's why we didn't just grab some free-use music a long time ago.

We can talk about the code, however. We're going to be releasing what are essentially two different public builds in February, and in order to make sure they're as thoroughly-tested as possible, we've decided to release them to our patrons ahead of time. You are our beta testers, after all! The first one of these is the web demo that we mentioned previously. This is the one with only a fraction of the content of the download, and nothing that you haven't seen before. We're not going to host it anywhere yet for obvious reasons, but we've made another download version of it that you can try out right now. Just let us know if you find anything weird with it!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LXNLkwnz8cqtX0Is-v2nFN6FO6gQmFpQ/view?usp=sharing

The other build is of course the full public version of v0.03. We'd like some more eyes on it too, because of some rather widespread changes that were made. Just to name a few:

The new and improved draw system, which makes drawings go faster the higher your Draw Skill Level is.
The Transparent Dialog Box option. That's right, you're now able to hide the graphic completely, for better viewing of scenes without having to continuously toggle the UI on and off.
A completely reskinned options menu where you can change this setting and others (Feel like changing the name you put in back at the beginning? Now you can!)

Like I said, a lot of exciting changes! We're giving you early access to all the versions of these, so try them out and post your thoughts, here or (preferably) on the Discord.

One more set of links: please don't forget about our latest survey and our other contest; remember, your content could be featured directly in our next build! These have received the least amount of replies yet, which is crazy considering that we just passed the 100 patron mark (!)

Finally, if none of these under-the-hood changes are really your thing, we thought we'd leave you with this piece of concept art from one of the Aurora scenes last build. It's fantastic work as always, but the main problem was that the background is nothing like the Aurora's bedroom scene that was already drawn! That being said, we make sure that nothing we create ever goes to waste...besides having this extra piece to share with you now, there's a good chance it'll be reused elsewhere in the future. Hmm, which other princesses live in castles...?