Update - Hands on Nobuko (Patreon)
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tl;dr - I've been getting back in the saddle after my holiday and I've worked up some new interstitial animations.
This week's image
Have I shown anything from this scene yet? I can't remember. Probably not, considering it opens up a lot of potential conversation. I figure it's time, though, because I'm working on this scene at the moment.
I don't want to give away too many spoilers, though! What do you think is going on here? Let me know in the comments!
I'm back! Well, sorta.
I got back from my holiday a week ago - actually my last post was a scheduled post, but I'd timed it to drop pretty much as I was getting out of the airport. So I've had a whole week since then, right? Well, um...
You see, I had sleeping pills on the overnight flight which really messed me up on the following day - I napped for the middle of the day, was groggy for several hours, then slept for another 14 hours, right up to midday on Tuesday. Then I was all goofy from that and on Wednesday I had to try and get back into my day job a bit. Long story short, I've been kind of all over the place this week and I haven't really been all that productive, by my own standards. Stuff that I felt would take a day or so has pretty much been the whole week's worth of work.
Still, I'm getting gradually back into the rhythm; I just need to get myself really engaged with the project again.
Interstitial animations
One thing I have got done this week is that I've made some little animations of characters moving as you enter a room they're in. This is part of my general approach to try and make the screens of the game feel alive and in motion. Here's a video:
At the moment I'm thinking I'll only have these trigger once a day, so they don't slow down the game too much. That might need a little tweaking over time, as I do more testing. Let me know if these seem like a good or bad addition, or if once per day is too much or anything like that!
I put in a couple of questions in the post above, so... you know, feel free to answer them. :)