ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:04 AM
hello I am erzz I program good and well

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:04 AM
she's like my oldest internet friend that doesn't od art

ReaLast Thursday at 10:04 AM
i thought i programmed good and well but i guess i don't
did olivine link you to the azure devops repo?

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:04 AM
you do but time is a meme and this way you don't have to crunch quite so bad

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:04 AM
yeah

ReaLast Thursday at 10:04 AM
it's a lot of shit but clone it and see if you can build with the solution as-is
you may need to keep a portable copy of git in a dir called z_git, i'm not sure if some of my build scripts still rely on a local version of git

here's the directory structure on my local machine

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:06 AM
I'm at work right now so it'd probably be best if I did that when I got home :thinking:
I still don't know what I'd be expected to do

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:06 AM
yeah when i say program it's too vague
so i figured u could do the techy talk

ReaLast Thursday at 10:06 AM
i'll give a status report when i run out of steam and have to crash

here's the projects in the solution
the MonoGame thing is a very slightly modified version of MonoGame, designed to interface with Pikodemin, our compressed archive solution
if you're familiar with WAD files from Doom, it's a similar thing, except it offers random file access instead of lumps
SigridKernel is what outputs SoftlyWithTeeth.exe; it doesn't do much besides provide some state objects to whatever SigridGame is loaded
SigridGameAPI is where all of the game-agnostic engine code lies, and is where the bulk of the code is
SigridGame-Geist is SWT-specific code
Thierry is a logging library, but i've disabled it for PAX

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:09 AM
if what i'm assuming is right you basically have to do animations, erzz

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:09 AM
yes what are you even working on
what's the current task

ReaLast Thursday at 10:10 AM
i'm working on finishing the SigridGame-Geist code for the prologue's special chapter select menu

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:10 AM
demo is made of 7 scenes - one prologue, six scenes one for each love interest
one of those six scenes is completed, we need the rest

ReaLast Thursday at 10:10 AM
* almost three

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:10 AM
you told lilly diff

ReaLast Thursday at 10:10 AM
prologue's about to be done
Seb's done but for all of Lilly's weird state-filled choices

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:11 AM
that's gonna be most of the game, yo

ReaLast Thursday at 10:11 AM
Forrest is done but for choices, which will take little time since those are straight-forward

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:12 AM
what is the code-specific task olivine wants me to help with

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:12 AM
animations, i assume

ReaLast Thursday at 10:12 AM
i guess she wants you to handle adding expression changes/sound effects to the animation thinker
SigridGameAPI/Animation/AnimationThinker.cs

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:12 AM
whatever needs to be done that isn't getting done

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:22 AM
I think it would take longer to explain things to me than it would take Rea to add those things... if there's busywork stuff you can offload to me that'd be ideal

ReaLast Thursday at 10:23 AM
i don't think there's any busywork left to do
sorry that my scheduling led to this being sprung on you

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:23 AM
everyone's been telling me it's only busywork left to do

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:23 AM
I mean, there's three uncompleted scenes, right? Surely putting those together isn't overly complicated, just time consuming

ReaLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
not even time consuming, tbh
which is why i'm refusing to sleep until i finish this
there isn't much left

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
what are you finishing, the prologue?
we need more than one day to be able to test things

ReaLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
everything
everything i'm given

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
so you have

ReaLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
madi, ev, yvonne

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
ev yv madi forr seb prologue
all done
all ready

ReaLast Thursday at 10:24 AM
that's the goal

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
why didn't you tell anyone?

ReaLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
i didn't
say that
i said i'm not sleeping until i finish those
i want to be done

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
not done yet, but planned to be done before her next sleep, I guess

ReaLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
i want everyone to stop worrying

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
don't destroy yourself

ReaLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
boy it's really hard to stay stable lol

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:25 AM
then erzz is here to likely probably help
it's ok to take some rest in the long run

ReaLast Thursday at 10:26 AM
i got yelled at and threatened with being kicked out for not locking the front door behind me after throwing out cans like i was asked to
no it isn't

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:26 AM
rea i'm the boss
i kinda get final say
i know that this is important but it's still important to pace yourself and eek in time to rest even when things are pressing
otherwise you end up overwhelmed

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:27 AM
even if you sleep on time today and get things done tomorrow, there will still be three days for testing which is plenty
if you truly believe you could get them done without sleep, you can just get them done with sleep

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:27 AM
yeah, we shouldn't expect too much bug testing after all this prep, you've said so yourself, so it should be ok

ReaLast Thursday at 10:27 AM
better sooner than later

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:27 AM
plus they can be testing the ones you finish today while you're asleep
then test the rest when you finish them

ReaLast Thursday at 10:28 AM
sleep deprivation for one day is worth it to have it finished a day earlier

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:28 AM
it won't turn out This much sooner, though
rea you're being unreasonable

ReaLast Thursday at 10:28 AM
and the scheduling that put me in this situation was unreasonable
so i'm taking unreasonable measures to fix it

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:28 AM
that's not how things work, though
it isn't a cost sum sort of deal

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:28 AM
it doesn't seem like a drastically bad situation

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:28 AM
yeah, it isn't the end of the world right this second
we just need to be really careful about how we move for the next five days

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:29 AM
plus there's a lower chance of bugs if you just sleep, anyway

ReaLast Thursday at 10:29 AM
i wanted to avoid us having to be careful

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:29 AM
we've already crossed that line, rea
right now we just need to take cautious steps on the way over
erzz is here to help so use her!
firmly grasp her

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:29 AM
besides
even if at PAX you say "this route isn't ready yet" it's fine

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:30 AM
end of the day we just have to work with what we have
i do think it's possible even with proper pacing to get this demo done but trying to put all the load on yourself as some sort of penance while disregarding what your boss says isn't going to get good results
we're trying to account for your wellbeing here too because that's important

ErzzyLast Thursday at 10:32 AM
people'll need you in good form if issues come up and losing out on sleep is going to hinder that
do it well over two days instead of stretching one day

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:33 AM
yeah, you don't wanna be wigged out more than you have to at pax
the thing about crunch is once you start trying to power through 10+ hour days your output is diminished anyway

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:57 AM
so like if you cn take like 20 mins sometime in the day to let erzz know exactly what she can do
she'll give it a shot
bc you're not going to do this all solo if there's a chance we don't have to do that

ReaLast Thursday at 10:57 AM
okay
lemme get prologue finished, so i can at least be done with its custom code

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:58 AM
is it really all that different from the normal option menu?

ReaLast Thursday at 10:58 AM
oh, right, do you have a graphic for the "do you want to do this" yes/no prompt
i don't have a UI element for dialogs

olivinearcLast Thursday at 10:58 AM
ribbons just like halloween

ReaLast Thursday at 10:58 AM
ah, like normal choices
okay

ReaLast Thursday at 11:08 AM
okay, chapter select menu works now



olivinearcLast Thursday at 11:09 AM
sounds gucci

ReaLast Thursday at 11:09 AM
i'm having
extreme trouble staying awake, though
i'm going to take a quick nap

olivinearcLast Thursday at 11:10 AM
go sleep then
go sleep for more than an ap
holy shit
i get you want to do good but this isn't the way to do it
take a good proper rest and we'll reconvene in like 8 hours

ReaLast Thursday at 8:35 PM
hey erz when you can lemme know if you can compile the game from the repo
just in case

ErzzyLast Thursday at 8:49 PM
these commit messages sure look like crunch





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olivinearcLast Thursday at 8:11 PM
erzz is around as need be

ReaLast Thursday at 8:34 PM
i've gotten food
i'm gonna eat then do Madi

olivinearcLast Thursday at 8:35 PM
are you gonna utilize erzz?

ReaLast Thursday at 8:35 PM
i don't really need erzz for just putting in a scene

olivinearcLast Thursday at 8:35 PM
is this gonna be diff than when you said the same thing for forr and seb and stuff

ReaLast Thursday at 8:36 PM
yes
i'm gonna sit down and get the scene done and then hand it in for review

olivinearcLast Thursday at 8:36 PM
alright