felicitygs | 2018-Aug-04, Saturday

Made a fair bit of progress yesterday! I'm really pleased, and feel a bit more clear on some stuff I'll need to do. It's also getting pretty obvious this is going to be a fairly big project, but I guess I kind of expected that since it's a game and all. Let's do a quick run down on the newest changes.

change log

made branchstart and branchend tags--will I keep using these? not sure. Might be better to just make tags for particular subplots/plot points.
finished the cousin related start branches
completed the initial start sequence, dumped player back to docks for a partial day 1

to do

set up season based weather stuff; at the least get the docks spring stuff set up for first month
decide how to divide up/progress in game time -- quarters, hours?
how does fishing work? decide mechanics later, get a prototype in for now that links from docks
set up an inventory and buy/sell for the fish catches (maybe not right away.... systems later, story first)
decide a basic framework for the mc traits and relationships

learned

twine does NOT tab indent displayed text, even when it's been tabbed
right that 'start here' thing exists i should like uh use it for testing instead of tediously looping through the whole thing right good job TESTING IS HARD OK SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH shhhhhhhhhhhhhh
can set booleans by just typing (set: x to true) no quotes on true/false nice

I'm not sure if I'll keep doing daily dev logs, but I have a feeling that these are going to be super useful down the road, especially since I'll probably end up taking a break at some point. Summer break is about to start, so I'll have about 3 weeks to try and finish up as much as I can before those breaks will get pretty inevitable.