Game Projects Report 01/28/23

Running a bit late this Saturday due to multiple teammates feeling a bit under the weather, but here's another one of BáiYù's round-ups of game progress reports.

One of these days I should figure out if I want to refer to myself in the first or third person, huh.

Something's Wrong With Sunny Day Jack - Unity Demo Remake

Here's a screenshot of the Unity project environment, demonstrating a live preview of the game. The much asked-for quickmenu will be present, as it was stripped out of the TyranoBuilder version due to bugs.

Additionally, as Sauce has posted earlier this week, the rest of the Sunny Day Jack cast are getting a few sprite upgrades to correct anatomy, consolidate expression pieces, etc. Like with Jack's sprite, this will make it easier moving forward to add in various expressions in the script.

Sleepy Time Jack Version 0.1.5 Changelog

• Further optimization of the DigiDaki Engine to accommodate future translations
• Renamed audio files accordingly for the above
• New Message Interval settings: 1 and 2 Minutes
• New Sleep Timer setting: Off (Jack will not close the app for you)
• New About section added: Patrons

Mole and I brainstormed ideas on how to make the dictionary entries less messy as our previous solution was admittedly very ugly. Even if no one else besides us programmers were going to look at it, there had to be a way to make it less atrocious, right? After a lot of banging our heads together, we managed to bring it from this:

# "dial_key_X" :  ["IMAGE", "EN_VOICE", "ES_VOICE", "JP_VOICE", "EN_DIALOGUE", "ES_DIALOGUE", "JP_DIALOGUE", WAIT_TIME],

# -1 :[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

To this:

# "dial_key_X" :  [WAIT_TIME]

        # -1 :[0]

What a drastic improvement! dial_key_X now functions as the entire label containing the dialogue, and along with the persistent.lang_voice variable set in the Preferences screen, creates the string that specifies with audio file to play.

        ## Separate function for playing voices so players can split audio and text language

        if renpy.loadable("audio/voice/" + persistent.lang_voice + "_" + dial_key + ".ogg"):

            voice("audio/voice/" + persistent.lang_voice + "_" + dial_key + ".ogg")

        renpy.call(text_call)

The result is an even more streamlined approach under the hood than before. Players may not notice it, but I will. 😂😔 (please be excited for me)

The Groom of Gallagher Mansion Progress

The wordcount has surpassed 13K, with 13/19 scenes written. We've unfortunately run behind schedule due to several of our teammates falling under the weather, but we're doing our best to chip away at those scenes.

Elias moves towards the glass cabinet with a bounce in his… float? Swinging the doors open, he starts humming.

Elias: Our wedding cake must be unforgettable! My grandmother was quite the baker in her prime, her desserts absolutely divine~

Elias: And if memory serves right, her layer cakes were quite delectable. Not as filling as your usual cake, but I’m sure you’ll agree with me that to skip them is a mistake!

Taylor: Oh my god, he just said layer cake with a straight face.

Y/N: Get your head out of the gutter or I'll put you in your place.

We're prioritizing the health of our team and thank you for your patience.

New Freebie: Popov’s Big Top Yogurt-Topia Picrew!

Thanks to all of your support, we were able to create more Frozen Yogurt pieces for SDJ and assembled this Yogurt-Topia Picrew for all to enjoy!

Welcome one, welcome all to Popov’s Big Top Yogurt-Topia!

With 13 flavors of frozen yogurt, 8 scrumptious syrups, and 4 toppings to choose from, you can make your very own cup of yummy yummy goodness! Step right up because it's all self-serve, folks! What's your ideal FroYo?

Feel free to share your creations on social media using the #SunnyDayJack tags! (We'd like to note that though the Picrew itself is SFW, those under the age of 18 are not allowed to interact with it as SDJ itself is NSFW.)

The one downside of Picrew is that we can't quite name the layers so it's not obvious which flavors are which. We'll be working on a proper graphic for it, so in the meantime please use this guide to connect which pieces you've put together for your cup.

Yogurt:

01. Birthday Cake
02. Blue Raspberry
03. Brownie Batter
04. Cafe Latte
05. Candy Floss
06. Guava Strawberry
07. Irish Mint
08. Mystery Surprise
09. Pink Lemonade
10. Pumpkin Spice
11. Red Velvet Cake
12. Vanilla
13. Winter Sugar Cookie

Syrup:

01. Caramel Syrup
02. Cosmic Syrup
03. Cotton Candy Syrup
04. Ghost Goo Syrup
05. Marshmallow Syrup
06. Raspberry Syrup
07. Rum Sauce
08. Strawberry Syrup

Toppings:

01. Cashews
02. Cherry
03. Licorice
04. Sprinkles

We may make some more pieces to add to both Something's Wrong With Sunny Day Jack and Picrew, so we're taking everyone's suggestions for new ingredients in the comments section of this post until 02/04/23! (example suggestion: Topping: Gummy Bears) Please note that this is no guarantee of what will actually end up in the game or Picrew.

That's what we've got for this week. Thank you all again for supporting SnaccPop Studios, because you're the reason we can make these things possible ❤