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You mean, "sleeping with the fishes"?She finally got the sword.
I guess MC is feeding the fishies
Tulrek
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Even if yellow is the mourning color, the black suits her indeed !
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on this last chapter when you're interrogating miss bratty while she's in jail giving you an exposition Dump (Pun intended) would've been funny if then transition to the scene of Mc and Elea eating ice cream (alas Me Myself and Irene)
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Good morning and Happy New Year, everyone,
Unusual day, unusual time for a Dev Log (for me...).
I didn't want to wait until Friday for the first Dev Log of Chapter 8, especially since this one is going to be a bit longer than the usual ones.
A word of warning: if you haven't played Chapter 7, the latter part of this Dev log contains slight spoilers, so you might stop reading this Dev Log until you have played it.
The spoilers won't be anything major, though.
Up to you.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with how the release of Chapter 7 went. We missed a few minor bugs, like textlines showing up when they shouldn't, but no bugs in the game logic (as far as I'm aware).
The current version is v0.7.0.3, which is live on Steam and here in all posts containing links.
December on Steam also went pretty well, so thank you to everyone who bought the game there and/or helped with a review.
As I mentioned before, I started working on Chapter 8.
The progress wasn't swift due to the holidays and all the distractions throughout that time, though.
One thing I decided to change is how the code for CH8 is organized.
Until CH7, every Chapter has one script file with (almost) all necessary stuff for that Chapter in it.
Those files end up almost 8000 lines long (CH6), which wasn't a problem until now.
Technically, it doesn't really matter, but when translations come in, it gets annoying.
The tl-files tend to get significantly longer than the script files. Up to almost 20,000 lines per file. And when you start translating a Chapter, you have that huge wall of text in front of you.
So I decided to change the structure of the script files a little and have one file for each scene.
That should make translating the game a little easier for me... let's see if the amount of additional files will drive me crazy instead :-D
I hope that the new approach will also help to keep the branching of the story manageable.
Those of you who have already played CH7 know that it ends at different spots, depending on your choices.
This branching will also run through Chapter 8 and a bigger part of Chapter 9.
Having every branch in one file like before will be one hell of a search-and-find mission in the code.
Speaking of branching, one of the paths in Chapter 8 will be Álfheimr if you accepted Titania's offer.
It will be the biggest part in Chapter 8 and will take up the most dev time.
It won't be like Chapter 5, where you hardly see any of the other 3 LI's, but those 3 will have significantly less screen time compared to Álfheimr.
I'm not entirely happy with that, but it's either that or a development time of 1 year for Chapter 8.
It's the price I have to pay for a branching storyline.
I still want to make sure that the non-Álfheimr path still has a few memorable "moments" in it.
Okay, this is getting ass-long, and I'm sure it triggers quite a few questions on your side.
Feel free to post them in the comments, and I'll try to answer them in a later Dev Log or another Q&A session.
The numbers for CH8 as of now:
33 static renders
0 animations
479 lines in the script file
Have a nice start to the week, guys.
Cheers,
Ceo
P.S. Next Dev Log will be on Friday again, as usual.
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The official wife of King Oberon.
She "shot an arrow of fire" into the boat with Finn.
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So it was her who murdered finn.......
And they dare to accuse an innocent Sayo....
Fucking bastards those knife-ears.
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she hasn't even said "sorry for trying to murder you so hard".
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Atleast kaija gave her chocolate starfishHer apology came in different way
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Ya'll here would forgive anything for a chance at xeno pussy.going from trying to kill you to fucking you is a good enough substitute
Damn traitors to mankind.
Maybe you should try & switch sides? Kaiju pussy is the best!
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if it's close enough and warm enough who gives a shit about her ears
I'd rather do them than the Kaiju