I am back! This last week, I worked a little on TOTDC 2: I was trying
out some "technical" stuff, to see if I could add new hair colors to
Celeste's model within Ren'py, without having to add more work for my
artist, and I think I got pretty good results, but I'll probably need
more opinions on that before making it a final addition.
Working on it inspired me to try something I was considering for a while, especially now that the game's size reached itch.io's
limit for uploads. I tweaked the gallery script so that it doesn't use
duplicates, but takes the image from the regular image folder instead.
It's been a bit painful (I found some ways to automate parts of the
process, but it still took a good couple of days to sort things out),
but now the game is 250 MB smaller.
I was reluctant to try this earlier, because I generally don't love
messing with third party scripts, but I think it ultimately was worth
it. One possible downside, is that the loading time for the gallery
might be longer. It was already pretty long, so it's probably not overly
noticeable, but I'll have to hear from the people that use it to get a
better impression of whether or not that's bad. I assume the
considerable size reduction still makes it worth it, but I'll be
listening to you guys. As a result of this, I also didn't work much on
the walkthrough, but hopefully I can get something done later on this
month.
Other than that, I did some minor edits and work to wrap things up
for Sole and Luna (specifically, the carillon scenes after the party at
your new house). Now the carillon disappears as it should, and training
with the two girls gives a really small scene, whether you decide to
dance or have fun with them.
I am thinking about giving players a bonus for getting better at
dancing too, so you could earn more at the Red Dune, but that should be
it for that side of the game.
In the next few weeks, I should get back to the Golden Leaf quest.
Hopefully inspiration doesn't fail me, and I make good progress this
time. I'll be reporting weekly on this as usual, so look forward to
those.
That's about it for today. As always, have fun! ^_^