Status and Breaking Saves Poll

Trying to post a status update every Sunday now, but did not have the time last Sunday because family stuff.

Last week and most of this week I worked on a additional "Quest" that allow either Jeff or Jack to recruit Noja, after the Devil Hunter Noja Quest is completed.


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Shortly after Jeff and Jack part ways, depending on how her quest ended, Noja will either begin to stalk Jeff or try to have him testify about what happened in the ruins. 
the quest itself is rather short, it's more like either a cutscene with a potential battle with Jeff or Noja has to make it to the tower and survive. Should she die during either of these events, she's out of the game. I also made a small Gimmick that changes her actor graphic if she wears her mask or not.
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Also, 2 new H-Scenes are unlockable during this, one is 80% finished (would be 100% if my PC did not crash all the time..).

Here's a preview:

Yes, Odalphes is at it again...

 After the 2nd scene is done, I can finally start with part 2 of Chapter 6

 Jeff in demon form has a new look now.

Hi, Jack, I'm Jeff, remember? You can totally trust me. No would you please follw me?

Also I tried a couple of new scripts out.
Unfortunately some of the break savegames, meaning, if you would load an old save, the game would crash. You have to start a new game to play. So I removed them again.
But I would really really like to use them. ^^
So I'm setting up a poll, so you can decide whether breaking the saves is alright with you or not.

Status and Breaking Saves Poll

Trying to post a status update every Sunday now, but did not have the time last Sunday because family stuff.

Last week and most of this week I worked on a additional "Quest" that allow either Jeff or Jack to recruit Noja, after the Devil Hunter Noja Quest is completed.

Status, new poll

OK, so here's a life sign since some of you already thought I was dead. ^^

Fact is I'm alive an kicking, but  my computer not so much.
Truth be told I was almost 4 weeks without my machine after it decided to slip into a coma.




I tried to fix it myself first, but then I gave it to a workshop, hoping that they would look into my hard drives and find my dirty little files. ^^

Judging from that they kept the thing for THREE WEEKS(!!!!), they did and had their fun with it.

Anyway, I'm back to work but after being off for so much time I'm still struggling to find back into it.

I write most of my ideas and notes down into the script doc and then I have another file named "2do" that contains rough notes, bugs and other stuff.

But I have a habit of memorizing a lot of ideas, too. And things that I find not to be important enough to be written down I just keep in my head for a couple of days and then apply them to the game.
Most important, some in game scripts have become pretty complex and finding back into them can difficult (what the heck did I do there and why did I do this in that way and what is this good for again...)

I'm still working on the new side quest, which turned out to be pretty big, after that I'll go promptly to the next chapter.

Speaking of the next chapter... I'm strongly considering to drop the German version.
The translation is just too much work in my opinion and takes too much time as my scripts tend to get bigger and bigger.

I'll set up a poll, so you can give me your opinion, but either way the results turn out, I'm still having the last word on that matter.

So that's the news. Hope you're enjoying  the spring, I ceratinly do. ^^

Status, new poll

OK, so here's a life sign since some of you already thought I was dead. ^^

Fact is I'm alive an kicking, but  my computer not so much.
Truth be told I was almost 4 weeks without my machine after it decided to slip into a coma.

Open Minigame Test and Status

The last poll results showed that you would prefer it, if I remade some of the older scenes.

I uploaded a demo to mega to show how I thought I might do it.
This demo includes not much but the remake of the Foo "Photo Session".
I created new pictures for it and turned it into a minigame.




You can download it here and please leave your thoughts in the comments.
Edit: Changed link to an overworked version. This has the cursor light up when you find the right spot.

It's all made with common events because I don't know much about scripting... ^^°

The controls are a bit sloppy and it's better to hold the buttons for a second or two than just press it.

Part f the initial text is in German as is Jack's text, but that does not matter much.

The first part says: Foo is ticklish, find the right spots to get her into position.

Screenshot:

I'm not saying that I'll make a minigame out of every scene from now on, but I'll see what I can do to make them a bit more interactive.

As for the next update, I'm still working on it, but it's basically done, just needs a bit more testing.



 

New Poll and guess what...

... some time ago I converted a lot of the pictures in the graphics folder from png to jpeg to save space.
Today I took a look again into said folder and... it was full of png duplicates of the jpegs.
Silly me. Sorted all the copies out and killed 104 MB in one strike.

Going through the pictures made me realize how much my newer pictures differ in quality from the older ones.
So I'm considering remaking some of the older scenes, maybe extending them.

So here's the new question: Should I remake some older scenes or would you like me to keep the old pictures, let's say for nostalgia or something...

Poll: Resolution - which do you prefer?

As you noticed I changed the window size to 1088*832 with the last update and I had a couple of complaints about that.

So I set up a poll on that issue. Scroll down and you will find it in the navigation frame.

Should I keep the new resolution or would you prefer the old resolution (544*416)?

EDIT: Scratch that, I found a way to to make both sizes available.