The Solarion Project - Month plan!

Hey guys,

Another month for TSP has come and the 0.19 is planning to bring some tasty goodies to the game now that the game has been moved over to the rpgm engine. The game mostly functions the exact same as before, which was the main intention, but there is one large bug that needs to be resolved that I think a large chunk of the player base experienced. 

That will be absolute priority #1 as I don't like the idea of having a heavy crash in the game, even if it eventually becomes avoidable.

From this point on, I'll be breaking content down like so, so you can get a gauge of what I'd like to achieve with each build.

Bare Minimum:

Even if a lot of things crop up that really set me back, this is what will be delivered at the end of the month:

• Fixing the game breaking bug (width null issue)
• Mia's Level 2 Progression
• Mia & Shelly's 3some

Likely Contents:

• Background work for the battle system - unlikely anything will be truly visible from this, but a lot of work will be put into getting it up and running so that hopefully in 0.20 we can start filling out the content in the game so far that requires these missions.
• Side NPC - A side NPC that has long been awaiting to be added to the game will hopefully be added this month too!
• Fixing a few other bugs as well - a few animation issues (staying on the screen where they shouldn't), issue where sometimes the choice button images disappear, issue where the correct font is not displayed for certain text, also clicking around the galaxy map seems to be a bit faulty in places, so I'll try to be making that better too
• Adding in the first voice lines of the game! BakuSatsuHo has recently done some work recording Kittenna's lines for her first sex scene! I want to experiment in the most efficient way to do this as eventually (hopefully!) the whole game will be voiced! (Baku has also recorded lines for the combat system too and they are a lot of fun!)

Hopeful Contents:

• Start work on the outfit selection system. Unlikely to be fully implemented in terms of content, plus certain outfits won't be wearable until much later in progression (and nude won't be until you have fully progressed with everyone). But I'm thinking the waitress one could be a good one to start with after their level 2 progression.
• Implement a hide dialogue button
• Change the autosave system to use a specific slot rather than the latest slot that was saved

Other ideas in passing (likely won't be implemented this build)

• Add in more crew based events (like the underwear heat scene) to really promote crew interactivity

Hope that all makes sense on the direction we'll be taking things. I expected there to be a few bugs to fix so I set aside some time this month precisely for that.

Also a note to Space Rangers - expect a drop of that Captain Meets... Widowmaker this month too! Sorry there has been a delay on the Captain Meets stuff, obviously with Witchking recently having a baby it hasn't left him with a lot of free time to work on this! But hopefully we'll be getting back to normal on that front ^^

Until next time,

 - Nergal