This time, I added the ability to hit your own allies - and actually removed the whole concept of "friend vs enemy" altogether. Now everyone sees everyone, even if an enemy is considered a friend by another enemy, or friends are friends with each other. It simplified the code significantly, and made the system much clearer overall.

I also added a trigger zone for certain actions. For the demo, this will be used for an additional activity - entering the player's house. While inside, you can do whatever you want: trigger dialogues, change the state of the world, and so on.

I bought new sprites with much higher detail. They include character sprites and a large set of animations. Some of them are already implemented, while others are waiting for their turn. I think this will greatly improve immersion and make the world feel more alive.

I also changed how character HP is represented. Now, instead of UI bars or indicators, you have to look directly at the character's sprite. If parts of the sprite are missing - like before - it means their HP is not full. The type of energy they have is indicated by the color visible in those gaps.

I did this because I wanted to completely remove traditional HP indicators and make everything more integrated into the world, while still keeping it understandable for the player. And since there's a rule that characters can't see or damage each other if their energy doesn't match, I decided to keep it this way. Knowing the exact type of energy isn't as important - what really matters is how much of it is left before the enemy disappears.

For the player, however, there's a need to actively use the primary energy. To represent this, I added a cloak - it visually displays all the energy the player has. Right now, I'm thinking about reducing the number of energy types from 8 to 4, but that still needs testing.

And honestly, it all looks really cool now - definitely better than before.

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Hey everyone.

Over the past two weeks, I've fully integrated the dialogue and quest systems, and also tied character behavior into all of it.

Now everything works properly.
I can assign any behavior I want to an NPC at any moment, so you could say the integration is almost complete.

I also created a new house - the player's house - where, in the demo, the player will be able to research and transfigure one or two potions.

I've also started adding some decoration to the level.
As usual, everything you see there will be transformable through skills.

Additionally, I optimized my own workflow with files - I simply sorted them by modification date.
Now all the necessary files stay at the top, which makes it much easier to select them for moving or any other operations.

I also added character shadows that depend on the current in-game time.

At the same time, I've been thinking through and designing the demo scenario.
There are already concrete details for the first puzzles and dialogues, so work is progressing here as well.

That's pretty much it for now.
Most of the time went into integrating behaviors into the level - individually, the mechanics worked great, but getting everything to work together required some upgrades.

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Good luck to everyone.
See you next time.