Mechaa
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Developer log: Saving & Loading
🕑 Added 2023-10-10 16:39:20 +0000 UTCHey all!
Another update for you all as the game gets ever closer to a finished product. In the demo, the majority of complaints originated from the way you interacted with checkpoints. Either it being too small, confusing, and so on. And I do admit, as the game progresses, the system in the demo fell short, so here are the changes.
A general save/load menu
A new addition to the menu has been added, allowing you to manually save/load while also having a better view over all the checkpoints you have.
This menu essentially, in many ways, works the same as most Ren'Py games. If you're familiar with it, this should be nothing new to you. A maximum of 80 saves can be made, with one additional slot for the auto save. You can also edit their individual names to make it more organized for you, if need be!
Checkpoints
From now on, the game will only create one save per checkpoint, as this is by far the easiest and makes the most sense to me. The small menu in the Chapters menu that showed as you hovered over a checkpoint has been changed to a very simplistic (and larger) design.
Final note
Like usual, the rest of the game has been going steady, both the rendering and the writing.
If you have any suggestions/questions about this update or anything in general, feel free to ask. Thanks so much for the support thus far, I greatly appreciate it!
Comments
Daniel
Yeah, I think I understand. I didn't know the chapter menu would have pages. It sounds like a pretty substantial update, so I'm excited!
Mecha
Thanks, it really is, even for myself! As for your question, I currently have no estimate. The chapters menu in the demo is a little misleading. I don't plan for each update to just contain the next page in this menu, but rather a collection of chapters all at once. Each with their own character(s) and so on. Hope that makes sense!
Mecha
Thanks, means a lot!
Daniel
The new save system sounds like a huge improvement. Do you have a rough idea of how many chapters you want the final game to have?
BamBamYan
Always excited for the new dev log's, everything looks so nice in this game. Can't wait for the new Nylah scenes!
