Dev Log # 29

This week was still mostly about testing for me and I did find and fix a few more bugs. One thing that keeps causing problems is that NPCs went through a lot of changes in v0.4. Even though they're (mostly) stable now there's a lot of vestigial code and messy logic that needs cleaning up. I'm putting a lot of that cleanup aside until I start on version 0.5 just so I can get version 0.4 finished but the mess keeps getting in the way.

I'll do a bit more bug hunting but I'm happy enough for now so the rest of the month will be polishing up the placeholder events. While I don't expect to finish them all (the TTRPG event in the common room will probably take a month by itself) there's some that need to be expanded at least a little. The NPC related ones are probably the most important.

Even though there's only two NPCs (Emily and Diana) they each have eight affection events as you level them up, and they each have a "chat" event where you meet them while exploring. The chat events play out differently depending on the time of day and what Titania is up to so there's a lot of work just with those! I'd also like the chat events to play out differently based on your relationship levels but that's where the messy logic I mentioned earlier start causing problems, so that will have to wait.

Last but not least I want to have some more events with the giantesses, especially Girlzilla. Those events are the main point of game after all! My big decision now is whether to have lots of half-finished events or a few mostly finished ones. If I focus on quantity over quality at this stage I may end up with a big mess that never gets cleaned up later, so it's a bit of a balancing act. What I'll probably do is add several short events so player's aren't just seeing the same thing over and over, even if it means less choices within those events. Larger events (like the TTRPG one) will have a ton of choices so it'll all balance out in the end (I hope!)