almost done with a new map in project d. if i get clever with textures it might be my favorite so far. More character design, and kept supervising the n1rvanna tool which has some new features we totally forgot to include…. like being able to save a project in any folder and give it a name, lol, but didn’t take long, a couple hours at most, the rest went into polishing the quality of life bits.

Newprogrammer is still grinding stuff for the story editor. The last of the requested features are already in and now some leftover quality of life stuff is on the way. One thing we need to do is a basic-ass file browser but that’s just a couple clicks away.

It’s kind of a never-ending thing and we are aware of that, we are just trying to keep it to the point where it’s just adding features quickly and attend other pressing matters.

On project D I began laying out more environments, to little success since it was a failed set up I had come up with, but still learned quite a bit about some of unity’s tools, so no wasted effort there.

Currently doing more UI work, this time the mission selection screen in n1rvanna. It’s gonna make sense later!

went back to the favela-ish level to basically try another approach because the little details were going to kill me, and followed a sort of theory i had about the structures. this is going to make sense later, but it looks way better now with much less effort. tomorrow if i’m not entrapped by something else i will go ahead and test another theory regarding the big buildings.

i also started work on some marketing materials for n1rvanna since we gonna start talking about it again a lot soon. if you wanna get sneak peeks of that kinda drawings you can join the sukeban discord here.

today was a nice day of light grind. churning animations to use during cutscenes and generally having fun with the tools to get further accustomed. If I work tomorrow i’ll likely jump to another environment.

on n1rvanna, newprogrammer is still programming more features for the editor. i think i will repeat the previous sentence for a couple days more.

made a new scene for one of the recurrent sequences in the game, in which the protagonist slurps nice ramen accompanied by beer and her best friend.

this one took a surprisingly short amount of time, roughly a whole morning and then some.

also checked the new fixed models sent by the 3d studio. they look so good now.

i need to further tweak the physics but i love how it’s looking now. with these delivered we have all vital assets finished for the demo, so now we gonna polish what we have and soon grace the internet with actual gameplay.

on the n1rvanna side of things, it’s more of the same! just adding new features to the editor. With each passing day we edge closer to the goal.

so today i was getting out of the way more stuff we hadn’t figured out how to fully integrate, like subtitles during cutscenes and generally make cutscenes that actually have something to do with the story. this one is from the demo’s introduction sequence, and i actually have a video of the whole shebang but i’m not sure i wanna soft-announce the name of the game, since that’s kind of a dog whistle(?) for people to think it’s a proper reveal. Things gotta flow like they gotta flow…

on the n1rvanna side of things, more work on the editor, this time the one for showing cgs with a nice transition, wait times, sound effects and some other i’m forgetting. yay for progress!

bunch of progress with pending project d stuff, like the visuals of the game’s menu which is something i’ve been procrastrinating for a long time. looks good and works much better than the placeholder we had. on n1rvanna i did more playtesting, found that the sound was only playing on the left speaker but other than that the sound node is working as expected. now the game plays music and when the writer(s) want to trigger another song the previous one will fade out. pretty cool stuff.