Weekly devlog!

Hello all! This week I got a lot done, and I did a lot of research. At this very moment, I'm adding the first sex(ual) scene into the game, which has actually been trickier than I thought. But I think I'm getting very close to the first public release after that's added! I think I want to add the new UI design after that and put some of these new backgrounds into the game, so anyone who plays it can get a sense of what the game's backgrounds will look like if they weren't all placeholder.

I've been playing a bunch of games to get some inspiration for what the final game loop could look like, and found some games that are like what I'm looking for. But, I don't feel like it would be a drastic change from what I've currently got, so I don't think it warrants implementing before the public release.

I've got some new backgrounds and UI elements to show soon! Now, for the devlog:

• All intros should only show once - When I started with the game, I had the mentality that people would probably click through things then realize they wanted to read them after the fact. For that reason, every section stuck around after you read it. But this created a long list of dialogue choices that crowded the screen, so now, most conversation starters only appear once.
• Add an energy cost to Hannah's intro
• Add an energy cost to Amy's intro
• Add an energy cost to Jessie's intro
• Add an energy cost to Kira's intro
• Add an energy cost to Luna's intro - Introducing yourself to the girls will cost you 1/3 energy points for the day.
• Add emotions to Luna's intro
• Add emotions to Hannah's intro
• Add emotions to Jessie's intro
• Add emotions to Amy's intro
• Add emotions to Kira's intro - These are about adding facial expression changes to each introduction.
• Upgrade to spine 3.8
• Kira should be wearing her maid outfit - Kira works at the french bakery and she already had a french maid outfit, so it made sense to have her start the game by wearing that.
• Mia should be wearing her casual outfit - In Mia's first sex scene, she's wearing her "casual" outfit (as opposed to her cat-girl outfit), so I made her wear this from the start.
• Add a button to trigger Mia's first sex scene - This is just for me so I can test it out. The button won't be in the final game.
• Mia's sex scene dialogue choice should be at the top of dialogue choices - Before this change, the conversation choice that started her sex scene was at the bottom, below the choice to leave.
• Add the new Mia sex scene images to the project

Next week, I hope to have the actual sex scene in the game. It's actually kind of tricky, because spine has this limitation that you can't make the characters transparent. This means I can't make them fade out.

So I guess the way I'll go about it is fade to black and then fade to the same background with a cut scene picture there. Maybe every picture change it fades out again? I'm not really sure. I gotta do some more research to see how other VNs do it I guess. But any suggestions/videos/advice is welcome!

I also want to make the background blurry whenever there's a cut scene picture in front of it, but I may not get to this before the public release.

Anyway, I hope you're all having a great week!