Posted March 27, 2019 by gensuta
Hey y'all! ( This is gonna be a long one;; )
It's been a long time since the last dev log because I am a college freshman after all, but I've been working really hard on the game still! In fact, the game's even on Steam now which is a big deal for little ol' me ( although I like Itch.io waaaaay better tbh).
Also like...the full game's script is over 10K words!!! That's crazy!! I've NEVER written that much, but honestly I'm pretty proud of it.
Anyway on to the technical stuff.
I honestly should've listened to people earlier on who also felt that there should be a fever mode instead of trying to combine the two initially, but I did learn a lot from all of this at least!
The only problem I had to deal with after that is figuring out how to make levels that went well with each song without it being time consuming! For the KS demo I manually typed out the times and because of that it wasn't as polished as it should be.
Now I have super neat little level editor I made and now I use MIDI files to determine where the beats are! It's super cool and I wouldn't have figured it out without help from one of my coworkers and this MIDI toolkit one of the Game Center faculty linked me to.
Now that all that's out the way, I want to be real about some things for a sec.
This month in particular has been really rough. I was planning on releasing the full game this Saturday, but if I did that I'd be burnt out for real this time. I have class to juggle and my classes require me to make other games. I'm making a sequel to Saturday Fright which is pretty exciting!...And tiring. No one but me set this deadline for myself(for S&D anyway) and after talking to lots of people and figuring some stuff out, I'm choosing to delay the full release until early-mid April. That way there will be little to no bugs and lots of polish.
I WILL be releasing the new demo this Saturday because I'm getting help this week and it's literally done!! It just needs some more playtesting and bug fixing.
Besides that I'm planning on opening up preorders for Skate & Date this Saturday as well so look forward to it!
Hope y'all are having a good day and get lots of rest AND see lots of good dogs.
- Gensuta