zuripaigames

[Development] Improving the Gallery & Choices~! SPOILERS

Added 2019-02-18 08:48:01 +0000 UTC

WARNING: Spoilers included of Full Moon Night images!

I’ve spent some time this month working on improvements to the Gallery and dialogue choices. On the surface, they’re small but they will make a big difference for all you paizuri lovers.

Gallery Improvements

I updated the gallery to display a “New” label for any images you’ve just unlocked, to make it easier for y’all to keep track of them.

I’m also working out a way to display the pop-up frames and play music, to well and truly complete the gallery.

Dialogue Choice Improvements

I’ve been thinking about how to make choices useful without the need to write guides.

So I came up with a way to track choices as you progress through the story. The idea is that when you replay it, it becomes obvious which ones you’ve already chosen.

If you’ve completed a branch, the dialogue option will have a full circle. If you’ve picked the option before, but it still has additional branches of the story to read, it’ll display a half circle instead, until all branches have been read. Kind of like a dialogue navigation system!

So far, I’ve managed to get basic tracking working in Full Moon Night, since there’s only one branch. The challenge is going to be coding something that can handle multiple complex branches across multiple scenes. So it should be a fun one to figure out. : )