Comments - Arisius

It's been a rough 6 last months. I have been quietly working on too many changes to make a list up out of them. There were too many small details I wasn't satisfied with in the core engine of the game. I have been optimising and making some serious changes to the game's engine to make future development much less of a pain. Externally, the game is going to look much better as well, as I have been overhauling some layouts and designs from the game.

Here's a little preview of an improvement.
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Back from my game-dev break! Time to kick things up a notch again.

To start off with, I added the very first hidden hideout of the evil coorporation named Neocorp!

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Fishing is now also a feature in the game! After obtaining a fishing rod and bait, you will be able to go and catch fish in any body of water throughout the game. Fish to your heart's content!

I will be combining this fishing feature with the farming feature. Fish, fruit and vegetables will be usable to make different kind of meals that do different stuff or make a nice profit when sold, for example.

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Added a collectibles menu that tracks items you owned at least once in the game.

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Finished a new feature!

Sailing is now a thing in the game, allowing the player to visit many different places and hidden locations!

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Added multi-color support for dialogues.This way I can point out important people, places, items, etc.

Just finished writing the autopatcher for the game. Fully tested and functional.

The autopatcher will only be available in the full version of the game. Any new demo releases will be individual installers.

The new demo is finally out. Fully fixed with additional changes and content.
If there is anything unusual or any bugs, feel free to post them in the Forums, it really helps a lot.

Finished off the lighting system in the game. Windows, streetlights and other light sources now work properly at night.

- Optimized some events that would stop working if quitting the game mid-cutscene.
- Reworked the window textures to make them look nicer.
- Replaced old egg textures with new high quality ones.

Some small changes again to the phone-system.

*Moved currency info from inventory to character menu
*Added 2 extra rows to inventory screen.
*Added exit game confirmation screen.

Screenshots have been updated.

Finalized the details of the phone system, ditched the old settings screen and merged it with the phone as well. And another thing I just finished is the stat system from Guardians. All of their stats are fully functional.

Updated the screenshots from the phone.

Just finished the entire in-game phone UI! I like it a LOT more than the old traditional system.
I uploaded the screenshots to the Image section.

I decided to change the entire GUI style because It felt off and I've been breaking my head over where to place certain panels, etc. I came up with a phone-based system that collects most interfaces into an organized location.

My apologies for the delay. The reason why I didn't add the updated demo yet, is because I decided to add something nice to it. After running through the demo a couple of times, I found the ending of it utterly boring so I decided to finish off some coding regarding the Guardians, and add something really nice to the demo version. It will give players a lot more to look forward to after reaching the end.

I will upload the latest and fixed version of the demo tomorrow afternoon after I ran through it to make sure everything works fine now.

I found out that the currently available demo contains a major bug I overlooked which would cause the game to crash when trying to walk to the beach with Jason or leave the house before talking to Mom. This has been fixed and I will provide a fixed demo as soon as possible.

My apologies for this.