Mystic Ville - 3rd January 2022 - Weekly DevLog

Heyeyeyey, everyone,  how you doin' today? Hope you're doing just fine :)

A week has passed since we released our first demo, Mystic Ville 0.5.0, followed by 0.5.1 and now yesterday we pushed out 0.6.0 which "almost" improved performance, and today/tomorrow I will roll out 0.6.1 (I have finally found what is causing all the lag, and 0.6.1 should remove almost all of the lag! Thank you my dream for showing me!)

With that done, we're finally ready to move on to work on 1.0.0 without worry.

Story (Script/Dialogues)

A bit of the story progressed, also changed some of the dialogues from the first half because I think it fits better now (It's a normal thing to always go back and change things, hahaha!)

This week my focus was finding and eliminating the cause of lag, and good thing I did this early! Imagine we're already far and haven't fixed this yet!

I would like to thank all of you who reported the lags, what happens, how bad is it, and where did it happen, you folks are killin' it! Thank you!

But I will make sure the story makes some significant progress by next week!
-PervyChoco

Code

This is what eats most of my time this week, going back, changing things, adding things, changing designs, fixing lags, and all, but overall I think it's worth it!

And yes, thank goodness we got this out of the way early on!

Other than that, I've begun assembling the game together for some bits of the first half, so when Red is done with the artwork I could just replace the artwork and we're golden!
-PervyChoco

Art (Backgrounds/CG/Sprite)

Red has just got back from holiday break and will soon start doing the art, Red asked for some references in the #general-nsfw channel in our Discord! If you wanna help you can drop a few samples ;)

Other than that, someone has asked if the game will be animated or not, the answer is YES but also NO, right now I'm the stand-in animator, Red draw the artwork, I polish and finish the coloring then animate it, every time there's a new scene, I WILL animate it, however, I'm still pretty new at animating so if my work just doesn't "cut it" and it turns out to be crappy, I won't include it in the game. From my past experience as an eroge player, a static/non-animated scene is better than a badly animated one. So yeah, I will try my best but expect that some scenes can stay non-animated!
-PervyChoco

And that's a wrap for this week's report! Thank you for your support and see you next week!
0.6.1 will drop out tomorrow/today, depending on your timezone, it should finally remove almost all the lag!

-FruityChoco Studio, PervyChoco & Red Chan