Devlog - 23rd Jan - Progress V2.40 (Patreon)

Hi,

over the last few days I have completed coding for Ylyee's Uniform & Crew activities and also completed the coding for her favours including setting up the animations.

With that I am finished with main content and will move on to a few minor side NSFW aspects (news reporter encounters, Galaxina Episode...) and then I will go for Integration and testing around 26th.

This version took a bit longer than usual as I refactored a number of elementary code items that have become unwieldy (in total more than 5000 lines of code). The dialogue system, the interior interaction system etc. I Introduced new GUI managers that make handling easier, expansion less risky and also improve readability of the code reducing sources for errors.While I find that using AI to vibe-code stuff is mostly a disappointment, even a guaranteed failure at larger more complex code because of the required bug hunting, I found that having my code modules reviewed by AI after doing them manually and implementing the suggestions and design proposals is extremely valuable.

As to Renpy (and python) coding, I came to the conclusion that Gemini is at the moment the most competent model, followed by Grok. GPT is enthusiastic but too often wrong and not good at design reviews and technically complex Renpy screen code...

I'll post some renders for the News announcer content soon. ;)

y.v.