On The Road Again
Good afternoon,
It’s Friday again, which means it’s time to bring you up to date.
This week, as I mentioned last Friday, I finally started writing the quest. For that, I reworked parts of Kate’s questline to Kirlic into an alternative version. This now makes it possible to obtain Ophilia’s horse even if you haven’t yet reached that point in Kate’s quest. Of course, that required quite a few code adjustments to make sure that no matter when you start the quest, even if you’re already in the middle of Kate’s line, it picks up at the right point and both quests continue to function properly.
Once that part was working, I needed new sprites to show the MC riding the horse. And not just him, I also needed riding sprites for Lyvia, Tia, and Bianca. So, I may have spoken a bit too soon last Friday when I said I had all the sprites finished. Things got a bit more complicated when I decided I wanted diagonal sprites for the MC as well, because simply turning a horse by 90 degrees doesn’t just look strange, it completely breaks immersion. I therefore had to create another sprite set to properly show both trotting and, as seen in the gif, galloping. It took some time, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.
Today I started rewriting Bjorn’s quest in a similar way to how I did with Kate’s. I doubt I’ll be able to finish it today, though.
Which brings us to next week. I want to finish the 6.1.5 update as soon as possible, but for that I want everything up to the point of entering Kirlic completed. With the addition of taking a room at the new inn. Of course, we’ll also need at least one new scene to make things more engaging, so next week I’ll finally start working on a new scene with Tia, Lyvia, and Bianca. I’ll try to design it in a modular way, since not all three of them will necessarily be present, which will probably be a bit tricky. Besides that, I’ll continue writing the quest.
So a release next week is unlikely, but maybe in the week after... I don't want to make promises yet, but I'm aiming to get it done until then. By next Friday I hopefully know if it will be possible.
That’s all for now, I wish you all a nice weekend.