#effie “devlog”

[gardenofbones-if]

I thought it would be neat to have a small scene with a random beetle that wandered into your tower. That scene turned into 4 different reactions. Those 4 reactions turned into another set of choices. One of those choices includes keeping the beetle with you for a time.

You can now name the beetle if you choose one specific option.

This has gotten very out of hand.

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[gardenofbones-if]

First Progress Report on the New Blog!

Yaaaay thank you so much for 73 followers! ⸜(˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)⸝♡

All my appreciation to everyone who followed Garden of Bones here from the other blog, and if you're new, hello and welcome!

Small update for you: troubleshooting is going VERY well and I'm much happier with this version of the demo! I haven't changed too much aside from the arson branch, but it's simply... better. Especially glad that you will get a few more paragraphs with the servant and the guard - that final scene was a bit rushed.

This was always going to be a built-in way to play with individual choices, but based on your early feedback, a new flag has been added to specifically mark your feelings for MCs who choose to believe U from the beginning or commit fully to the cause. I've been affectionately referring to them as les dévoués while playtesting: the lonely souls and living weapons are seen in this draft.

You can now also find U superficially attractive (or superficially unattractive) outside of whatever choice you make about how to approach your unique relationship. I'm not sure how I'm going to use this information yet, exactly, but I have some ideas...

Update 0.1.2 is almost ready to go live, and hopefully a new intro post will be finished by then, too.

PROGRESS!

~ Effie

[gardenofbones-if]

Struggling with a last-minute bit of flavour text that isn't flavouring or texting appropriately and have lit upon the 1,000 IQ solution: delete it. Nobody will know. I am a genius.

[lugibriousbrew]

Back at it again in the new year!

With another devlog for my game!

Peabody Goodweather's Game With A Fatal Flaw

This largely showcases the very cool design process for the illustrations. These were intentionally crafted as example characters, but also were just fun and a great chance to let my great artist, Jess, go off!

[gambler-yomi]

Gambler - Devlog

Side blog of @effi-sync

Gambler is a mod for Your only move is hustle, based on Tingtang gang Gangleader Hong Lu from limbus company by project moon

I'll ((try)) to do weekly updates on here.

Terms;

MSA = Movement starts at

F(x) = Frame No. (x)

AO = Air Option(s)

FA = First actionable

OHH = On heads hit

OTH = On tails hit

S = Sanity

DMG = Damage

Xbounce = Formula for calculating heads hit on coin landing; (50+S)% chance to hit heads, if not tails.

ROG = Rush of gambling; A meter with 12 slots, some moves fill it up, when you get it to 10 you gain a wish star sticker, which permanently increases sanity by 10 max 3

Xdice = 24 slots, 4 per number ((4 slots for 1,2,3,4,5,6 each)) Rng to get number, based on sanity reallocate slots ((Exact numbers not final))

[gardenofbones-if]

Finding frequently used words makes me sigh so deeply. It's a different word every time I notice, too. Today it was "faint."

A breeze? Faint.

The thoughts in your head? Faint.

That creak when the door opens? Faint.

Your next pivotal story choice? Fainting, probably.

Currently deleting as many as possible but sometimes it just works, lol. Regardless, to anyone who has been made to read the word faint at least a dozen times in the first draft, I am sorry.

But only faintly.

[gardenofbones-if]

When you finally get a very nested passage of code working after hours of effort, correcting the tiniest of errors feels like defusing a bomb...

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Bug Fixes!

I didn't have any betas for this update, and found a few typos. Also had some game-breaking bugs pointed out to me which have been resolved!

broken choice in the final chapter (can't sling your weapon like a javelin)

inability to access the codex at the end of the game (sigh)

tried to make some of the choices a bit clearer

typos in various instances of flavour text

the spacing of the codex titles was a bit too much

My apologies to anyone who played the update right away and couldn't access the codex. And thank you so much to the kind player on itch.io who pointed out those errors in a comment on the devlog!

~ Effie