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-- fixed the dialogue parsing function so that forward slashes are now supported within dialogue text! (Which, incidentally, also fixed an issue with the "end formatting" special characters not working right within dialogue.)

Artist feedback!

-- created a new random camp event: a mustebeast has sprayed one of your characters' tents, and you must decide whether to make them sleep in it, give them money and have them spend the evening buying a new tent, or have them bunk with another character for the night (in which case those two characters perform the Talk activity together that evening).

-- new tag supported: ForceNextCampActivity. This forces the character to perform a specific activity during their next time participating in camp activities. Has 1-2 parameters: (1) activity name, and (2) partner name (for 2-character activities, like Talk).

-- new, optional parameter added to IfStringGoTo and IfStringRun -- reverse match (true or false). If set to true, the game will check to see if the specified string doesn't match the supplied value before executing the GoTo or Run part of the action.

-- it is now possible for an early-evening event in the main campaign to guarantee a follow-up event later that evening.

-- the main campaign now strips out blank event list entries before choosing a nightly event. (Still not totally sure how those blank entries got in there to begin with, though)

-- golems, spirits, and units with a wound level are now all excluded from random events in the main campaign.

-- reworked the level-up display behavior when in camp. Previously, if a character gained enough experience to level, it'd display the narration and experience bar, then automatically popup with the level-up screen after 2.5 seconds. Then you'd clear the screen, and finish reading the narration.

Now, it only shows the narration and experience bar, and only pops up with the level-up screen on your next click--then, upon closing the level-up screen, it auto-advances to the next camp activity narration instead of returning to the practice narration.

-- created a floatRng class, the float equivalent to intRng.

-- created a basic 2D particle system from scratch! (An unfortunate necessity, given that Unity doesn't properly display ordinary particles on UI canvases set to display in Screen Overlay mode.) I'm pretty proud of it. It supports a ton of different settings that can vary from particle to particle, including independent x and y velocities, rotation, fade-out, RGBA values, lightness, and independent x and y decay rates.

-- used the new 2D particle system to create a little "sparkle explosion" animation whenever a character's experience bar tops out, indicating a forthcoming level-up.

-- fixed: characters would sometimes say their attack bark when about to attack destructible objects in battle.

-- you can now use a level range for the second parameter of ShowRecruits instead of just a single set number.

-- in the main campaign, the base level of all recruitable characters now increases by 5 when you visit the recruitment area after getting into League 1, with associated dialogue.

-- the Shop interface now gives you a pop-up text confirmation when you buy or sell an item in addition to the "coins jingling" sound and the animation of your money counting up or down.

-- fixed: if you used a script action that checked the value of a custom variable and the game couldn't find that variable, it would just always return false no matter what. Now if you do that, the game will add the custom variable with a value of 0 (if a VAL) or a blank string (if an STR), then perform the comparison.

-- fixed: the AI was not taking into account character resistances and status effect immunities when scoring the impact of status effects on various moves.

-- the AI no longer adds status effects into the equation when scoring moves against targets with an inherent value of 0.1 or less (i.e. most destructible objects).

-- the AI no longer calculates damage from knockback into environmental hazards against targets with a pushability of false.

-- you now get a pop-up notification warning you if you attempt to conclude deployment with undeployed characters (provided that there's still space on the battlefield to deploy more of them).

-- if you send a dialogue tree to its current branch via a GoTo-type action, the game now ignores the command instead of getting locked into a (potentially infinite, game-crashing) loop where it re-runs the current branch's actions over and over.

-- added a timer to the game's internal ActionRunner class. If a series of script actions takes longer than 12 seconds in real time for the game to execute (during which time the game will appear frozen), the game now assumes that there is an infinite loop going on and cuts it off.

-- in all GoTo-type script actions, the game now auto-detects if you've entered a branch number parameter that isn't an integer, then--if so--checks for a branch name equal to the string you entered. If it finds a match, it'll use that branch's number as if you'd correctly used BRANCH[] instead of always defaulting to 0.

-- fixed: turns out, the game was using asterisks as delimiters for individual reserve supply lists in the save game class, meaning that using ~* as a shorthand for an apostrophe in item names was actually a big no-no. I've since switched over to using ~~ instead.

-- fixed: when items were passed out to characters from Reserve Supplies in a cut scene where camp activities later occurred, a duplicate copy of those items would reappear in Reserve Supplies in the next scene.

-- fixed: the game would sometimes throw a range error when ending camp activities on character dialogue.

-- fixed a few scripting errors in the Recruitment scene in the main campaign.

Had a playtest!

-- when all of your characters have used turn-ending skills, the game now gives you a prompt asking you if you want to end your turn.

-- fixed a branch name typo that made one of the tutorials lock the game.

-- fixed: unique generated enemies that die would try to generate a memory of falling in battle, which produced a null error because they don't have memories.

-- fixed: poison, shadow, and light resistances were being displayed in the wrong spots in the character screen in battle.

-- new special character: -GOD-. Picks from the list of deities that the character worships and substitutes its name (or, if the character is atheist, subs in "no one").

-- the Hire button on the recruitment screen now appears grayed out if you don't have enough money to hire a character.

-- wrote a follow-up event to the new event from yesterday.

-- fixed a few relatively minor scripting errors in the new camp event, added some alternative phrasings into the narration.

-- fixed: individual character Mood prefaces could sometimes show up inappropriately prior to generalized messages occurring during camp activities (like the announcement that no one cleaned).

-- fixed: the game was inappropriately decrementing the length of status effects tied to mood under certain circumstances, causing them to time out before the character's associated mood ended.

-- fixed: you could mess up the game by hammering the escape key during scene fade-outs.

-- fixed: cut scenes were only loading characters in the current roster, meaning that any character who'd temporarily left the team (or was in another roster) wouldn't be saved upon exiting the scene.

-- cut scenes in the game now support custom backgrounds!

-- when the game creates a new campaign, it now creates a Backgrounds folder for custom backgrounds.

-- the Sound, Music, and Backgrounds folders are now each created with their own CustomAssetInfo.xml file containing instructions on how to format each type of custom asset.

-- the Cut Scene Editor now loads custom backgrounds within the background selection window and allows you to use them in cut scenes.

-- new attribute type supported in UnitsToList: Bio Detail.

-- if you leave the Roster or Army parameter in UnitsToList blank and the game is in a cut scene, the game will now automatically sub in the number of the current roster instead of simply defaulting to 0.

-- new script action: AddBioDetail. Allows you to add a biographical detail to a character. Three parameters: (1) character name, (2) detail type, and (3) detail value. (Characters can have an unlimited number of detail values associated with a detail type, and you can enter any arbitrary value for the detail type.)

-- new script actions: IfBioDetailGoTo and IfBioDetailRun. These let you move through a dialogue tree and run scripts, respectively, based on whether the named character possesses the bio detail value(s) you enter. The first parameter is the character name; second parameter is the bio detail type; then an arbitrary number of parameters (one or more) are bio detail values that will return a match; and the final parameter is the branch number to go to/script name to run.

-- LASTINLIST[] can now return -1, indicating a list with no entries in it.

-- the Worried mood now imposes Distracted status.

-- wrote a new random event in the main campaign that changes slightly based on the character's biographical details.

Officially hired an artist to create box art for the game! (Not that it's likely to end up physically printed with any sort of box to speak of...)

-- improved the recruitment interface! Character stats are now represented by their symbols instead of by rows and rows of just text. Instead of instantly hiring them, clicking a recruit now causes their stats to remain onscreen even after you mouse off the portrait; you can then mouse over stat icons for explanations of what each stat does. Moreover, clicking a recruit causes a "Recruit Character" button to appear; clicking the button is what now hires the character, eliminating accidental recruitment via mis-clicks.

-- big UI feature added: move-and-attack! If one of your characters is selected and you shift-click a character not belonging to your army (or a destructible object), the game will now check to see if the unit you shift-clicked is within move-and-attack range for your character using their 1-slot skill (the one furthest to the left on the Actions Bar). If it is, then the game will choose a spot your character can attack from with that skill, then move the character there, auto-select the skill, and display the skill's reticles.

-- the game now displays the Sword cursor when you've got Shift held down and are mousing over a unit, indicating that you can click to initiate a move-and-attack command.

-- fixed a pretty nasty bug with mid-battle saves. The game was saving all units present on the battlefield as well as all the units who were not present; but upon reloading a mid-battle save, the game would only reload those characters who were present on the battlefield! If the game was then saved again, this would result in all non-deployed characters vanishing from the game going forward.