Let's talk about stuff!

So, reports are still coming for issues here and there, so I'll eventually have another bugfix come out, to put the final word on this version of TOTDC. No hurry, since they don't seem super important, for the most part, although a few seem quite annoying and will need to be dealt with.

In the meantime, I *could* start complaining about TOTDC, how it isn't as good as I wish it was and so on and so forth, but I should probably wait a bit longer to do a "post-mortem" of the game, I am still too close to be objective enough about it. I will say that I do wish I could have done a better job in general, but I feel like waiting longer would have probably ruined it for me. It was getting a bit of a slog, and RAGS didn't make things easy on the way, so I think it was the right moment to wrap it up.

Things keep moving along

So, I had a week of "business as usual", as far as the game goes. I am still working on Malena's relationship, and the extended ending you can get depending on your choices. I have several scenes planned, but I wonder if they wouldn't be too many, maybe I'll have to recycle one or two for other events. The basic structure and some scenes are already there, but I would like to throw one or two twists in it, to avoid it being just a straightforward showcase for these scenes, we'll see what I can come up with.

Other than that, I am still playing around with the RPG maker, and I think I might even have a decent idea for a game. I am not going to really work on it, as I have TOTDC to care about, but I might start to steer my experiments with it toward something more practical, beyond just getting familiar with the program, or messing with the mapper (I really like having the possibility to make more intricate maps, after years of RAGS and its room systems ^_^). If the thing ever grows beyond a certain point, I could probably release a demo, but it certainly isn't around the corner (although not having to search for pictures makes it easier to just go in work for a while in the designer and then leave, which helps speeding things up a bit).

This should be about it. Nothing really exciting (other than the scenes I have written for Malena ;p), just a very ordinary week. Hopefully I'll be able to report about more interesting stuff for next week, see you soon! ^_^