♥ NaNoRenO Week 4 ♥

Hi Everyone! ♥

Here's my devlog for week 4 of NaNoRenO! 

- Backgrounds update -

So- just to confirm with everyone, the game will be out on Friday no problem, and everything's finished!! ....except 1 single pesky background which will be finished later today. (the day of posting this devlog)

Here's how that background is looking right now:

OTHER than that, 100% complete. no more things to add. finished. playable. And I'm very excited for it!

Here's the other 2 backgrounds too- I got a lot done this week!

- Lots of little flourishes -

As you might have noticed, the textbox is also finished! I started the week adding in the extra expressions Zoe did last week, and doodled a cleaned up version of the textbox and added it in:

Early on I noticed Hayden behind the side sprites was a little too busy  so we switched that around.  Luckily all of the characters were on their own layers, to so it was easy enough to switch;

Before:

And after:

I think Arley being darker than everyone else helps with the contrast a lot! Very happy with the change.

I also added in rain particles:

(Particle system thanks to tofurocks and rain code example by Vimi and his super useful video on th system!)

The message system icons are all in too! Zoe says I have a talent for drawing hamsters, which is very high praise considering how much she loves hamsters:

Also finally added Hina to another of those meme charts (not true dev-ing):

(Not shown) Animations were then also implimented into the script, which is something JKHA1 lacked in it's Jam version. I'm happy I had time to add them in! (Helped in part to the script being 1/5th the size LOL)

- Stealing, stealing and more stealing -

To resolve the fact that MC from JKHA still needed a name (and refusing to give them a canon name this time around LOL) I convinced zoe to draw me another pic of MC  for the naming screen, and here's how it initially looked side by side the first one:

I then messed with it and added a little explaination as to why this screen exists:

Still not 100% on the wording for the bottom text bubble, but it works for now.

We also now have matching menus to the first game! (comparison below):

- All ready for the end of NaNoRenO -

I think that's everything? The game will be up sometime friday.  Maybe a little on the earlier side as friday over in New Zealand is tomorrow (though we started when the jam kicked off here at like 7pm).

Postmortem'll be up in roughly a week once NaNoRenO's over, I hope everyone'll enjoy JKHA2 and the introduction of Hina into the cast!

Thank you for reading! ♥