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This week in the Forest! #16
🕑 Added 2021-02-23 23:43:08 +0000 UTCYO FOLKS! We released our build earlier this week, but here's what we've been up to since then!
2/22 weekly report
- Added critter callouts for gift items! (These are the little "Hey Rascal!" cartoon speech bubbles you see when critters have a gift to give.)
- Fixed some last minute typos, portraiting issues, and a few stray bugs prior to builds.
- Made the monthly builds!
- Still bugfixing the issues yall reported in Discord!! (In particular, the bug that causes date conversations to play when some critters are not out on a date! I alllllso gotta figure out why Penny completely vanishes after certain fast travels!) ;w;
- Started digging into the Save System rewrite. We'd like the game to keep track of the content you've unlocked from version to version, and this becomes even more important as the game's nonlinear content grows (gossips, dates, critter gifts). This comes with a whole new set of design challenges, like: what happens to unlocked gossips if you time travel with chapter select? What happens if you play version 0.15 after 0.18? What if you skip version 0.16 but have a savegame from 0.15? What if we change quest prerequisites or add backdated dialogue, dates, inventory items earlier in the story? It's been some fun problem solving so far! Planning to have the upgrade ready by the next monthly version.
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Exciting stuff!
On my end I've been working on the illustrations y'all voted on recently! Have a sneak peak!
This one's voted on by the 10$+ folks :>
This is a crop of the Maverick one voted on by everyone :>
Got some ideas for this, but haven't fully written it just yet, so the idea might change... we'll see :>
I've also finished the ending illustration for Act 2 :O! But I won't be showing it to keep the surprise |3
That's about it for now!
Hope y'all doin well :>
Comments
Carrot
Actually it's been pretty smooth sailing for us :O! Tons of indie games have had some serious bumpy starts, but we've been going about this in a smart and collected way (Partly thanks to all those bumpy starts we've seen/heard about. So many game docs/interviews on youtube!)
Christoph Brauer
Chapter 2 is coming to an end - can't wait to see that and I'm looking forwart to future updates. You've got so far by now. I'm glad you're working on this game - it's been a bumpy start but that's a thing we all know. You're getting better and better.
Jack_Wolfe
Exciting, cant wait for the next chapter.
Stormdrake
Thank you for the constant updates and quick bug fixes
Andre
stellar progress, as always! Stay awesome ✨
