Memorium screen WIP preview! (Patreon)

Good morning!

Today I have something different to bring as a preview! As most of you who have read my previous devlog know, Update 4 won't bring as many brand new characters in yet, so I don't have that much sprite work to showcase before Update 4. At the same time, though, Update 4 aims to bring in the new Memorium screen, a gallery-like place where we'll be able to review and even unlock many things about the game!

The lack of new characters has given me the opportunity to spend some of my art budget for these months on making this new feature as cool as possible. For that reason, today I'm showing the first WIP preview that we're working on for how things will look!

Keep in mind that this is a very early draft of the menus and everything is very subject to change, as well as sketchy-looking for now. Blain and I have planned everything and I'll keep you guys updated as we improve this and reach the final version of the game.

As you can see, the Memorium will be mainly composed of two parts:

The Memory Codex will be its first half and the only one intended to be implemented and working already in Update 4. This codex will allow the player to review any memories from Resnick that were previously unlocked in the game (the ones you click in the text to open a pop-up with more information!).

Later on, I plan on also allowing people to see all versions and variants of sprites of people that they have seen there as well. Seen Edwin wearing a towel at some point during the game? It gets unlocked to see there in Resnick's memory of Edwin! Seen Ludwig erect at one point? Unlocked! And so on and so forth. This feature likely won't be available right off the bat, as it is pretty complex for me overall, but we'll get there!

The second part of the Memorium is the Remembrance menu. This one also won't be available yet, but this is the menu where you'll be able to see CGs (which are very much planned!) that you've seen before of key moments of the story and, if possible, I'd also like to implement a feature where you can quickly replay through moments of the story (or, say... smut scenes you'd like to re-read...) without having to keep a save file before each of them. After all, they're all in Resnick's memory. ;)

This is it for the Memorium preview so far! It's a bunch of plans, and slowly but surely we'll get there! As I said, I'll keep you guys updated with previews as Blain and I mature our ideas and develop this screen and the ones that will follow!

Thank you!