@bengrue said in Sully: A Very Serious RPG:

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It didn’t! How about this screenshot of Mt Jujube’s exterior, art by Hyptosis!

Things I’ve done in the last week for [SullyRpg.com](link url)

• several Breaditor UX fixes
• finished the second-to-last zone of the Dungeon of Love up until it’s last encounter…
• wiped and setup an old laptop to send a build of Sully to my PR person (who only had a mac and we dont have a mac build yet)

Oh, and Gruedorf’s back. 2021 Forum Lyfe!!!1

This week’s update is a little less spectacular. I’ve done a bit, but I’m going to try and keep my GRUEDORFING to Sully-only for the time being.

Anyways:

• Added auto-generated version numbers to builds and display them on the title screen so testers can assign bugs to SPECIFIC VERSIONS! (hanks Emi!)

Things I’ve done:

• Sent out a fully equipped laptop to my PR person to start playing Sully and making posts for a PR push.
• started fucking around with the AWS we stack to learn how to make a scalable system in a commodity stack. This by itself is Gruedorf worthy regardless, but I’m also learning this for Breadbros reasons, so I can replace MailChimp, so I can have alpha/beta/r lease level crashlog reporting, and so I can do general online connectivity stuff with my games without being beholden to a platform. (Other than amazon.)
• Started reworking the Breaditor UI to have dockable palettes!
• Almost to the Big Daddy Bubba scene in Sully. Almost.

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So, you ask, what delightful things did YOU work on in the last seven days, “McGRUE”. If that IS your real name.

1. It’s mostly my real name
2. Let me show you!

Can you feel… the love?

Did you know you can update for gruedorf MORE REGULARLY than once every 7 days?!

It’s true. Every valid entry just resets the counter to seven days from itself!

…anyways, here’s today’s valid entry!

• I’ve worked on the Dungeon of Love’s Dance Studio setting up a lot of polish before the penultimate encounter.
  ** Probably more polish than is needed but whatever

• I’ve also reworked the entire logging system so instead of just printing debug statements caveman-style to the console I can send them AAaaanywhere. (But for now they’re just going to the console.)
  ** Also I named this Logger “CaptainsLog()”. Because of the whole marine theme.

…see you within the next seven days!

Today’s update (slightly late, I got plenty done in the past seven days, I just had Keto Superfog Brain last night…)

1. The post-Big-Daddy-Bubba-Fight scene has it’s first pass! This is one of my favorite scenes in the game, Tons of editing and scripting need to be done to make it more dynamic than 300 raw lines of exposition, but progress is progress!
   A peak:
   
   (Weird formatting note: Bubba’s text needs two spaces at the front of line 1 of any box and one space at the front of line 3 of any box to avoid the overwhelming power of his hat and shawl.)

2. I replaced hardcoded Portrait definitions with data-driven ones that were actively reloaded while in debug mode upon map reload!

   • This allows me to iterate on scenes quicker if I need new portraits!
   • This also allows me to make a in-editor tool easier for knowing when my textboxes overflow, and to assist with translation!

And that’s it for Sully Stuff that I can talk about!

A week late and a weak post, but I got SOME work done:
Still plodding through the input menu stuff; just got a new xbox controller so I can test the XNA builtins and Overkill pointed me at some more generic controller code that’ll just, you know, work with generic gamepads?

Otherwise I’ve got it so bound keys now legitimately unbind! Yay! Now I need to make sure you can’t ever unbind the last keyboard binding for something, and… do the gamepad unbinding, and binding for both (have the if/else’s set up for it all, but it’s a lot of edge cases I… need to add more if/elses for!)

Oh and then I need to add loading and saving of all of this.

Wheeeeeee

28 Days later…

1: Been preoccupied by my day job; I decided to quit it to start focusing on Breadbros full time!

2. I got the Keyboard config stuff in, up through load/save. Need to finish it off with Joystick config, but we’re close!
   
   

Today was my last day at the day job!

In the past week I got the Plugin System loading resources from the APPDATA folder, and then started the dockable branch of breaditor to enable a UI overhaul to allow Great Things.

• Almost done with the transaction email work for vrpg
• Captured video fo Sully’s Attract Mode and Second Trailer

It’s been an annoying few weeks for me, but here’s some stuff I’ve done:

• Spent way too much time learning about the horrible state of sending email in these hellish after-times
• Set up a new mailing list and ported all the mails over from the old service
• Updated https://breadbros.com/ with links to wishlist Sully and to join the mailing list
• Updated the site with more videos and put the videos higher up and added calls to action for wishlisting
• Collected all of the pre-orders into a list finally (This… was a 10-year outsatnding task)
• Collecting new screenshots and videos to start actually making some noise

So. That’s… me.

Edit: oh, I also almost fixed the account verification/recovery stuff but that’s all tied into “wow it sucks these days.” So that’s… still in progress

Fixed and verified.

Apologies again for the broken account verification emails (if you got one)

Actually - crap - jumped the gun there.

If you received a account verification email: sorry, thoise links won’t work. Been dealing with all sorts of sysadmin stuff all day and I made an error.

Fix pending…

Hey-ho… you can now validate your email and/or recover your account!

Kinda important things for a website. Sorry for the downtime y’all.

@Robin wonderful!

And I added some buttons to the bottom of the main page!

Of note: the “V” is a link to the (very barebones) VERGE Repo.

Today’s gruedorf: I spent like 10 damned hours figuring out what was wrong with the nodebb install ;_;

(an upgrade made it so it was no longer upgrading to HTTP2 to stream in the js/css. The web was a mistake.)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D31SGqZV-9o

Breaditor UI Progress!

@bengrue Update: I think I fixed the website in the hackiest way possible.

I neither know why nodebb stopped serving the its critical js/css files, nor do I particularly care after spending way too long fixing them by stapling them into place.

Internet.
Of.
Shit.