Going to a new floor and... what's this? It looks like we have a new member of the team... There's a suspicious monster among us!

Hey everyone ^vv^/ These last two weeks I've been working on finishing up the weather mechanics as well as that surprise bonus- both of which will help us going forward!  Zeocin 's working on the ambience for the weather still but is just about done- I'm liking how they're turning out! As for me, that surprise bonus I've been working on? It's a liiittle more tricky and I'm taking my time developing it. It's a little something something to let us add in some fun new monsters and things to do while we wait for the next chapter, but it also lets me code in some things for the future. I'll likely reuse some of its code for the Rescue mechanics in Chapter 3, and maybe even stuff for quick narratives so I can have recaps of the story for people who haven't played in a long time.

I'm thinking about adding some more Guidances for people who might not know how some mechanics work.. like Give vs Use in the inventory and stuff- or even one that gives some tips to struggling players (WHO REFUSE TO USE THE MECHANICS I LITERALLY SHOW YOU GRUMBLEGRUBMLE /sarcasm) but I'm also realizing people don't really read the Guidances I make anyway >vv< Just some thoughts I had while watching someone play recently! You see, for the first time I got to watch a stranger play Chapter 2! They were really sweet and I really recommend you watch their series for yourself if you'd like! Just... ignore the Phantom Menus bug in their first episode ok? It's a problem with controllers when people didn't read the itchio page where I say what controllers are compatible xvvvx starting to wish I learned a better input system when I started this project sigh... Context for anyone newer to this project, I built it from the ground up in its entirety for the most part- menus, monsters, input library, ai, etc etc, is all my code. It's not a romhack or anything, and so it's bound to have lots of bugs BUT also it lets me do whatever I want really, which is why I did it :3 (that and I didn't wanna learn how to make a romhack lol) so that's why things can be rough sometimes, it means I still have lots to learn. Anyway yeah, check them out on their youtube or twitch and give em a chance: Here's a link to their first stream of it! I for one very much enjoyed watching through even if I was squirming in "developer pain watching a new player play" lol >vv<

Other than that, I closed comms this week (not that there were many anyway lol) to focus on a move I'm preparing for- so if updates like this one are slow, that's why >vv< I hope you're looking forward to what's coming, and hopefully I'll see you soon with more updates! We've got quite the lengthy patch notes for V2.5 when we finish what we're working on!

Have a great weekend! ^vv^/
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