Friday Rambles and Game Dev Update 2024-09-06

It's the Friday Rambles. But it's not Friday, you might say. Yes! You'd be right! It's not Friday, at all!

Life Stuff

This week was a very busy week in terms of real life social stuff. It's been a while since I was this busy. I also got sick, probably from all the social stuff, but I'm better now.

There was a huge heatwave all this week. It's still going on right now, actually. It's lasting through tomorrow. It sux!! It sux to go outside, and it sux to stay inside too!

I also finally bought Baldur's Gate 3 because it's on sale. I definitely didn't spend all of Friday playing it. I get the hype now. I haven't been this addicted to a game in a long time. In my defense, it's been really good research as far as narrative design goes. I'm gonna just consider it on-the-job training, a perk of my current profession, I suppose.

Above: Penny the wizard

Game Dev Stuff

I finished the demo build and all localization is done. I sent it to the booth staff, and they found a couple bugs that I quickly fixed. They sent me a bunch of crash logs, and it helped immensely, which made me glad that my past self added better crash logging in preparation for this.

I drew the remaining CGs, and made a hotkey for hiding the UI. It's not very useful for any gameplay, but it's kind of neat for looking at the pretty art, I guess. It only works during the dialogue and menu screens. I also added a keybind UI in the settings menu on the title screen.

Above: UI hidden. Look at Tiger-chan in all her glory. Ignore the timer, it doesn't exist in the normal version of the game.

Above: I also drew a new BG for Penny's phone. I'll probably fix it up a little more, later

That's about it, though. Between all the real life stuff and the relief of finishing everything in time, I decided to just take it easy on the gamedev for the remaining part of the week.

Non-Game Dev Stuff

Tomorrow is Cirno Day. I'm drawing something to commemorate it, as is tradition. It's not finished yet, but here's a preview.

 Above: The smartest and strongest of them all

The End

This Ramble wasn't worth the wait! Oh, well, you win some, you lose some, as they say. But thanks for your support, as always! See you next week! Only 2 weeks left til TGS, so I'll be busy buying travel stuff and maybe making last minute changes to the demo build in preparation.