Hello There

This week I was in a constand loop. As I said in last devlog the Journal button for the menu was the one I wanted to focus on 1 button to hopefully get that one done atleast. As always I under minded to how long this would take

The point of the Journal button is to have a collection of the different kind of Creations that are living in my lil universe.Mostly to give a nice view on how my fantasy universe works. For exemble the main character of this game is a Kunzite-Feline named Stray. The main character from Preserve is a Harvast-Squirel named Pecan ect. Every creature will fit with atleast 1. So this button needs be made with expansion in mind

Now I was the first half of the week just trying to figuer out how I would make the layout of this menu look. I tried to make it one where alot of information was on it instandsly and that changed once you have more info for other species and such. The point that I wasnt grasping was how would I have a single character represent the whole species cause some are different and I talked about this last devlog aswell. I was a bit of a hard topic. But I came to an great idea. well okay 2. Cause I first wanted it to look like a journal with a middle line. But that wouldnt work for 1 big reason. The names for my species are pretty long. The longest one at the moment is Elemental-Roamers and names like that just dont fit like that. So I didnt do that and second idea was to have the journal be more of a picture book. Where the more you know of the characters will be added on there. The information would show up on text boxes while pressing the z or enter button. So with that in mind this is how it looks Its very empty seeing that there isnt anything here. Ill show one with something in it further down in this devlog heh

Now that revelation came to me way to late. So I just wanted to have atleast one done. So I wanted to draw the one for Fuzz. Fuzz is a Butler-Glowbug and hes the only one. So I only needed to draw it for him. Pretty easy right? Well one issue. This game has a shadow under the characters. This shadow had bothered me slightly seeing that it didnt match the same pixel count. So I wanted to change it at some point and now was the time. So after drafting some different shadows and testing it under a few different characters and Im now happy with it I think this shows it decent heh

Now with all those things combined I drew a lil background for the Butler-Glowbug with Fuzz on it with the fancy now background. Now It isnt in game yet (Which yes means the button isnt done yet) but Ill just place them one one another just to show it to ya. Here you go (Hello Fuzz)

Now next week most to all I got time to work on the game (And that button) yet at the end of the week a new pokemon game will release called Pokemon Legends Z-A. Now I will take the time to play it so a lil break to play it just like I did when Silksong released will happen. So next weeks devlog will be normal but the one after will be lil if not almost nothing because of it heh. (That devlog will prob be full with concept that isnt spoilery). It will probably not take me more then 2 weeks so that will be good heh.

Thats all for this week. Mostly just me running in loops not knowing what to do with the journal button but that can happen. Next week I hope Ill end this journal button saga and can finaly move on to the other half of the buttons after the pokemon break. Have a great day furthermore and goodbye :3