Dev Blog 26 | Jel's Cafe | UI improvements

Hello all, its time for another blog post. I missed out on doing them for the past 2 weeks as I was busy with other things, the biggest distraction being too many video games I was personally interested in all releasing back to back. Now that that period has ended and I'm back in the flow of things, I can finally share what I have been working on over the past 3 weeks.

I'm also doing something new with these blog posts going forward, anytime I want to share any images I'll add a number in the corner, like #1, #2 etc to showcase anything I'm currently talking about.

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JEL'S CAFE PROGRESS

Character Art:

(#1)

I continued working on brand new character art, I created art for Phoebe, Hannah, Stella and Maddie. My goal is to finish every single characters "Fullness level 0" artwork before deciding to fully draw all of their higher level arts. The characters that do have Level 0 artwork do have their rough sketches completed already, helping me for the future when I do eventually get around to them. I'll continue working on these when I can, some require a lot more work than others as I'm also touching up the designs slightly beforehand.

Shop UI's:

(#2)

The shop UIs have had an overhaul, they now look better and flow better too! They still need some touch ups of course, but the base I've created will be the one going forward! I also added a new background for Chum, inspired by Pizza Tower and Parappa the Rapper, I like this format a lot so each vendor will eventually have a BG like Chums, full of different little bits of artwork.

Chum:

Speaking of Chum, very small change, but he will no longer sell Props/Decoration items anymore. I found this to be a bit awkward in the UI formatting, and it also felt a little random for him to sell those in addition to everything else. Any planned Props/Decorations he was going to sell will instead be added to the Moths store instead.

Writing:

I've had a new Writer come onboard to help me with production, they're currently working on the new "Chat" function that'll scale with a characters fullness level, planning on at least doing dialouge for the first 3 levels for now, and going from there! Once ready these new interactions will be added to the game!

Thats all for now, Production is looking to speed up once again now that I've completed other things like the games I was playing and the newley released Solar Flare stickers!

I'll hopefully have more to share next week! Thank you all for your support!