Weekly update – Meet the Professor

Hi everyone,

As you can see in the lovely image above, Professor Rohrleger now has visuals and will finally receive renders for his events in the next update. Together with the Forest Witch, two of the oldest characters in the game will then finally have images! I’m also working on a new character that I’ll show in one of the next updates, and of course I’ve been chipping away at the new player images – the different body part sizes for the female character are done there, the futa and male versions are next on the list.

Most of my time has recently been spent on a more technical topic – changes to the save system. Up to this point, all saves have been stored in a part of the browser memory that only has 2 MBs of space available – and that’s shared between applications. Because of this, quite frequently players have run out of memory to save their games, especially when they were also storing other saves e.g. in Twine based games. With the new save system there is now 50 MB available, which should be more than enough for your average saves.  Old save games will of course still be fully compatible.

Warning: Boring nerd talk ahead, skip this paragraph if not interested in coding: I changed the in-browser location where the save games are stored from localStorage to IndexedDB – which is surprisingly well supported by all browsers. This means that I now have access to a database-like system within the browser, which in-and-of itself is already pretty cool, and it also has a ton of storage space available. The problem was however, that localStorage access is synchronous, while access to IndexedDB is asynchronous. This meant I had to refactor a ton of stuff, but it should be worth it, especially since it also makes integrating cloud based save games at a later point of time much easier.

So all in all, I was very busy and am happy with my progress. However, there is still a lot of work ahead of me before I can come close to finishing Version 2.3. Let me know what you think of the new topics.

Thanks for reading,

hw21