Progress Log 2/26/22 - A little bit of everything (Patreon)

Time for another progress log! We’re going to be entering the Spring quarter soon and have a lot of work to do if we want to keep up with our Road Map.

System Work

Some core system functions have been added to PC2. These include the splash screen with age warning and loading screens.

Loading Screens

This time around, we’re going with something a little more interesting than the standard black screen fade out.

Loading screens will display some lore about the cappuccino world as well as some game-play tips. It’s probably worth noting that in a lot of modern games, loading screens are fake and are really there just to provide a smooth transition between scenes so that it’s not so abrupt. That’s exactly the case here, so we’re trying to make it so that the loading screens aren’t too long and annoying, but still long enough for the player to be able to read the info on them.

Later on, we might make loading screens route specific. Rosaria’s route for example would only give lore about her and the Domain of Conjuration, as well as feature artwork with her in it.

Secret Names Easter Egg

We had the suggestion over on discord to add an easter egg when players input their name. 

Characters will have unique dialogue when using some special names like Mira or the developer names. We’ll give you guys the full list of these names when we release the next change log and build! Every character will feature different dialogue and slightly different names that they react to.

Portrait Improvements

Some quality improvements have been made to the dialogue portrait system. These are mostly back-end changes but the biggest visible one is that animation states now transition smoothly between each other as opposed to just jerking between two.

Full list of improvements will also be available in the next change log!

Story Progress

The implementation of story content and linking of NSFW scenes through this mode are in progress. Part of Rosaria's route will go into her past with Mira, so Doku sketched up a quick portrait of what Mira looked like as a Novice Succubus.

She had a bit of a gullible look to her that ended up being ironed out as the years went by. Some of the story content we've written out is exciting and we can't wait to get it implemented!

Note on Debug Console for Project Cappuccino 2 - Awakened Tier

We’ll soon be implementing a debug console for PC2 for those in the Awakened tier. The main issue is that there isn’t much to cheat on yet, but a few things like debugging portraits and what not may be possible. Thanks for your patience in regard to this tier and rewards!

That’s all we have for now,

Vanis & Doku