Keisi
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Dev Diary #92
🕑 Added 2023-02-24 13:17:32 +0000 UTCWhat do we have here? A new diary, what else? Nespresso ad /off
Yeah, I know, I know, this diary belongs to last week but... if I had written the diary last week it would have been like: "Hey guys, I'm working on optimizing the code in different features of the game. See ya!" At least it wouldn't have been the usual wall of text, ah?
Let's get straight to the point: The past week and this week I've been focused on different things but especially on optimizing the code in the achievements panel.
The important thing in that panel was to figure out why the bars were all different sizes... After a while of testing and checking, it turns out that the images were "badly" designed. Some of them were off by a single pixel and that made them look wrong in game. Solution? Aligning the images correctly and modifying them a bit to make them look better when they are not empty/full.
I took advantage of the fact that I was working on it and did the same with all the bars in the game.
After that, I wanted to start working on new achievements but for some reason that even I don't know, I ended up working on something else and I left the achievements for this week. So I said, well, what can I do? I should go through quests/tasks/events to redo renders, right? Well, maybe not.
What I did was check all the idle animations of the girls. Pretty random, right? It all came from seeing Yuna's animation in the inventory (morning, now redone as well).
But, in order not to go crazy, I came up with a plan to go step by step.
For the time being, all the moments of the day on the main floor have been redone.
Not only that but in order to have consistency, possibly the sexiness/love menus will be removed from all the girls. I still have to make up my mind about it.
Whatever the decision is, the girls will only have a single idle animation from now on (when you talk to them). I'm not very happy about this decision but it's worth saving some space and using it for other things.
This brings me to my next point. So, after 13 versions, I've finally decided to start adding small bits based on the sexiness level of the girl. All this should have been added many versions ago... Better late than never.
I can't show anything because it's nsfw but I will point out that you can finally look at Mara's panties and see her in the current configuration and not the old one with outline and sh*t.
For the moment, I will advise that in the next version (and in all of them) have the sexiness of the girls always at max because you can see Anna at night with her shirt wet and without bra, Alina will show you what she has under her skirt if you throw a coin on the floor, Yuna will do the same when you look under her skirt... etc. Tali is not included in all this at the moment. Oh yes, Yuna also has a change related to this when she is on the first floor at midday.
As a final note on this matter, I not only checked the main floor but I went to all the girls to see if any animations when you talk to them were in "fisheye" mode. There were several, all of which have been changed for the sake of consistency. I don't dislike that kind of camera but it's better to use the same kind of focus with all of them, isn't it? Anyway, I'll use that type of focus in future projects for a bit of a change.
Next vs current version.
And that brings us to the last point: this week. I've been working on the achievements and it's taking me more time than I'd like but I've taken advantage of this week and especially since I'm working with less pressure to experiment with the custom animations, but this time in a serious way.
The result is... interesting, not perfect but interesting. Sounds very random, doesn't it? It's not. Let's start from the beginning:
I've gone through all the achievements and completely redone a total of ~12 achievements. These achievements include redoing the pee achievements. I came up with this crazy idea to take it to the next level and said, you know what, I'm going to make all of the pee achievements animated. And that's where I got the idea to experiment a little bit again.
So, the pee achievements are now animated, but not only that, I've added ~15 new achievements in total between all the categories.
Okay, Keisi, very cool that, it only took you 235382 versions to add new achievements and all that but... what's the custom animation about? It's actually a very simple thing.
As I had to redo several achievements, I decided to redo all the achievements in the community section. Not only now Anna's arm is not stabbing her hip but I added 3 new achievements. These achievements will be unlocked in a much easier way than leaving reviews on Itch/Discord/etc: A form. I will work on it before the beta but it will be a form with general questions to collect some feedback about the girls, fetishes, and all that.
So... if you have all the community achievements, the last one you unlock is animated: Lisapi and Maria riding a dildo on the MC's bed.
The funny thing about this animation is that the dildos move according to Lisapi/Maria's movement. It's not perfect but it's quite interesting from my point of view. It's something that you will see yourselves in the game (if you do all the codes stuff). In any case, I'll show it to patrons in the next diary so I can talk more in detail about it. That said, I will not be adding any more achievements in the community section for the rest of the development.
Without further ado, I'd better get going! Next week, it's time to work on the new main quest, Suna's levels, the new seasonal event, and... little else.
See you all!
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PS: Phew, it was supposed to be a short diary, I guess explaining two weeks' work is to blame... Anyway, I wanted to do this little off-topic to thank the people who have been leaving encouraging comments in different communities these last weeks. Although I hardly ever reply unless it's a DM, I read absolutely everything. I thank you for your support and words. Little by little things are improving mentally, although at a slower pace than I would like. At least things are moving forward, so let's look on the bright side.
