March Week 3 - More cutscenes and Achievements

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

I revealed the Steam page for Perfect Hand of Nostalpix. The reveal didn’t go well which did get me a bit sad for a couple of days, but hey. It’s part of it. It was supposed to be just a prototype but I ended up rushing it to participate in Steam Next Fest. Not the best decision ever but maybe not the worst one either. We’ll see how it goes.

For Generic RPG Idle, same old. Wrote more story, added more code to the achievement system. It’s going well, I think. Didn’t expect achievements to take so long though, to be honest

Here is the time table for week 11 of 2023:

2023 W:11 monster    : 19:56:00
2023 W:11 manager    :  2:20:00
2023 W:11 hrpg       :  8:52:00

Just barely on 30 hours. Hanged out with my friend’s family, so there was that. I’m trying to be a bit healthier on my work schedule mentality, but we’ll see. I guess I need to also reduce the time spent on certain addictive games lol

Godspeed!

March Week 2 - More cutscenes and achievements

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

Still doing cutscenes and achievement on GRI’s end. Nostalpix is still going. I’m guessing no trailer at at reveal for Nostalpix. The reveal should be this week. Still not sure if I’ll be able to end the GRI cutscenes this weekend. I was going to do a 3 chapter story but think I’ll have to structure that as 4 chapters.

Here is the time table for week 10 of 2023:

2023 W:10 monster    : 25:26:00
2023 W:10 manager    :  4:11:00
2023 W:10 hrpg       :  8:58:00
2023 W:10 card       :  0:19:00

The numbers are nice. I thought I did worse but I did stay mostly home for the weekend (kinda).

Godspeed!

March Week 1 - GRI is back and the rise of Nostalpix

CARD NOVA / GENERIC RPG WEEKLY REPORT

I wrote a bunch of cutscenes for GRI and worked on the achievement system. Current the project put on hold is now Neos. Since I have a deadline for Steam next fest now, unfortunately I don’t now how much I want to invest into Neos.

So I am working on something called Nostalpix. It’s related to Card Nova Hyper. I’ll be able to unveil Nostalpix within the next 10 days. Nostalpix was supposed to get a trailer, but I think it will be unveiled first without a trailer while I work on the trailer. Unless things line up magically lol. Well, we’ll see.

This week will see more GRI cutscenes and maybe more work on achievements too. Not sure if I can write every cutscene this week, probably not.

Here is the time table for week 9 of 2023:

2023 W:09 neos       :  2:07:00
2023 W:09 monster    : 22:02:00
2023 W:09 hrpg       : 11:05:00
2023 W:09 manager    :  1:44:00
2023 W:09 burocracy  :  0:03:00

So yeah, the numbers are far from peak numbers… I was a bit busy during the weekend too. I guess anything around 30 hours is good enough considering I have a full time job.

I personally can’t wait to see what will happen around Nostalpix.

Godspeed!

February Week 4 - Daddy's home! I mean Gri's home

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Ok, three weeks are done. I’m back at GRI. Already did some stuff today. Created a new bundle for Generic RPG Idle + Daily Espada! This will give a discount to people who own one game but not the other. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/30487/Darkness_of_Brazil/

So this week I did more Card Nova Hyper prototype polishing. Finished setting up Neos and have started adding support for big numbers to the engine. Those are necessary for bigger numbers to be handled by the program correctly.

I have also released the browser version of GRI on Armor Games! That release is going quite well. https://armorgames.com/generic-rpg-idle-sound-of-art-game/19338

I’m currently supposed to be preparing a new Steam page for a project related to Card Nova Hyper… But no idea if the Steam page will open up with a trailer or if I’ll add a trailer later. I think it’s a bit too late to try and add a really good trailer before March 16. I can make an okay-ish trailer by then though, I believe. Not too sure on if it’s better to have no trailer or a “mediocre” trailer…

Here is the time table for week 8 of 2023:

2023 W:08 monster    : 23:22:00
2023 W:08 marketing  :  1:56:00
2023 W:08 manager    :  3:04:00
2023 W:08 neos       :  8:37:00

More productive than last week, which is nice. Anyways, for this week with GRI, I am going to iterate a bit on Steam assets, I think. Then I’ll go back to writing chapter 3. I wonder if I’ll end up splitting chapter 3 into two chapters. I don’t think so but who knows… We’ll see how it goes.

Let’s goo!

February Week 3 - One Last Week of no GRI

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Second week of the Generic RPG Idle (GRI) break. This coming week will be the last one.

Card Nova Hyper is going with me ordering more character art and developing the prototype. I am also setting up things for project Neos, but that is all it is right now, setting up. This setup phase is taking a lot of time. I want to believe it’s worth it but I’m not sure at times. Once Neos starts heating up (if it does heat up since I still have to finish GRI) the new workflow I’m setting up will be useful.

Here is the time table for week 7 of 2023:

2023 W:07 monster    : 22:08:00
2023 W:07 neos       : 11:47:00

So yeah, this week wasn’t so productive compared to the others. Still a lot of hours though. But yeah, I’m looking forward to Steam Next Fest and how that might boost Card Nova Hyper AND get me feedback on the prototype I’m working on. Also a bit scared lol.

A wonderful user pointed out performance degradation issues. This means I might have to move GRI to the new technology stack chain before final release. Not sure if this is happening or not. I think I’ll make a decision once the final achievements + story reaches beta.

Let’s goo!