Dev Blog Witchmarsh Daily Update #82

Hey everyone,

The weekly dev meetup went ahead as planned. We took a break from our usual progress drive in order to make some changes to the NPC/Enemy systems.

This paves the way for features like factions, reputation, attacking friendly NPCs, etc. In fact, Joe’s already added a rough faction/reputation system which ensures characters of opposing factions will attack each other (and you)!


Meanwhile, work continues on the branching dialogue and NPCs.

Today’s progress:
- 1 cutscene polished.
- (Joe) Two new mouse cursor icons (‘use object’, ‘more info’).
- (Joe) Re-worked the enemy and NPC code.
- (Joe) Tweaks to the targeting system.
- (Joe) Rough factions added.
- (Joe) Rough reputation system added. Still a bit more work to do on this as it’s not currently tied to the UI or any other systems.
- Wrote a bunch of text for a story-based magical ability.
- Lots of work on the abilities and tooltips.
- Progress made on various story and optional dialogue scenes.
- (Joe) Lots of under-the-hood changes to the files; tidying up, commenting code, performance tweaks.

Thanks for reading!