April Week 4 - New equipment UI + almost done with writing the story

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

New equipment UI, QOL, and only missing the epilogue for the story!!

I’m only missing the epilogue for the story to be over. Also remade the equipment UI to no longer use a hover. The hover was causing many issues for many players.

For Card Nova Hyper, making more card effects. I think I’m done with the effects necessary for the demo. It’s fun building synergies. I finished the promotional art too which looks great. Not me, my artist, but, anyways, yeah. Now I’m just debugging the demo / pre-alpha.

Lately I have been thinking about buying a house lol we’ll see how that goes.

Here is the time table for week 16 of 2023:

2023 W:16 hrpg       :  8:52:00
2023 W:16 manager    :  0:56:00
2023 W:16 burocracy  :  2:19:00
2023 W:16 marketing  :  7:09:00
2023 W:16 monster    :  12:37:00

I’m not sure how I feel about these times. I’m definitely using up a lot of time on marketing but it doesn’t feel like it’s wasted time. Let’s just see if I can get results with that. Preparing some stuff for a maillist. This feels more like fundational marketing, kinda. Not really guerrilla marketing. Like building the base for people to get to know me and the game. Kinda. No idea what I’m doing actually.

Let’s goo!

April Week 3 - Integrated chapter 3

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

Integrated chapter 3 and finished adding all new achievements!!! Yay!!!!!!!!

STILL NOT DONE WRITING CHAPTER 5 lol

Chapter 3 can be played in my build now. Haven’t tested it or balanced it yet. I’m still getting chapter 4 and 5 up to speed while finishing chapter 5. Hopefully I finish chapter 5 soon. The next update will have in total over 60 new cutscenes. Haven’t counted and haven’t finished, but I think it might be over 80 new cutscenes. People who like reading are gonna have to do a lot of reading.

For the Card Nova Hyper, I made a bunch of card effects! And I played tested a physical version of the game with a friend. I’m also working on some new promotional art for Steam that is taking quite some time to go well. We’ll see how that goes.

Here is the time table for week 15 of 2023:

2023 W:15 monster    : 14:45:00
2023 W:15 manager    :  1:18:00
2023 W:15 burocracy  : 11:23:00
2023 W:15 marketing  :  4:49:00
2023 W:15 hrpg       :  5:33:00

Let’s goo!

April Week 2 - Integrating the story and adding achievements to Steam

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I started adding the data of the achievements to the Steam backend. I also started integrating the cutscenes from chapter 3 to the game. That will likely take a while and also need some balancing.

And I’m still not done writing chapter 5. And I officialy made the decision to split chapter 4 into 4 and 5. It was originally going to be a single chapter. That did not happen lol.

For Card Nova I made a some food effects. I find that I enjoy programming card game battle systems lol. Probably battle systems in general (like skill effects?).

Here is the time table for week 14 of 2023:

2023 W:14 monster    : 10:13:00
2023 W:14 marketing  :  8:54:00
2023 W:14 burocracy  :  8:02:00
2023 W:14 manager    :  3:01:00
2023 W:14 hrpg       : 10:03:00

I worked too much on GRI. And taxes. And marketing (??? that was not on purpose). Did not have much time for CNH. :( :(

Let’s goo!

April Week 1 - More cutscenes and Achievements almost done!

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

Finally done with achievements for GRI… Almost. I still need to integrate it with the Steam API. But hey, it’s in the game and it’s functional!

Still not done with the story.

For Card Nova I made a bunch of new card effects. The effect system is becoming more robust. I’m liking the way I’m doing effects, I wanna start thinking about more synergies. That’s gonna be fun to implement.

Here is the time table for week 13 of 2023:

2023 W:13 monster    : 19:58:00
2023 W:13 manager    :  1:36:00
2023 W:13 burocracy  :  3:25:00
2023 W:13 neos       :  0:26:00
2023 W:13 hrpg       :  8:36:00
2023 W:13 housework  :  0:46:00
2023 W:13 marketing  :  1:29:00

And more tax lol. Gonna book a consultation tomorrow.

Let’s goo!

March Week 4 - More cutscenes and Achievements [2]

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

Honestly nothing changed. Doing story, doing achievements for GRI. Coding the prototype for Card Nova Hyper. I’m having some trouble with tax documents. Have been using up quite some time on that.

Here is the time table for week 12 of 2023:

2023 W:12 monster    : 21:19:00
2023 W:12 marketing  :  1:57:00
2023 W:12 hrpg-marketing :  0:20:00
2023 W:12 burocracy  :  6:03:00
2023 W:12 manager    :  2:10:00
2023 W:12 hrpg       :  8:31:00
2023 W:12 health     :  0:31:00

The tax working (burocracy) will likely go on for longer. I hope I can get everything fixed up right soon.

Let’s goo!