Keisi

Dev Diary #53

Added 2021-11-16 00:56:32 +0000 UTC

I think that now the cold weather is coming Lisapi must be cold but it's not until winter that she wears her pajamas.

I know, I know, there was no diary on Friday... I had a week that can be summed up as shit: Problems with the internet, rain, cold... If that was not enough, I was working on redoing the presentation videos for nothing. Actually, it was for something useful and that's that I've decided that everyone will save ~150MB of space in the next EA, and in the future, we'll all save about 1GB. Why? It's easy, I have completely changed the presentation of ALL the girls and it is applicable from the next EA and it will be the last thing I do out of time. Here is an example:

In total it's about 20MB vs the almost 200MB it was before. It also includes some sfx. This saves me a lot of production and postproduction time in the presentations and obviously a lot of space. I'm happy with the final result and it will be the definitive one for all the girls.

Oh, by the way, I've redone the final part of when you meet Yuna to match the new presentation. Luckily for the rest of the girls I was able to recreate the scene and didn't have to redo anything else.

Actually, the Yuna thing is because I had to do it, I don't remember why I redid all the renders except those. Well, they've already done and didn't require much work in exchange for better quality.

Although it seems silly, this had me mentally blocked until I decided to take a break and do other things than developing. From then on, that's when I started coming up with all sorts of ideas.

Yeah, I'm sorry but I haven't been able to work on L'sA and I'm not going to work on it again until at least the next beta because I need more than two days in a row to better manage what I want to work on in L'sA. I will change the days I will work on L'sA and I will let you know in the DDs. It doesn't affect LA as I'm just joining days in a row instead of single weekends.

I would tell you more but right now I want to work on everything I have in mind to be able to show you something. My goal is to work on the new stats + jobs interface and it's going to be quite a big change because I'm going to risk changing how the passives work visually and I'm going to introduce new ones so that they can be unlocked manually at any time. When it's finished I'll show you the details.

As a result of the redesign several things are going to happen:

I'm going to redesign how jobs work (this was planned).
A new area will be unlocked where you will be able to get materials interactively.
I'm going to add something I wasn't sure about implementing: quick jobs vs manual jobs. These jobs will be either the same as always (quick) or the same but will include a small mini-game. The difference is the final reward but we'll talk about this when I have it finished.

I would like to finish all this during the week + weekend to be able to work on the next objective: Another new zone plus something related to the Captain and other things.

I was going to mention something else I want to implement but I'm trying to be realistic and I know I might not have time in this update. But no problem because I'll reserve the v0.9 where I'll work on the hardmode and the "new" intro to add everything I don't have time for in this one. 0.10 = beach and back to the main plot and I'm already telling you that we'll see the real Vanessa again... How and why? We'll have to wait a bit.

See you Friday! I show you the last two spoilers of this version!