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Development Update #47 - Next update.

Hello there my lovely patrons, how are you all doing? Today I'll give you a pretty quick Dev's update. I love how using "next" before an update usually brings NMS to mind which brings a big weight to the word now. But this one is a simple update.


So, I've been having some trouble with the next route for Wagner, but I was able to finish the final part of the second act, now I ne...

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Pool: Alpha 0.29 - What should I be working on?

So, I'll be direct today, what do you guys want me to work on? Here's what I can do for the next alpha, you guys vote it out.


Remember to vote in a week, you can vote for more than one option, if there's a tie, I'll choose what I wanna do with those options myself. 


Thank you all for your cooperation with this month's pool. The next alpha will be closed an...

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Alpha 0.28 Release - Bug Fixes. A LOT of them.

Good day to all of you my fellow Patrons. Thank you all for being here today with me.

This month's alpha is being released, and as I said last month I would focus this month to fix a lot of things that I was putting on side notes and sticker papers on my PC Case and stuff like that, things that may look very simple and easy but were a headache to do and I knew I would spend a month doing ...

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Monthly Thanks Message #20

Hello, my wonderful patrons. Earlier today I did my Development Update post, now it's time for the thanks message I owe you all every month.


Every single one of you guys are helping me with this game for a while now, and even if the development is slow, I am able to work on it daily because of you all.

Mostly, my game's main issue is, as in any visual novel, assets. ...

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Development Update #46 - Next Alpha release date.

Hello, there guys, it took me an entire month but I was able to fix bugs, and add the new stuff I needed to the save system, and even fix the screen positioning of UI stuff such as the Gallery and Credits. 

I am working on some very specific animations, but they are kinda tricky. 


The way the Animations works is like this: They grab the position of the Character...

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Quick Update (not a development one yet).

Hey there guys, you all good I hope?

So, I'm here to give y'all the current progress of bug fixing for the game.


The gallery and Credits section of the main menu is now working on any resolution.

The minimum Resolution was changed to be basic HD, if you have a monitor with a lower resolution you will find problems playing the game. Sorry. 

The Credits sce...

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Monthly Thanks Message #19

Hello, there friend!

How are you all today? As always, whenever it's possible I'm here making a new monthly thanks message for all of my current patrons. Patrons that are new, Patrons that are coming back, and Patrons that are here with me for more than a year in a row.


To all of you: thank you. Thanks for sharing or retweeting my posts on Twitter, thanks for always givin...

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Alpha 0.27!

Hello guys!

First of all, I want to apologize to all of you, again. I've had some issues with the screen resolution code, you guys see, when I designed this project on Godot, I thought it would be easier to make every object adapt to any resolution you decide, it is easier when the code is done, however, I need to do the code for each scene on the game, and the code is quite hard to make....

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Quick Update!

A new quick update for you all!

Today I'm working on the first four basic routes for the set of answers on the next part for Wagner's route. I think I can finish them today if possible. I'm still not happy with the development of the 3rd part of the second act for him on this day but I can't just delete it again and re-do it. So if you guys think it's bad you can send me a note, and I can...

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Quick Update on the next alpha release.

UPDATE1: After two weeks of trying to fix something that doesn't need to be fixed, I decided that the minimum resolution for the game now will be 1280x720. Meaning, as long as your monitor has this resolution you will be able to play the game. 

UPDATE2: Give the time lost by fixing some very weird situations in the game, I won't be able to give Wagner's part ...

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Small updates for next alpha.

So, guys, I've spent the week working on some fixes here and there for the game, and this is what I was able to fix during this week of work:


I fixed the Resolution scaling for 800x600. Now when you downscale the window every aspect on the title screen will be placed in the correct place in the screen.

Another thing that changed is that if you try to downscale to a resolu...

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Hotel Restaurant Background completed!

Hey there guys, here's the preview of the completed background for the restaurant that will be inserted on the next alpha! 


As always, the watermark is just to ensure in case somehow these backgrounds leak no one can easily use them on their projects since Wagner does not sign the backgrounds but it takes him days to complete those artworks. 


Don't wo...

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Monthly Thanks Message #18

Hello there guys! I'm here today to say thank you all for your support. People are coming and going here on my Patreon for almost three years now. Three years where I'm working every day to finish this Visual Novel.

Some of you came here this month to give me such encouraging words, you changed your tier just because you wanted to help more, you give me your support, you send me your corr...

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Development Update #45: Software usage and programming language.

Hello, there my lovely patrons, how are you all doing? Today I'm here to talk about the software I use for writing text, what do I use to put the text inside the game, how the game reads those files and the language Godot uses, why I choose Godot over Ren'py, and so on. So let's go through topics, shall we?

What software do I use to write the game's story?

I use a p...

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Pool: Next month workload!

So this is old news already, meaning I won't spend too much time over explaining myself here. You guys just need to vote what you want me to do next month as always!


So what should I be working on?


Note: You can vote for more than one option. In case of a tie, I'll choose what to do myself. Some options like the Dusk/Night filters are things I need to test and ...

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Just Friends: Alpha 0.26.1 Release! (Updated)

Hey guys, as promised, I'm releasing today the next alpha for you all with some extras!

So lemme go through the changelog:

  • Added the 2nd part of the 2nd act for Wagner's route - Day 5.
  • Fixed one issue with the 1st part of the 2nd Act, the F answer was leading you incorrectly to the A route. That being said, you would still lose 1 point by choosing that option.
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Quick Update.

Hello there guys, thank you so much for your support as always.

I'm just here to tell you about my schedule for you all this month:

By day 25 of this month, the next alpha will be released. I will also be posting the cheat sheet for Days 2 through 4 however Day 5 will need to wait until I actually finish any of the characters' routes for that day.

By day 26 the next pool will ...

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Update.

Hello guys, I'm here to say I'm sorry for not posting a monthly thanks message this month. Essentially I was busy with family and some health issues but everything's fine now. However, since the month has passed and all that, I will skip June this time, it's quite hard to fetch every single patron from June now (because Patreon kinda not show what patron was active per month), and I want to spe...

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Quick Update!

As always I'm here to remember you all that the pool for the next alpha will end in two days. If you're a tier 3+ or you want to become one, remember to vote on what I'll be working the next month! 

Thank you all for your patronage and for being here following me. 

Don't forget to follow me on Twitter too guys! @yekkusu

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Next month's workload pool!

Next month's workload pool! 


So I'll be directly on point and remember: Any kind of work that involves me searching, coding, and cataloging something can take more than a month to have any impactful change on the game. If that happens I'll try to add something to the month's alpha that's noticeable even if it's just one or two new routes to someone else. 


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Just Friends Alpha 0.25 Release.

Changelog:

  • Fixed Internal calls for specific routes on day 5.
  • Text revision number code changed due to the changes.
  • Given the revisions made on the route names some save games can not work anymore, see more below:
    • The skip should work fine through Days 1 to 4 and most of Day 5.
    • Your save will work fine as long as you're between days 1 to 4 and ...

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Character Portrait Done: Karnal's Swimming Suit Portraits!

Hello there my lovely patrons, today I'm here to give you all the last variant of Karnal's portrait. The swimming trunks portrait.

With it now, the only thing missing no character portraits is the last character who will be drawn eventually.


For now, I hope you all enjoy these high quality drawings of him :D



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Quick Update.

Given some health situations here at home I will be releasing the next alpha between 21 and 23 of this month, this is around two days tops of a delay from the intended date. I'm sorry about that, but I need to ensure quality over quantity and I cannot rush things here.


That being said by the middle of the next week if everything goes right I'll be releasing here the last portra...

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Monthly Thanks Message #17

Hello, my dear patrons, today is the last day of the month, and it seems that I have forgotten the last month's thanks message. And I'm so sorry about it, as you guys must know already, I'm not from a developed country and Co**d *7 is not in the main focus of our government, meaning I've been receiving concerning news about family members, thankfully no one died. Both my Brother and Sister in l...

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Reminder.

Hey there guys, this is a reminder for all my patrons.

The pool for the next alpha is now online, to vote you do need to be a tier 3 or more.

So if you want to vote, consider upgrading your tier.

For the current tier 3 plus patrons, please don't forget to vote and give me directions on what I should work for the next month.


Also, the current alpha for the game...

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Pool: What should I work next?

And here we are again, guys, a new alpha was released yesterday and I'm sleepy as hell because of my bad sleep schedule!

Now, you guys know that for the last three months I've worked on Act 1 for Wagner and this last month I worked on the start of the Acts for Karnal. Given some... Unforeseen circumstances, there's a chance you guys weren't able to access all the hard work I did, and I'm ...

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Alpha 0.24 Release.

New Content:

  1. Karnal's new route for the 4th day is now added containing: ActZero, First, Second and Third encounters.
  2. Added Karnal's new portrait for the pool.
  3. Any time the game ends, before the credits you'll read a small message from Aiden, Wagner or Karnal that you reached the end of their routes.

Bugs Fixed:

  1. Fixed an oversight/bug that w...

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Important news!

Hey there guys, I have an important update for you all.

So, I'm working on putting Karnal's first routes on the 4th day for the game, and noticed that I never linked Wagner's route to the main route. Meaning that whenever you get to the map screen to choose where to go, no choice would happen for any of you.


Which is strange since no one reported this bug to me.

But...

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Quick Update.

Hey guys, just a quick update regarding the next alpha.

Given some unforgiving circumstances about Co**d 19 with my parents and I'm living almost 2500km away from them I've been having a very hard time writing the next alpha's day. 

So I'll be releasing the next alpha between 25 and 26 of this month. I know it's around two or three days after the original deadline, but I need t...

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Quick update - Nex Alpha

The next alpha is scheduled to be released between 23 and 25 or may.

The last pool created for tier 3 and 4 patrons has been finished and the next alpha will have the Act Zero, First, Second and Third encounters for Karnal's 4th day.

Remember that Act Zero is the opening act that will lead to one of the three encounters, so it may feel like it has less content than usual, but that's...

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