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FratUniversity Update (Windows only)
🕑 Added 2025-12-24 00:29:54 +0000 UTCThis update is very much a foundation update. A bit tech-demo-ish still but it introduces some important new systems and characters.
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First Impression mechanic
When you meet new characters, you’ll get explicit options that shape how they come across and how the story responds to you. This is meant to give you more control over tone and direction from the very first interaction.
Character Traits
Choose your character traits to impact your responses and set you on your individual character arc.
Sexuality
Define your characters sexuality at the start, which may stay like it is or set you on a coming out arc in he future.
New intro sequence
Set before the original roommate scenes. You’ll meet Wes and Jesse, who act as your introduction to FratUniversity and help establish the themes and mechanics early on.
The campus itself has been fleshed out asset-wise, but there are still limitations. For now you’ll be teleported to your room, with barriers keeping you inside the only fully decorated space. You can bypass those barriers, but there isn’t much to explore yet and you may even softlock the game if you wander too far.
Huge upgrade to the way I handle buildings and rooms, so in the future you’ll get to explore rooms and meet people all over campus.
The original roommate scenes have not yet been updated to the new mechanics. That’s because the story structure will slightly change. You will meet characters first, then explore campus, and only later return to your room and go to bed after the first day. Since that middle section isn’t finished yet, the roommate scenes remain in their old form for now.
This update doesn’t push the story very far yet. It’s more about laying down the rails properly.
On top of the bigger structural changes, there are also minor updates to hair options in the character creator and some performance improvements to the campus map.
Nothing flashy, but all part of tightening things up.
Going forward, I want to slow down in a good way. Focusing on one issue at a time instead of trying to build every system simultaneously. Spreading myself too thin has definitely hurt progress, and tightening that scope already feels healthier for the project.
I’m really looking forward to continuing the story next year, building on these new mechanics properly, and keeping both the 3D version and Ren’Py ports moving forward together. Also ties in with Arena of Thebes which will use the same mechanics but have a soft reboot to accommodate all these new systems.
Thanks for sticking around, and for your patience. Hope you’ll enjoy exploring the new update and you’ll see the overarching vision. More updates are coming.
