April and May Progress

A sample of the cat dialog--

Narration: What should I say to the cat?

@addChoice "Reassure her."

Narration: I tell the little cat that thought he has had a harrowing experience, she is safe now.

@addChoice "Admire her."

Narration: I tell the little cat that she is still a very pretty lady, even though she is covered in soot. Her inner dignity shines through.

@addChoice "Just make friendly, nonsense noises."

Narration: I relate the many little absurdities that we humans inevitably feel compelled to communicate to cats. It tell her repeatedly how small she is.

@stop

Holmes is 500% jealous of how much attention Watson is giving the cat, but he's being mature about it.

---- APRIL

• Changed 'The Poisoned Parson' to 'The Longbourn Poisoning' and wrote/implemented a bunch more of it.

• Finished 'The Longbourn Poisoning'. Goodness these cases are getting long. I'm glad there's only one left. Well. One and a half left.

• Added Bennet case outro where you can conditionally help Mary Bennet and Mrs. Hudson live happily ever after.

• Added Bennet case outro without Mrs. Hudson.

• Tested all iterations of the Bennet case.

• Implemented Holmes and Irene's friend breakup.

• Implemented Holmes and Irene's second friend breakup, if you patch up the first one and he fucks it up again.

• Added Deception and Forensics options to the Hound case.

• Fixed error where magnifying glass wasn't appearing in case intro.

• Added scene reward for publishing the Bennet case. Made it longer than it needed to be.

• Added logging back into the game.

• Figured out how to open web pages from inside a video game. Not as simple as I expected.

• Collated all the attribution and credits I need to make and added a Credits page.

• Adjusted the button font so that the letters DQYZ stopped being weird.

• Created the EXTRAS portion of the title menu.

• Wrote and implemented Hudson story scene--adopting a cat.

• Made cat bounce when she meows.

• Made Achievements screen and implemented unlocking achievements.

• Filled out a few sample achievements and tested them.

---- MAY

• Made cat socializing skeleton and default playing with the cat.

• Wrote and implemented naming the cat.

• Wrote and implemented introducing cat to Hudson.

• Wrote and implemented introducing cat to Irene.

• Wrote and implemented introducing cat to Moriarty.

• Implemented Inaccuracy List.

• Filling out Inaccuracy List.

• Implemented 'Theoretical Murder.'

• Adjusted book selection so that you can see what books you don't have, thus inspiring you to go get them.

• Made it possible to visually distinguish between basic book and advanced book and fixed a handful of book issues.

• Redid how shops work, added tailor and medical supplier, and tested them.

• Made it so that topic categories tell you when they have new contents. I'm not totally sure this is a good idea.

• Wrote and implemented Moriarty's winter departure.

• Wrote and implemented December month event (it was short).

• Picked out theme music for Irene and winter depression from Marc Corominas library. Thank you, Marc.

• Implemented and install said theme music.

• Wrote and implemented the first scene of 'The Cold'.