Quick note about the Discord server

 

Concerned Sylph to get your attention.

  

 

I guess some people aren't really familiar with how Discord works. I probably should have posted about this sooner.

You're supposed to download the Discord program, and then click the invite link. Once you do that, you just use the program to stay in the server. If you don't want to download anything, use discordapp.com. You aren't meant to click the invite link every single time you want to check the server. It's not like Mibbit.

Some people have been clicking it over and over again, and now they have over a dozen duplicate accounts on the server. Please don't do that. A couple people were banned for making duplicates every day, but I unbanned them now. If the Discord invite link wasn't working for you, that's probably why. It should work now.

That's all. Demo Still Soon™.









Also, if you make 15 Discord accounts on purpose now to annoy me, I'll just ban you. So don't do that, either.

Demo Soon

So about the demo...

First off, sorry I haven't posted anything for awhile. I was waiting to post when the demo was ready, but I keep getting held up by other things. I was actually going to upload it this weekend, but there are still a few bugs that need to be fixed, and I don't want to release something that's broken after making people wait for so long.

After that, I'm probably just going to release the areas one at a time as I finish them. Partly because it's easier to focus on one area at a time, and also because waiting this long between releases is just ridiculous. Hopefully, I'll be able to release updates more consistently soon. Hopefully for real, this time. I won't have anything else to do after May, anyway.

That's all. Demo Soon.

What to do next

So I'm kind of in an awkward situation right now.

Everything is almost finished, but I don't really have anything in a releasable state yet. I could string together what I have now and release it, but it would feel unfinished.

The biggest problem is that I don't have every girl's route quite finished yet. So if I release what I have, and you want a specific girl's route that isn't finished yet, then you'd be completely out of luck. That doesn't seem fair, so I'd rather at least get what I have up to a more complete state before releasing anything.

What I could do instead is release another demo area for now. There's one area in particular where I only need to finish one more CG and 2 more h-scenes before it's basically done. If you'd prefer, I can get that ready to release instead, and just release it in increments as I finish everything up.

I wanted to have something out this year, but that's obviously not going happen, and all I can really say is that I'm sorry about that. So now the question is, what do you want me to do for January? Do you want the next demo? Should I just release updates as I finish them? Or would you rather just wait and get it all at once?

For December

 

 A very unfitting Sylph picture.

Well, I had hoped that I would have good news to post about, but I really don't. I said that I wanted to have part 3 done by December, and it was on track during the Summer. But of course, that didn't work out. I got really busy in the Fall, and couldn't work on it as much as I had hoped. So it's not quite finished yet.

But I did say I would try to have something released in December. So once the semester is over (two weeks), I'm gonna be spending the rest of December getting what's done ready to release. It's not as much as I wanted, but it's still a decently-sized update. I'll try to have it done in December, but it might not be out until January.

I know it's frustrating, and I really don't mean to keep blue-balling everyone like this. But everything always seems to get really busy when I really don't want it to. It's unfortunate, but I'll try to have something out soon.

That's all. Sorry the news isn't better.

Fight Scripting

 

Just an Eden picture.

Sorry for the lack of update in August. I honestly just forgot to post something and didn't really have much to talk about.

Anyway, I do have some more good news.

The guy who made the wordwrap patch (Hiroku) is now working on tools to make development easier. Specifically, a program that I can use to help create scripts for fights.

Coding the fights is by far the most frustrating part of making NG+, and the fights are usually the buggiest parts of the game. Up until this point, I've had to make and edit the scripts in Notepad++, which is absolutely terrible. A lot of the process could easily be automated (since it's just copypasted code that every fight uses), which is what this new program is doing for me. Once it's finished, making NG+ fights should be much quicker and easier, which should hopefully speed up development by quite a bit.

That's all for now. I'm still working on town segments at the moment.

Saving

 Completely innocent picture of IF to grab your attention. Has nothing to do with NG+ whatsoever.

 So about saving...

A constant problem with NG+ has been keeping your saves between different builds of the game, and especially between different parts. A lot of you have probably had this problem at some point, where you try to load a save on a different build, and you end up somewhere completely different. I think I've finally come up with a solution, but only for keeping your saves between different parts.

I'm going to release a patch soon that implements the fix, along with a few other touch-ups (namely replacing Queen Harpy's horrible nude sprites). Basically, at the end of part 2, you'll receive this prompt to save. As long as you save here, your save should work when part 3 comes out.

The downside to this, obviously, is that all saves made prior to the next patch probably won't work. But every save made from the next patch onward will work. It's not ideal, but I wanted to get this whole mess with saving dealt with before part 3 comes out. Replaying part 1 and part 2 isn't nearly as time-consuming as replaying part 3, so it's better to sort it out now.

That's all. Patch coming soon.

The picture of the save prompt, which is actually important but not attention-grabbing in the slightest.

New post.

Just an Ilias CG.

It's been about a month, so I figured I should make a post.

Progress is moving along at a fairly steady pace. I've gotten some CG done, some h-scenes, some fights, etc. I've been posting test builds every weekend on the Discord server that have what I've finished. If you're interested in those, then you can go there from the link on the taskbar. The builds do contain spoilers, though. So don't play them if that bothers you.

That's all. Everything's still on track at the moment.