#weather-wise i hate all the seasons (except summer) but i hate winter the most

[theflyingfeeling]

it started snowing last night and it's gonna snow throughout the whole day tomorrow too so winter is officially here and I'm gonna have to apologize for the person I will be for the next 6 months

[magpies4nights]

huh (Dev log # I'M ON 4?!!?!?!)

Hi guys! It’s me, @magpies4days on a different blog! That’s really the only promise I kept. Whoops. That’s why I don’t do promises. Anyways, since the last time I updated y'all, I passed all my finals and everything that was important. Yep, I passed my finals, which seems miraculous, because I accidentally studied the wrong study guide for my history exam and didn't really sleep enough the night before, and I got a 90 on it, which I'll be honest, that was the lowest grade I've ever gotten on a test in that class, but it's still an A so I won't cry about it. I turned in a really shitty essay too for one of my classes, but it seems that my professor didn’t actually read it because she gave me a 100 (ain’t gonna complain about that). I also procrastinated so hard on my graphic design final that I did it in like 3 hours and finished it 2 minutes before it was late. I still turned it in 5 minutes late because my computer decided it was funny to start acting up. Oh well, I passed that class, even for honor's standards. Normally I would be happy getting a B because I'd get a C and still celebrate but unfortunately I slayed too hard that my GPA was the minimum requirement for the Honor's organization to notice me. That's the Thinker in my Myers Briggs type showing baybee (JK JK I'm an INFP (unfortunately.)). Anyways, I’m on my winter break, and as much as I love getting breaks, god I forgot how much I hate summer and winter breaks. Summer breaks make me depressed because I have nothing to do, and winter breaks make me depressed because it’s literally the worst season of the year (cold weather (I have cold urticaria), dry air, less sun, the position of the sun is weird, and d3 barely does anything).

Anyways, onto the actual dev stuff. I probably should’ve figured this out the moment I started my idea, but I found out that to export my game to Mac, I’d have to have a developer id and pay for it. Which now I understand why most indie devs never upload to Mac. Oh well. (Fun fact: Mac actually has a feature called BootCamp which lets you portion your hard drive to allow you to have a Windows driver (Be wise on your portioning though because it’s permanent). I found this out when I was 16 and trying to download Pizza Tower demos. Totally not saying that so you could play it on your “Mac,” *wink wink*).

I had to switch my dialog stuff from a script I found on the internet, to an add-on that most Godot devs use ( Dialogic). I know. I am awful. However, there is a reason to this, and it’s entirely because I am an idiot. I have experimented with how Godot exports JSONs, and as it turns out, the images nor the audio would load! The text would, but it’s just not the same, especially when the dialog box is supposed to change with the character speaking. While it could be something in my code that is causing this to happen, or I'm forgetting to export something else while checking off all the boxes, it still gives me a headache and I decided it was for the best to switch. I may not be able to code for now, but there may be a day when I can. Hopefully. I had to change the layout of the dialog stuff because Dialogic kinda makes it like a visual novel kinda thing. I decided to torture myself and make everyone have different heights. Don't worry, everyone has relatively normal heights. Except for mayyybe Sleepy Weepy. They're like 6'2 (which may mean there's some cutoff for their sprites).

Aaaaanyways, enough about me suffering about dialog again. I’ve been working on the beginning and ending cutscene so that I can first torture everyone with 5 minutes of dialog in the beginning and then at the end music with text that may give people a hard time reading the lyrics. The animation isn’t done, but the text kinda is??? I’ll have to revise it like I have the past 56 times because my future self is hard to please, and I think everyone is out of character except Xandra.

Yeahhh, that’s about it so far. I made new music while I was being harassed with finals. Take a gander, but with your ears. Or don't, forcing you is unethical.

Top 10 Sleepy Weepy of all time!!!!! (This is doesn't even make it in the honorable mentions)

[tumblunni]

MORE miscellaneous thoughts and ideas for Changeling Sim!

* If I decide to set the story in the UK, maybe the de-stress holiday options could be different to reflect it? Just having spring/summ/autumn/winter holidays was always a bit confusing for me in Princess Maker, i am really bad at telling the time and i could never remember which time gave which stat boosts no matter how many times I played! So it could be neat maybe if you can just pick between different types of holiday that give different stats. But maybe still have a few random cute splash images for them, which change each season even if the stats don’t. * Anyway i was thinking an option could be ‘farm’? Or like.. ‘country’? Whatever way to phrase it would contain the most types of holiday, lol. i remember I always really adored these as a kid, so maybe they get a bonus depending on how low the kiddo’s age is? Splash images could be her feeding a baby goat, maybe doing some horseriding, maybe doing a pottery course cos they had one of those at my local model village. Speaking of which, maybe have a model village one where you get a lil bonus historical education along with your goat hugs! * And maybe an option could be a theme park or holiday home type place. i cant remember what the official term for those is, I always used to call them all Butlins just cos Butlins was the one we visited most often as a kid. My grandma lived nearby. It was like a sort of thing like disneyland? Like a theme park so big that it has multiple areas and on-site hotels and youre meant to stay there for the weekend and stuff. Except butlins isnt big, its just that its common to have these things even for small ones here. Its like.. the closest thing we have to american ‘summer camp’? Except its a whole family thing. But it has all the activities and sports areas and stuff, and you’d stay for a weekend up to a month. And have lil cabins. Also i laugh at how my perception of the word cabaret was completely backwards thanks to these places! The little kids’s singing and standup comedy thingie at butlins was called the cabaret so I thought thats what it meant. Rather than it being a word for raunchy adult dances that was kinda used ironically here XD * or maybe just have a regular day trip small theme park thing as an option. That’s like the most common family holiday in modern times, right? It could give me a fun chance to draw some references to real life ones I went to as a kid, like Thorpe and Oakwood and Barry Island! And lots of potential for different cute splash images, there could be a family rollercoaster ride pic that fills up more and more as you make more friends throughout the game! See everyone’s comical reactions! And omg, a haunted house and maybe like a log plume or other water ride? And just a pic of everyone eating terrible theme park snack food and being buried in merchandise because wasting all your money is what holidays are really about! * Oh and while I’m thinking about it, maybe make the currency actually be british pounds and follow rational money logics? like £50 for the cheapest farm trip holiday up to £300 or so for the weekend camp one. Not 300 gold for a single book, lol! rpg currency doesnt even match up to yen properly, stuff is just way too cheap instead of way too expensive XD thats like a £5 sword, lol * Also even the holidays that stay the same could be a bit different if I try making them more british! like we could show a big ol grey british pebble beach and have everyone drenched under an umbrella like ‘well this isnt exactly what i imagined’ XD Tho those can be really fun too if the weather is okay, theyre fun all year round instead of just summer! You can find fossils on the shore, and see more crabs and seaweed and stuff! But you dont get to build sandcastles so i’m glad there’s still a few proper beaches around the country lol. * Oh and I probably wont have any sort of beach fanservice cos even if i wanted to throw it in for other people’s enjoyment its not like I’ve had much practise drawing stuff I hate, haha! But I could just double up on the funnycute family antics instead. Having the mother character be an actual presence in the plot makes it a lot easier, cos I could include her in these scenes instead of having to keep her face hidden 24/7. And cos she’s miss buff former hero of the human world, we could have her like... carrying a giant pile of supplies in winter holiday and being all overprotective, running around weilding one of those giant beach umbrellas like a lance in summer, trying to pick a fight with a bull in the farm holiday. generally just being a funny background event! The mum who’s more immature than her kid XD * Maybe take something from other games in the genre like Prince Maker Braveness and Spirited Heart, and add a £0 indoor relaxation option to the holiday menu? Like, not all stress relief HAS to be a holiday. And maybe make the ‘wander around the local shops’ holiday give a small stat boost to outgoingness or charisma or whatever its called, while hanging out indoors raises studying but doesnt decrease stress as much and has a chance of decreasing your social skills if you do it too much. Maybe every holiday could have a chance of not working if you do it too many times in a row? or maybe that’d be too annoying gameplay-wise, even if its more realistic. Sometimes realism needs to be suspended in favour of fun! * Also i liked that in Spirited Heart you could explore in a (non-monster-infested) forest for a holiday! Maybe that could boost magic stats a little? I also remember how the old flash game My Pet Protector had a thing where you actually had to find the different holiday locations while dungeoncrawling before you could use them. Tho i didnt like how it was random whether the flag would activate, so you had to keep going back to the same dungeon. Unnecessary awkwardness! * Maybe a random chance of friend characters appearing in the background of holiday splash screens? It would make it less boring to see the same pic again and again during a long game with lots of replay value, yo. Or other randomized minor features getting swapped out, like kiddo playing with a different animal at the farm, or whatever.