Day 9 and 10-
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*takes a breath*
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
While I've made a ton of progress on the map designs (4 layers each) I'm STUCK on this code stuff. The latest is that my dialog box appears at start no matter what. I can click it off and it works wonderfully with any of the intended interactions in the game... but it still by default appears right in the beginning. That and it keeps duplicating itself with each scene change, otherwise I'd just say I could display some introduction text in it and move on.
The PNG files are also a bit too big for my liking. According to Unity when I'm rendering the sprites there are definitely over the 4096 max size each, 4 per scene. I realized last night that they aren't set to 16 color, which is the limit of the actual palette I'm using so I'm going to try manually downscale them and hope it knocks the sizes down big time.
Oh hey I almost forgot that today, February 4th, is my birthday! *blows a kazoo* Later I'm going to buy myself some kind of cake and try not to eat the whole thing myself. Perhaps I should just get a single cupcake then?
Anyway, today I'm planning on just exclusively getting the maps done and take on the code later. I'm sure it's something REALLY dumb that I'm missing. All it usually takes is some tiny thing, a few pieces of code, that's making a canvas active when it shouldn't be. Thankfully I know I can create SFX/BGM quickly and have all the text written, as well as the stuff I'm drawing in cut scenes. My strong point will be the visual/audio content.
This coding thing though... I'll have to do more research.
I'm telling myself I got this. It's still very much doable to have a completed game by the deadline. I work best under pressure, as much as my anxiety goes through the roof when it happens. As I say in job interviews, you put me in a lion's den and I'm always somehow escaping in ways no one would think of. Chalk it up to my improv skills that I learned back in school when I'd do my reports in the morning when they were due, printing the pages out in the school library an hour before class, passing with at least B+'s.
My boss is letting me leave early today for my birthday and that will certainly help!
-Randall