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Hey Folks! Character generation may be pretty close to operational today! I hesitate to say "finished," since it still has a ton of tweaking, fixing, and potentially rework to do over time. But I can basically build an entire character now, and the only step missing is the code to transport the finished character into the game!

Well, technically, first they transport to the

Hey Folks! After finishing the trait screen mock-up early this morning, I spent most of the day creating in-game assets and code for it.

There really wasn't much left to do in the mock-up after yesterday. I added some instruction lines, some point cost info to each product (similar to NEO Scavenger's skill cost dots), a highlight/dimmed mode to each button, and some graphical

Hey Folks! I've been neglecting development for a couple days, so I decided to ignore the outside world and put my nose to the grindstone today. And I think my efforts were rewarded!

After another round of debugging, I think the ship selection is now working as intended. It's bare bones as all hell, but I can officially "finish" career selection now. Just to recap

Hey Folks! Today was largely about getting detailed feedback to Emily about the main menu, as well as a bit of coding on both ship selection and NS mobile.

As the main menu approaches completion, we're nailing down the remaining details and getting it ready for in-game use. Today's screenshot is the latest iteration from Emily, with some paint-overs I did to show some feedback

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Some good family time for us, as we held egg hunts, saw a cool variety show, and had some yummy meals. Also, we started exercising as a family, which is a bit painful. But it should hopefully slow my atrophy, stemming from sitting at a computer each day :)

I don't know if I've found the final solution to the ship selection process,

Hey Folks! Spent most of the day further refining the career process, and trying to get that to funnel into starting the game with a chosen ship.

There were a few more validation steps I had to add. One problem was that players could continue previous terms instead of just the current one. Also, they could choose the same skill twice in the same term.

I also got tired of choosing

Hey Folks! I've got career events and contacts up and running, and I'm working out the kinks now.

As you can see in today's image, I've confirmed my first term as a Shipbreaker, with certain skills. And as a result of that career, I earned a few contacts. Jacqueline is a criminal from Virginia on Titan, and Barbra is a criminal from Newcal. Looks like I run in some

Hey Folks! Most of today was spent barfing data and code into the engine, and I feel a bit like I'm now managing/cleaning-up the mess.

After work yesterday, I started to have some ideas for how to model relationships in the game. Which is good! Since I was having some real trouble nailing that down. But in the wake of that decision, a huge amount of new data types, logic, and

Hey Folks! Still working on relationships today, and edging closer to how it relates to events. Also, did a bit of tidying up in the code.

Yesterday's NPC generator had a few issues to solve before it would run, but seems to be doing the job now. I also had to add a bit more homeworld data to the game so it could select one at random.

Currently, I can get decent random names

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Had a few nice mornings for a family walk in a nearby public garden, did some minor house work, and rediscovered Dark Matter on Netflix. So not too shabby on this end!

Back at the office, Emily sent her latest round of main menu revisions. Included among them was the recolor you see above. We've been almost exclusively painting