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Picking up the pieces

I only recently started coming to RMN regularly, and I noticed the Revive the Dead event late in the game. Never the less, it inspired me to renew work on the one game I ever made any real progress with, Heroic Journey. It took me about a week to get the game page submitted and sign up for the event, but I started working already.

The first thing I discovered was one of the big reasons I had left the project. Midway through production, I had figured out how to add a custom font to the game. I learn scripting as I go, so by the time I had put in the effort to make the font work, I was married to the idea of this font. Well, the font has different type-spacing than the standard RMXP font, so almost ALL of the text in the game needed to be re-written to fit in the text windows. That is most of what I've been doing for the last week. I did come up with a few new ideas to add in along the way, but I'm just now catching up to where the game's story left of. By the end of this week, there should be actual forward progress. And next time I make a game, I'm using the outline format, NOT write as you go. Yeesh, this game's files are a mess!

EDIT: It should be noted that I did NOT learn how to make fonts auto-install onto YOUR computer. The game should be able to run fine without them, but it would best be viewed with the custom fonts. The download of version 0.4 includes the font files.
Google can help you out with installing the fonts.
If anyone wants to throw me a script for making the fonts install, I'd be happy to add it in at some point, but, ironically, that's not really a high priority for me right now.