I started working on this project in November 2020. This beta version was developed for my.. let’s say.. “pre-bachelor” paper which I handed in last year. It was my first time working on a piece of software in a serious manner. I have felt “afraid” of programming for a long time, I’ve never felt like I’m smart enough for that, so this project was just me figuring out everything by myself and using visual scripting plugins for Unity (mainly Fungus) to somewhat create what I was hoping for. I wouldn’t have had the time to learn any programming language properly because of my studies so my objective was using visual scripting from the beginning.

The current official status of this project is “on hold” because I am too busy with studies, the development will continue sometime after summer 2022. I still have a lot of ideas to implement and there are many things to improve, so the chances are high for major updates in the future. What personally “worries” me is the state of Fungus, they haven’t updated it for a long time and it was deprecated from the Unity asset store some time ago. I should probably stop updating Unity..

As for the obvious thing.. Yes, I am a native Persian speaker, but sadly Persian is not the language I am most fluent in, at least not anymore. My parents moved away from Iran when I was a teenager, so my knowledge of Persian is far from anything on a professional level. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t do my research while working on this software, just that you shouldn’t expect to be spoonfed. Also, if you are fluent in Persian and feel the need to comment on anything regarding this project, focus on being constructive - this software was not developed for elitists and I couldn’t care less that “it’s actually Parsi and not Farsi”.

I will try to use this devlog in the future, for the devlog of the development of the beta version before the upload on itch.io, see this page on my website. On that note, I have been paying for the website out of pocket, so I’m grateful for any donation. I ended up setting up my own website because the WebGL version of the software just didn’t wanna work on itch.io and I had to export a web version because my supervisor had no access to a device running on windows where she was able to install and use the windows version of the software. All that has been very time consuming. Sure, I will use the website for other side projects, but it has mostly been a pain in the ass.

I’m not sure what else is I should mention, I might edit this entry later.

Thanks for reading and enjoy trying out the software!