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Weekly dev blog: Progress!
🕑 Added 2022-09-12 14:18:00 +0000 UTCThe quest is coming along nicely! I think the puzzles I have designed are the kind I like (not too difficult, but which will make you feel smart when you line things up). I just need the last (small) map and the final encounter, and the gameplay will be finished (there is still more writing to do, but once the design is in place, it should be easy to write down my thoughts).
On a different note, I am almost ready to update TOTDC 1. The RAGS version already has all the bugfixes and improvements I wanted to make (well, maybe not everything, but everything I could reasonably add without taking too much time), but I am waiting to hear back from the programmer who has helped many times in the past to properly convert my RAGS games to HTML, so I can release both versions at once. I still need to read through and edit the walkthrough I got together with the bug reports, so the game should be easier to navigate in the future. I can't imagine many people can't wait for this update, but hopefully the ones who try it will appreciate it (the number of bugfixes is considerable, and there are some minor changes/improvements as well).
I didn't manage to squeeze in any new scenes for Jin, sadly, but I am sure I'll get to it before the release. Speaking of which, I am going to be absent for a couple of days this week, so the release will likely be around the 21st, so I can get a few more additions in the game.
So for the short term, the plan is to finish the quest, and focus on Jin, then we'll see what's coming up next. Until next time! ^_^
Comments
mdqp
With the Zanark library finally accessible, this is less of an issue, but I'll see if I can think of something. I should add more uses for both libraries first, however.
Graeme Cracker
Are you ever going to figure out a way to access the royal library without becoming a noble?
Pharum
Excited to see the improvements and fixes.
mdqp
XD
Onedrift
Huzzah, more TOTDC! Am I going to get sucked down the "bad" end by becoming a live in girlfriend of a superfan? Maybe!
mdqp
The browser version is probably going to be the best one, once the last few bugs are ironed out by the coder helping me. After all, I can only fix my mistakes, not the ones inherent in the RAGS engine, so I bet the HTML version is going to be more stable.
Vitreous Humour
Great! RAGS is pretty buggy so I never actually got entirely through TOTDC 1 (and I think my old saves bugged out the system so I suspect I may have missed some events). Excited to play through it again hopefully in a less crash-ridden fashion.
mdqp
Well, it's just a working conversion for browsers, there is already one for the "old" version (1.0c), actually, but I had to make changes to make an export which would work for the sequel on Ren'py, then I decided to at least add some minor stuff, and then I got a walkthrough+bug report which is huge and took me a lot of time to search for the bugs, and here we are. A programmer helped me in the past with that, and he helped me for my other games and this latest update as well. Without him, it would be impossible (or at least, very hard). The list of fixes and changes is pretty damn long, honestly, so it's going to be a good send off for TOTDC 1.
Cifer
Oh wow, there's going to be an HTML TotDC? That's awesome, I always wanted to replay that, but my RAGS player stopped working a long time ago.
