september update!

it's finally september, which is a relief for me after a very busy august with a pet shop after dark's launch at the end of the month. thankfully it's been going well, but there've been numerous things i've had to troubleshoot 💦

as such, here is my schedule for this month:

• fixing any issues that come up with a pet shop after dark!!! 
• considering: working a debug tool for renpy to share with people
• monthly postcard as usual for you all
• participating in the google indie game festival online event tomorrow (9/3)

there are some bugs that i definitely didn't expect, like the game not working on some systems when the username has non-ascii characters... i've tested this myself but i haven't been able to reproduce it, but i think it might occur when a system that doesn't support unicode characters has unicode characters in the file path and then the python in renpy tries to read the path but it can't because the system doesn't support it... 

so far i'm happy with the launch though! thank you for everyone who has played it so far (:

for the debug tool, i'm thinking of trying to rework the one i made for a pet shop after dark (because it's very weird and doesn't play well with renpy's built-in tools) and see if i can make it into something that could be easily used by anyone, as something people could share in their builds with testers/translators/&c.! i'm not sure how well this will come together though, so i'm going to try it but might not actually release it publicly.

also, the thanks page on my website (https://npckc.site) has been updated for last month!

on another note, i'm going to be participating in the online event for google indie game festival japan. it's only in japanese, but it will start in the morning japan time with an online venue that you can walk around in, and the actual event at 3pm jst. if you're interested, the event is free to join but i think you need to register here: https://developersonair.withgoogle.com/events/japan_igf22

i'll be in the online venue in the morning for some time if you want to hang out!

anyway, that's my plan for september (: with the launch of a pet shop after dark still keeping me busy i won't be working on a new game yet, but i plan on doing so in october!