Game Development

Summary: In which the book-generation scripts are expanded; the books of level five are re-generated; some personality is added to the resultant book-collection; a note-keeping system is added to level five; and a saving-while-dead bug is (hopefully) fixed.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot once again shows bookshelves, their contents now reworked and touched-up to have a bit more personality:



The week just past saw continued work on the books, and later the interactions, of level five:

Continue reading "A Lived-In Library" »

Summary: In which work on level five continues; shelves are placed; a semi-automatic means of book-placement is devised and employed; and books suitable to such heavy repetition are made.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows further work on level five; the place is starting now to look somewhat like a library...



The week just past was another week of level-building:

Continue reading "Many, Many Books" »

Summary: In which cutscene music is chosen; a cutscene sound-effect is added; the cutscene in question is completed; and work is begun on a new level.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some nascent work on a new level:



The week just past went better, I think, than the one before:

Continue reading "The Start of a New Level" »

Summary: In which difficulties persist but work is done; art for a scene in a cutscene is completed; and that art is used to build the cutscene itself.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows the (possibly work-in-progress) first scene to the level five cutscene:



My previously-mentioned difficulties persisted into the week just past, I'm sorry to say. However, and as shown above, a bit of work did nevertheless get done--and perhaps a little bit more than in the week before:

Continue reading "A Long Walk" »

Summary: In which I'm feeling better, if not fully so; time off seems to help; once again no work is done; and gratitude is expressed.

Greetings and salutations!

The week just past was... better, I think, than the one before. I won't say that I'm fully recovered, but I think that I'm in a better place than I was on this day last week.

A part of this, I believe, has come from taking care of myself in the week just past: I allowed myself to rest, to relax, to take some leisure time. (For one thing, I've been re-playing one of my favourite point-and-click adventure games, Gabriel Knight 3.)

Let me note however that said time off has been only one intervention of several; there have been a number of other things that have brought me here, I do believe.

Having taken that time off does mean that once again no work was done in the week just past. I'm hoping to return to it in this new week--although I may well ease into doing so.

And finally, let me say "thank you" to those who have reached out to me to express well-wishes or support; know, please, that it's appreciated. ^_^

That then is all for this week--stay well, and thank you for reading! ^_^