Devlog 5 - February 14, 2021

Developer's Log - Entry 5

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entry 5 - february 14, 2021

And now for another regularly-scheduled episode of "Wow, That Took a Lot Longer Than I Thought It Would!"

Happy Valentine's Day. Hope your relationships are doing all right. (Hayden's certainly aren't. Ahahahahahaha!!!)

1) VISUALS -

I drew and colored a ton of expressions and poses for characters 2 and 3, and dropped those into the story. I also found and edited a bunch of stock photos to use as backgrounds for character 3's 'route' so you wouldn't be staring at the same background for the entire time.

For one of the group conversation scenes, I needed to find/edit backgrounds and coordinate 3 sprites at once on the screen. That was pretty hard. And that scenes then unveiled a NEW set of poses/expressions to do for character 2 (facepalm). Haha... Character 2 is a very expressive person.

2) WRITING - I added/edited/rearranged a few lines of text to contribute to pacing and continuity.

3) AUDIO - Added some more potential sound effects to the list to enhance the VN experience.

TO-DO LIST:

1) Finish adding backgrounds
    - Event 2
    - Event 3
2) Fix the dancing sprite problem
3) Shop for sound effects and music
4) Apply sound effects and music
5) Finish creating sprites
    - Character path 2? (to supplement sprite's expressions?)
    - Event 1 (character 2)
    - Event 2
    - Event 3?
6) Finish adding sprites
    - Character path 2 (continuity in one part, and supplement for the other part - IF I end up creating those sprites)
    - Event 1 (expressions)
    - Event 2 (character 2)
    - Event 3? (if applicable)
7) Finish color/lighting for 1 CG
8) Edit 1 CG for outfit, color, background?
9) Determine credits, how to end
10) Test build (somehow)

Until next time! Be well.

- M.