Artemis DevLog CH7 (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Quick post this week. Mostly had my nose in code, trying to delicately segregate book 2 code from book 1 code. Just a reminder for the reason, currently it's about 18GB to download the entirety of Books 1 and 2. And when I need to push a bugfix, re-up/downloading the game isn't such a...task. On your guys end, it'll fairly seamless. No save transfer required. If you load a B1 save while on B2, you'll get a pop-up telling you which book to run for that save. Should you want to merge the books, that'll be okay too. It's a lot of meticulous re-wiring, since I had little experience with ren'py starting out. Now I'm trying to untangle the spaghetti code. This should technically prevent any issues from popping up with saves. The dreaded "cannot find whatever rollback blah blah" for Book 1 at least. Since I haven't touched Chapters 1-4 since Book 1 was finished and there were some who experienced this from B1 chapters when CH6 released. Just things I'm learning and trying to prevent as I gain more experience with ren'py.

Additionally, I had a moment to chat with the dev for the next crossover and establish their presence more leading up to their appearance and purpose in the story. I'm a big fan of crossovers from the 90s, so the ones I have planned... We'll be seeing them playing to their strengths of their character. You have sort of an idea of what that might be if you know who they are. For example, Lexi from Leap of Faith. Musician, singer. INK needs entertainment. They didn't just get Kink, but also Lexi to perform for the party. Just to give you an idea of what to look forward to when you see characters pop up. This next one is going to be fun. I've got two others planned out for Book 3.

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Have yourselves a great week! Stay hydrated and take your vitamins!

- digi