https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/ Wine & Sorcery development log, day by day, since commit zero. en Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0300 https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-13 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-13 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0300 A full project review and the fixes it led to: the engine no longer hangs on cancelled or stuck walks, loads, nested cutscenes or double transitions (with a new regression test, 14/14), and the Asset Forge server got hardened. Then the first playtest of Chapter 1 on the web: an adult-sized hero, hotspots on their art, real sprites instead of shapes, menus without empty boxes and a notice when you pick something up. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-12 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-12 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Quiet weeks. Two ideas in the backlog (Winemaker's Sight, to "read" wine without drinking it, and giving the rival choice real consequences), a link to javiercaruso.com on the devlog and stack pages, and docs on how the site gets published. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-11 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-11 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0300 A full project review with a four-sprint backlog, the design of the Story Master (a design partner that proposes how the story could continue and records decisions) with its v0 as a command, and Sprint A of tooling: command-line-editable plans, a generated backlog and a dead-end detector across chapters. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-10 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-10 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 B1 story backgrounds and ten curated item icons, plugged into the game: the flashback and the tower with their real plates, young Aldric as a sprite, and six scenes to walk around the backgrounds of chapters that don't exist yet. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-9 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-9 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 The Story Bible is now served live from the Story Planner, flags are nodes of their own, there's a chapter-vs-plan comparison and a wizard to link nodes to real entities; and the Asset Forge offers to close the pending request when you approve an asset. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-8 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-8 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Shaped walkable areas with pathfinding around obstacles, object names on hover, PixelLab in the Asset Forge (balance and generation), a portrait of young Aldric, and Analytics with a cookie notice on the site. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-7 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-7 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Shaders and dynamic lights tested in Test Chamber 4 (magic_glow, wine_ripple, heat_haze with FlickeringLight), the playtest export pipeline repaired, and the Windows Launcher pointing straight at the compiled build. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-6 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-6 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 We integrated a "Dual-Core" AI engine, making Google Antigravity (Gemini) and Claude Opus coexist while optimizing "wallets". Gemini takes on the role of Concept Artist to generate clean backgrounds and interactive sprites right from the IDE. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-5 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-5 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Maturing our internal tools: v0.26.5 of the Story Planner brings parallel story versions, visual diffs and drag-to-connect UI. We formalized the authoring pipeline in the Story Bible so everything flows in a single direction. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-4 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-4 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Tooling day: signed and notarized macOS deploy, larger inventory icons, local image editing (FLUX Kontext + IOPaint/LaMa) and the Asset Forge — a self-serve asset generator with a web UI and queue, iterated from v1 to v0.26.10 in a day. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-3 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-3 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Touch / iPad support, ES + EN localization with Chapter 1 translated, local audio (SFX via Stable Audio Open and music via ACE-Step), the Story Bible and iOS device deploy. Plus the content policy: the protagonist makes wine but doesn't drink. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-2 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-2 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 We stopped hardcoding content: declarative objects, chapters as reconcilable markdown, headless QA + CI, and a sprint of adventure features (typewriter, cinematic mode, dialogue trees, camera, tints). And the website was born. https://wineandsorcery.com/en/blog/#dia-1 wineandsorcery-devlog-dia-1 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 It all started: we chose Godot 4 (GDScript, web-first) and 480x270, built the base point-and-click engine, the Chapter 1 intro with its gag and flashback, the flag-based save system and the art pipeline with the first pixel-art backgrounds.