Development: - Testing and debugging of the First Chapter (It was hell) is completed. Art: - Added more unique animations for Leah (Chapter 1, Chapter 2) Introducing: Logic Flow The amount of code and the numbers of rooms, characters, items, dialogs and quests in the game keep increasing every day, and it has become essential to be able to track all of this complexity better. This new tool provides granular overview of all key points in the game's logic. We can now quickly see which events depend on which previous events; inspect the full lifetime of inventory items: where they're picked up, combined, or replaced, which part of the story require owning them, where and how they are removed; when and why dialog options unlock or disappear; where and why each entry appears in Leah's diary, etc. All in a single UI that's easy to read and navigate.
Take this Fish item on the screenshot. Here's what Logic Flow tells us: (vague puzzle spoilers if you haven't player Chapter 1) - we pick it up by the River - the game checks if we have it when we click the Coin in the same location - we can put it in the Pan in Foxhole - in Burnt house, we can place it on the window (but Fried fish or a Pie would work in its place) And we can simply click any part of this report to drill further into these events or locations or just jump straight to editing relevant code. Previously, this little investigation would have taken quite some time, now it's instant! By giving us a bird's eye view of the game's logic, the tool lets us more easily spot potential continuity errors, unintended interactions, dead ends or other bugs that are normally a nightmare to find. Rest assured, we're passionate about tracking down every last one of them