Posted February 06, 2023 by kiinu
Updates!
Still working on the second act of our story, we wanted to provide you with some updates.
Greer is now voiced by Natalie Maceira! She did a wonderful job and was great help in correcting our Doric dialect.
We've also added save slots, you get 12 of them just in case.
Unity Dev Behind the scenes
I redid our dialogue importer. It used to parse a .txt file for specific tags, very similar to ren'py syntax. It now takes a csv file where every other column is just | so we can just use ,|, as the delimiter. This allows us to use commas anywhere we want in our scene names, diaglogue, answers, or whatever. Using speadsheets to store our dialogue lines is much cleaner and lets us name our voice over files to the line number it's supposed to play on.
I've changed from saving with PlayerPrefs to saving to json files. This way we're not saving to your computer's registry, and we can more easily have multiple save slots. We can even save images! This should help you select which save you wish to load. We're not encrypting the files so if you wanted to cheat it's super easy.
Your save files can be found under unity's persistantDataPath where <companyname> is Studio Suzumi and <productname> is Hallow Masquerade and then /Saved/SaveGames/