Weekly Dev Log #39

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The objective of this last week was to have a playable demo by the end of it. I tested the game with a friend on the weekend and it turned out pretty well. We discovered some bugs, but none of them ruined the experience.

Well, now with the classic devlog bullet list

Programming Department

Battle App
- Removed unused MP meter from battle app character portrait

Battle Script App
- Fixed routine that lets the player learn new actions
Cutscene App
- Made cutscene to end the demo
- Fixed crash when trying to play the end cutscene of the demo after playing first cutscene
Overworld App
- Added script to end the demo
- Fixed several bugs in the overworld that occurred when loading a save file in different situations
- Fixed bug where you could exit the tutorial room mid tutorial
- Made house a separate object in home's backyard
  - Now its easier to edit
  - Fixed issue where some objects were drawn over the house which is not the idea
- Polished every script
- Created action for script to play a cutscene
- Now overworld's music isn't stopped when exiting the app
- Polished 2 room's backgrounds
- Fixed bug where the music that plays in this app wasn't registered properly so changing the volume in options didn't work
- Added script for ravine in room A3
- Added pauses for "¿?" and "¡!"
- Changed the start of most scripts with return to idle
- Made an important tree to pop out more
Pause Menu App
- Added menu that explains actions
- Fixed bug where the menu for consuming items didn't close when going back to the item menu
- Fixed menu borders
  - Now they don't vary between menus
- Fixed bug where you could set the volume for the music and sfx's to negative values in the options menu
- Removed an annoying print statement that my computer refused to tell me where it was

Title Menu App
- Made background for the demo
- Hardcored some variables so this app is usable for the demo
  - A full refactor of the app is needed
- Fixed bug where you could set the volume for the music and sfx's to negative values in the configuration menu
- Added music when selecting continue

Other
- Adapted the game font to work with UTF8 spanish characters
  - Fixed bug where the game crashed when displaying incomplete two-byte utf8 characters
- Translated most of the game to spanish
- Made icon for the game's executable

Design Department

Removed mana explanation from tutorial
Added explanation that you can't regain composure twice in a row
Left scenes where music I haven't composed yet silent to singal there's a change
Explained that guard tanks excess damage
Remade tutorial so the player learns how to pause
Removed mom's dummy explained part of the tutorial
Fixed story continuity errors

Art Department

Made ken's turn icon
Made forest battle background

QA Department

Tested the game with a friend
Friend managed to finish the demo in a little less than an hour
Bugs found
- There's an exploit to grind infinite orange segments
- You can apparently skip the first scene after the tutorial somehow, gotta check how they do that
Other problems
- Left a debug feature which closes the game at any when pressing the "escape" key in the demo
  - This was very annoying
  - Music equalisation, specifically the battle music and the end cutscene music
Behavior observed
- for my friend it is intuitive to pause the game with esc
- my friend doesn't like to use all of their items, they like to save stuff if something happens
- when enemies did very little damage my friend didn't noticed the damage, they thought it was a bug but checking the footage it wasn't
Opinions
- The last fight of the demo is very difficult
- Really liked:
  - Lovers side quest
  - The music
- The tutorial was too much text
- The secret in room A2 is too hard to find