Early v0.37 Plans!

Hey everyone! It's been a busy week for me - I'm taking care of a rescue cat who is both adorable and high maintenance; both have impacted productivity πŸ˜…. I haven't been entirely idle though, so I'm here to share my plan for the v0.37 update cycle.

First up, I'm going to be working on an improvement for how NPC outfits are handled. Currently, NPCs are actually always wearing their base outfit even when standing at a clickable that suggests otherwise. I "cheat" by having the event swap them into the correct outfit as soon as you interact with them, but it's an awkward solution for a bunch of reasons. The much better solution is to have outfits attached to the clickable, swapping NPC outfits when they move to a new clickable. So, I'm going to do that, and probably do some tidying up for the outfit code while I'm in the area.

Second, I'm going to take a little bit of time to do some extra art practice. I've squeezed in a bit more recently, but I feel waaay slower than I was before. I think what's actually happened is my appreciation skills (ie. noticing when something is wrong) have continued to improve, but I haven't put in hours of practice for my technical skills (ie. drawing the thing right) to match. The result is that I'm spending a lot of time fiddling and fussing. I'm going to do some art for Twitter, probably stopping in here for some supporter poll votes as we go!

Speaking of polls, I should talk about the v0.37 feature poll! I'm going to be working on the outfit code first. Once that's done (or close to it) in a week or so I'll be putting up the supporter poll for this update. In the meantime, I want you to give me some general vibes for what content you'd like to see on the poll! The last three updates focused on night time events, do you think it's time for a pivot? Leave a comment and let me know so I can add it as a poll option in the future!

That's all for today! In a day or two I should have the first bit of my practice Twitter art ready to share!