Anarlaurendil

Entry 11 Half a year has passed since the last entry in this journal. The reason for this is that I’ve been throwing all my energies into tasks that are not tangible from the public’s point of view: the creation of databases and the coding of features planned since the birth of the project. As a result, there have been no public updates in all this time, and it was pointless to keep players waiting for the fangame, given that my roadmap made any new release impossible for a long time. Diversify our social networks And things happened! To avoid making a long text, I will make a list of all the new features: – Move database completed. – Progress on the Pokémon database, with almost 210 forms coded. Missing creatures will be coded as the need arises. – Fully functional Shadow and Light Pokémons. – New item database, including HD mugshot system – Integration of Sacred Mega Evolution (possible thanks to the new item database). – New database for wild encounters, with

Entry 10 The last publication of my Developer Diary was followed by a long period of low activity, hence the more than 4 months that have elapsed. It has to be said that the loss of Deviantart’s audience caused by its change of policy didn’t do the overall motivation any good: the problem of having put all our eggs in one basket by letting 80% of our public visibility rest on a single site. I also took a break for a whole month, playing another game (Hogwarts Legacy, not to mention it) until I platinized it. This also played a role since I was less present in the project. But the phoenix always rises from its ashes and after these “fangame holidays”, we worked on our reconstruction from mid-March. Diversify our social networks It's official: Sacred Phoenix has diversified its communication channels and is now active on Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter. The first two sites are still baby dragons with only half a dozen entries, but Twitter is already hitting 200 views per Tweet

Entry 9 Three months have passed since the last entry. This is due to a slowing down of the development, itself due to several factors. But like the waves of the ocean, the progress is made in pulses: little progress until mid-December, but then it’s back to work with a great progress on the coding! This will be the theme of this ninth journal! Pharaonic coding ambitions Around mid-September, I started a huge project: redoing the database of all Pokémon moves from scratch. This step was necessary if I wanted to implement new data (the native PSDK one didn’t allow me to do so). It was also the perfect opportunity to add all the attacks added by Sacred Phoenix, never coded except for a handful of Shadow-type. Before any coding, I had to establish the game design around the Pokémon attacks and ask myself all the right questions: – How to define an attack and in what format? – What are the possible categories, types, and side effects? – Since I’ve divided