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Soul Update - A story in evos of time
8 years ago

Progress Update for Megacon HN 2016


Update

I have made some progress for the next test build that I hope will be the pre-alpha build of the game.

The Bad News

I have no flip idea why I started having some FPS drop, I know that I have to clean and improve the code because of some rookie errors that I made when I begun to code the game (Like checking almost every event in every frame >.<) but It’s pretty weird that it suddenly drops like to 14 fps without adding nothing new to the game. Also I have the pressure to show new stuffs on November 12th because of Megacon HN so I have to do both stuffs, implement new features that I have planned and in the run clean the related code to these new features in order to do some progress in solving the fps problem.

The good and new stuffs

Since I revealed the final name for the game I needed a new start screen, so I changed the old EVO screen for a new one, check it out

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I already don’t have all the animations for the platform sprite of Allisa but I already implemented the ones that I have here is how she looks in the game now

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Also the dialogue interface for the platform part is different, take a look

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Music

Danflex has been really busy but he sent me a new start screen tune so check it on the page of the game I’ll uplod it intermediately after I post this update

What I need to finish for November 12th?

Well… a ton of thingies… take a look TT_TT

  • Finish Allisa’s sprite animations (They are like 10 more)

  • 10 new Illustrations for the dialogues of the pink hair girl

  • New Ui for the tutotial

  • Finish the new platform environment

  • Create a new sexy dialogue system

  • Put together the levels that I designed. This is a quick thing since the behaviors are already done But I have to code the events of the tutorial.

  • If possible improve more the code and get rid of the 120 frames animated sprites that I have for some scenes because the engine I use don’t allow me to use videos. I’ll find a way to put some cool dynamic scenes.

Well, that’s all for now, I’ll do more updates soon.

As always thanks for following the game, it means a lot <3

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