First patch for #WitchyTower
Hopefully tomorrow, I'll get the itch.io version online.
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As far as I can tell, Witchy Tower is done.
Time to celebrate.
Tomorrow I'll deal with Steam uploads, making a shop page and all that stuff.
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I'm rapidly running out of somewhat fun things to do, so I guess it's finally time to add the Steam API and achievements to the game.
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Decided to replace the boring lines of kesh stars with more fun shapes.
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Turns out the source of the micro-stutter issue was texture decompression. Just prefetching ALL textures solves the issue completely, but I feel like that a game like this shouldn't require almost 2GB of VRAM, so I'll be doing a bit of grouping and targeted preloading.
Big relief, though that it's not anything else. Otherwise, performance and resources requirements seem pretty solid. Not the most optimized, but I'll be a tiny bit lazy here.
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Don't you love it when you want to fix one moderate issue and discovere multiple small to big issues while investigating how to fix the original one?
Anyway, I've entered the "Final list of things to fix" phase. Final meaning before actual bug hunting starts. Wish me luck.
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Decided to reward myself and added the final player character: Bossy, the very friendly mayor of Jessetonk!
Well, I'm saying "final", but I made it trivial to mod in more characters. Maybe I should advertise that fact more?
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Done with the intro.
Being pissed off is a powerful motivator.
Gonna put it ingame tomorrow and see how it feels and where I need to do tweaks and improvements.
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