Game States Galore (Patreon)

Helloooo you wonderful supporters you~

I wanted to make another post, this time around all the various game states that you can achieve at the end of the upcoming update. I made a similar post on the game's discord, but I also wanted to post about it here. Let me break it down...

Right now there are four routes in the game, one for each girl. In each route, over the next two in game days, two girls will grow, from size 0 to size 1 or from size 1 to size 2 (or one girl can grow twice in a row!). As mentioned before, who grows and what order is determined by your relationships with the other girls of a route. So, with all these options, I did the math...

Each route has three options for the first experiment. This gives 12 different paths and 10 different game states, with each path being a sequence of events and each game state referring to the the sizes of the girls. Each route can reach 3 of those 10 states. From these 10 game states, each has two or three options for the second experiment. This leads to 8 possible game states, each available in two routes. When you do the math, this results in a grand total of 28 different paths, with each route having 7 ways the two experiments can play out. 

Now, even though there are so many different paths, those paths all lead to one of eight game states. The thing that differentiates those game states is the route and experiment order, which is shown by what outfits the girls are wearing. You see, the new end of game screen (which I used to take these screenshots) reflects the images of the girls in the stats screen, which shows the most recent outfits of the girls that the player has seen.

As an example, the first image in this post is possible in two routes. Elena and Jessica are in their size 2 outfits, so it's from either Elena's route or Jessica's route, and one of them caught up to the other in the first day's experiment, which gave them time to go shopping for their outfits on the second day. Then, because Sophia is small and Mia is size 2 and still in her previous outfit, you can tell that she was the second day's experiment because she hasn't had time to get her new outfit.

Is it complicated? Yes. Does it make things difficult for me? Also yes. But I knew what I was getting into when I came up with this lunacy. What happens after this update? Well, there's one more experiment, which will reduce the possibilities down to four game states, each available in three routes. But before the third experiment, I want to have a scene with all four girls unique to each of the eight game states. Not sure what those scenes will be yet, but I have some ideas...

Anyways, progress on the update continues on. Writing the dialogue has been a challenge in some cases, but I'm hoping to get another preview out soon and maybe get the update out this month (no promises, but I'll try my best).

Thank you as always for your continued support!

- K. Bro