PC History Release: Version 0.03.5 (Patreon)

A little bit different release this time, partially because it's so soon after the last release, and partially because I'm releasing without a "finished" system in place. This time work was mostly on the player history, tracking the tons of changes that can happen to the player over the week, including their physical body, mind, status, job, inventory, and other areas. All in all, quite a bit of things to check.

I went ahead and wrote the comparison functions directly in JavaScript so that I could use asynchronous functions to examine everything. You'd never guess that hundreds of variables were being compared (with about 1,000 lines of code) by how fast the passage loads. ^-^ In some ways, writing directly to js is quite nice, particularly when it's just mechanics. But, I do want to keep things a little more comprehensible for potential contributors/modders, so I'll try to stick with twee for the most part.

Fun fact: even though twine accepts //comments in .js files, it gets all messed up if you use them inside a script macro in a .tw file. :(

Change Log:

Passages: 550, Words (non js/css): 219,528, Size: 46,599

• Added "Son of Insanity" and "Just Don't" random number generation options in the RNG test area.
• Added player character history storage function
• Added player character history initialization
• Added asynchronous player character history comparison that determines all the changes the player character has had over the previous week.
• Added Week Summary display that shows all the changes in a concise format.
• Added finished attraction preferences to character creation.
• Added ability to preview weekly summary, by choosing "Week Summary" and clicking execute from the quick command area on the right UI bar.
• Added temporary menu to change various stats to view changes in week summary.
• Some minor fixes and other changes.