December Update 2019
December, 2019
The main thing this month was adding Diplomacy skills, and updating existing story modules to use those skills.
Content Updates:
New book – The Fey: Culture, Magick, And Politics library book for lore, not illustrated.
New book – Fungus Facts, library book fully illustrated.
Completed a few new illustrations for Pirates and Devils books.
Debugged and improved scoring endings for Botany and Fungus books.
Wrote a new, updated, single-document rules guide.
A1: Added another short side path to the intro module with 2 x new art. Impemented a re-roll skip feature to character creation, for a relatively quick random character.
A2: edits, bug fixes, added clues to mystery of Dandelion’s heritage
A3: Another pass to fix a stupid amount of bugs still in the most complex module, and update dialogs for diplomacy skills. Added dialogue.
A4: A pass to add dialog, add diplomacy skills, update plot for endings.
A5: A pass to refine dialog, working on ending.
A6: Added 2 more scenes, many lines of dialog to the ending, hinting at secrets about Ora.
Help: wrote a new, combined FAQ/game rules. This was intended to replace the current in-game help module, but javascript will not allow me to open a new tab due to potential for abuse (I assume.) So for now the in-game roleplay help module remains, but it may be out-of-date.
Gift shop: included a fashion chat with Ana, and a small introduction to the new Appearance stat. Planning to add more, like where to shop for things, etc.
General:
Fixed another lowercase filename handling (image file not found) bug on server, saving roll icons were not displayed.
Fixed some cases of slow image loading on server by adding pre-loads, needs a lot more.
Implemented English and Spanish-only language modes.
Implemented convenient highlighting of the next story module in the selection list.
Simplified language button controls.
Made progress bar opt-in for development instead of default.
Added a background to the time skip splash screen.
Added a custom font for time skip.
Changed the name of the hosting site from Rio Buho (Owl River) to Elven Academy.
In-depth research of Diplomacy systems in games, wrote blog post.
In-depth research of T&T-style adventure writing, wrote blog post.
Changed the Fighter skill to Romantic skill.
Added six Diplomacy skills, which replace most Charm and Cunning rolls.
Charm and Cunning will contribute to the new derived Diplomacy skills, as well as Spell power.
Charm and Cunning will also still improve as currently, via light side and dark side conversation options, but not as quickly as when they were the only diplomatic roll options.
