Please Please Please at the start give us the option to switch off anal
Hmm... I didn't even think of the option to turn things on or off...
I'll compromise... You can select to do it, or not, in dialogue. (Do it once, and it assumes you would naturally select to do it again. Avoid it and your response determines if you never see that option again.)
UPDATE: Finished the painful code that handles the dates and times... Now I can punch-in a start date, and time, and it changes appropriately with real calendar dates and real time. (No more military time and 3000 day summers!)
Unfortunately, for those where the "Locale" would fuck my shit up, I have purposely hard-coded days and months in English. (Translations possible, I believe. If not, I can make them available. Just have to make sure they fit the format.)
EG, no EU/RU/JP/CN etc...
Now, since this story moves faster, and more progressive in nature, everything consumes time. (Even walking from room to room. 1-min at the least.) The goal is to get it setup so the whole thing can reasonably be "beat", within a 6-month game-time period. (It will still look like summer all year round, but no swimming for the time beyond the expected 6-months. Like that would matter anyways. They still have plenty to do in the house and possibly around town.)
PROGRESS CHART:
1: Finish the digital clock graphics, so it can report HH:MM AM/PM without a billion images.
2: Knock-out a couple of "selection" graphics, which are duplicates for appeasing RenPy's demanding button-images.
3: Setup the "dialogue boxes" and "choice selection", styles
4: Add-in the generic facial-expressions (No expressions yet. Just the smiling faces while they talk.)
5: Create the face-icons, to indicate where everyone is located.
6: Setup the "TOWN", area, for at-least the clothing-store, "Work", and "????". For when people are at work or in an unknown location. (Mother/Father at work. Sister works at the clothing-shop, and will be there working or shopping.)
7: Finish the introduction story...
8: Upload and wait for others to report broken shit...
9: Fix broken shit and extend the story and facial-expressions.
10: Post some TLDR stuff...
11: Decompress my brain...
12: Goto #8 and repeat, until everyone has tennis-elbows and/or carpel-tunnel syndrome.