Dev Log 0.12b: Cleanup

So this week, we discover why I named the build cleanup...

Edit Edit: Hey all my wonderful Preview tier supporters, your release is ready!

Edit: Lets put new content up top for people who like to skip my story time:

Firstly you can now try berry picking with Haily twice, there is a little new content. The final adult video scene is done! So now Haily and Alex can watch all the things together, you might even get a mail about it. However the main thrust of content this week is that you find out where Haily sleeps! If you get invited to Alex's bed (And she doesn't have larger plans for you), it turns into a three person event (4 if you count the mysterious eyes on you). Also there are a few old mails and such that got switched around.

Anyway...

I've been a software engineer for a long time now, not a serious coder, but I can I know the ins and outs of the whole thing pretty well. When I started Cabin by the lake I put some systems in place to help with a bunch of the things that I wanted to do.

As the game has grown and evolved, a bunch of these systems needed a serious retrofit, or to just be excised completely. Not all your ideas are going to be good ones. Like I originally designed a system so that people could chose between the original drawings that my friend had made and the 3d art I used for drafting, and then eventually went with entirely. As a creator I do prefer 2d art but it's just not realistic for my development speed and budget.

As an aside, here are some of the quick drafts vs the characters they turned out to be:

The 3d definitely looks better, but it's hard to have more heart than hand drawn. And I'm a big fan of heart.

Regardless that system has finally been removed, which will speed up development as I don't have to struggle with inconsistent image definitions. Similarly other systems where also streamlined resulting in the removal of probably over 2000 lines of code (which I replaced with a 6 line function). I did my best to test it but I guarantee that there will be a missing image or variable definition somewhere.

Man... there is so much to talk about these days. I've been meaning to mention some anecdotes and stuff for weeks now but I've always had more important things to say. Such is the nature of low priority things. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get too it eventually...

- Love Nunu