Hey guys! I hope you're all doing great! π
Man, these past couple of weeks have been a crazy emotional rollercoaster, what with all the censorship news going around, especially with adult games. It's been really tough trying to stay focused, but I managed to get some work done.
There's so much stuff I did, I'm not even sure what to include in the devlog π
Quest Planning
Done! I was able to create all the chapter 3 quests, and even played through all of them in the game. Without the dialogues, of course. The dialogue files are empty placeholders for now.
Here's the roadmap for Chapter 3. Each of these cards represents a quest objective/dialogue (blurred out for obvious reasons). I may end up moving some stuff around as I continue to work on the chapter, so you can think of it as a first draft.
There are 68 cards/dialogues in total, more or less the same as Chapter 2. Some will be shorter than others.
Implementing these in the code was a nightmare. Last time I only had 4 characters to work with... Now it's 8 π . I've already played and tested the quests multiple times to make sure there are no bugs, and so far I think I've caught most of them, but I'll probably have to do several more in the future. Sandbox games are a pain to make lol, but I love it.
My progress tracker in the future will be based on these cards. So the completion percentage will depend on how many dialogues I've written. (The image is a sample btw, I've not actually written 30)
Some Improvements To The Inventory System
While testing, I quickly came to realize that the inventory space, especially in the key inventory, was getting too small. It was never designed to have more than one page cuz I never thought I'd make so much shit that it wouldn't fit in there lol. But ya, after a lot of coding, you can hoard as much stuff as you want now, and view them in multiple pages.
What's Next?
Now that I've finished planning the quests, there's a lot of stuff I need to do before I can start writing the dialogues.
Character Daily Routines
I've already plotted out their daily routines, in other words, where they'll be on the map at different times of the day; all that's left is to create the renders. So far, I'm done with the new girl, and it shouldn't take too long to finish the others. The frustrating part is that I like to make multiple versions of each render so I can pick the best-looking one.
Game Design Stuff
I still need to implement ways of increasing character relationships and player stats, and create things for the player to do with the stats. Stuff that makes it feel like a game. It'll be way less grindier than Chapter 2, if you thought it was lol.
Conclusion
Oh, one more thing, the more I work on new content for the game (especially when I add new features), the more "prone to error" older parts of the game become, so I've been thinking about separating the game's chapters into a Season 1 and 2 if it gets too complex. I've not made up my mind about it, just something that came to mind after so many of the new features I added caused so many bugs during testing.
Phew, that's as much as I could fit into this devlog, there are soooo many micro tasks I had to omit, especially in the code. I apologize if this devlog seemed messier than usual, there's just some much stuff on my mind lol. But progress is going very well, and we're one step closer to the end (of CC)!
Till next time, take care, stay safe, love y'all! π