I've been a busy (and distracted) boi =<

What’s been done?

Ben X

• Implemented new screens in BenX
•     Which Renpy had to fight me on
• Optimized the communicator code
•     Long overdue

Misc

• Finished fixing Camp Pinewood 2.6
•     Of course they release 2.8 the next day (Yes, they skipped 2.7 for some reason)

Welp, I delayed the last report cause I was busy with life and wanted something to talk about.. But sadly I haven’t been able to do that much more, sorry =<

What I did do, was finish the fix for Camp Pinewood 2.6. I didn’t post it on here cause I don’t know how the sharing of NSFW stuff works these days anymore so better play it safe. You can find it on our discord in the pinned messages of  #nsfw-games-sharing. I’m still debating on doing 2.8, it’s pretty easy to include it but I feel like Vaultman dropped the ball on this one. He didn’t bother adding any quest help, so no message in the morning or in the backpack screen. I tried adding it on my own but since these events don’t have any particular markers for when they are supposed to take place.. It’s hard to add them without overwriting the other quest texts. I was going to wait for their bug fix.. But apparently that’s delayed =<

Finally started work on Ben X as well, so happy days. Haven’t done too much yet, but it’s nice coming back to it. Less nice was how Renpy decided to nope out on the new screen system I was using. Since I’m using 3 screens at once and no longer calling the last one, there were some issues. Not sure what they were, but after hours of trying to make sense of it I just gave up. I felt defeated and life took over for a bit, but then out of nowhere, an idea popped into my head. An idea that actually worked! So stuff like the communicator menus and the world map buttons won’t hide with H anymore =D

Also came up with a way to shrink the communicator screens by 200 lines. These were some of the first things I coded and at the time I wasn’t really sure how to go about it.. So I hard coded them like the fool I was, BUT NO MORE! They are nicely looped now, yay me =3

Boring life stuff
Sooooo, apparently there’s a pandemic? I’m fine, not really that affected by it as I usually only go out once a week, the only thing that has changed for me is that some things in the store are sold out now xD. I do get a bit of background stress though. My parents are both risk factors for Corona and my mom is even an extreme case, having COPD and losing a fifth of her lung to cancer. While I don’t actively worry about it, it is something that floats around in the back of my mind. I’m also a bit affected by the uncertainty of it all, while my life doesn’t change that much.. The world is changing and the rules I learned in the past don’t necessarily apply anymore and just makes going outside even more stressful for me.

In other news, I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and am taking meds for that. Hopefully that’ll help me stay focused but it might take some time to find the right medication and dosage. Let’s hope we find the right combination fast though, I’ve been on the road of medication before and it wasn’t fun =<. But if all goes well, it should bring some order to the chaos in my head, which would be especially nice in these trying times.

What’s next?

Scooby

• Actual clues to the clue system
• Room navigation
• More dialog

Misc

• Camp Pinewood 2.8 (Maybe)
• Unity research
• Tutorial (again)
• Discord bot

With Newman back in action, we decided to make the first build a bit bigger. Originally we cut it off before you can roam around so we didn’t have to add room navigation stuff but now that he has more time it just felt better to add a bit more meat.

While I watched some interesting videos and set Unity up, I haven’t had the chance to really play around with it yet. I watched some random videos and then picked a proper tutorial to follow on the Unity site itself.. But that one was horribly broken.. So fun times xD.

I’ve also decided to look into building a Discord bot, to deal with the pesky whenners. I might make it more advanced at some point, but for now I just want an auto response for the people that come in just to ask “Next update when?” :P

That’s it for now, I’ll try to stay safe so you better do the same!
An obedient Akanoes that is totally following the quarantine rules and isn’t some weird recluse ^^