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More WIP UI stuff

I really cannot go a day without tweaking these mockups. Maybe one day they will be features that actually work in the game lol

Inventory Update Notices

Pretty minor, the inventory backend was the harder more impressive part. I really need to work on animations for lifting objects lol

More Damage Popups

good job me

Damage Popups

The whole point is to provide context on what important modifiers might have applied to the damage. I've overhauled the battle system a bit since so they don't look like this anymore but yea progress...

Pause Menu

I kinda of want to tweak it a little, don't mind the placeholder icons lol. As for what I've been doing up until now. I was working on this back in March and uh since then I've been tweaking the game here and there. As for the lack of posts... I just got lazy I guess.

Pause Menu Implementation

I decided to stop tweaking the look and actually start putting it into the game. Exporting assets is a lot of work so I just kinda put placeholders in...

Banter Box

Implemented! I like it but it does add extra button presses to something some don't enjoy while in the middle of gameplay... maybe I should save it for cutscenes?

More WIP Inventory

I spend a lotta time tweaking designs instead of coding, which I feel guilty for... probably because my project's viability suffers a bit each time because I want it to look perfect before the first implementation... maybe ill spend a month doing quick and dirty sprints where I implement features in a week... maybe

WIP Inventory

specifically the list... My item categories have icons now. Icon design is hell but it's satisfying to have a finished set. Maybe I should try spending time brainstorming on ben and baber.

WIP results screen

I feel like i've posted these already. Sorry if the image quality sucks, I'm kinda just copying old stuff I posted on discord so maybe it's getting double compressed. I'm preemptively apologizing cuz the preview looks super blurry but I'm too lazy to do something about it. Maybe I should apologize for that instead.

WIP ui stuff

^ popups for damage context

^ new status effect badges (used to be just text) still wip

^banter boxes... suppose to give room for side comments in a way, might still be annoying to the player

^ side box for less important dialogue, maybe ill have it come out of the speaker like cross code

Oct 15, 2022

UI revamp. Yes, I revamped the look without implementing any of them, no I will not explain myself. We're getting kinda close to the future... I'm gonna run out of content to post daily lol.

May 4 - May 6, 2022

New dirt path tileset, some mockups, and a door.

April 16, 2022

For the first time since the battle system, I actually programmed in an important feature. Now I can tell a story! IF ONLY THE STORY WAS WRITTEN.

Mar 30, 2022

the overworld hud looks kinda like this but better since I cannot program something first for the life of me before making art. Although since it looks nice in the future I have high hopes for when I eventually put it in the game.

Mar 1, 2022

Another day another mockup, even though I feel like I got nothing done in 2022 I guess maybe it was just the year of the mockups?

Feb 27, 2022

ngl these old mockups are cringe. What's worse is, I know they're cringe since I end up redesigning them in the future... but the redesign isn't in the game either (although I'm working on it so I can push a new build) Speaking of builds if you join the discord server you can play them (if I haven't switched anything up by the time you read this) you should join and watch me get the slowest percent speedrun world record for indie game development. I would put a link here but it's 1 am and I have like 30 more twitter posts to push over onto here.

Aug 21, 2021

...never make art first? Nah if i didn't do the art I would actually have zero motivation to code. This is like really basic stuff for a jrpg/rpg but I guess it only took 6 months?

Aug 20, 2021

Punting everything over from twitter is a bit tedious. At least reposting everything slowly gives me time to make things I should've made while wasting time... I guess?

Oh yea I guess take a look at this super old UI, it looks different now... in the future. Well if I ever get to implementing it instead of tweaking it left and right

Jul 23, 2021

New timeline puts the character's faces on it. Enemies will also have faces on it probs

Jul 21, 2021

Actual turns + new active indicator.

Jul 8, 2021

I had to directly link these to twitter again since I saved over the originals on my hard drive. Did I mention my hard drive is almost full? Don't worry I bought an m.2 thing with another tb. I'm too scared to install it since the slot is on the underside of the motherboard.

Jun 27, 2021

reposting everything kinda sucks, but like I haven't been making a lot of new content while I've been focusing on the story so hopefully, this will hold over? maybe. I should work on my game more.

Jun 22, 2021

Major changes to the UI, both of these are mockups tho so yea

Mar 5, 2021

got one of the UI elements working in engine, Kinda sleek but miss the drop shadows...

Mar 3, 2021

I am super proud of this