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Final version of the entrance to Hogwarts

Retrospective 2/3

Second part of the junk: https://mega.nz/#F!GNgTVLaZ!gb_cgleWMXQJa36aMOVr-w

These are all the chibis by Grending through the production of the game.

Дафна чибики.rar

We decided to abandon chibis, so use them wherever you want. There is also an unedited version of Daphne's chibis, that had a bit of a rework. We were planning on including it in the WT, but due to the shift toward IW we abandoned it.

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News 19.04.2017

Another week has gone by, and it means it is time for another news update.

Last week:

Tobi:

Spent five days under water...

Worked on second act and was balancing out the third one. Managed to give an approximation for TA for the inventory.

Artist's report from the frontline:

Finished the panoramic drawing of Hogwarts and the art for the hallway. Finished a couple of minions for the office.

Me:

Finished the se...

WT 1.6f release (Android too)

Good day, everyone! Time for a surprise middle-of-the-week news update!

We finished working on the 1.6!

And so...

Witch Trainer Russian Edition 1.6F.

*Complete and thorough bug fix, that went through multiple waves of rigorous testing.

*Removed logical loopholes.

*Finished and edited English translation.

*Removed all the unnecessary code (that wasn't used in the game).

2017-04-19 12:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Retrospective 1/3

Going through the old PDF files, we came to a conclusion to either delete it all, or share it with the public. 

And so after a quick discussion within our team, and to commemorate the upcoming release of WT 1.6f (only bug fixes and text editions), we decided to share all that stuff with you.

You can find all the files here: https://mega.nz/#F!GNgTVLaZ!gb_cgleWMXQJa36aMOVr-w

So let's start:

2017-04-17 07:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post

News 16.04.2017

 Good morning, Viet... khm... anyway, it is time for your regular, somewhat, news update for the 16th of April.

Either way, as far as the front for the big news goes, it has been quite since the last report.

Step by step, we are trying to finish the 0.0.4.

As for the personal achievements, Dron spent most of the past weeks working on the 1.6. And, cross your fingers, there is little left to do in a sense of actual bugfixing, so the f...

News 12.04.17

Time for a news update yet again...

Past week:

Tobi:

Wrote 3 TAs and the remaining part of the second act. Also generated plenty new ideas...

Came up with the concept for the in-game tutorial.

Short replete from the artist:

Through the week finished working on 5 new inventory items, adapted the hall for the 16:9 resolution, added a few new interesting details and animated some of the objects. Also, finished two miniatures for the o...

News 05.04.2017

After a two-week break it is time for some concise news.

Past week:

Tobi:

Learned how to use a program, that allows to properly structure game acts and rewrote the first act in it, also created a base for the other acts.

Small report from the artist:

In the last two weeks I finished the entrance to Hogwarts with the WIP miniature, reworked game menu for the new resolution and started working on the expansion of the classroom. Finished the background, all th...

News 02.04.2017

Good time of the day to everyone interested. Time for the March report.

Tobi:

First spring month was spent on personalising the game engine for our own needs. Despite the fact that during the modding days old code code was faster to write, now we are no longer rely on temporary solutions with patches on top off patches and praying for the whole construct not to collapse, but rather writing the new code with specific goals in mind, resulting in much higher quality co...

Sonya

News 29.03.2017

Today's update is a bit of a throwback, meaning that it is time for another news batch from Tobi.

Our binary warrior works on the Ren'py visualisation system, so that after our move to the Full HD and multi-layer system, our game didn't need REAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS, that would result in constant lags and crashes on weaker machines. And he already has some success: got rid off the lags in between the dialogues and day and night cycle.

Our fine arts warrior works on ...

News 22.03.2017

Tobi: survived the operation (c) Started to correct Hermione's character and behaviour in the upcoming act. After he finishes with that, he will rework the other acts to fit. He also nearly finished the writing the TA for the new interface. 

Artist's report:

1. Working on the animations of point and click for the usable items in the office. Almost finished.

2. Colouring the Hogwarts entrance.

3. In pair with Tobi, coming up with the new interface for the dia...

News 19.03.2017

Good time of the day, everyone !

It is 19th of March outside, which means it is time for your biweekly news dose.

All in all, development continues at a steady pace. Half of the team is a bit out of it due to numerous reasons, while Dron enjoys his vacation in places with less than stable internet, but as always he stops at nothing to bring you the fresh news.

The texts for the fourth act are ready, and now what is left, is to code it in, provide it...

News 16.03.2017

Past week:

For the whole week Tobi was creating and reworking the TA for everyone.

Artist worked on:

1. Optimising the art for the headmaster's office, also finished 3 miniatures for it.

2. Finished sketching and started colouring the Hogwarts entrance.  

3. Started expanding the art for the menu, so that it will work with the new resolution.

4. Finished two magazine inventories.

Dron finished his work with WT and now is somewhere in mounta...

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News 09.03.2017

Last week:

We focused on polishing the third act, mostly editing the text side of the game. But, another problem became obvious, any change to string on the Russian side of the game, breaks the translation for the English side. That is one of the infamous challenges of this game engine, but we are close to conquering it. 

Next week in this section will also include the plans for the following week.

Plan highlights for 0.0.4:

Move to the 16:9 aspect ...

Breaking news

Good time of the day everyone, and this is an unscheduled news update! Some of you may remember the times of the teaser release and could have observed how the art from the closed section of the forum would immediately end up on third party websites. We even used to joke in our news updates that a certain group has their  mole on our forum. And we would let it go. Not all parasites deserve our attention. We made a joke of it, and didn't think of it as anything serious.

But, fin...

0.0.3 release and some news

Here comes another stage of our voyage. It has been nearly half a year since the release of the third act. By delaying the second act by one month, we thought it would be impossible for development to become even more complex than we have planned. But it happened. At a certain point, all our efforts became focused on the future of the game, and the need to release new act went to side-lines, with the main focus being the rework of the game. So we had to whip ourselves into shape a...

News 05.03.2017

Good evening, everyone! 

Today is the 5th of March and it is time for some fresh news.

Let's start from the major event. The 0.0.3 is fully finished for the our closed section of the forum (Elder, Trustees and Patrons). At the moment we are solving the technical questions with the upload of the game to the forum, we hope for today's release. 

Next week we will focus on final round of test of the 1.6. We believe we have found all even the s...

News 02.03.17

The spring is finally upon us, so congratulations to everyone who made it through winter! And as earth comes back to life, we continue our efforts, and now for your weekly news.

Third act is finished. We are getting in some final touches for the translation and some time soon it will be available in the closed section of the forum. We also have started on the global re-optimisation of the game, mostly removing all the remnants of the old game code.

For the art side ...

News 23.02.2017

Yet again comes this time of the week, which means it is time to get your weakly dose of the news. 

 This week our INTERN testers (of our team) finally received access  to the new act, we even have our first reviews, however it is still much work in progress. There are still emotions to use, as their overall replacement for new characters takes longer than expected. That won't affect the overall release, but does affect the translation...

Artist conti...

News 19.02.2017

Morning Everyone !

Today is the 19 of February and it’s time for another news update.

And so, the 0.0.3 release (for the patrons) will soon be ready for testing. It incorporates the 3 act, which is significantly bigger than the previous ones…

Next week we plan to start the final stage of development of the final WT 1.6 with the finished translation and bugfixes.

On top of all the other work, we have made significant advances on the 0.0.4 – as we complete the fourth act ...

News 16.02.2017

Congratulations everyone surviving yet another Valentine's Day. This week was quite productive, however the focus was mainly on the code of the game.

Artist continues to populate the office. You will get to see the animations as we get them. 

All of work has been done on the essential elements of the third act. For the moment, all that's left is to replace old emotions of Dumbledore, Snape and Minerva with new ones. As soon as we are done with that we will rele...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Dron: 

Let every man, on this joyful day, find his  witch, that can grant him even most wonderful wishes. Let every woman spend this holiday with a real warlock with a huge, magical... smile!

Tobie: 

Do not hesitate to love and do not choose freedom, if someone else can have your cake. Enjoy every moment and feel free to express your feelings. And do not forget to check your calendar ;)

Scerg:

We wish for all of you to take care of your other s...

News 08.02.2017

The winter is preparing to leave. Beach football season in Moscow will start in a few days, while we're still complaining about cold. So this is the perfect time for some hot news.

Forth act gets its final touches before leaving for the first round of testing. And yes we remember that we haven't release the third one yet, just so happens that these two acts are closely intertwined with each other and we have to work on them simultaneously, but don't worry, the code for the fourth ac...

News 05.02.2017

 Good afternoon, everyone !

Another 2 weeks have passed, meaning it is time for another news update.

Our team has increased its size by one programmer. We are giving final touches to the 0.0.3 release. The to-do list shrinks at a quick rate.

For the art side of the development, our main artist finished work on some of the art for characters' poses and a few things for new characters.

For the moment our focus lies on code editing and bug fixes for the rele...

News 01.02.2017

It's Wednesday already, which means it is time for another news update. As always, whole team continues their work, fixing bugs and expanding game in all directions.

Our new masters of python are in the final stages of testing of the third act. Sometime soon they will also start working on the rest of the acts, including the first and the second one. While we will start stress-testing of the forth one, of course after we release the third one first.

As for the graph...

News 25.01.2017

Good time of the day, everyone ! Time for your regular dose of the news. Tobi is finally finished with his exam diet, and the for the most part, the rest of the team is in high spirits and there are good news on all sides of development.

New recruits are finishing their entrance task. If all goes well, we will significantly increase the speed of overall programming.

Also, this week we received a huge batch of art, however is was mostly technical. We also added new c...

News 22.01.17

 Good time of the day, comrades !

Today is the 22nd of January, and it's time for a news update.

And let's start with some good news. In last few weeks we have run into some trouble with coding. For example, Dron had barely anytime to implement new features. However, now our team has two more members, who work at an astronomical speed, which brings the release date of 0.0.3 ever so closely. (For patrons and testers)

For the moment, we keep our focus on two things: ...