Professionals: Don't deploy on Friday
Me: Deploys on Friday

Hey - Dev Here

as planned we managed to get a hotfix build out, which addresses most things we noticed during the A MAZE.

Here is a changelog:

• Fixed the crash when picking up slot upgrades (like from the gray box in level 02).
  
• Fixed the endless loop in the dialog with the Picnic Waifu after level 01.
  
• Fixed an error where players lose stardust when loading a game, when also having items equipped.
  
• Tutorial boxes are back at the bottom left corner instead of obstructing the playfield.
  
• Fixed missing tooltips in the level info screen.
  
• Pause menu can now be opened during dialogs.
  
• Replaced a few occurrences of the word "level" in various texts. Better for the immersion.

What's next:
For the next few weeks we will split out attention to the UI and the waifu dialogs. With our two days per week we spend out Troubleshoot Thursdays to improve the UI to improve readability and make it easier to understand what is a button and what not. When we are done with the UI, we will start, getting rid of the diegetic house menu and replacing it with a simple menu for inventory management.

Our Feature Fridays will be writing dialogs for the Waifus and making sure all of them are in the House all the time. The dialogs will be more about tutorials, some world building, idly chatting and similar and preparing some logic for the different story arcs. Maybe we also address the books strewn all over the house to make use of the dialog system.

When the above things are done (maybe around the beginning of July), things will become super interesting, because we get into the big content production phase. We will finalize our level making tools, doing small overhauls with the existing levels and also have the dialogs with the waifus affect the gameplay (like getting a few items).

But for now - Let's have a nice weekend.

Hey - Dev Here

The A MAZE is over and it was a really fun meeting with so many people. It's great to talk with ya all about the game, random stuff and the video game industry in general. So yeah - Thank you all for stopping by and playing Waifu.

And as a nice side effect we also were able to compile a list with fixes we want to address later this week. So let's have a tiny heads up:

We found two crash bugs:
- Opening the gray crates in Level 2 and 3 will prevent the level outro screen from appearing.
- Talking to the Picnic Waifu after Level 1 will trap you in an endless loop.

And a few more things we need to do this week:
- We need to adjust the contrast between button text and button colors.
- We also need to better highlight the selected button by using different colors and maybe an additional graphic (like a small star on the selected button).
- Repair the broken tooltips in the level outro screen.
- Being able to go into the pause menu during a dialog.
- Reposition the mentor tutorial box back to the bottom left (or top left).

And as a nice to have we want to merge Boost and Dodge into a normal "Dodge Roll".
Let's elaborate. I noticed that the dodge tutorial was difficult to understand. Telling live at the festival how the dodge works made me realize what the problem is. It is very unintuitive that you can only dodge when you are next to an enemy. So the first step is to make the dodge possible all the time (or as long as you have stamina). That makes the boost obsolete and well... that's okay. We just make it so that a dodge next to a wall just costs less stamina. Everything else stays the same - dealing damage, a tiny bit of healing, absorbing bullets.

I am confident that I can do the above this week and drop a small update on Friday or Monday.

So - That's all and have a great start into the week.