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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Boy am I glad that I used consistent naming for all sprites. Makes grouping relatively painless.

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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Pulled the Scientist Poppy and got inspired to do another shoot. I'll dump the best pictures, because I really think they came out great.
Building the set and taking pictures was so much fun that I lost myself for like two hours.
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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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Some extremely cool person just bought Bondage Mermaids for $20 on itch.
It might seem silly, but moment like this are massive for indie game devs. So: Thank you, appreciate it, whoever you are!
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