Unity Caroline's Harvest Moon [Dev Thread]

[besimole]

Hello everyone. I haven't written anything for a long time, it's time to tell you how things are going.
To begin with, about the visuals: for the last couple of months, I drew several key frames for future animations.
Combat mechanics: I'll tell you a little bit about how I plan the fights to be. The fight consists of two phases - foreplay (teasing) and sex. In the first stage, Cara can fight with the harasser, and find a way to escape from his embrace, force the opponent to be satisfied by only the prelude, or quickly move everything to the second phase. In the second stage, Cara will just have to endure the sex or, on the contrary, try to stimulate her partner so that he comes sooner. Everything happens in real time, and the player's inaction will lead to defeat.
I made a prototype of the combat system, it worked and everything seemed to be fine, but it didn't suit me at all... The system was a bit illogical and not much fun. That's why I've rethought it and I'm going to redo the logic of the fights a little bit.

I'm continuing to work on the visual style of the combat system, refining the interface.


The plans for the future are to continue working on the combat system and the animations for it, as well as add all sorts of QoL improvements, like a quest log and other indicators.

 

[UnifoxStudio]

The picture look really nice ! I laughted for the threaten reference ( it is a reference right ?)

 

[besimole]

The picture look really nice ! I laughted for the threaten reference ( View attachment 3462333 it is a reference right ?)

Thank you very much! Indeed you noticed correctly c:
A lot of skills have references in their icons

 

[besimole]

Hey. I decided that I should remind you of my existence a little bit again, so here's a new progress report for you. Don't worry, the project is not finished, everything's in progress, I will not disappear without warning!

Have you ever made stupid mistakes? Me too. And so one of my stupid mistakes was that I decided to migrate the project to a new version of unity. It was a disaster, I practically had to reassemble the project from the ground up and I spent at least a week on all of it.

But fortunately there are also good things to tell. I've finished sketching out all the skills in the combat system... However... I don't like them at all. And most likely I will redo them, but it's definitely worth it to show something, so here's some frame. Oh and by the way, I've greatly redesigned the interface and, overall the way how the database in the combat system is structured. However, I don't like the fight logic at all and it will have to be redone again.

So far, I've put the combat aside and decided to work out a little bit on the second most important (after the combat) system - Caroline's passives. I wrote the logic for earning them, the conditions, and sketched the interface. There will be a lot hinged on the passive skills.


Further plans. They're not very complicated. I really want to post a playable build already. Even if there are no animations, finished graphics, with some temporary sounds and the duration of the demo version will be 15 minutes at best, but I would like to let people touch the game. All I have to do is finish working with the passive skills, refine the combat system a bit, add some sound, make another mechanic (I won't tell you what yet) and then just set up everything: dialogues, skills, passives.

I hope to finish the concept demo before September this year.
Don't forget to look at the banner! I spent a lot of effort to draw it с:

 

[besimole]

Greetings. Have you probably already forgotten about me and decided that I quit the project? But this is not the case. Of course, I didn't have time to finish the demo by the time I planned... But I would have made it if it hadn't been for my "perfectionism" that convinced me to rework the WHOLE game in a new way. Everything worked in the old version, but I didn't like how it worked... Over the years that I have been doing this project, I have learned a lot of new things and understand that many things can be redone and done much better than was done before. And that's exactly what I did... I started to redo all the mechanics of the game to make them look closer to what I originally intended. For example, NPCs now don't just say all sorts of phrases, they also take into account the location, the popularity of the heroine, and all sorts of other parameters. Due to my desire to rework everything, I do not know when I will finish the demo. But don't worry, I won't give up the project, I really want to finish the demo and let the players watch it. Thank you for your attention, until the next report!

 

[besimole]

Hey-hey-hey... I decided that I should remind you about myself. My project is still in development. Very slowly, but the development is still ongoing. Nothing new has been added there in the last six months, but I have redone a lot of things that were working poorly before. I am still confident that I will finish the main basic mechanics this year and release a demo version of the game. Unfortunately, its duration will be no more than 10 minutes. But after the demo version, I will be able to focus only on the content of the game, and not on the development of game mechanics.
At the same time, I am trying to slightly improve the graphic component of the game, for example, instead of slides in the introduction, I decided to make an animated one.
I will not make any promises about the deadlines, and I am really sorry that the development has dragged on for so long. But I will try to finish the demo as soon as possible!

 

[Kutushmurf]

Hi! Game Dev here. Take your time, slowly but surely if you need.
I think your project looks intresting! So keep up the good work

 

[besimole]

I decided that I should remind someone about myself a little bit and I'm in a hurry to do it.
The project is not dead and I'm still developing it. True, I only have time to work on it on weekends + I have a lot of health problems because of which I often go to the hospital... That's why the process is going extremely slowly. But I've done the largest part that I wanted to finish this year and then there are smaller modules left.
I can't give any deadlines for completion, but they are definitely this year
The current plan is to rework a few more mechanics, then fix a huge number of bugs.
After that, I'm going to start writing dialogues/phrases/passive skills. And in conclusion, I'll add some sound effects.

Thank you for your attention, have a nice day.
Moving towards the goal