Saturday Update!

Hello again folks! It's been a pretty good week!

I'm feeling a lot better after I got stuff off my chest. I'm finally feeling less anxious and depressed. It's also getting warmer here and the snow is melting, so that's really nice too.

I got a pretty good amount of work done last week!

This is my totally professional sticky note with the work I need to get done this month. I got a lot of items done on it already! But I did choose easy-ish softball ones because I wanted an easier week 😂

I also did a bit of debugging! One of my previous Alpha testers contacted me with some minor bugs they discovered over the last year [ yeah, it's been that long since Alpha Testing! ] and I took care of the ones I could [ and a really stubborn one I found myself, that felt good ]. Also my Alpha testers are still secret for a little longer but I just want to publicly thank them and insist to all of you that this particular Alpha Tester has done SO MUCH WORK to make the game better. Pretty soon everyone will see the proper credit but for now just know this behind-the-scenes hero has done a lot to improve the quality of the game! 🙌

Alright, let me get some screencaps and such here:

The startup menu is now polished up and ready to go! First is the logos [ I'm actually pretty proud of these, it's like a ✨real game✨ ]

followed by my usual warning screen:

followed by the actual main menu, which I redrew and lightly animated:

[ I'm not putting the watermarks on these, the game is coming out soon enough and I simply cannot be bothered LMAO ]

I jazzed up the look of the credits screen a bit! This took longer than expected because the little design flourishes were unexpectedly hard to code 😂 But they look better than the grey dots so it was worth it in my book!

Concept art screen is ready-to-go! [ But you can't see because you need to cough up 20 death coins first LMAO ]

 Character bios are also done! [ Players will have to buy these with death coins too ]

And that's about it!

Next week I'd like to try and tackle the music screen and the translation mod system. These are both much more intense jobs with more complicated coding [ I know I've done music screens before but I have a visual idea to make it cooler that is gonna be really hard to pull off ] so I might not be able to get them both done in a week, but we shall see!

For the time being, it looks like I'm actually ahead of schedule this month, which is great news. That means that once the stuff I need to get done is done, I may have an opportunity to tweak music or draw new art for the concept art section- but only once the really important stuff gets done.

[ and yes I haven't tried redoing the bar music yet... I'll get to it.... I'm putting it off LMAO ]

Anyway, I hope you all have a safe and fun weekend! See you next week!