Friday Rambles and Game Dev Update 2025-01-31

It's the Saturday Friday Rambles.

Life Stuff

Well, my whole family's been sick this entire week, so that's fun. Still fun. Which is why this is late.

I bought some games on sale. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out on PC now, so I took the opportunity to grab both FF7 Remake and FF7 Rebirth with the "Twin Pack" bundle on Steam, for cheaper than normal price. I still need to play the Intermission (Intergrade?) portion of FF7 Remake, which I wanted to do before playing Rebirth, but at this rate I won't play either till the Triplet Pack is out.

Also there was a Spike Chunsoft sale going on too, and I could buy the AI Somnium Files series and Zero Time Dilemma and 428 Shibuya Scramble for like 90% off, which felt like a no-brainer to me. I booted up 428 just to see if it would work with Whisky on my Mac, and it did, and then I played it and it was like, exactly the kind of game I wanted to make after I played 13 Sentinels and it was crazy that I'd never heard of it before till the sale. It's so fun. I wish I had more time to play it.

What 13 Sentinels needed was a protagonist in a mondo mascot suit.

Fully migrated my journals and things over to Obsidian and I'm mostly over my customization phase, but I'm not missing OneNote at all. Only some stuff I'm too lazy to care about are left in OneNote, and I'll have to move them over before my Office 365 (Sorry, "Microsoft 365 Copilot") subscription expires. That's future me problems.

Ate a burger.

Gamedev Stuff

Despite it all, I got some work done.

Stuff I did this week:

• Finished the final objective CG

• Finished two new backgrounds

• Finished all CGs for a certain scene

• Finished all sprites for a certain character

• Finished all remaining rpg sequence npc sprites and animations

• Finished some other UI assets needed for rpg sequence

• Finished some sprites for the ending

• Finished coding some UI elements needed for a story sequence

• Fixed a bunch of bugs and typos reported by translators

Unfortunately all of them are big story spoilers so I can't post any screenshots or anything. You'll just have to take my word for it, till the update's out.

I'm going to focus on getting localized assets done for my localization playtesters, although a lot of other important assets are still missing. But I think I can get by with the existing placeholders, and most of the missing assets are in the ending(s), anyway.

Hopefully next week I'll get even more done, assuming everyone gets better. I only have 4 weeks left to finish, after all.

The End

That's it for this week. Stay healthy, friends. Thanks for your support, as always!