Weekly Roundup - 09/12/2022 - Gallery Development - Part 1 (Pixiv Fanbox)

Hi everyone!

Hope you've been well this week. I'd say this is my first week back I've felt settled in enough into my new home to sit down and get some work consistently done. So I have something new in development to show off.

Lets talk about it:

1: What's New?

So what I'm working on at the moment is called the Gallery feature.

It's something that many players of the game have requested over the past few months and I think it's a great idea.

My idea for if is that I'll have a range of items to view. From the game over fates to the lore entries to objects you encounter in the dungeon.

The game pauses when you enter into this screen so you wont be defeated while it happens.

There's a bit of work involved in integrating all the content though. Basically for each piece of content I have to adjust and set it to the right location and animation. But it's coming together well! Some time this week was just figuring out how to best overlay the animated objects over the UI screen.

2: What's Next?

Next week is focused on the gallery feature. In total 3 things need to get done on it and I think it'll take me 2 weeks more to get it done.

In total there's still to do:

1: Enter in all the content.

2: Design and implement a nice looking UI.

3: Hook up the "Unlocking" aspect so content appears in the gallery once you've encountered it. Including a little prompt that appears when something new is in it.

So if all goes well I estimate the gallery feature will be completed just before Christmas. We'll have to see then but progress is steady!

Cheers!

- Caroo