Game Journal # 56 - Equippin' Edition

What's up guys! Got another game update for ya today, a REAL one this time!!!! W00t! What's with all the exclamation, you say? Well, what's wrong with bein' happy? Nothing, that's what! I'm feelin' frickin' great, 'cause I finally got the equips screen finished. I love it. The final code I came up with is super simple, but man oh man, did it take me ages to figure it out. I had to recode it SO MANY TIMES, there were SO MANY BUGS!!!! Ugh! But I squashed them all, and my code became simpler and simpler, and now it's working perfectly. Yay!!! Now all the basics of my game are functional, and there's not much left to do besides battling. Ain't that amazing?

Wait... what's that? You want to know who the handsome man in my thumbnail is? Very well then. He's Dave Mustaine, one of the best guitar players ever. He has his own band, Megadeth, and he also used to be in Metallica. (Hint: he wrote their best song. *cough* Ride the Lighting *cough* ) He also invented spider chords (a super sick guitar technique for playing power chords really fast,) and... he's really good looking. Yeah. I simp for Dave Mustaine. That dude is JACKED. "UuuUUuhhh his muscles are small" No they aren't, they're the perfect size. If you think they're small, your perception is skewed by seeing too many muscle dudes on steriods. Sad!

"Whaddya mean Kirk stole my riffs?!"

I love his songs "Peace Sells" and "Sleepwalker." I can very nearly play both on my guitar! (About 95% mastery on rhythm according to Rocksmith.) I also love his song "Wake up Dead," though I like to call it "Rape Up Dead" because that's exactly what will happen to your fingers if you try to play it. I'm pretty decent at guitar, but solos on Mustaine's level are way beyond my purview. I kneel, bros. I kneel. Oh yeah, he's also Christian. Yeah, really! He wasn't in his earlier career though, so if you listen to his early stuff, it'll have some colorful language. Just saying!

Mirin' that hair, bro.

B-booba?! Awooga!

Current Mustaine, older but still handsome.

Ok, ok, enough simping. Seriously though, Mustaine is awesome. And so is Megadeth! Super metal!

Anyway, here's the changelog!

10/6/22
-Worked on Equip screen

10/7/22
-Each character has a type of weapon they can equip.
-The Battle intro screen now centers.
-Worked on Equip screen
-Made yellow button a reusable overlay.

10/14/22
-Small UI fixes
-Made child classes for each move type
-Added Weapon Element to Weapon.
-Worked more on Equips screen.
-Revamped the Description visuals on Shops.

10/15/22
-Equip screen is now functional.
-A lot of UI revamping.

10/16/22
-Items can be swapped between each other in the equip screen.
-If you have no extras of an equipped item, it doesn't show up in your inventory.
-Revamped how tokens work in data.

10/17/22
-Equipping tokens now work.
-Even if you have duplicates of the same exact token, you will equip the one that you choose.
-Finished Equips screen.
-A lot of miscellaneous bug fixes.

Yeah, I know that week gap is pretty obvious. What can I say, I love my otomes. I'm glad that I finally got the Token system to work the way I want, though! The next thing I'm going to implement is the ability to upgrade them. Then after that, I think I can just do the battle system. Cool, innit!

Ok, here's the video.

How the Equip screen looks currently.

See ya later! Next time, I'll show you photos of the Iron Maiden concert I'm going to on Friday. Hype!