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Quick Update
🕑 Added 2020-05-14 19:32:50 +0000 UTCHello everyone ^_^
Just wanted to drop a quick status update about the week because there hasn't been an Alpha build out yet. The short version of this update is that so far this week's schedule is going fine, and that I'm likely heading towards a Saturday night upload of the new build.
The longer version of this status update is that my original plans for adding in a gym to the game finally have sprawled a little (a bad habit of mine). Now, I've wanted to add in a gym for a long time, with the muscles and weight stats being added to the game around a year back, but set backs at the time threw the plans way off and led to me stopping that area of content until now.
When sitting down to add in the new gym, whilst originally I was planning on adding in a more simplified version of it, in the end I decided that it would just take more time for me in the future to deal with refitting the gym into what I really wanted (experience with the makeup system and a few others has driven that home clearly enough).
What I've been adding instead is on top of basic exercises, the player will be able to set up exercises that they'll undertake at the beginning of each day (like the makeup routine or the hygiene routine). These morning exercises will still take up the players first action 'points' up like they normally will, but the benefit is that the player doesn't have to micromanage their routine as much and the morning shower routine option will be played out after it for convenience.
There's also two new NPC's being added in to man the gym, which made sense to me after my recent forays into doing that with the maid store. One handles the mornings, one handles the evenings, pretty simple time division to keep the environment slightly less static. There's also an in-game charge for buying membership or exercising without a membership to the gym, which should add another small money sink to the game.
Overall, I'm happy with how it's progressing, but seeing as how I've been a little quiet the last few days (not to mention not having put out an Alpha - the reason being that the content is unfinished and I don't like putting Alpha's out with bugs that harm the general play-through) I thought it was important to just let you all in on exactly what I'm working on ^_^
Other than a few more commissioned art pieces coming back to me in various states of completion, I think that's basically everything going on at the moment.
Thanks for reading, and happy gaming ^_^
Comments
Jpmaggers
Hi Charles ^_^ Going to rush writing this again as last time I tried to write it Patreon ate the message :S (Seriously, Patreon is pretty awful for technical issues) The way I've set things up is more complicated than previously envisioned, but at the same time I've left myself room to add on more exercises and courses for later (for example I do eventually want to add in dance classes and a yoga studio). At the moment there are two NPC characters who work at the gym and are available at different times, 5 available exercises with varying prices and outcomes (for example weight training improves muscle mass more than it lowers body weight), and various different types of gym membership. The major updates really are that players can set out morning exercise routines for those who don't like micromanaging these things, and that the game now lowers weight and muscle mass by 1 point a day naturally (with an option to disable this). When a proper food/hydration optional system is in place this will balance out better, but for now players are going to end up pretty skinny XD As mentioned, I do have plans to expand the gym over time, adding on a yoga studio, so that is on the eventual to-do list. When it comes to dating, I could totally see dating options with both of the new NPC's, but will also add that dating options take a long time to write, so won't make any promises :) Hope that answers everything, and thank you for your questions/suggestions ^_^
Charles Hinkle
Thinking about the gym, I imagine two of the places there would be a yoga studio and a sauna, plus, I also imagine there would be NPCs you could hang out with and/or date, or did you already beat me to the punch on that?
