Development Update: Theming

Hello guys. I've been fine-tuning some small things I have seem to forgot to do before I branched Just Friends out of Visual Novel Core, which means I have to do some double checks on both just Friends and the base engine because yes.

Either way, I've been fixing stuff, and adding the theming for the next build. So far I finished the Title Screen, and I'm now changing the Load/Save screen.

Here's how the Option Screen was and is now:

Old GD3 Menu:

VNC Stock Menu:

GD4 Options Menu:

You all probably have noticed but the Icon of the game has already changed, but let me show the old and new icons here:

GD3 version Icon:

VNC Icon:

GD4 Icon:

When Just Friends was branched from VNC, I spent a few days composing a background for the game, it's entirely done by me, while the background of VNC is literally a placeholder, I never checked it there was any copyright on it, but I changed as fast as possible since VNC is not a Visual Novel in itself, just the Core engine created on top of Godot.

Here's the GD3 Title Screen:

Here's the VNC Stock Title Screen:

Here's the new Title Screen:

Overall I think the changes are better, I will not go into details as to how I composed the title screen for Just Friends, and I'm sure as hell I can't reproduce correctly that effect on the Title of the game. But I can assure you there's no AI involved on it. I just lack the means to pay for backgrounds right now, they are exceedingly expensive and focusing on finishing Johan's expressions is a must. I'm still struggling to deal with Blender to create backgrounds with it, and I have no idea if Wagner will be the one who will draw the cutscenes and backgrounds.

But let's talk about the new menu I'm updating it's theming: The Load/Save menu.

Load and Save Cards are now fully updated, and they even have some new empty-data images on it!

GD3 Save Menu:

VNC Stock Save Menu:

 GD4 Save Menu (Unfinished): 

However, the menu itself still needs changes. The Load Data and Exit buttons will change and the layout is so different, I'm pretty sure I'll need some time to fix some bugs that may occur, not a lot though, I made sure that theming itself would be easy, positioning means changing the layout of certain nodes without changing their names. But overall it will work out.

Just Friends follows a more traditional pattern with its menus, so cthe lose button and Title of windows will all be on top of the window.

And let's not forget:

The options and UI buttons were updated!

GD 3 buttons:

New buttons:

Android only buttons:

AND the notification menu has also been updated!

For now those are the changed elements. I'm still deciding if the Notification will be blue or if will be pink, I will probably default to pink since blue is the secondary color of the game.

But for now that's what I have to show you all. Sometimes I give those updates on Telegram so follow the game public channel there :)