Progress Report #61 - Homeless simulator is close! (Patreon)

Hey lads!

Not really a hobo sim, but I'm doing my best to finish v0.25 before Easters in Poland (April 17th), since I want to take a few days break during holidays, spend some time with family etc. etc. and then full throttle into v0.26.

Ok, so I added a new location to the Slums - Bunker. It's basically a base to The City's hobos, and you can find there a new NPC - Ralph, who helps with running the hobo community.  Jane can live there once she loses her home (gets kicked out by Albert), but life there is much harsher.

I also added a new backstory - Drifter. Jane starts in the Slums instead, and loses access to her flat (or rather she never had it), so she never meets Albert, Rick or Ben. It's really not meant for the new players, it's more like a shortcut into the hobo stuff. Maybe in the future it will be possible to get her flat back or to live in other flat, but not anytime soon.

Something that you might like - I added Map (M hotkey) to the game. It shows your current location, and all existing main locations, together with buildings located in them. It's really simple, as you can see on the screenshot above. But to make your life even easier, EX version will have fast travel option. It's a temporary cheat, because I want to make it a normal game feature in v0.26, but unlockable via multiple ways. So in v0.26 this cheat will be gone and fast travel will be accessible in the Basic version as well. In v0.26 I also want to add Bike & Car as improved fast travel options (bike reduces travel time by 50%, and car reduces it to 5 minutes per location), but getting proper art and new locations for that will be a real pain in the ass (read bad news below).

We also improved art of naked female body, but there's still some stuff about it that we need to change and tweak. Well, you can see it yourself on the screenshot above and compare v0.25 with v0.24. Difference is noticeable.

Regarding events, there will be one for Rick in the kitchen, and the rest for the Slums and hobos, mostly in the Bunker's bed. There won't be any new animations (all are re-used existing ones, yes, being honest here), aside from the outdoor pissing one (screenshot above). How many sex events will there be? No clue. I have draft for roughly 10, but I won't get close to this number, way too much work. I aim for 5 - 1 with Rick, 2 in bed with hobos, 1 related to the outdoor pissing and 1 more.

Oh, but that's not all. I added new color variants to almost all existing clothes (62 in total), mostly black and red. Yes, the icons are still broken and show wrong colors, this will be really time consuming to fix, since I want to make it automatic and relieve my graphic artist of work a bit. Also there will be new unique items and other stuff.

And if someone still didn't notice or ignored my last few progress reports, I changed currency from USD to EURO, so some of you will pay few % more. Wanted to do it early in the month, but there were some problems with Patreon, so it got delayed for like 2 weeks. Sorry about that, but I already explained previously.

There are some bad news, because it wouldn't be a proper progress report without them, right? My wife lost her job, and it was a damn good office job on top of it, so it's a real shame. There are no similar companies in our town, so it's quite a problem in getting re-hired somewhere else. Thanks to you, my patrons, we could save a bit, so we won't starve to death any moment soon. What we gonna do now? No clue, but either my wife finds a new job (good luck with that) or I'll have to find some small quarter-time part job in IT, since we are still indebted because of buying our flat for loan, so there's no way that Patreon money are enough, especially with skyrocketing prices with each week, thanks to inflation in my country. But fear not, I'm not abandoning this project, and I'll inform you all on what we decided instantly, and while my wife is home, she will take care of some of my stuff, so theoretically I should have more time to work on this project. Of course, if we don't murder each other during this time :D

I also parted ways with ThatsWhatSheSaid (my other, newest graphic artist) due to various reasons, but mainly because of money (as always). So yet again I'm stuck only with Peter (this guy is with me in this project for quite a long time, so kudos to him), but then again he is pretty busy lately with his new job. Eh... I don't need graphic artists to work on new content, there's plenty of stuff for me to do, but it still somewhat halts a few of the promised features.

Ok, that was way longer progress report than I originally planned... Hope it didn't bore you to death.

Cheers!