Kaiju Crush officially has a logo! It was what took up almost all my time this week, so the final cut scene and menu art still aren’t done, but getting a logo done is the biggest step I’ve gotten finished so far. As I’ve been building the game, I’ve simply used the default settings of the layout in order to test…

The finish line is on the horizon. I have one and a half cut scenes to finish, The final romanceable character is done, and I’m even starting to tinker with the user interface and start planning the menu art, but this has not been a good week for software.

Act One is still trucking along, with cut scenes and the last romanceable character assets in various stages of completion. As I get closer and closer to finishing the art assets and starting to focus more on the coding, I’ve been toying around with various aspects of what I want to be doing with the final game.

It’s been a while since I updated because since my last delay, I managed to contract some kind of horrifying case of bronchitis or some such because I was sick for three weeks straight. After spending most of my time either hacking my lungs out or being too weak to even watch TV, I’m finally able to get back to Kaiju…

Arrrgh. Back is acting up again, and this time I think I may have found the culprit: the laptop itself. This new computer is easily 2-3 times in weight what my old one was, and when I’ve been deadlifting it off the ground from my backpack to work, I’ve been straining my back without realizing it. D’oh.

The holidays were pretty hectic, so this is the first time in a while that I have both the time and the resources to sit down and not just work on Kaiju Crush, but also write a report on it.

So Kingdom Hearts 3 is finally coming out. For many fans we’ve been waiting for this moment for well over a decade. The original Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 came out on the PS2 in the early 2000s. Some of us were in elementary school, some of us high school, and *cringe* some of us weren’t even born yet. With the ‘third’…

Since I’ve finished the prologue, I’ve decided to start doing my reports weekly instead of daily since progress is a bit slower now that there is both simultaneously more and less to do. On one hand, I’ve still got a bunch of new backgrounds, sprites, cut scenes and coding to do, but I’ve pretty much covered…

Achievement unlocked! The prologue is DONE. Well, it’s still missing music and sound effects, but for all intents and purposes it’s a playable, functional game with working branches and assets. For a while I wasn’t sure I was going to get it to work because one effect just did not want to work right. I wracked my…

Still working on the final cut scene of the prologue. I have it inked and mostly flatted. It’s going to have a lot more elaborate lighting so I can’t be too surprised that it’s taking this long, but I am getting a bit bored. I also still need a better place to find sound effects, and that’s been my most…

Finally over my stupid cold. To understand, more than a week passed between my last Developer Journal and this one. I’m back on the final cut scene of the prologue and once again, because it involves a bunch of buildings it’s taking forever. I promise not all the cut scenes and backgrounds require skyscrapers and…

I have been following the news of the Detective Pikachu movie for months now. From the first announcement of the movie’s creation to the casting news of who would play the titular Pokemon, I have been keeping my finger to the pulse of this story. The concept was just too wild, too absurd, too majestic to actually be…

Today I’m going to show you guys how I work on the cut scenes for Kaiju Crush.

Today marks the day that would have been the last day of the Six-TAY Day Writing Challenge if I hadn’t gotten the leg sweep from life. I would have much preferred being able to do it all at once instead of falling on my teeth all the time, but progress is still progress. Coding is currently still banging my head…

Two cut scenes down, two to go until the end of the prologue. Running into another coding problem that I’m going to have to look up this weekend. I’ve been using the tutorial that comes with Ren’Py for most of my references, but the tutorial doesn’t go into much detail for certain features like animation. For the cut…

In spite of how bloody annoying it was to do, the first cut scene is finished, and it actually looks really good. I’ve been using a few save files to work back and forth to put new content into the game, move it around and test it out so that cinematically things look the way I want. There are three more cut scenes in…

Back on working on the cut scenes. Still hate working on buildings. Still hate backgrounds. Still whining while every moment.

That break to work on Morrigan was a really good idea. Not only is my mind more fresh from taking a break from Kaiju Crush, it let me get better with Fire Alpaca. Fire Alpaca still can’t do a lot of things that Photoshop can, or Photoshop still does a lot of things better, but I found out something that will save me a…