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Hello! Happy October!

Here is the quick overview of the progress this month...:

• Changed the border on the load/save pages for the thumbnails. Cleaned up the look of the save slots
• Removed Quick Save page; I think I’ll keep autosave on though. 
• Added in a gallery feature; It’s incredibly rudimentary right now, but it’s at least on the main screen.
• Got rid of about page on main menu, as it’s not needed
• Changed the name of “help” to “controls” for clarity
• Changed the start menu from textbuttons to imagebuttons, alongside adding a hover/idle feature to compliment. 
• Changed the sidebar menu to be imagebuttons instead of text buttons
• Changed the color of idle text in load screen and made it bigger
• Finished draft 2
• Started skeleton draft 3

The goals for this month...:

• Change slider look
• Outfit Mockups maybe...?
• Skeleton Draft 3
• Possibly start Official Draft 3

Early in the month, I worked mainly on the GUI components. It’s still in fairly rudimentary stages, as it’s hard to progress past a certain point until I have more I can add into the game– i.e., it’s hard to flesh out the gallery when I have no images to use as of right now, and it might be a pain in the neck to add fill-ins now, lest they become issues later. However, the game is feeling more functional and personal due to these changes.

The other main thing this month has been the script itself! I initially set out for 3 drafts/skeleton drafts, but I might end up closer to 4 or 5. I didn’t expect to write so much this month– managing a whopping 233 pages…! Which is double the amount of pages written last month. However, not all that’s written is staying in, and in general, it needs to be highly cleaned up. This is especially the case when a single ending hit like 30 pages… Which is just not viable for the game (not in terms of ability to code, but I doubt it’d be fun to play through). Some things will be dropped, some things will get moved around and some things will be condensed. However, I do feel I have a much better grasp on the game than I did in the first draft.

This month, I’m not holding out hope a lot will be done. By this I mean– this month is very busy with OC-tober and my girlfriend’s birthday coming up, so as I’m writing this now, I can’t imagine I’ll have my normal free time to do this. I will try and at least get the skeleton draft done, as that’s a lot of condensing and figuring out what I need from draft 2. If I start draft 3, I doubt i’ll get super far on it.

And so… Yeah! That’s it for this month! Thank you so much for taking the time to read and following this project! Have a lovely and safe October!