August Progress Report
Added 2018-09-10 22:19:08 +0000 UTCNot everyone has time to trawl the Discord, so here's a quick overview of last month's work on miniBoss! This list will be streamlined with little additional commentary. A condensed info dump, if you will!
Miniboss A2Z In-Fiction Adverts
Baseball
Ballerina
Characters
Snorfly
Beverly Cedarbundt
Von Kalai
Scenery
A2Z Exterior
A2Z Standard Office
Kylie Office
Player Apartment + Alts
A2Z R&D (Von Side)
Props
Cup of Noodles
Story
The story of miniBoss is coming along nicely! We have the first two days of the game in second draft form. The first day and a half of this will be on display in its near-final form when we release our first playable demo. As for the other five days, their broad story strokes are planned, but we have yet to write dialogue for them. That'll come as we move through the week, completing each day in sequence leading up the last!
Jokes
Ryhn thinks he's so smart.
Ryhn isn't so smart covered in green paint
Mandates
Code
On the programming front, Ryhn has been hard at work expanding the storytelling framework for miniBoss! He's added support for multiple background layers so we can do some fancy parallax and foreground/background animations as warranted, along with updating our character system to allow for even more animations and varied character sizes. Also, our sound system has been updated to allow dynamically mixing multiple tracks to fade in and out as the story demands. Ryhn's now working on an update to the dialogue system which allows up to five characters to discuss with one another on screen at once. We'll likely only need 2-3 at a time in general, but the flexibility will come in handy for major scenes with a lot of characters involved.
We'll have more to say on this front soon, and once the dialogue system has come together we'll update all of you with some fun gifs of it in action!
Thanks again for all of your support. It means the world to us.
