Developer Diary 8 (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Time to talk about the progress I’ve made with my game!

At the start of the week I added another hairstyle and increased the amount of hair colors from 2 to 9, quite a substantial increase! I also added eyebrow coloring, which gives you even more options.

I finally got around to tying the areas together so now you start in your bedroom and have to go to places so you can change how you look. It’s finally starting to feel a bit more expansive now, since the options are spread out.

I added a day and night ‘cycle’. You press a button in your bedroom and it goes from day time to night time. While this serves little purpose right now, it does lock out certain locations (shops are open by day but closed by night, etc)

I also figured out how to to work in nipple piercings. Since I have 5 breast sizes and 9 ‘states’ I would need 9 sprites per piercing. This was a very annoying problem. I finally ended up using code to reposition the graphic depending on your breast size. While it’s not a perfect solution, I think it looks fine for now. Navel piercings and tattoos were also added (although tattoos only work when they are on the lower part of her body right now)

I tweaked a lot of logic with the map, so it’s more functional. This included adding different cursor shapes to hint that certain actions are possible.

I added a small moment whenever you go to a room that ‘fades in’ the character. This gives you a feel for the room and also slows the pace down a bit, which is nice.

Beyond that I consider the demo ‘feature complete’. The last week and a half I will focus on creating content in terms of hair styles and clothing (and other stuff) so you have more options to play with. I also use placeholders backgrounds which I would like to replace, so I have begun working on the bedroom.

Until the demo release I will be working on adding as much content as I can!

Thanks for reading!

Albatross