Game Journal #77 - Hot Springs, Saving/Loading, Dialogue Improvements

Hey all! Got another game journal here. This time, I added quite a bit, so I'll show ya that.

First, life update. The home I was trying to buy in Arkansas came in under appraisal, and it was revealed to have a lot of foundational issues. My contractor told me that it'd take at least 100k to fix everything, which of course, I don't have. So that deal's been cut. I was slightly bummed out about it, but at the same time I was rather happy because the house was already at the top of my budget, and I wasn't super in love with it because of all the repairs I needed to do. So I resumed my house hunt. Amazingly, there was an even better house in around the same area, but about 15k cheaper. The price had been going down steadily, so when I was in Arkansas it was about 75k. Now it's going for 64k! I hadn't even looked at the place because it was a modular home, and I was trying to buy a traditional stick and motar home. But after seeing how costly traditional home repairs can be, I stopped ruling them out. After all, I'm just looking for somewhere to live that I own. It's a nice little place with 3 beds and 2 baths + a backyard/lawn. Not much more to ask for! So I'm seeing the house next week to see if I like it. Hopefully it goes well!

Okay, changelog time. Been a while since I've posted one, huh? Well now that I'm moving soon, I'm putting my creativity in gear. So let's go!

7/22-7/27/23

• Painted Hot Springs graphics

• Changed visual style of dialogue history widget

• Added autosaving

• Added traditional saving/loading

• Added small gradient to Joe's sprite on thinking screen

• Added animation to save screen

I need to get back to properly documenting my progress. I figured it wasn't important and didn't write anything down (again.) Ugh... well, there's always next time.

Here's the video as per the usual.