New Version. Probably less bugs.

Okay so like, I'm not entirely recovered from the whole, hiatus thing. Just throwing that out there straight up. That's why this version is once again releasing without testing. I was going to, I wanted to, and then it came to tonight and I just...didn't want to deal with Shield High. So I got done the most obvious fixes, so now characters won't crash the game when you talk to them, and Angel is back where she belongs. Beyond that, no testing done yet. I'll probably do my own tests this week, but as always, a bit of help is nice, and hey, maybe I'm some amazing programmer who made literally no mistakes beyond this small over-sight and it'll now function perfectly. It's possible. Not likely though.

Anyway, download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/d60ot44f2ftju0u/Shield_High_JS_0.621.zip

In between bug hunting and writing, I'm planning to push Shield High's technical limitations. This involves adding a ton of characters to it to see if having around a hundred or so characters on the list slows things down too much. With that in mind, if you've got an idea for a character you'd like to see added, now would be the time to let me know, seeing as I'm going to be going nuts with it, and some help would be appreciated. If you've got anything, even if it's just a name and a hair colour, or an elaborate character with a full set of kisekae images to go with it, e-mail me to let me know about it, and I'll see what I can do.

Pudding Earl

Haaaaa!

Not actually cancelled! Bet I got like, ten of you, maybe, with that one. Yes, it was all an April Fools. And yes, I am aware that it was poor taste. Listen, I make porn games, taste hasn't been a thing on this blog for like...ever.

Anyway, as for why I didn't clarify that it was a joke sooner? I've been busy working. What have I been working on? Not some silly measly update that brings boring things like polish, stability, features. No, no, who needs that? No, what we need is poorly planned, completely untested content!

So here it is, the Andriana fight in it's almost-entirety. Due to technical errors on my end pictures weren't an option. Had to clear my cache at some point, all my pretty character's I'd made got lost. Which I'd re-do happily but...poses are a bitch and I've seriously spent like, hours doing this today when normally I don't and I just am mentally exhausted. Oh yeah, the link, right. Here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ecyhvibtan1c8q2/Shield_High_JS_0.62.zip

So, will we be back to regular updates? Probably not. Will I continue work tomorrow to fix up the fuck ton of issues with this version? Yeah definitely. Like I said, this isn't tested in the slightest, so like, I'll probably release a more stable version in the next two days after I've done my own testing.

Enjoy, and my apologies for any depression/suicidal thoughts/lack of sunshine for my absence and terrible jokes. Next year is a joke release I promise.

Pudding Earl

An unfortunate announcement

Hey everyone,

So, I've been trying to keep at it and work on Shield High but...it's just not coming to me. As such, I've decided that I won't be developing it anymore. I'm really sorry to everyone who was looking forward to more, but I'm just not feeling the motivation anymore.

Sorry everyone,

Pudding Earl

An update and also a question

Okay so, not quite fully recovered, but I'm getting a lot better. Just trying to stop spending my nights procrastinating, and start actually working. Speaking of working, I actually have a serious question for you all in regards to a design decision I'm looking at. How much does the combat text matter to you? When I started I intended for it to be the central appeal, but as time went on the heavy content ended up being put elsewhere. Now, I'm not considering removing the combat text or anything, I'm just thinking it might be easier if I didn't write a unique set of entries for every single combat, but instead wrote general entries that got assigned to characters. There'd still be variety, obviously, but it'd be closer to like, 10 variations, instead of the 40 or so I'm probably looking at.

So, would that be a huge problem in your opinion? Or should I go right ahead and cut back on my work load?

Also of note: When I get back to work I plan to just focus on combat entries for a couple weeks and get as much done as possible, so I can run out a lot of content in one go.

Sorry for my absence!

Pudding Earl

Something resembling a hiatus.

Hey guys, so, a few weeks ago I broke up with my girlfriend (for those keeping track that was the one who inspired the whole game) and as such I've been working a bit haphazardly lately. Well, we just cut contact today. I was hoping she'd sort herself out and we'd get back together and everything would be dandy, but we haven't. We aren't. So, I'm going to be realistic here, and just straight up tell you I'm going to be out of action for a while. Could be a week. Could be months. I don't know. When I'm ready to resume work I'll let you know. I'm lying, I'm just going to start releasing again. If you have any questions, or just wanna talk or something, I'm still gonna be paying attention to the blog, I just won't be doing much work.

I'm really sorry to let you all down like this.

Pudding Earl

Shield High 0.615 release.

This release is honestly a disappointment to me. I've been trying the past two weeks to make pathing work for me and it just...hasn't. So I decided to relent on it for the time being and release a very, very small update of what I had prior to starting that. Which is to say, stuff as102 asked for. It's not the whole list, but it's what I personally think is the most important thing. Also the timetable update. Thanks for that image it was amazing.

So yeah, there's a log now. It'll only record important events. So far it doesn't record combat, I plan to make a journal feature for that later, so you can look back on what happened in each combat much easier. Talking, room entries other than the base ones and events should all be caught by the log.

Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/6ybwhwbvvuoq3h2/Shield_High_JS_0.615.zip

If you're looking for content, once again give this one a miss. However I will be looking to include content again very soon as I'm sick to death of pathing. So I'll be fixing up the Andriana fight for the next couple days and trying to get the whole Melanie arc released...soon. This week or next, depending on how long things take.

Sorry for the huge delay my experimenting caused.

Pudding Earl

More delays!

Okay so I spent like, all week trying to get this new feature to work. And it refused to work. Finally tonight I think I've got a system that won't completely destroy the game, but I haven't tested it yet. So I'm going to take another day or two to fully implement it and make sure it works, and then I'll be making a release.

Luckily that isn't the only reason for it, the other being that my internet is playing up. Specifically my browsers. I don't know what the exact problem is but a large, random assortment of websites aren't loading on most browsers. I'm currently writing this on Internet Explorer. It's almost as bad as it sounds. So yeah, couple days delay.

However while I'm posting this I have a question for you all, if I were to start a second blog focusing on putting up some daily writing or something, not related to Shield High, would anyone be interested in looking at it? If I did something similar, but related to Shield High, with a subscription fee for it would anyone pay for it? Just wondering because as much as I love Shield High, it's not making me any money and circumstances are such that making money is actually a concern for me now.

Sorry for the delays!

Pudding Earl.