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dev diary: slow beginnings for treat 8
🕑 Added 2023-01-24 00:53:58 +0000 UTCi posted a bit about this on cohost last week, but i OFFICIALLY STARTED on treat 8!!
...unfortunately, i really wanted to work on comics instead!!!!! so i only made a little bit of progress. the gif above is from the first area of chapter 8, which will look more like the postcard from chapter 5 when i'm done with it:
trick's gonna go to all the places from the postcards AND MORE!!!!! making the tilesets is the slowest part of development for me, but i have a feeling that once i rough them all in, drawing the finished tiles will go pretty quickly. just working up the energy to get there, haha.
i sprited a new character too, but he's spoilers so i can't share yet... :'(
the other MAJOR TREAT DEVELOPMENT is that npckc helped me find a bit of script that allows for text skip!!!!!!
i had previously given up on this feature, because the scripts i found before required me to ask permission for use in commercial games, or had extremely tedious implementation that would've slowed development. but not having text skip was a big issue, even on the developer side (i used to mash so much while playtesting...)
now you can just... HOLD CTRL...!! and it blasts through the textboxes, like in this gif:
the only downside is that this requires me to play through the entire game again while holding ctrl to make sure none of the cutscenes break. because there are quite a few instances of moving sprites around, that they might end up in the wrong place if the text boxes finish too early...
so i'm gonna keep an eye out for that stuff before i put out a new build, but it's lower priority until the next public release. if i can at least debug all the required story scenes and make sure they work, it should be just fine...!
short update this week, but that's as far as i got with treat 8! i'll try to get a lot further during february so i can leave the game in a good spot before nanoreno starts :)
thanks for reading~
Comments
Yajoovya
Trick: "There are so many mysteries in life... like, for example, am I in a dream right now or is this area just unfinished? So many questions..." Thank you to npckc for the help! Text skipping should come in very handy! :)
Blackberry Mochi
!?!!?!?!?
NomnomNami
[rubbing my hands together menacingly] oh i have p l a n s
Blackberry Mochi
Also wait "good spot before NaNoRenO starts"............... Suspicious phrase.............. PERHAPS NOTHING, BUT.............
Blackberry Mochi
OOOOH...... Text skip.............. To think that VX Ace games could have it, like this...... But also!!!! Hell yes!!!!! Figured the whole "going to each of the locations on the postcards" thing was gonna be thing, considering the very cool jackals from that art post a bit ago, but it's exciting to hear that that's the case!!!!! Mushroom land....... what secrets does it hold....... Looking forward to the COMICS in the future, and, of course, GANBAAAA with all of the Treat dev'ing in the future!!!!!
