Welcome one, welcome all! I hope you've all had a happy Halloween! It's been a hot minute, so here's a few quick updates on how we're doing!
(that is supposed to be an elephant btw)
Hm? GB Violet? Never heard of it, totally not!
Alright, alright, we both (probably) know what I said back in August. If one of us needs a refresher, when GB Violet was officially announced, I mentioned wanting to release it some time in October. So...?
GB Violet was initially conceptualized as a very small project, one that I started back in late June and thought I could get mostly done by the end of July. Pretty obviously, that didn't happen, and was never going to, so I quickly moved to a further along hopeful release date.
I didn't name a specific date back in August, but I always had Halloween in mind, from nearly the very start. Well, today's the day, and, unfortunately, the game isn't particularly ready to release just yet. I do still think that it was a realistic goal back in August, but as I've previously mentioned, a large majority of the game is entirely my own work, which means that GB Violet doesn't move if I'm not the one pushing it, and there's been a lot the past two months that gotten in the way, from totally understandable life circumstances to other extremely understandable life circumstances that just so happened to have a release date of October 16th huh what Pokemon totally now never heard of it
Despite that, the game's actually made pretty good progress in the past two months (largely the product of a significant amount of free time at the beginning of this month.) There's a few things I wanna keep under wraps for the time being, but I'll show at least a little bit off right now!
(admittedly this is in engine not in game i didn't have the time to grab footage of this)
(but i was able to grab some other footage)
Thankfully, the road ahead looks much less busy, and I have another date in mind (which I won't tell you because I don't want to get hopes up.) At the very least, the game SHOULD be out by the end of the year, barring any unforeseen circumstances.
Currently, I'm working on the last major mechanic I've planned. After that, it'll be finishing up the layouts of each area, implementing the story sequences, fleshing out the battles (i.e. enemy/attack variety,) working on the ending sequences, adding a few extra bits of polish (GameJolt achievements perhaps?,) and finally releasing it. If I do end up missing my hopeful deadline (pretty likely,) it'll likely release on either the Friday or Saturday after it's finished. Now, everything left may seem like a lot, but a large amount of the work I've been doing as of recent is in service of streamlining the rest of this process. There'll be hiccups along the way most likely, but I feel confident that progress will speed up from here on.
Now that I'm done yapping about that...
(didn't have anything in mind for this transition so have a sabel i drew a few months ago)
Unfortunately, I've got nothing to show you Undertale Violet-wise this time 'round...
...is what I would say if I was KIDDING! To be real though, tangible progress has been pretty slow. As it so happens, for most of the past two months there's only been two programmers on the team. With myself focused on GB Violet and our other programmer equally busy, things have moved at a pace I'm not too satisfied with. Of course, that doesn't mean nothing's been happening!
Sprites have been changed a bit, here's what they look like in-game. I wish I had more to show you right now, but we've been somewhat lacking when it comes to people able to do things. Thankfully, opening team applications helped a lot with that, and things are moving a bit quicker now. Speaking of, if you're AT ALL interested in joining the team, feel free to apply! Spriter, Writer, Coder (especially coders,) Musicians, apply and we'll take a look! (HERE HERE HERE APPLY HERE)
That'll be it this time around! I promise (pinky promise) that the next devlog will be meatier. Things are beginning to move quicker, and new members of the team have been helping lots in that regard!
I told the folks on my Discord to feed me to the fishes if I didn't get this out on time, thankfully it seems I'll be spending my weekend without concrete shoes. Feel free to join here if you'd be interested in some of the smaller stuff that doesn't warrant a GameJolt post or if you wanna feed me to da fishes when I inevitably miss another deadline. Anyways, whether your Halloween had been creepy or cute, thrilling or boring, sunny or story, whatever or wherever, we hope you've been able to Presevere through it all!
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This all feels so... familiar...
How many times has it been?
Is this the first? The second? The tenth? The hundredth? The...?
Admittedly, you're glad you don't know. If it feels as sickening as it does even as you are...
...best to not think about it.
...
Even like this, it's evident that the small changes you've been making aren't working.
Something here, a little thing there, nothing to show for it.
You need something drastic, a major shake up.
Within your SOUL, you can tell that somebody must know what you need.
You might already even know where it is, but...
...no, you haven't been able to. By the time you get back, it's already gone.
If something's going to change, it needs to happen immediately.
...part of you thinks you've already been told what to do, but you aren't sure.
Well, something tells you that there isn't any rush.
Plenty of time do experiment with some out of the box thinking.
Better get to work.
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