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Hey all, it's time for the November 2025 devlog! I finally got around to getting some of the writing for the game down in an actual tangible format. I have the prologue and chapters 1, 2, 9, and 10 outlined in some detail. Skeletons exist…

Hey all! It's the end of the month so I figured I'd try writing up a little recap of everything I did for my game, Chasing Elysium, over the course of the month. I imagine this will be a good way to really get a…

Taking a break from the game itself to work on the dialogue editor! This week I rewrote the code for loading the cutscene/dialogue files, and I expanded it to include saving files. The new setup is much more maintainable and extensible I believe, and I…

Busy week! More combat work! I finished reworking attacks to be AnimationPlayer based, which will provide all the flexibility we need in designing them. I'll need to extend the attack API over time to allow for more types of attacks, but that can come as…

Managed to get combat fully working this week! I then promptly broke it on purpose. Going to be doing a lot of refactoring in order to make combat extensible and... interesting, we'll say. I'm hoping to have the refactor done by the end of this…