It really shows that one shouldn't try to code or design something when sick. Last week I was continuing working on the journal functionality that I wrote the week before, and it suddenly occurred to me that not only the architecture that I wrote for it would only work for people that started a new game, and will do almost nothing for people loading a save. But it will also be night impossible for me to make any changes or fixes, since, again, those will only affect people starting the game from scratch.

The initial idea was to add records to an in-game list for each character when something happened during an event. This worked fine, until I realized that not only will I have to edit those records scattered all around the game, since they would each had to be located at the respective events. But for records that might be added to the journal at different points, I would have to add and then edit them at each of those points.

Thankfully, I did catch that just in time, since I didn't put much work into integrating the journal entries with the game events. But most of the journal needed to be redesigned almost from the bottom up. Well, from the middle up, since I at least knew what I was aiming for this time.

I am much more happy with how the new journal works, since it allows me to change what entries are shown and what those entries are, and I can fix all the issues in the same place, and will only have to add the triggers for those records to appear (and in most cases, I would be using already existing triggers).

The visual design for the journal is almost ready too. Shady Two is ironing out the final things, and we still need to figure out the fonts and font sizes, but we are almost there.

Now, I will need to write all of those records for each of the girls, and also some basic tasks, notes and pointers for the MC. Which would look something like this.

On that note, since we really do want include the journal in the next update, and it is not yet ready - we decided to postpone this week's update till next week. Sorry for the delay.

Well, I guess that's about all I have for you today. What are your thoughts on the journal? Are there things that you think should definitely be included there? Do tell us.

Until next week. Shady Character One, out!