dev diary: slow beginnings for treat 8 (Patreon)

i posted a bit about this on cohost last week, but i OFFICIALLY STARTED on treat 8!!

...unfortunately, i really wanted to work on comics instead!!!!! so i only made a little bit of progress. the gif above is from the first area of chapter 8, which will look more like the postcard from chapter 5 when i'm done with it:

trick's gonna go to all the places from the postcards AND MORE!!!!! making the tilesets is the slowest part of development for me, but i have a feeling that once i rough them all in, drawing the finished tiles will go pretty quickly. just working up the energy to get there, haha.

i sprited a new character too, but he's spoilers so i can't share yet... :'(

the other MAJOR TREAT DEVELOPMENT is that npckc helped me find a bit of script that allows for text skip!!!!!!

i had previously given up on this feature, because the scripts i found before required me to ask permission for use in commercial games, or had extremely tedious implementation that would've slowed development. but not having text skip was a big issue, even on the developer side (i used to mash so much while playtesting...)

now you can just... HOLD CTRL...!! and it blasts through the textboxes, like in this gif:

the only downside is that this requires me to play through the entire game again while holding ctrl to make sure none of the cutscenes break. because there are quite a few instances of moving sprites around, that they might end up in the wrong place if the text boxes finish too early...

so i'm gonna keep an eye out for that stuff before i put out a new build, but it's lower priority until the next public release. if i can at least debug all the required story scenes and make sure they work, it should be just fine...!

short update this week, but that's as far as i got with treat 8! i'll try to get a lot further during february so i can leave the game in a good spot before nanoreno starts :)

thanks for reading~