Just Friends - Alpha 0.36 Release!

Hello! How are you all today?

I'm sure am tired! But I finished closing the newest alpha for Just Dance. 

You know guys, it's absurd the amount of text this game already has inside for just two freaking characters you can go for right now. There's so much stuff to check that it took me one month to finish Days 2 and 3 (inside the game the files Day1.JSON and Day2.JSON), and I still have the Day3.JSON or the Day 4 during gameplay, and that's so far the biggest file in the game for routes (but Day4.JSON which is the Day 5 during gameplay is almost the same size already). Remember, those files are just code, there's nothing there but tons of lines of information.

This time though I took longer because, well, I decided to document every single change I've done per file, this way you would be able to have a very precise changelog. This made the entire ordeal way longer than needed and boring as hell. I needed to open every dialogue in every route segment and essentially read through my game without actually playing it. 

I fixed a lot of dialogues without a speaker, I deleted a few dialogues, I re-wrote a few dialogues, I fixed a few issues, I changed some expressions, and I've updated all Karnal Routes on Day1/2.JSON with animations when needed. It's interesting how much I work when creating and putting the new scripts inside the game to avoid having silly mistakes such as Karnal speaker appearing when Aiden's speaker should or like, not having that speaker there. I also tried to check every instance where you change locations to make sure the music was playing or changing all of that. 

There are a lot of changes I did to those days but I also changed a little of how the first-day ingame works, I've added more dialogue when Aiden arrives at the hotel, and a few more dialogues in between the reception and his room (now he takes the elevator!), and a new sequence where he just thinks for himself about how he got at the hotel since to him going to the resort was not a planned trip at all.

I think I will eventually re-write the intro of the game, to make it more enjoyable and understandable, but I don't know when. Just know that there are more dialogues on the first day and that could cause some issues with your save file, so if that happens, just start a new game!

Anyway, if you're curious how much was changed on those two days, I did a very good list on the changelog and I do wish you guys check that out because that list is the reason it took so much time for me to do those two days. Frankly, it would be faster if I could fix them without keeping track of how many a particular changes I've done, haha. But I do want you all to have a good way to visualize how the work went.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this alpha.

Ah! Since I changed a LOT of text, you can only suggest corrections in this new version, the previous alphas are already blocked to do so. 

Well, that's it, I'll see you all next month. I really hope you guys stay here with me after all.

And again, thanks for your support guys. Your support means the world to me after all.