Dev Log #6 - 15/04/2024

Hi, all!  Welcome back to another devlog! This week was a little on the smaller side in terms of updates as our primary focus now is polish, but fear not as we've got plenty to show! 🥰 On top of all that  we  have made an updated demo which will be playable in browser and available for download! 😲 The new demo also includes some update visuals and bug fixes so we hope you enjoy! 🤭

Art 🎨🖌

For art this week  our wonderful artist was working hard on updating the design of the one and only, Detective Hawkshaw! 🕵️‍♂️ Who's now more expressive than ever, now falling in line with the updated art style just like the rest of the cast. 

 We hope you like his new look as much as we do! 😳🥰

Emil isn't the only one getting a bit of an update, so too is the esteemed Chief Payola! 😱She's not quite as far along yet but here's what we have to show so far! 😊 She's back and even more expressive than ever before!  

But that's not all! We've also got  some new backgrounds and environments' in the works for both the title screen and for our trailer which is currently in the works. 😎 We're still working on it  so here's just a little bit of a sneak peak for now.  😳🤫

Our artist has also blessed us with some custom art of the characters of Emil and Nicolai! 🙏  Look at them!! 🤭🥰

Programming 🤓☝

In terms of programming this week we've been focused on catching any bugs 🐜 and  polishing up for release! 

One of the biggest of which was fixed being a bug that prevented players from choosing a culprit after initiating an interrogation in the tutorial and would select Katya by default. 😨 This has now been fixed and players can chose whichever they like between interrogations and after! 🕵️‍♀️ Furthermore, all instances of Emil's sprite have been updated to reflect his new design.

So if you want to see more of him make sure you check out the demo for yourself! 😉

Another update was made to the journal with some more polish to character profiles! 📝These can now be found in all chapters and swap in and out depending on the chapter you're on currently! 😯

 So make sure you check your journal if you ever need a refresher on who's who! 😵

Current Work 📝

Our main focus moving forward will be polish as well as our trailer, but we do have a few things left before the games full release. 😵 We're still working on a dialogue log so players can review the conversation at anytime,  finishing up Payolas design, custom art for our character profiles and some updates to the games sound effects and music! 

We've quite the few weeks ahead and we will continue to work hard to bring you all a game we sincerely hope you will enjoy! 🥺 

Until next time, bye for now!

The Fellas