Drekirokr

Date: 2025-06-12

Hi! Here your Captain to the speak!

Already two months since the last entry. I really don't have a lot of things to say but hey let's just see where this goes.

I've been very inactive in terms of game development. After the jam ended, I've been just chilling, doing mostly nothing, besides from what I do for work. This is my way of relaxing lol. But I'm already starting to itch, I need to do something else I feel like my time in this world is going and I haven't finished many things. So yeah.

I made this out of boredom.

So yeah, while I've been doing nothing I've been trying to take care of my health and especially my sleep schedule. It's already destroyed as it's currently 1am and I barely feel sleepy. Which I think it's sad. But regardless, maybe 1-2 weeks ago been thinking what I want to do. Past month I went to a local gathering for game devs, and it was alright, I just felt I didn't make the best out of it, still shy after not going out for a couple uhh years lol. Showed a couple of my games to one guy there, who was very nice and stuff, and also tried some of the other games but I still feel like I wish I did that but more! Try more games, and have more people try mine! I just sat on my chair for most of the gathering. Argh!

Then I was gonna go again this weekend, and just happened to fall ill and feel awful. Was feeling slightly better in the morning but still felt like it was better to sit it out this time and attend next month. It sucks because I had some extra plans after the thing. I have awful luck.

So yeah, those are things that happened. Will try next month.

Anyway, regarding Dreki and what I've been thinking. It's time to get things done for next chapter, currently am tweaking an old cutscene that I had forgotten it was all broken, as when I introduced the burning of the Academy, I changed the place where the cutscene happens. So I now have to pretty much do it again! Ha! Texts will stay the same but then a couple animations here and there I'll have to either redo, scrap or whatever. Like, I had an animation for Franco Mitsinikos where he served himself some tea at the middle of the conversation, and now that has no place. Because there's no desk or something to put the teapot. Lmao. Eh, I'll figure something out, might just... shuffle things around in the map.

Another thing I want to work on is the new mechanics involving multiple parties. One thing I want to implement with that is that currently being nearby other of your character parties is relevant, but only for deciding when you can swap characters between them. So I want to add the chance to have "reserve characters" in battle too, if your parties are close you'll be able to switch out members with that other party in battle.

Here's a mockup.

And uh yea I think that kind of wraps all up for now. As I said, it's very little what I've done and what's relevant for this blog. The rest is just me on the grind, which has been fun but very tiring. And involves things I can't talk about here. Or at least not now!

See ya next time, maybe one month, maybe two. Whenever it happens, let's make it uhh "special".