General Update: 02/26/24 (Patreon)

    So, funny story. I was working on an overly elaborate gacha animation earlier last week when I came to a sudden realization. VT is still in pre-alpha. Most of my UI is still placeholder. Why am I trying to add in a polished gacha animation when I haven't even finished coding the gameplay yet? If anything, that should be one of the last things I add in the alpha stage. I think sometimes, when you're working on a project like this, it can be easy to get caught up in the details and lose sight of the big picture, and that's definitely what happened here. Therefore, I'll be significantly downscaling the animation until a later date and going with a much simpler one for now.

    Along with that, what I have left to do for this build is to add in a basic main menu, a save/load menu, very basic character creation where you can input your name and gender, and finish up Avalon's weight gain. Though there isn't much to buy yet, the shopkeeper is mostly finished at this point. I've also been looking into adding fonts to make the game capable of displaying non-latin characters, and that will possibly make it into this next build but it is proving to be a fair amount of work so I may have to delay it a little. Otherwise, sorry, no proper update this week since I'm focusing on finishing the build ASAP. My goal now is to get it out before March 8th, which I'm shamelessly going to admit is because I want to start playing Unicorn Overlord as soon as it comes out. By the way, this post is now about Unicorn Overlord.

    Like... seriously? We're getting a successor to the Ogre Battle series in 2024 made by Vanillaware? What kind of crazy fucking timeline are we living in? This is the kind of game my childhood dreams were made of. I thought there had to be some kind of catch until now, but after playing the demo I can confirm that it's GOOD. Like, REALLY good. For anyone that even mildly enjoys strategy games, the demo has a ton of content (It covers the first ~6-8 hours of the game) and the save carries over, so I would highly recommend checking it out for yourself. Maybe I'm not paying enough attention, but I haven't seen too much buzz about this game yet and I really hope it's a success because Vanillaware always deserves it. Even if you don't try it, though, thank you so much for your support!