{"id":547,"date":"2011-05-05T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2015-12-17T16:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T00:50:27","slug":"forty-days-and-forty-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Forty Days and Forty Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word forty <\/em>always looks wrong to me.\u00a0 I think it’s just a lack of exposure, though; typically you’re supposed to use actual numbers at this point for proper grammar, but it’s a blog entry and I’ll be what I wanna do!<\/p>\n

That said, my main objective is to make the\u00a0whole first level playable, with all features in place.\u00a0 I sincerely doubt I’ll make it to the first city of the game, which occurs after this intro level, but if production somehow goes faster than expected I’ll do what I can to\u00a0place in\u00a0this competition.\u00a0 But one thing I won’t do is sacrifice the game itself, which I feel would be far worse than losing.\u00a0 It would honestly be\u00a0a miracle if I finished every aspect of the first level by then, but even if I don’t, I’ll still be entering DBP, as per the recommendation of a couple fellow XBLIG devs.<\/p>\n

I may have a hard time writing long entries to the blog like this with such a tight schedule, but I do want to at least update what has been completed regularly.\u00a0 It would be nice if I could add one entry every day for the next forty days, so we’ll see.<\/p>\n

Tonight:<\/p>\n

– Finally completed character-specific equipment restrictions in the menus.\u00a0 No longer can Ket equip Arashi’s custom fighting coat, much to his chagrin.<\/p>\n

– Added the\u00a0Titles\/Rank system to the other 7 playable characters.\u00a0 Coming up with a good variety of them will be amusing.<\/p>\n

– Some graphical additions and adjustments to the character status and equipment menus.\u00a0 Finally have the “available equipment list” for the selected slot show there’s more than 3\u00a0choices (if applicable).<\/p>\n

– Working on the collision size for Arashi’s basic\u00a0sword attacks.\u00a0 This has been a thorn in my side, very hard to adjust since the AI isn’t exactly passive enough to get it pixel-accurate, but I suppose if I have to I can create an enemy with no intelligence just to get it exact.<\/p>\n

– Currently adding a row of party member profiles at the bottom of the status and equipment\u00a0menus that shows a graphic of who is being looked at and who is the next or previous party member that can be viewed (by pressing R or L buttons).<\/p>\n

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