Major Update vote for 0.9
- Homes & Money 32
- UI Rework 9
Hello everyone!
The lesbian update will soon be done and so it's time to vote on the next major update. These will be the 0.8.x updates, finishing with version 0.9.0.
There's now just two options left before reaching the 1.0 release: either rework the UI or a content update focused on money.
The deadline is 16:00 BST on the 21st.
Homes & Money:
- Rent that must be paid at regular intervals, and a landlord who can be "convinced" to waive it temporarily.
- A couple of new places to live with passive benefits to stress and some differences in random events.
- A simple implementation of wealth-levels for npcs with benefits to income when marrying richer characters, or a penalty for having a broke spouse, plus the income for the housewife career will vary based on this.
- Some events based on NPC partner careers.
UI Rework:
Rework the UI, probably in JavaFX. UI rework is likely to take more than a month as it took longer than that for me to make the Swing UI in 2014. Releasing a half-complete UI probably won't work, so this means there'll be some months with no releases.
The below are things I'll look into for this update, but I'm not hard-committing to implementing them: that's a decision I'll come to one-by-one once I've looked into the technical aspects of the change.
- Full-screen option that actually looks okay and doesn't resize components weirdly. - Better handling of varying screen resolutions, with automatic resizing of text & components so players on massive resolutions won't see teeny-tiny text without breaking the game for players on small ones.
- Improve some of the poorer screens, especially the week planner.
- Properly-implemented light/dark mode
- Use of icons to give information about game state, such as the PC's arousal level.
- A basic "paper-doll" style character-viewer, initially with just a nude image and no clothes. Perhaps also an option to use a custom image for the PC.
- *maybe* an android port, though this is very optimistic. The current UI blocks this but I suspect there will be further difficulties elsewhere, and of course even if the UI is functional on android there's no guarantee it'll work well there.
You can select more than one option, in case you have several favourites. Although, with just two options this probably isn't as relevant as the last time!
Happy voting, and I hope you're all having a good week!