Xana

Devlog

• One year
  April 26, 2020 by Sepia Mage

  According to the list of devlogs, I've been working on Xana for a full year now. Technically, it's been longer than that though, since I only started the devlogs when I started working towards a "rele... Continue reading
• Sprint #26 - 4/11 to 4/25
  April 12, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  So the end of this sprint will mark the end of one year of me trying to make this game. I'll go more in to that next time though. For now, I'm having a lot of trouble bringing myself to dive back in t... Continue reading
• Sprint #25 - 3/28 to 4/11
  March 29, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  I made some progress on the editor, but not as much as I hoped. I ran in to a problem with the serialization. I wanted to make it so that you could share the level via a copy-pastable string since tha... Continue reading
• Sprint #24 - 3/14 to 3/28
  March 15, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Progress! A little anyway. It's been a bit hectic recently as the company I work for is now in work-from-home mode for at least a month. That doesn't actually bother me much, but it's taken some time... Continue reading

  
• Sprint #23 - 2/29 to 3/14
  March 01, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  I've been working through the editor, trying to find a good way to wire everything together. Turns out, there are a lot of different types of blocks and not just a lot of blocks. That makes it tricky... Continue reading
• Sprint #22 - 2/15 to 2/29
  February 16, 2020 by Sepia Mage#spring planning

  Well, I didn't quite get it ready in time to show it off, but I've gotten the first steps done on the editor. Right now you can press ESC to switch to the menu of things to place and ESC again to swit... Continue reading
• Sprint #21 - 2/1 to 2/15
  February 03, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  I'm starting to reconsider the notion of just putting all the editor blocks on a separate full page. GameMaker isn't great at fancy UIs, so keeping it simple might be best, at least for now, and it mi... Continue reading
• Sprint #20 - 1/18 to 2/1
  January 19, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Hmm... I just realized I never hit publish on the previous devlog. Anyway, I started putting the editor block selector together, but I ran in to a problem. There are too many blocks/items to fit nicel... Continue reading
• Sprint #19 - 1/4 to 1/18
  January 19, 2020 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  I'm back from holiday travel and visiting family. Predictably, I didn't have time to work on Xana. This sprint though, I want to get the block palette added to the editor since I finally have a good i... Continue reading
• Sprint #18 - 12/21 to 1/4
  December 21, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Happy Holidays everyone! See yall next year... Continue reading
• Sprint #17 - 12/7 to 12/21
  December 08, 2019 by Sepia Mage#spring planning

  I've been spending a lot of my dev time this sprint trying to figure out where to put the palette and how to access it, and I haven't come up with a great solution. I think I'll drop the option to ove... Continue reading
• Sprint #16 - 11/23 to 12/7
  November 24, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Got started on the editor, although I didn't really make much progress. That said, I can at least tick off the following. Add a new room for the editor. Add a button to the menus to access the edito... Continue reading
• Sprint #15 - 11/09 to 11/23
  November 10, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Well, the internet installers have failed to show up twice now. We're looking at other providers, but in the mean time, things are still not really settled enough for me to really put in much work on... Continue reading
• Sprint #14 - 10/26 to 11/09
  October 28, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Ok. I am technically moved in to my new apartment, though everything is still in boxes. I need to get back to work on this though. I think, rather than trying to get the levels fixed up further, I wan... Continue reading
• Sprint #13 - 10/12 to 10/26
  October 13, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Sorry, but I still don't have much to report. I should be moved into the new apartment by the end of this sprint, but only just, so it's still unlikely I'll be getting much work done. My commute shoul... Continue reading
• Sprint #12 - 9/28 - 10/12
  September 29, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  A day late again. Sorry, I still don't have any updates, but I want to keep posting these so I at least maintain that habit... Continue reading
• Sprint #11 - 9/14 to 9/28
  September 16, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Oops. I thought this was next week. Good thing I checked. Anyway, it looks like I'm going to be fairly busy most weekends for the next month or two (I'm moving to a new apartment as well as trying to... Continue reading
• Sprint #10 - 8/31 to 9/14
  September 01, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  I'm back, but somewhat exhausted. Also, I have more IRL stuff to do next weekend, so I don't think I'll get a whole lot done this sprint either. That said, I'll try and get some more work done on the... Continue reading
• Sprint #9 - 8/17 to 8/31
  August 17, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  From last sprint: Add the options to the save file. Done. All the config options, including the palette, are saved in the config.ini Add one new room off the straight path. Done. See the screen cap. T... Continue reading

  
• Sprint #8 - 8/3 to 8/17
  August 03, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  How'd it go this week? Add menu options for the new things I've been working on. Accessibility options Done. I'm sure I'll have more options to add later, and I may need to find a better way to organi... Continue reading

  
• Sprint #7 - 7/22 to 8/3
  July 24, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Oops. I forgot to post this yesterday. Implement the new control scheme. I got all this implemented. I think the next step will be to add these as options in game so it'll be easier to test thoroughly... Continue reading
• Sprint #6 - 7/8 to 7/22
  July 09, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Well, that was an unproductive couple of weeks, but let's go through the list. Decide on which control scheme to use for cutting the ropes. This may involve some prototyping, but I don't intend to ful... Continue reading
• Sprint #5 - 6/24 to 7/8
  June 25, 2019 by Sepia Mage#spring planning

  Another two weeks down. Not as much progress as I'd like, but still progress, and that's the important thing. Add an accurate in-game timer. I've added a timer that counts real time for each frame whe... Continue reading

  
• Sprint #4 - 6/10 to 6/24
  June 11, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Another two weeks have gone by. How's it going? Test up and down screen transitions. Check out the attached gif. Controller support - Using the controller shouldn't require any special input from the... Continue reading

  
• Sprint #3 - 5/27 - 6/10
  May 28, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Progress! Well, at least some. While that turned out to be less than difficult than I thought, at the same time this was a rather unproductive couple of weeks for a number of reasons. I think the bigg... Continue reading

  
• Second Sprint - 5/13 to 5/27
  May 14, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Hello everyone. Welcome back. So how'd the first sprint go? Pretty well actually: Set up a Patreon page. Done. Check me out at https://www.patreon.com/sepiamage ! Actually, there's not much there, an... Continue reading

  
• First sprint
  May 01, 2019 by Sepia Mage#sprint planning

  Hello everyone. As I mentioned in the road map, a giant list of unsorted bullet points isn't a great way to actually make progress on a project, so I'm going to try working in two week sprints. This t... Continue reading
• Roadmap
  April 30, 2019 by Sepia Mage#roadmap

  Hello everyone. I'm going to be doing some more work on Xana in the coming months, getting it ready for a full release. While I think the game jam version is quite good, I don't feel like it's quite g... Continue reading
• Bug fixing
  March 31, 2019 by Sepia Mage

  A couple of bug fixes and game play tweaks here: When you cut overlapping ropes, you will now cut the rope you aren't on first instead of cutting both. If you want to then cut the rope you're on, you... Continue reading