Devlog: February 20, 2026

Feb 20 2026

Persona 3 Dual

• Trying to get the silhouette background image
• For the rotating Tartarus image, we can combine the multiple background images together into 1 file, then simply have it rotating in a circle on the screen
  • Later on, we can add a pulsating opacity effect to make it fade in/out as well as rotate
• I’m thinking we can make the logo as a sprite
• Don’t use external libraries (Nitro Engine, nightfoxlib, etc.)
  • The point of this project is to handle memory management, etc. yourself
  • We are BUILDING a game engine!
• I think it’d be cool to build a “video” player
  • Play some cutscenes
• I got the silhouette background in
  • If you specify the image to be 256x256, make it 256x192 (fill in with blank space if needed)
  • I also moved/resized and re-cropped other backgrounds as well to be laid out better
• Now, I will try to make a “slide in” animation for the person silhouette
  • I think I might want to use a sinusoidal function to graph the path of the image
  • I asked Gemini for ideas, and what it did was set pos to +#, then in a loop, remove 20% each time (# - (#/5)) to make it smooth — which is smart
• Swapped moonSprite with logo sprite
  • Also removed the other 3 sprites (but left for-loops so we can add it back easily for now)
• Updated background to have moon baked-in
• Now, I need to create a texture that has the opaque background items spinning around
  • Make it 512x512?
  • I created an example image file… Need to just implement it and test (and also test 256 vs 512)