Little things

[Explanation about gaps between blog posts goes here]

Believe it or not, I've actually been hard at work! Among other things, I have redone the entire opening sequence from scratch! For the... fifth time now? Been mostly busy adding and/or fixing little details, because I'm a helpless perfectionist when it comes to eventing, which may or may not be why it takes me years to get anything done, but it's cool to playtest your game and see how everything comes together.

I'm pretty content with the opening this time, though, and it's probably the last time I'm making any major changes to it. Other than that I've also fixed some things that should've been done a long time ago. Battles have actual backgrounds now instead of using a map screenshot, wow!

Also, I removed the the borders from the character portraits and made the backgrounds transparent instead. Next on the to-do list is to actually center them, but all in due time, right? Other than what I mentioned there have been a lot of minor changes to the database, including general rebalancing, since my many replays of the opening made me realise just how weirdly unbalanced everything was. Ooops!

Lastly, here's a ten minutes gameplay video of a sidequest. I recorded this before I did most of the aforementioned rebalancing, so if things seem too easy/difficult rest assured that I have already taken measures to fix things. Also, excuse the mapping. It was late at night.

And with all that said and gone, goodbye! See you next blog update in 2024! 😆