Garden Urada Chapter v1.0.1

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As the work on Garden 2 slowed down towards the holidays at the end of the year, I figured it would be a good time to tackle some issues I had discovered in Garden: Urada Chapter.

When I released the game, I was surprised at how bug-free the game turned out to be. Aside from some actors in-game not showing up on the screen at all times (which I think is a rendering issue in the engine), I wasn't aware of any other issues. Though later playthroughs did reveal some bugs, most of them were just an annoyance to the player and did not have a huge impact on the play.

The most serious issue was related to the secret boss in Part 2. As the player enters the boss' room, an event plays out and then the player can walk to the boss and interact with it to initiate the battle. However if the player chose to exit the room, the event itself would reset since it was not checking if there were any changes to the variable tracking the event's progress. So as the event would no longer repeat after playing out once, the boss would not be reachable locking the secret boss out of that playthrough. The fix was to have the event check the variable and keep the path to the boss open if the event had already been played.

The other issues included enemies not respawning in a certain dungeon, an item that was to be carried over from Part 1 was missing in Part 2, a minor shortcut did not stay open, one of the character's skills had an incorrect damage formula, and some minor graphical glitches in one of the menus.

Of course, once I started a new playthrough to test if my fixes had done anything, I discovered some new issues. They were mostly similar in kind to the previous issues.

With all the fixes in place, the version 1.0.1 was ready for release. I ran into some issues with node.js dependencies while building an executable version of the game, so I had to drop releasing an exe of the game at least for now. It is a bit of a bummer, the exe covered one-fourth of the game's downloads.

The new version and changelog can be found on the game's release site at https://kuonoasdf.itch.io/garden-urada-chapter