Dev Blog #18

I hope everyone is doing great!  Just wanted to give a quick update on our progress.  It'll be short and straight forward we're plugging away.

Pale Horse has managed to rewrite the code for the Pawn Shop mini game and it's now put back into the game.  We still need to test it more but at least it's currently implemented and now working :)  We've been discussing how to handle mini games in the future and have been trying to nail down a good set of requirements for the framework.  We want to create one or three basic frameworks that all future minigames and interactive games would work under.  This way we won't need to design new systems for new elements each time we hit that road block and can just focus on content.

I've (Voodoo Monkey) have been focusing on structuring all of the tasks for this update and going over all of the admin work as well as writing new H scenes and doing concept art for future content.  I'm kind of all over the place at the moment and am reigning myself in to focus specifically on this updates content.

For videos, I've finally finished converted all of the recorded media from the last update and will also start compiling videos.  I didn't realize how long it would take to convert all of that media.  When I screen record, I record to *.flv instead of directly to *.mp4.  Reason is, if my computer crashes in the middle of recording, an *.flv file will be fine and just cut the file off where it crashed and can still be used.  An *.mp4 on the other hand needs the recorder to be stopped so it can neatly pack the video into an *.mp4.  If the file does not get the chance to do this, it will corrupt the file you'll lose it.  The only problem with recording to *.flv is I then have to reencode all of the media to *.mp4 to use it which takes forever but the insurance is so worth it.

Anyways, I hope everyone is well, I'll post more content up soon!