Progress 🤓🐦 + about the next update 👻👽 + Claire at home 🐛👀

Hi guys, how’ve you been? 🐷

I've been reworking the game's architecture and some of its core systems. It's something I had to focus on sooner or later if I wanted to keep adding content without everything breaking.

I won't go too deep into it since it's probably not the most interesting stuff, but this is what I've been focusing on these past few days:

Complete rework of the triggering system

Complete rework of the event progression system

Events now stored in JSON resources

All event-related data moved to JSON (id, triggers, conditions, states, post-event states, story progression, repeats...)

Decoupling the event background system

Rework image and video switch logic from event backgorund system

Connecting the event progression system with the background system

Turning the interaction system into a signal-based system

Connecting the interaction and triggering systems

Multithreaded scene loading

The goal is to make things more modular so I can test and add features more easily without constantly breaking stuff or having to rebuild big parts of the logic. There’s still more to do, but these were the most critical systems, issues and the ones that have been bothering me for a while.

About game art/content

For the next update, I'm planning to add 2-3 new locations, more in-game animations, actions, a Claire dialogue version remake and maybe a new character.

I've also been sketching Claire in-game doing some stuff around, along with some spicier moments.

Do you guys like it? If you have any suggestions I'd like to hear it! 🐦

I've also been thinking about slightly changing her outfit since her current shirt doesn't give me many fun things to draw. I'll probably make a poll about it.

Also, I might introduce some kind of generic minigame to help progress relationships. I have a few ideas I want to test, so I'll see how it goes. If you have suggestions, I'm open to hearing them (preferably on Discord). That being said, I'm not sure how long it'll take or how well it'll work yet, so nothing is confirmed.

About the itch.io issue, basically, my game got quarantined for some reason, probably by an automatic detection system or something. The game doesn't have any virus or anything like that, but yeah, it looks like it's going to be invisible for a while :(

Ty for all the support 🐮