April 11, 2024

Another small update.  The next week and a half to 2 weeks at work will be pretty long with PI Planning happening (planning work for the next quarter).  That said, I did finally address something that has bugged me since I created my name entry.  I would display all 4 letters of the player's entered name even if they were spaces/blank.  That was really annoying visually.  As a refresher, each letter is stored in a variable.  So in essence, any time I reference the player in a dialog box, I have to create 5 if statements:

if only the first letter entered, only display the first variable

if only the first 2 letters entered, only display the first 2

First 3 letters, only the first 3.

If all 4 entered display all 4.

If all 4 letters are blank/spaces, then display "LUCY". (Incidentally, I did also convert some pictures of our dog Lucy to 160x144 gameboy palette.  I need to add them somewhere at some point in game.  Maybe if you interact with a mirror?)

I also don't allow the user to enter spaces when naming, so this works out well.  

I'm not sure what I'll do next to be honest.  Until then!