December Progress

Godfrey Norton is pictured above. A very good and loving husband who will, at some point, be kidnapped by the Phantom of the Opera.

The Phantom of the Opera is a complete creep. My god. His novel. He's just...wow.

Anyway, Sherlock Holmes puts a stop to that in the spooky October episode.

December Progress

• Made all scenes organically fade to black.

• Now that I'm working with the bleeding edge version of naninovel I keep encountering errors that are actually due to naninovel, not me. The dev is very responsive and fixes them. It takes a bit of time, but it's nice to be useful.

• Identified naninovel error where decimal values were rounding strangely.

• Identified naninovel error where code updates of variables sporadically didn't work.

• Folded downtime travel into socializing with Holmes and adjusted travel options to be more organic and relevant.

• Wrote & implemented Irene playing a funny trick on Holmes.

• Fixed issue with status bar sometimes moving from wrong origin when it first displays.

• Implemented buying groceries and gave it due instruction and importance

• Wrote and implemented first teatime with Mrs. Hudson.

• Expanded tutorial cues and redid the UI a bit to make the buttons more compact as per some good advice from itch.io.

• Made Holmes more friendly towards Hudson when he's in an Empathic mood.

• Wrote and implemented Hudson and Watson plotting about Holmes' health.

• Fixed logical error in consequence sequence.

• Polished and slotted in stain-removal scene with Hudson.

• Did a secret thing.

• Made it possible to bribe a boxer to go easy on Holmes. This is a mistake.

• Added images for various shops and first case. Organized background references.

• Ran through initial game.

• Implemented Hudson and Irene visuals for disaster.

• Implemented Godfrey Norton.

• Made a my-game version of the naninovel fullscreen printer.

• Drafted an outline for the content of the Phantom of the Opera mystery.

Irene Norton Friend Breakup

Irene Norton is the only character who, when she gets to 0 relationship with Holmes, will tell him he's a jerk and stop talking to him.

Initially the variable for that was --

@set ireneBrokeUpWithHolmes=false

But it is so important to me that their relationship is platonic that I was eventually compelled to change it to --

@set ireneFriendBrokeUpWithHolmes=false

even though I'm the only one who gets to see it. It's still important that the variable name specifies it's not a romantic breakup.