Keisi

Dev Diary #57

Added 2021-12-31 18:56:13 +0000 UTC

Happy New Year to all! No, wait, should I say Merry Christmas? Since I was supposed to do a DD on Christmas Day... Ha-ha...

I'll start with what's of general interest: The beta will be next Friday. I had "planned" it to be today but it's mind-boggling how long it's taken me to do the whole Moonstars thing (and it's still not finished).

I'm the one who is really pissed off because I've been sleeping very little and working very hard for two months now in order not to make an unfinished update. Why do I say this? It's simple, I'll make a summary since November:

I started making all the visual changes of the icons that as I said it was almost like doing it from scratch because it was not only changing some for others and that's it, but there has been a lot of work behind and I still have to check some of them to put the new texture or change it for a new one.
It also occurred to me that I should introduce the inventory to have everything better placed thinking about the future and also to implement the "favorite girls (only main)" section to have everything more accessible and summarized in the same place. The result of this I like a lot especially for the animations and in general, the interface doesn't look bad. Could it look super epic and cool? Sure. I wish I had more skills for the artwork part.
After finishing everything I started to reorganize the jobs and how it will work from now on to work with the girls. This has been a lot of work because I had to re-code the secondary girls as well as all the work it took to make 3 mini-games.
Then, after all, I was finally able to work on the passives (perks). This from now on will be a new system to unlock extra stuff (RPG/Hentai) to make life easier in LA.
After finishing that I could have prepared a beta at the end of November or early this month but honestly... For me, that's a bit incomplete because there's no content as such as it's all visual so I decided to keep working to see where it would take me.
I continued with the change of the stats section. The result is very good visually and the one I like the most.
I had to do a lot of things related to specialization (new passives including the possibility for Lisapi to pose you with the outfit of your specialization.).
The final result overall is very good, at least for me.

From here the real madness starts:

I'm going to make extra content, how about introducing the Moonstars? Something I had planned since v0.2? Yeah, why not, what could go wrong?
The result is one main quest with main + extra content. The main quest has about +500 renders and I haven't finished it (it's 99,9% finished) and I still have to do the part where the Moonstar adapts to her new home.
Clever me, eh? I'm going to make my own version of "Pokemon" in the world of LA... And not only that! I'm going to let people choose between 3 different ones! Triple job! Yay! Huh...

Back to this week where almost everything is finished, just recently the last mini-game. I'd like to explain in more detail what the Moonstars and the whole plot of this version is about but this DD is to let you know what I've been doing and that I haven't been fooling around (except for when I have mandatory family stuff to do, this month is hard).

Don't worry, next week I'll explain in more detail what this is about as I have to introduce Suna (secondary girl) first.

What's still pending and what stops me from doing the beta today or yesterday?

Right now I'm finishing testing the new zone plus the interactions with the girls in that zone.
Finish the main quest (I thought of including for the first time and occasionally a bit of MC dominance with Anna and Maria and I'm working on other things while I think about how to do it in the right way as it's something new for me).
Make a second main quest to make a quick tutorial of the new minigame + mechanics that will be with Yuna and the Moonstar that will live in the Manor (this means work x3).
Levels for Suna, Arwen, and Glenda (sorry for Mona and Mabel but there is no more time).
A couple of achievements.
Translate.
Do a quick test and publish the beta.

As always, these kinds of things are my fault but not exactly because of bad planning or anything but because I don't get satisfied easily and I think that if I'm going to release a version a month approximately, as usual, it should have content to at least distract you for more than 10 min. Imagine v0.8 only with the crafting system which isn't even relevant if you just go for the plot/fap... No, I wasn't going to do something like that. I could have tried to do weird things like releasing v0.8 and a few days later v0.8.5 and stuff like that but that's not the way I work.

Of course, this is not going to happen again because I'm going to plan the updates in a different way at the development level leaving room for "last minute things". All this includes the part where one week a month I will work only on Ls'A.

So first I'll apologize for the delay of this update and I'm certainly not going to say anything like "Bros, don't worry, this update it's going to be so big that you're going to fap +100 times, 10/10 IGN...". For me, it's not enough content even having a main quest in between with main content + new features. My biggest problem is that the Moonstars feature is not going to be as complete as I had thought at the beginning, so I will have to improve it little by little... The truth is that this is what makes me most angry and has had me two weeks pissed off with myself (and I still am) because I had planned that there would be more variety of wild Moonstars at the beginning and unfortunately at the moment there will only be 4 which is actually the same but with different tier (although the appearance changes). I'll give you more details next week because although I'm here like a crybaby, the result is exactly what I wanted from the first time I thought about it and I just need to improve it and add new things to that feature.

As Patreon doesn't allow me to post videos (only gifs and I'm also interested in the sound) I'm going to post in my Discord channel one or two short videos of the new minigame for those interested so I'll take advantage of it and post spoilers without context.

I'll say goodbye wishing you a happy new year and happy holidays and with my plan for this January (per week, approximately):