[Progress Report]: 5th of May

 Hey everyone,

It's May already!?

The image from above is from the Riley Animation event, and I'm finishing up those animations tonight! This completes all three events for the Sandbox Poll winner (Riley) and I'll be finishing up the repeatable later night week for the four events for this update. You've probably noticed that an almost completely finished animation event and a repeatable event shouldn't take up a whole week, but next week will also be when I start implementing the framework for the UI updates!

The first major goal is to get the "minimap" feature is discussed earlier up and running. In short, by opening the minimap, you should be able to see where events are currently triggerable on the floor that you're on! This will include Sandbox events, which has been a problem I have yet to properly address.

I know that I possess the coding knowledge necessary to create the minimap right now, but I'll be doing more research to see if I can make it a little bit more elegant. Good coding practices also means save game compatibility, which you know is important to me.

I'm also expecting the minimap to have it's share of bugs for the first iteration, given that it will be a colossal undertaking requiring me to more or less accurately place every single event in the game when events can overlap due to how they're triggered. That, to me, will be the most annoying thing to fix. Obviously, the priority right now is to showcase that there's an event there at all with whose event will trigger first being less important. It's something I'll likely tackling in the future when I have your feedback on the feature.

I'm also still feeling quite irritated at the low output of this cycle, which has been a common theme throughout last year's and part of this year's development. I like to think that, while the number of events hasn't increased after purchasing the new the computer, the big events are so much bigger than before that the overall amount of content is increasing. Still, it would be nice to get both.

Well, that's enough rambling from me tonight. Crunch week is upon us so I'll be in the Discord from dawn to dusk if you have questions!

Thank you for all of your support,

~Solace