Quick Update on Development.

Hey there guys, how are you all doing?

So, today I wanna tell a little about the current stage of this month's development, I don't have anything new or graphic enough to make a full Development Update as I wanted, the work I'm doing is monotonous, slow, and very necessary to ensure the quality of the game.

You see, the previous two weeks I've been reading every single dialogue inside the game and fixing, changing, adding new text to the current text or changing entire dialog boxes, I'm also inserting the new animations, changing expressions in areas I think the characters should be showing more expressions than just their regular ones and so on. 

A lot of text I find it to be... weirdly placed or just not right, so I change those too. I'm also taking in some advice I've got from some patrons and I'm trying to use it to write things better. But overall, there's a lot of stuff that I find on those reviews of the scripts from the game.

I discovered things would be way worse months ago when I did the combing through Wagner's routes to add the new animations to his older dialogues: I found a lot of wrong stuff: Places where a Speaker was needed a missing speaker, Places that should NOT have a speaker having it there, creating confusion. Entire dialog boxes with weird text that should have been removed because they made no sense (probably stuff I forgot to remove from the early days of this game), and there's also those extra special occasions where music wasn't being called on the place they should for example. I look to all of these little details, dialogue by dialogue. I open each one of them individually to check every single piece of information, and that takes a lot of time.

So far, I was able to finish the Day1.JSON and I'm about...  30% done with Day2.Json, and that's the current status of the work so far:

On Day1.JSON:

•     - Number of Dialogues fixed that had a speaker when not needed or was missing a speaker when needed: 9
•     - Number of dialogues with misspellings or small changes fixed during the process: 19
•     - Number of dialogues deleted or entirely changed during the process: 3
•     - Number of Dialogues where the sprite had its expression changed: 36
•     - Number of Dialogues with new animations added or changed on them: 26
•     - Number of Dialogues where there was a missing sprite fixed: 17
•     - Number of Dialogues with background changed: 1
•     - Number of Dialogues that had some sort of random issue not listed above: 1

And on Day2.JSON:

•     - Number of Dialogues fixed that had a speaker when not needed or was missing a speaker when needed: 1
•     - Number of dialogues with misspellings or small changes fixed during the process: 54
•     - Number of dialogues deleted or entirely changed during the process: 7
•     - Number of Dialogues where the sprite had its expression changed: 27
•     - Number of Dialogues with new animations added or changed on them: 24
•     - Number of Dialogues that had some sort of random issue not listed above: 1

Please note that this information will be displayed on the ChangeLog for the next alpha.

Once I finish Day 2 and Day 3.JSON I want to (if I have the time), fix the gallery, to add the new images that the game will have, that is a thing I've been wanting to do but I never find the time. If possible I want to do it this month, so I'll try. That being said, the days grow exponentially, so I'm hoping I can finish everything by the end of next week giving me a few days to code something, and that's a pretty cramped schedule.

Anyway, I'm also needing to find the time to apply any Suggested corrections I have yet to analyze, and I'll do it as soon as possible too, of course: I will need to compare the text with the things I've changed in the game right now instead of the old version, but that's fine. 

Anyway there's a lot of work for me to do and this is absurdly tedious, so wish me luck.

I think I'll be able to close the alpha by the end of this month, before the last day so you guys will have some time to grab it before next month, but if I can finish everything before I'll do it.

Anyway, I wish you all a good week. See you soon!