Devlog #7 - Gallery Unlock Cheat (also a devlog I guess)

So! I hope everyone had fun downing a bunch of booze that had Effects on Joker. It was fun making them! But I gotta move on to the meat and potatoes, the structural changes that'll allow us to straight up make content updates whenever possible. To do that we're gonna need–hm? Oh right, gallery unlocks.

So some folks found out how to do it already, but for those that haven't, here's the step by step for unlocking the full gallery!

• Meet every girl. All you need to do is to have seen them at the Blackjack table, you can immediately leave.

• In the start menu, click on the Queen's chest. She should bounce a bit. Keep doing it.

• Once it looks like she's spent, open the gallery menu, and voila~

Follow that guide and every girl and Joker scene will be unlocked. I thought it'd be fitting to mention all this since I'm overhauling every single CG's camera, and the gallery menu. "Hey that sounds like a lot of work," haha yeah. But it has to be done. Why? Cause we want to add more new CGs with the next update, and there simply isn't enough room in the current menu! There may or may not be some other features that aren't explicitly porn related, but that's for another devlog.

One of the complaints we got when we first launched was that the dialog box covered the action. And honestly, it's almost comical how many CGs that happened with. This is because TT drew the illustrations before we'd finalized the UI. And this ended up happening so often, I was able to get multiple "censored" screenshots for itch.io. Obviously, an oversight on our part. So now we have a dilemma where we want to:

• Not block CGs with the dialog box.

• Not redraw all 12 CGs from scratch again.

• Be able to apply the solution to each CG.

The answer? Letterboxing! The new Joker CGs were a test bed to try out this new resolution and it worked fabulously. Nothing's blocked, and it feels a little more cinematic!

And as you can see in this test with Prill's Queen scene, the letterboxing doesn't mess with the composition too much! In fact, it allows for more space to have that sexy, sexy audience and show that mouthwatering hog.

And this…is an example of something that'll need work. There's a handful of CGs where we can't just move them to the left or right, and Syd's King scene is a doozy. So that'll need some touching up! But it's not a full redraw by any means, so we take those.

Another feature that'll be included is a revamped gallery menu. The one that exists right now was cobbled up together Really quickly so that I could put out the demo faster. It works, it's functional, but it's limiting. It's hard coded (hard formatted?) to only have the Jack, Queen and King scenes. So what if, oh, I don't know, we wanted to add a scene where the crowd gets to fuck Rosalie on the blackjack table?

I made two mock-ups: a clean UI, and a more detailed one. The clean UI is nice to look at, but clicking on one would activate a modal, and that's an extra click, and I never like that if I can help it. The more wordy version on the right has the benefit of having a title and the ability to just Click on which you want to see. The only issue is it'd require a little more work. But that's life! We'd also be adding a "CG Only" option, where you can go through the CG without dialog, at your own pace.

All in all I'm excited for the next update, hope you look forward to it :)

-LG

(Source for the original cover image https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/types-of-camera-shots-sizes-in-film/ )