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dev diary: treat status update
🕑 Added 2022-05-23 20:10:38 +0000 UTCi've officially started working on treat again!!!!!!!
my current goal is to combine all of the games into one, with a chapter select at the beginning so you can jump right in to any part. i've been planning on doing this from the beginning, but i was only going to combine them after all the games were finished... at this point though, it's been like 3 years since the last game came out, and people might want to replay them all anyway before jumping into part 7. this way will make it super easy! plus i can add all sorts of extra things that i wasn't able to before, since your actions in previous games will affect later parts...! how exciting!!
i also wanted to update some of the spritework and music since the first game came out in 2016 and i've gotten a lot better since then... i'm gonna leave the original versions up, but this "complete" version will be the definitive one.
sprite update preview gif:
(double manjuu since she needed running and walking alts...)
on top of this, i've decided to replace all the guest characters with original ones, so there will be a few new designs. i'm leaving the dialogue alone for the most part, so those characters will serve the same purpose, but with a new face.
introducing... LEMONNE!!
she will be replacing clementine. also she's trans! i love her.
on the coding side of things, the reason i can combine all the games together pretty easily is because each time i made a new part, i just made a copy of the previous game and left all the old stuff alone. so all the flags and images still correspond to the correct things!
the one unfortunate thing that i didn't forsee, was when i deleted the old maps for newer games, it reset the file numbering... so i had to re-hook every single door and path, otherwise it will be ALL WRONG-WARPS!!! damn!!!!!!!! i thought i was so clever, but i still left a mess for myself. oh well, it's much easier than re-coding every single flag or sprite.
treat has been a bit daunting to try to jump back into (it's such a big project now!!) so i think focusing on it for a while, even just updating the older stuff, will give me the momentum i need to finally release the next update. and when the story is finished, i can release it as a paid game on steam... wow...!
sorry for taking so long! hoping this will all be for the best!!!
i'll leave u with a peri face...
<3
Comments
Amane
This is so exciting and the improvement is so... wow... the newer sprites are so good!! So much growth!! And combining the chapters into one big game aaAAAAA that's so cool! (Even though it sounds like there's some extra stuff to work on to make that come together :'D) Best of luck working on all this! Most importantly, Lemonne is so cute im going to die, thank u
NomnomNami
haha thank you for noticing!! yeah i didn't choose the names of the guest characters (including lavenna) so they don't fit with my usual conventions. eleni and kamilla were made in 2015 before i established a lot of the rules, but i love your interpretation of her name!! maybe she was called something different before and changed it... her past is still a mystery :) boreas is a bit of a mystery too because he was named after the greek god of the north wind, so he's maybe not a normal rabbit..! but i don't know if he'll get a chance to reappear and explain himself. maybe in part 8?! we'll seeeee
Zozim
Omgg very exciting!! I was wondering, if Lemonne is replacing Clementine that actually keeps up something I've been analyzing for a bit after I noticed it. Recently I was thinking about how most of your characters have noun names and was thinking about the few who don't, then I realized that nearly everyone that didn't have a noun name lived in the Netherworld. I presume this is intentional because of how consistent it is, but noticed a few outliers (excluding guest characters, Boreas and Lavenna were the main outliers I saw [at least, i couldnt find any noun to connect them to] in terms of overworld residents without noun names [aside from Eleni, but I presumed Eleni had a Netherworld type name just from her fascination with it so it made sense within lore context]). It was mostly overworld outliers, but I did notice one Netherworld outlier with Clementine, having a noun name despite being from the Netherworld. I thought it was really interesting since they were the one outlier in that direction, and it's interesting that it seems you've kept it that way by replacing them with another character with a noun name. I don't really know where I'm going with any of this, I just thought it was really cool that you've kept the consistency of them being an outlier to the naming convention for whatever possible reason it may mean.
