Take III

Ah, should have known the booleans were also still there

Take II

And indeed that happened, as the New Game routine was not yet fully set for use with the new internal system

Take I

When this works, the old Game Jolt API will be terminated PERMANENTLY even for older versions of the game!

Game Jolt is indeed deactivated

I am first gonna start my own personal open alpha test... This was planned anyway, however I won't test much of the game's content prior to release, just the start up.... Due to all my own New Game+ cycles some issues could have arisen here

(If needed I can always turn it back on, you know)

The debug mode has been turned off... That means nobody (myself included) can access the debug console anymore

Archived all my old savegames.... It's not likely I'll need those anymore, but ya never know

And with that the game can be prepared for the first alpha release... Please note, this will take some measures to be taken first.... I don't have a release mode in my builder yet, or it has at least never been fully put to the test so I need to sort that one out. A few engine adaptions are also required, so I doubt that release will take place tomorrow, but don't worry... Rome wasn't built in one day either....

Again!

Is that all?

Another one?

Well, here we go ... AGAIN!

Code typo

And again (no not take XXI, as that was only for BlitzKrieg, and that part is over).

Something is really wrong with the drones surrounding the Goddess. I hope I cheated it that way around that they cannot be harmed anymore

Take XX

Compiling

I hope I got the speed covered

All scripts for the achievement look in order, so no idea why that didn't work

The moment is also a bit slow, but that's because the game runs on a bigger screen now, and the scripts do not yet take that into account

Smoke direction ok now?

And the smoke's direction is not well.... Bug in the script, or the engine?

Achievement is nog awarded.... That's only a minor thing, but still

Making progress, but

Take XIX

Scale issue

But how that brown screen could happen, no clue at all

At least I fixed one crash

Actually this won't do at all!

No crashes, but for sure is that this is totally NOT working at all the way it should

XVIII

Barf

A glue order issue

Take XVII

API to Scripting engine thatis

Missing Link

No matter - Take XVI

Conflict

Take XV

THAT should do it!

Wait, I found the source of evil

But why?

So, the "blend mode" is to blame?

Typo in Johnson's new ability quote

Take XIV

Barf to make sure

Link script adapted

Adapted to this new situation

I've set a few things right underwater

Take XIII

That means BIG BIG TROUBLE

A complete total crash without any warning it all....

Take XII

Fixed now, then?

I really hate this

Take XI

Now then?

Forgot to do as I said

Take X

Compiling.... Again!

Alias in Apollo itself

Take IX

Missed one old method conflict

Take VIII

Still the case eh?

A "forced build" is now required, though

Which fixes ANOTHER crash

Aliasses added

Take VII

Project file adaption

An another one

Take VI

I should note that both recoveries required an adaption of the project file

And another picture recovered

Take V

This fixes another crash

Good thing I archived the old

A picture from the archive that didn't yet make it to the new game.....

Take IV

Conflict by adding an extra method

Function ref issue

Take III

This should fix this particular issue

I've checked some more stuff and...

All references should be right, eh?

False reference

SOOOO TRUE!

I see

This is still in the middle of test take II

Now I can go in full for this new move

All sorted out.... 20 manual kills isn't such a big hurdle

Something went wrong in the move calculation, but that shouldn't be too hard to fix

I must make sure #162 has been taken care of BEFORE releasing the game in any form....

Take II

Time and event issues

Hold it!

Take I

Let's go!

Time to put all this to the test!

BlitzKrieg

Here too I will take the easy way to go.... By converting the original Lua script into this game.... It will otherwise be too much of a hassle

So that will be the next hurdle to tackle

Important to note is that the move itself will at this point crash the game, as it refers to a non-existent SpellAni

I've created a hacked savegame. This savegame will enforce Rolf, ExHuRU (unavailable at this point) and Johnson to learn BlitzKrieg

Before I start on BlitzKrieg I must first make a little check up on things

I've come to the point that only 2 things matter.... BlitzKrieg and checking if the Game Jolt login screen is succesfully deactivated. For the latter I need to start a new test session, which I was planning to do anyway once the open alpha has begun (although I might focus on The Fairy Tale then for a few weeks to set my mind on other things for awhile), and BlitzKrieg is not a good idea to do now as I will need more time and energy to work on that than I have now....

All level 10,000 achievements appear to be working

BRILLIANT

This is one of those bugs in which I can only be sure if it's fixed if luck is on my side, so we'll have to see how things go

This crash has been fixed

Share the word, folks!

Prepare data to allow fix

Right a terrible crash could still happen in the boss fight in the Eugorvnia caves... 1 strike justifying another cycle before moving on to the public alpha

Now that Sky Dragon Slash appears to be working all that remains is testing all level 10,000 achievements and of course "BlitzKrieg".... The latter may require a bit of forcing though.... Oh well....

Take V

Timer needed or things go too fast

Rectangle not correct

Close but no cigar

Take IV

Two old code identifiers - Conflict

And that does NOT work

Charging works, but now the move itself

Take III

Fixing a crash

Old conflicting trash

So NOW I can go for Take II

Some things came in between

Take II

Reference error

Take I

I've set Foxy to force her to learn the Sky Dragon Slash combination

And the latter counts for something...

As SDL screen capturing doesn't appear to work the way it should the animation suffers a bit. I hope some people can help me to get that one on the run, as the documentation about that is terrible and the and the answers on StackOverflow and similar sites even worse....

Sky Dragon Slash

Time for the next step.... The actual slash itself

Scripted

(THAT is the EASY part)

Scenario during charging

I need to study a few things out for "Sky Dragon Slash".... I will try to copy as much of the old code as possible, but some adaptions WILL be required anyway.

The fix works

For closed alpha testers.... Sorry, but broken savegames will remain broken forever. This issue is NOT worth going through the trouble for all kinds of fixups

I think I fixed the max level achievement issue (affected the entire front row).

And some other real life business...

Visited my barber.... That was way overdue

Today I wanna focus on Foxy's "Sky Dragon Slash" sequence. When that's done only BlitzKrieg remains as an important thing... But that is a later concern

No clear reason why Wendicka's achievement for getting level 10,000 wasn't awarded.... It should just have happened....

I'll concern myself about the two super moves of ExHuRU and Foxy later

I'm afraid it can't go any faster

Take V

Does this speed things up?

It works, but it's too damn slow

Take IV

Neil issue with "new"

Take III

Reference error

Take II on Smoke Bomb

Conflict

A lot of fixes have been done here already, but the random factor makes proper testing impossible and as we are on the brink of release I want that move to work properly....

I've set Foxy to be forced to learn Smoke Bomb, regardless if the randomizer agrees with her.... This in order to test if that move works

The testing will resume at the start of the Facility - Part 2

But that was expected

"Cheer" works

Hey, life goes on, you know!

Other business I had to attend to

Start of Belioss

Not yet the good moment to test "Cheer" out.... But it will definitely come

And I am now at the start of Nizozemska

During the testing of the next dungeons I will see if this move works out

First I will force Cheer upon her in order to test that spell

I made a few force clauses in Foxy's ability list in order to allow more proper testing.

"I'm sexy and I know it" should now be awared when applicable

Crash

Correction

Okay, then...

Well?

I do NOT wanna talk about this!

Well..... Let's see.....

At least I hope so!

And thus I could fix it

Well on the bright side, it confirmed what I suspected

IDIOT!

Take ... how many?

I think?

Oh, man!

And a little cycle based boost

More shit

GRRR!

I am talking about that fucking boss on Volcania....

Let's see!

It must remain slow, eh?

I see that a lot of umlaut cases have nasty effects on the text... Easy to fix, but not needed before the first alpha release

We'll have to see if that works out!

Hmmm?

Hotfix

I hope that works...