Development of Hearth & Holmes may slow down for a while because I'm living through an attempted coup of my government, it's affecting my mental health, and I'm looking for things to do about it.
I will still get at least some work done every month, because I do still think a gentle, potentially gay story about the value of interpersonal relationships and the importance of taking care of people is worth telling.
- Added barking sound effects to Hound case.
- Made and sent sample case to UI/UX analyst.
- Redid the Hudson mood tutorial.
- Tested and released new version of the demo.
- Designed Watson's downtime mechanics.
- Updated Relationship/Skills screens.
- Designed choice buttons specifically for downtime.
- Wrote and implemented downtime introduction.
- Implemented Socializing downtime options.
- Made sympathy mysterious.
- Wrote and implemented sequence where Watson writes 'A Study in Scarlet.'
- Wrote and implemented sequence where Watson and Holmes fix a window.
- Added a bunch of sound effects to the fixing a window sequence.
- Made it possible to upgrade Holmes' reading material such that he doesn't slowly kill himself while doing Chemistry experiments.
- Fixed some display issues with Holmes' reading material.
- Wrote and implemented sequence where Watson publishes 'A Study In Scarlet.'
- Implemented shopping for books.