Progress 27 (build 5)

Rant-ish

10th already, huh. Had some in-real-life business to attend to. Also was planning to post yesterday, but power outage wasn't concerned about my plans.

I've finally finished the modular designs for all the animations. You wouldn't believe what difficulties that entailed. PGMMV sometimes makes me feel like I'm going insane. I assume from the testing done that there is some sort of rounding error, due to which timings of some specific animations can be 1 frame slower/faster that intended. That may sound trivial, but you most likely will notice it, if it happens often enough. So I've spent quite the amount of time minimizing this, and it's nearly perfect.

All that means is that I'm able to easily (relatively) add new animations in the game. Not the "drag and drop" easy, but this is going to be a blessing as the development goes.

Next I would like to make a sound and a text systems, for paizuri first.
My first two games actually same voice works, with the same seiyuu. I will now check the voice works I have and maybe introduce something new for the game.

And the text is going to be a horrible piece of work, I feel. From my last attempts at using the text feature in Paizuri Hazard I remember how... confusing it is to wrangle that.

Progress 26 (build 4)

As usual

Came later than expected, you know me.
I remember saying that I was hoping to get the systems done by the end of June. Little did I know how wrong that estimation would be.

I believe I've mentioned in some of the posts that I'd wish to do some drawing non-related to game, just so it wouldn't be tedious doing all the variants? Well, my brain wouldn't allow me to do stuff not related to the game, but I still had an idea that revolved around the game and specifically drawing, not animating.

The idea is to make some nice stills of your everyday life with Himari, like the picture above.
I can use those as a loading screen.

Oh, and she has veiny boobs in this one. I couldn't pass such an opportunity.

Progress 25 (Build 3)

Sale!

Just in case I'll make this little preface:
There is a summer sale of my games on itch.io!
https://undergroundr34artist.itch.io/

Debugging

As always, the last hours of production were the most hellish.
Debugging is hard when there is nothing that you can gleam out of debug tools on what's causing the problem. Debugging is even harder when it's the development tool that is causing the problem, rather than your own creation. Fortunately for my sanity, I've already had same issue before with Paizuri Hazard. That helped me in today's battle, surely, but it still was a pain before I've finally found the root.

Where was I... Oh, yes.

Progress 24 (Build 2)

Paizuri.

So, technically speaking, the paizuri is here. It took surprisingly more than I anticipated (though I gotta say power outages for most of the day don't help too). Presumably because I'm trying to make the system modular, AKA easily expandable and well-built. Feels like I'm smart and all that (wouldn't bet on it) - ‿◦.

Progress 23 (BUILD 1)

♫ I guess you wonder where I've been... ♪

Please excuse me if this post is gonna be rambley, all over the place, and half-manic: working in PGMMV (Pixel Game Maker MV) does that to people. It's a blessing for someone without knowledge of programming languages, but hell at the same time due to it's simplified nature. Though I'm sure that 99% of game creators have the love-hate relationship with their respective software creation tools all the same...
Anyway, in my defense regarding long abstinence: nothing. No defense, your Honor, send me to the wolves.
I've got hooked on playing Abiotic Factor with my friend, and I thoroughly recommend you do the same. It's a brilliant game, especially if:
- With friends;
- You're a fan of Half-Life;
- You're a fan of SCP;
- You're a fan of Survival games.

Last of zuri variants

Here, have a micro content dump!

Sales

I nearly forgot, but all of my works on DLsite are currently on sale!
https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/circle/profile/=/maker_id/RG70394.html