Hey Guys - Dev Here
The last week was a very productive sprint for Waifu and we are pretty much through with the last overhaul to turn the diegetic house item handling into a classic house menu. Instead of flying around in the house to carry items from A to B, all of it is now handled in the house menu. As a nice side effect, item crafting also got some improvements in readability, gameplay and... bugfixing. The crafting was working, but not all features were functional, like that you get a better item if you go through the full crafting process.
Let's have a few pictures:
What's Next?
In May is the AMAZE Festival in Berlin, where Waifu will be present. I will fix more bugs and polish the current state for that, which will also result in a demo update. It would be super annoying if I work for conventions without giving you something as well.
After the festival (but with some luck also earlier) we will go into full content creation, or in developer terms: We reached Alpha Status. We don't have to do any further big overhauls or implement huge features anymore. Everything we need for Waifu is in place and only needs small expansions.
Our first content focus will be Level 06 to 09. We have to make a lot of graphics, see how well we can expand the story, how many tools we need for level art and logic (the ones reading our updates on Discord may have encountered the "node system" every now and then) and how things scale in general. Then we will backport these things to level 01 to level 05, because they are still held together with legacy tools, glue and good wishes.
I can not promise to drop a new update at the end of May, because of the festival. But I will try to have some news mid June instead, hopefully containing a few screenshots of the mountain levels. With some luck the preparations for the AMAZE work so well, that we can drop a new demo update in May.
Until then - Have Fun