I'd update today but I did it on friday

The title basically says it all. I want to get back on a schedule of posting updates tuesday night-ish, however since I updated half a week ago I, obviously, will not be updating this week. Also I feel sick. That does help in the making sure I don't work on things category. That having been said, I've got a portion of the Catriona dialogue sorted. I will likely take a day to toy with the code as well and see if I can fix a bug or two, and then call it a week on that. Baby steps and all that. Also, writing lots of content when most content is small snippets is super hard. Another reason it's not getting done quickly.

Update next week,

Pudding Earl

The realism post

So, as you all know like, a month ago I said I'd be ready in a week or two. And I wasn't ready in that week or two, obviously. I have a bunch of excuses but that's what they are really. Excuses. I was distracted writing my book(which I've now finished), my ex showed up(for a whole day), I'm developing a late night social life(which I could still balance with writing Shield High) etc. The point is there's a lot of reasons it doesn't get done, but those aren't good reasons and I should probably front up to that. So, I'm being realistic here. A lot of my passion for Shield High just...isn't there anymore. I don't get excited to write about it like I used to, and programming it is more a chore than ever. Which is why I'm saying it's entirely possible I will do the thing I never wanted to do and abandon the game before it's finished.

All that having been said, I'm not abandoning the game today. I am, in fact, releasing 0.63 which has forbidden rooms, some of which work. I don't know why it lists ones that aren't forbidden and I can't be bothered to fix it. The number in the top left corner will indicate if you're in one or not. Also adding in a thing that makes the girls go to class. I will be trying to spend every night for the next week on Shield High. What will I be doing? Whatever the fuck takes my fancy right now, writing dialogue for characters probably. I know it's a pretty shitty thing to do but the first priority for this project is getting my heart back in it and to do that I need to fall in love again. And Catriona is pretty. I wanna do Catriona stuff.

Anyway, link is here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/0fz2ladfbzjundo/Shield_High_JS_0.63.zip

I know it's not enough to justify the wait and those of you who have kept posting comments and stuff, I really appreciate it. I do see them even if I don't respond most of the time. Mostly out of guilt, since I'm being realistic. I hate coming back to tell you guys that all I've done is fuck up. Which should hopefully motivate me to not fuck up iuno. Don't get your hopes up. Do pester me with polite e-mails. By polite I mean...honestly anything other than asking for an update schedule. Make some girls in Kisekae for me to want to steal. Write a fan fiction or something iuno. Hell, just post me something I wrote for that one I probably won't notice at this stage. I'm rambling at this point so I'm going to stop.

Sorry and enjoy,

Pudding Earl

P.S. Not dead.

INFORMATION AND STUFF YO

Wow, I haven't posted in like two months. I'm seriously kind of sorry about that. Not super sorry but a bit. Anyway, long story short, with Christmas and all things got busy, and I had no idea how to solve the problems I'm encountering, so I keep putting off looking at them however I am going to *try* to get back to it. I'm sure once I get the two things I want to get working, y'know, working, that I will be in a position to pick up the pace and be back on top of things.

Release...eventually? I'm gonna try and have it by the end of the month no promises though.

Pudding Earl

More information on coming update.

So for a little while I thought forbidden rooms were impossible because I hadn't yet implemented a number of features for it. I have now concluded that is wrong. So, forbidden rooms are being assigned, you can go into one and be caught for it. And uh...then nothing else works from there. So yeah, that needs to be fixed. Once I've got that working, I'm gonna make a minor tweak to pathing, basically force everyone to actually go to classes when you do, so if you didn't trigger an event NPCs don't just sit there doing nothing.

I think with those two changes, it should be enough to release, and I'll then move on to other things for a while. Sorry this takes so long all.

Pudding Earl

Apologies and explanations of a sort.

Sorry I've been absent for so long, real life has been happening on and off for the past month and I've been generally distracted by it. So I figured I'd make a post now to confirm that I'm back to work on Shield High, and as of just a moment ago, I got the dialogue thing working. It was having a few issues which originated from my horrible organization. This has now been fixed.

Exactly how long it'll be before I've finished, I have no idea. The work I need to do is pretty sweeping and I can't pin down a proper estimate on how much will play nice and how much won't. Hopefully I can knock it over in a week or two. More likely two.

Just, letting you all know.

Pudding Earl

Update! Update!

Yes, I did it! I made a randomly occuring event in Shield High! I really, really wish I hadn't thought this was a good idea. It was a dreadful idea. You have no idea the amount of overhauling that I'll have to do on account of this update. To be fair it's an overhaul I'd have to do regardless but I just became aware of it today because of this so I'll blame this feature on it. I'll be working on tweaking some of this weeks stuff, making the event open the dialogue window for instance, so you can see who's molesting you and also so you can't just run past it by accident. Also a lot of behind the scenes stuff to make things flow nice, fixing that godawful issue that prevents you (or at least me, no one has yet reported this to my knowledge) from advancing beyond the second week, and hopefully adding in randomized forbidden rooms, as a start towards making rule systems and things.

Obviously this will NOT be ready by next week. Expect 0.63 to be a few weeks out, as I wanna basically polish up the various badly implemented features and generally try and be a proper programmer or something.

Anyway, download is here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5vbo5zv42d54djp/Shield_High_JS_0.629.zip

In other news, how the hell am I popular? I'm so bad at this. Why do you people support me?

Enjoy!

Pudding Earl

Neeeeeews

I wanted to update tonight. Everything was looking dandy for it, I've added a random event, it activates in the fashion that I want it to. It just...doesn't change the text to match who's activating it. And the text isn't wrapping. And I'm not entirely sure why. I'm not in a state to sort it out tonight, I'm thinking about elaborate memory-erasing stories right now. It's really distracting. So...hopefully I'll solve the issues tomorrow and there'll be a release then. If I don't, I'm just gonna move on to working out forbidden rooms and do them both in one go. I actually really like that idea, let's me reset my schedule and also complete all the enslaved content stuff I wanted to do in one go. Without any actual content.

We'll see tomorrow.

Pudding Earl