Last steps before 0.5.8.5 (Patreon)

Good afternoon,

Another busy week coming to an end. Time to give you a short overview!

This week I was mainly busy with animation work. Most of them were transitional animations, which I thought were still missing in Penny's current content. But of course I didn't just want to add to the existing content, I also wanted to add a new scene, which is why I was working on these until just now and will continue to do so after this report.

Another thing I worked on at the beginning of the week was cleaning up Penny's code. This was unfortunately a wild mess with a lot of redundancy which made it difficult to extend it in the future. And that is, after all, exactly what is planned for the coming week.

Even now I have already changed some dialog that seemed a bit illogical. In other places I have added more. I hope this might give some people a reason to replay Penny's content, but of course you can also just continue playing a previous save.

I also made a few minor changes to Penny's house (placed a few family photos) and finally changed the time of day icons that are displayed in the top corner of the clock. Also the waiting menu now has icons with the time of day to give a quicker overview (indication via sun/moon state).

To go a little further into the title of the post, what has to be done to complete the next update? The new animations still need to be integrated into the story in a meaningful way. That means I still have to write all the dialog and event code for the new scene. The additional animations also need dialog, although I've already written some of it.

The new characters still have to be introduced. So a visit to their estate. I think I'll make do with 0.5.8.5 for now. Daily cycles and the inner life of the Coldstone presence will come with 0.5.9.0.
My hope was (still is) to have everything ready by next Wednesday. But you know how it is, these things often take longer than planned. I will still do everything I can to get back on track with my schedule, so keep your fingers crossed.

But now back to work!
I wish you all a nice weekend!