Devlog #30 | Compendium, steam summerfest, ui updates

In this one, another friend of mine playtested the game, and he finished it even faster. Mostly because instead of spending all his time criticizing every little thing, he actually played the game.

He wasn't really testing it - he was just playing through it. Unfortunately I didn't record it, but yeah, he cleared it faster, and found almost all the same issues the first friend did. So we decided to definitely rework the first puzzle, and fixed a bunch of bugs - things like textures not loading, NPCs acting dumb, you know the usual.

I also made it so time doesn't pass while the player is in a tutorial, talking to someone, or in any event where time just shouldn't be moving. For now this applies to dialogues and the tutorial specifically

Then I did some more visual work - updated the fonts, and added proper dialogue formatting. Now it shows the NPC's portrait, their name, and the actual line of dialogue, all laid out nicely

Also polished up some of the older UI elements, but that's more of a minor post-playtest fix kind of thing

And I started working on a new mechanic - or rather, implementing one. It's not really a mechanic, more like a guidebook. In-game it'll be called the Compendium, because it sounds cool

It's basically the player's guide - they can read about what they've researched, learn the basics of different mechanics, and so on. Right now it shows all unlocked research entries, and has two tabs: one for spell settings and reading available spells - eventually only unlocked ones - and the same thing but for potions

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