January Progress

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.