Dev Log

[CraigStern]

More boring (but essential!) marketing work; individually emailed dozens of press outlets, Youtubers, and streamers about Telepath Tactics Liberated and lined up coverage.

-- received the final mix of the music track Conspiracy from Ryan, added it into the game.

[CraigStern]

Spent more time on marketing work; got a number of Youtubers and streamers interested in covering the game! Now, it's back to finishing up the game itself. :)

-- got gamepad controls working on the title screen and its various menus.

-- improved gamepad behaviors for navigating 2D menus non-linearly.

-- added the actions bar and save menu to the 2D menus controllable with the gamepad in battle.

-- got the right joystick on a Logitech Dual Action controller working for freely panning the camera around in battle.

-- fixed: the game wasn't applying the correct palette when palette-swapping destructible objects with army colors.

[CraigStern]

-- when using a gamepad in battle, you can now move the selector around with the left joystick and "click" the space the selector is over.

-- fixed: the formula to determine coordinates based on the current camera position hadn't been updated to account for the 10-degree camera tilt from a few months back, and contained an algebraic error besides.

[CraigStern]

-- the "everyone must survive" objective in Adelbrae Battle is now only present when the game is played with Permadeath rules on.

-- when using a gamepad in battle, you can now select tiles by pressing "A" on the space the selector is on.

-- added in inputs for the remaining two non-directional gamepad face buttons as well as the two shoulder buttons.

-- you can now access and navigate the Actions Bar in battle using a gamepad and "exit" back to the battlefield.

-- you can now open the character screen using a gamepad and "exit" back to the battlefield.

-- you can now auto-cycle to the next character on the battlefield using a gamepad.

-- you can now change the camera zoom level using a gamepad.

-- moving the selector over movement tiles, attack tiles, and other tiles with a gamepad now causes the tiles to react as if they had been moused over.

-- moving the selector offscreen with a gamepad now causes the camera to auto-pan over to the selector.

-- fixed: you could build up so much speed panning with the joystick that the camera would take seconds to actually slow down and respond to alternate inputs.

-- fixed: pressing the left joystick softly did not result in the selector moving.

[CraigStern]

-- the game camera now auto-pans to keep up when you're moving the selector around with the gamepad.

-- when you select a skill, the game now auto-positions the selector over an attack tile. (For Shield skills, an attack tile containing an ally; for non-Shield, non-Move, non-Create skills, an attack tile containing an enemy; and for Move or Create skills, an attack tile where no characters are present.)

-- added gamepad support for the various yes/no pop-up confirmations in battle.

-- began adding in different button layout profiles for different controllers.

-- began adding gamepad support for the reserve supplies screen.

[CraigStern]

Sent out more marketing emails.

-- created 11 Steam achievements with custom graphics for each.

[CraigStern]

Corresponded with Steam support about how to provide a free copy of TTL to owners of the original Telepath Tactics.

-- created an image for the executable file.

[CraigStern]

-- fixed alignment on Swordman's, Fencer's, Emma's and Sabrina's Double Strike animations.

-- fixed alignment on Shadowheart rest and cast animations.

-- fixed alignment on Gasul's up-facing rest pose.

[CraigStern]

More marketing work. Also:

-- fixed a typo in one of the Sarn Kamina recruitment dialogues that caused Sarn Kamina's portrait to not display.

-- fixed alignment on Mentalist cast animations.

-- fixed alignment on Photokineticist rest and cast animations.

-- fixed alignment on Spriggat rest animations.

[CraigStern]

-- began adding gamepad support for the shop interface.

-- fixed fake cursor placement for various menus in gamepad mode.

[CraigStern]

More marketing stuff.

-- expanded the vocabulary for lissit a bit more. :)

-- returned to putting a very, very basic (but functioning!) local multiplayer into the game. There are four maps; all are free-for-all with random item drops once a round. Each player uses the same randomized lineup of units. You can play against humans or AI.

-- fixed: Elongated weapons did not extend attack range for 1-range skills.

-- fixed: stat changes from an ongoing status effect would be erased upon promoting or class-changing a unit despite the status effect effect remaining active.

-- fixed: status effects were not getting removed from characters after falling in battle; kinda noticeable when not playing with permadeath on!

-- fixed: certain skills incorrectly described the effect of Move Bonus as +50% movement rather than +40%.

--fixed: NewBranch and LastBranch could each produce game-breaking errors if called without an integer number parameter.

[CraigStern]

-- the AI, army name, color, and AI profile attributes for map-specific army info now support special characters, allowing you to set these things via reference to a string variable or list entry.

-- fixed: the Run reply type was not playing nice with script parameters.

-- finished recreating all of the generic unit types for local multiplayer.

-- fixed a handful of scripting errors in the "main menu" scene for multiplayer.

-- fixed: Recruit could produce a game-breaking error if called without a valid integer number parameter.

-- fixed: if a character used Juxtapose and a second character somewhere on the battlefield had the same name as the character using Juxtapose, that second character could be swapped onto the target space instead of the Juxtapose user.

[CraigStern]

-- fixed: the camera would move up and down almost imperceptibly when panning forward and backward, resulting in the camera height getting out of whack when panning against the pan boundaries.

-- fixed: the character screen at the end of creation in the Character Creator was positioned in such a way as to make the Back button almost totally invisible.

[CraigStern]

-- fixed: Lakshmi Bana was giving Scarlet Etoile's death line if she fell during the Caravan Battle.

-- fixed: Leon Hart dialogue warning of reinforcements during Clash at the Mines Entrance would still show up if he had died.

[CraigStern]

Playtested over the weekend, made note of some further things to fix.