Summary:
In which waiting continues (in part due to a delay); a bit more saving-and-loading is implemented; intentions regarding said wait are outlined; and another matter keeps me busy nevertheless!
Greetings and salutations!
This week's screenshot shows a moon, just after having been properly loaded to its former position:
The week just past was again a slow one, one primarily of waiting. But even so, and even with NaNoRenO done, I wasn't idle I feel!
To start with, in the matters of the lawyer and the audio-engineer both, I continue to wait: the meeting with the former has been postponed, due I believe to extraneous matters on their end, while I simply haven't yet heard back from the latter.
In terms of the game itself, I did make one change in the week just past: previously, the positions (or rather, position-defining times) of celestial bodies within solar systems were not saved. As a result, on reload they would revert to their original positions.
I had thought to leave this for the purposes of the demo, not thinking it a major issue just yet, if I recall correctly.
But in the week just past I decided to fix it, perhaps especially as it seemed a fairly easy thing to deal with.
And indeed it was, I do believe! Bodies within the solar system now seem to correctly save-and-restore those position-definition times, thus continuing their motion from (more or less) where they left off! ^_^
Otherwise... I will confess that I tire a little of waiting.
Regarding the lawyer, my intention now is to simply forge ahead (once I get that audio that I'm waiting for), pitching anyway and dealing with the legal stuff when the lawyer becomes again available.
Regarding the audio-engineer, I intend to ping them today in order to see where the process stands. Hopefully that will at least give me some indication of where I stand in the matter!
Further, I'm thinking that, until I'm in a position to move forward with the demo, I might do a few other things: I want to put together a collection of save-games for the demo, and once that's done, I can perhaps start making new artefacts and their spells...
But though the above isn't much, I said that I hadn't been idle in the week just past--and I do feel that I haven't been! I just haven't been much occupied with
game-development!
In short, my mother is planning to rent out her flat to a tenant, and I've been helping out by handling showings of the place. I've thus been doing a fair bit of responding to communications of interest, making bookings, and then actually cycling out to the flat itself to show people around! It has been tiring! ^^;
That, then, is all for this week--stay well, and thank you for reading! ^_^