Devlog #049 (Patreon)

Hi!

A lot was achieved these last 3 weeks, and I have some menus to show off!

First is the character select menu. From this menu, you can add or remove any character you've unlocked to your party. Of course there will only be one Vuu in the final game, but this what it will look like once you've unlocked enough characters, either through advancing the story or through alchemy. It works pretty much as you'd expect, clicking on a character shows her stats on the right, and dragging her to a party slot on the bottom right adds her to the party.

Next is the tile select menu :

You can unlock tiles through alchemy and choose which one to use in menus, exploration and battles. Of course, nothing prevents you from using the same one everywhere, and clicking on a tile in this menu will give you a preview of what it looks like. This is more of a cosmetic thing, but I did it anyway since it wasn't that much work.

What was a lot of work however is that last menu, the Almanach :

You can access this menu anytime during the exploration, and it holds all of the information you have uncovered this far about many things : items, alchemy recipes, quests, world related info, and monsters. Monster info is a bit special in that every time you defeat a monster, more information about said monster is added to the almanach until the tenth time you defeat it. If on top of that you are able to get every different item that monster drops, a crown will be shown next to the monster's name. A crown will also signal every cleared quest and solved alchemy recipe.

I was actually hoping to do more than these 3 menus, but I gravely underestimated how much time and effort the Almanach would take. I'm extremely happy with these 3 however, so it was all worth it. I just recently began to work on the alchemy menu/alchemy mode, so they'll probably be done by next time. Maybe even the rank up menu! This one shouldn't be a problem.

And so, here is that list again :

 ̶-̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶m̶o̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶

- menus ( ̶p̶r̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶t̶t̶l̶e̶,  ̶a̶l̶m̶a̶n̶a̶c̶h̶,̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶e̶l̶e̶c̶t̶,̶ ̶t̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶l̶e̶c̶t̶,̶  ̶s̶t̶o̶r̶a̶g̶e̶,  ̶s̶h̶o̶p̶, alchemy, rank up,    ̶m̶a̶p̶)

 ̶-̶ ̶r̶o̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶o̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶i̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶

 ̶-̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶i̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶(̶e̶.̶g̶.̶ ̶b̶a̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶-̶>̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶l̶o̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶)̶

 ̶-̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶s̶o̶r̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶r̶o̶v̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶

- alchemy mode

- save system

- title screen

- room editor

- a bunch of smaller fixes

I'm getting pretty close, there won't be too much left once I'm done with the menus and alchemy mode! :D

And on that note, see you in 3 weeks! :)