To anybody on the outside,
I managed to finish the game on time, at least for this month. It took longer than I expected; a single bug costed me several days of progress. New Year's Day is an estimation, not a guarantee. The project might be released on that exact day, but I might get stuck on something else.
I wanted to start this project with something that would challenge me. A few lines of dialogue wasn't enough, I needed to take it further. That's when I started working on the game.
I structured the game's content easily, but I knew nothing about navigating scenes, adding or using items inside an inventory, or adding choices that did things. I looked for references online, but the framework it was built with, didn't have much to go off of; it was made for designing websites, not to serve as a game engine, so I could only help myself.
It took most of November to figure it out, and when I did, that's when I came across the game breaking bug. This bug took me the rest of November to troubleshoot, and it was caused by a single variable not resetting to zero.
It was such a simple problem that made me feel stupid, but little did I know, the bug would return even stronger. Once I got it to reset the same scene, I noticed the next scene, containing more dialogue this time, was only showing half of the lines.
Two days later, I realized this was caused by the array's length not resetting. This took a while to solve. I couldn't reset it manually for some reason, so at some point I thought, maybe I can refresh the file from within the click function, and so the bug was finally defeated.
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It was smooth sailing from there. I managed to create events using conditionals, and add items to an inventory by making a simple function. The only thing left to do, was design the rest of the assets, since I was using myself as a placeholder sprite. That took a whole day's worth of work, but finally it was finished, and it looked wonderful.
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I'll likely add more to this game in the future, when the prologues are finished. It will likely contain multiple endings, and the inventory will become scrollable. After all, there is a lot of sub-sections and floors to VoidDrive TEC.
Dream Deep Dweller,
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and then Add to home screen.