Hello everyone, welcome to the 127th progress report!

As it was foreseen, I wrote new dialogue during the entire dev cycle.
With the currently released main story events tidied up, I was now ready and willing to build on top of that and write the events that happen next in the life of the Walker family.

Anyway, what I wrote about is straightforward to explain: I wrote "communication station" dialogue, which are basically conversations that you can hold with Stanley from the com station in the attic. Those will put Alice closer to her goal of being able to go back to school in September, and other spoilerey things. I also want the player to be able to ask Stanley more information about the context of the game, like who/what the GC are, and what they do/did. Some of those main story events lead to main story convos with Angelina, including a big one that triggers during the "movie night" scheduled event. It's quite large, and as I'm writing this report, I'm about 70% done writing it.

It's quite anecdotal, but since Angelina's movie night event was brought up in my work, I took some time to expand it. I only made a repeatable version of the initial stage of the event (where Angelina has never worn her bathrobe after taking her bath with Alice around before), it's basically giving the player a second try in convincing her, but with different dialogue than if they never had a movie night before.
I'm planning on expanding that event a bit more, especially now that I have to take the "shower in pairs" FRP that would mean Angelina doesn't take a bath in the evening anymore... But this will have to wait.

I've also taken a tiny bit of time coming up with the look of Catnip City's Super High School's vice principal. She's a character that shouldn't appear in 0.6 (more like 0.7), but since she's a major character, I figured the sooner the better. And besides, I might still decide to use her anecdotally around the coming update. We'll see.

Anyway, I'm happy to report that I have reached my low goal of 60 pages. As I said, I have much more to write. I'm quite positive that by the time I'm done with all I want to add, I'll have reached my high goal of 80 pages, and I may even go over that.

I'll leave it at that for today. I'm still working hard on wrapping the dialogue up as fast as possible. Cheers, and see you next time :)

Hello everyone, welcome to the 126th progress report!

First of all, I hope your end-of-year festivities went well, and that you all had a pleasant time! A new year begins, and it comes with its own set of goals to complete. So without further ado, the work:

I began the dev cycle by doing miscellaneous tasks, like doing light editing on the new story renders, and implementing job renders in code. After that, I began writing for the last story event I needed to edit, which is the third Stanley call. Re-writing it was very quick, and most of the time was spent making a few new renders for it. The rewrites put more accent on the past and what lead to Alice and her family moving to the house, and that makes the whole event much more interesting in my opinion. Here's one of the new renders that I made for that new version:

As you can see, I had to make a movie moster for one of Angelina's movies that she made when she was still an actress. It was quite fun and I enjoy the result, so I'm probably going to make covers for her 3 other movies whenever I have the time/it's relevant. I received help from the additional UI artist by the way, so I can't take credit for all of it. Here it is as a standalone version:

I wanted to try making a second version with an other pose, but I had already spent a lot of time on it by then, and I was mostly satisfied with that version anyway. Maybe I'll make that other version in the future, we'll see.

In other news, the UI artist sent me an other menu to implement, and this time, it's the expenses menu:

Full disclosure: this is the artist's preview because I couldn't be bothered to launch the game and make a screenshot, lol. The implemented version looks just like that though, with the exception that the "continue" button is absent (because useless in most cases).

Anyway. With all that done, I'm happy to report that I'm finally done with the main story edits, and that I now have a good base to build the main story continuation upon. So there you have it, I'll probably going to be doing some writing again in the coming days.

Anwyay, that's pretty much it for me for today. I have a lot of work to do, and I wanna make sure I begin 2026 the right way. See you, guys :D