DEV LOG 023

Happy new years everyone! Hope everyone is doing well!

I have a lot of updates from the last month!

Updates:

1.Fixed it so the time slightly changes between the shops and the apartment street
2.A special event scene is fully coded in with audio and images
3.Auction site needed to be fixed and is fixed.
4.”Site link” put into game
5. Dreams 1-7 were: Put into gif form ; Has audio ; Now into video files. Dream 1-6 are put into game, Day 7 needs to still be added.
6. A small content warning was added at the start of the game. This is specifically to warn for flashing images in-game and pointing to where readme.txt is.
7. Fixed maps so there are day/night color changes
8. Checked on conditions that transfer over day-to-day.
9. Maps for Day 7 are added in-game.
10. New character portrait for pause screen.
11. Bathroom + River dialogue are implemented in-game.
12. Icon for game made; It needs to be implemented, but it’ll probably need to wait until the game is finished.
13. Issue with computer exiting is fixed.
14. Working on money system and changing some issues ; Money is taken out when you pre-order the CDs and decided the amount of money. The amount of money you get might be changed during the playtest phase
15. Fixed the store setup: It tells you explicitly what you get when you pick up the CD.
16. Day 7’s observations are implemented.
17. Day 7’s Bathroom dialogue is implemented.
18. Akemi’s Dialogue for Day 7 is implemented.
19. Added in ability to still pick up the CD on Day 7, as long as you get it before the In-Store
20. NPCs placed for Day 7.
21. New items in Item menu, namely a normal In-store ticket and a “Golden” In-store ticket.
22. Re-wrote In-store text.
23. Added in conditions for Day 7 for entering the store area.
24. Started a readme.txt for content warnings. This will be available both in the download folder and I’ll put a link before the download as well.
25. Wrote out the “main” ending segments for each ending. There are 6 possible endings based on various conditions. They aren’t currently in-game yet.
26. New title image in-game.
27. Figured out a way to cycle through the In-store cheki you get, based upon which outfit you wore at the In-store.
28. New in-store chekis done! The art is remade and there’s now 5 instead of the original 4.
29. In-store text fully in-game!
30. Book work
31. Working on an “art book”! It’ll be a free optional download with the game; Mainly just talking about the production and organizing the art made for the game. Currently have sketches for character pages, Background of text-heavy pages are done, Controls are noted in-game, Text is written up but needs to have light editing]
32. Achievements are written out; Need to actually get the script to put them in-game.
33. Text in ??? Room.
34. New special item text is put in.
35. TV Text fixed slightly
36. TV timing added
37. Started working on special images for Day 7; It'll be 3 main images with variations.

Plans for the Month:

1. Book work continued (☆☆)
2. Dream 7 implemented in-game. (☆)
3. Special images for Day 7 finished (☆☆☆)
4. Game Icon changed (☆)
5. Achievements implemented? (☆☆?)
6. New-game+ system that allows you to transfer outfits bought and cheki collection. (☆☆?)
7.Endings for Day 7 and conditions need to be put in-game (☆☆)
8. Art book work [Art, Editing text, Adding text to pages, Light guide, Make into PDF] (☆☆☆)
9. Special images for the endings (☆☆☆)
10. If possible, send out for playtest!!!! (☆☆?)

I'm very excited because I'm so close to finishing! I'm actually surprised how much work I got done this last month, and it makes me even more excited for this upcoming month! If all goes smoothly, I'm hoping maybe sometime next month to actually be able to put the game out there! I'm not sure how long things like extra systems and playtesting will take, but I can't imagine it'll be super long. The endings are written out and mainly just need to be put in game along with finishing up art for them. 

It feels surreal, honestly. On a personal note, for the artbook, I've been looking back at my progress of this. It's been through so many iterations and drafts and artwork, it feels both incredibly exciting and impossible that I'm looking at it being done in the next few months. It's been a tiring journey and I'm hoping people who'll play it at least will like it. I'm looking forward to finishing and working on new projects as well, as I'm someone who has a hard time resting for anything.

Sincerely, thank you everyone who's supported me, the game, clicked the demo download, just clicked the game page, just read this, ect. It means so much more than I can put into words.  Have a lovely new year, and I'm excited to be working more on this and having an even better update next month...!!!