It's almost the end of 2023, but good things are still underway. In the last devlog, I was sure that I could get back to 100% by middle of October and then have something ready by November.
Long story short, I was wrong and was about 2-3 weeks off, BUT here's the good part!
I'm back at it 100%
The last few months have been super rough for me health-wise so I appreciate the patience! Truly! Everyone who has played the game, given feedback, and left nice reviews I am super appreciative of!
Controller Support is still the goal!
Just about everything here is in relation to trying to make the game easier to edit things and ALSO make it nicer for the controller.
Create and Edit Palettes have categories and are completely refactored
All 3D UI's are being reworked into 2D in favor of game-play and multi-edit
This one was something I was trying to hold off on, but the more I implemented controller support, the more the system was begging to change. Early on in the project I thought that I could make a whole 3D editing system where the buttons could feel really nice to use on all the different nodes. What ended up happening instead was that each node had a bunch of 3D buttons that were really hard for the player to juggle. Having things be a bit more traditional in this sense where a UI will show up for each node on the right for editing, not only makes it easier for the player to edit, but also makes it easier for me to add cool new features. ALSO, it's now just ONE ui. No more selecting 10 nodes and seeing 10 UI's show up.
Here's some examples.
Progress on Note Editing UI (The note grid I am still tweaking, I think I like it, but needs more time to settle in)
Progress on editing the pattern rings.
New Note Editing and Re-Vibing Feature.
https://youtube.com/shorts/r0p6QdNyrc4?si=YD0WdEFNpPZS2iQ7x
New Sequence Editing UI
https://youtube.com/shorts/v6AiUxDoHjA?si=DpHDQI2qNjSAN9GB
All of the previously mentioned changes are coming too!
With everything centering around full controller support, nothing that I said in the previous devlog has gone away. It's all in the works and moving forward now :)
Here's some fun stuff from the community
Not Much But Honest Work by Straw Boy
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3048048308
And a funny one by Klumpi
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3050148061
Upload your mix to the workshop and post it in the discord mix-showcase for folks to see!
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Thanks again everyone and hope all is well and safe during the holidays!