Need another week (Patreon)
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I kept putting off writing this post all weekend, hoping I could get everything done in time... but it's not gonna happen. Originally, I thought I could get a working 10-minute testing-game but there are too many pieces not finished. It'll be at least another week. I have switched the main character over to the Male body I want, and I WAS working on getting actions to be a separate layer, so you can change the clothing (or even the hero sprite) but, I'm having many problems getting rpgMaker to do it... Might have to revert back to a single Hero clothing style for all actions... I do have a screenshot of the landing area:
Text Boxes have almost entirely been replaced with pop-up boxes when you acquire items or do tasks. I'm also working on having the sidebar show all your important items so you don't need to open menus all the time. You still need to open the Item menu to plant seeds but I am looking into plugins to allow adding icons on the screen that you can click to use instead as well... You can kinda see the trees grow 9 sizes... and I'm trying to get fireflies working too. The trees have actually been a huge headache, because they are multiple tiles. Although I "can" have them span in randomly, and "can" track when you cut them and "can" allow planting new trees anywhere... It's whack-a-doodle amount of ridiculous variable tracking to do it... and I've been having glitches from it too... So, currently, I am only allowing large trees to grow in predetermined spots, but you can cut, replant and regrow them for infinite wood. Crops (and any other ONE tile objects) work perfectly and can be spawned anywhere, so that is good.
I'm also still considering the Seven Sisters game. The most likely choice would be bringing the art over to my new computer, and redoing the entire game in js/html. Still discussing that with a Patron, so nothing set yet.