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As you've already heard many times before, we're making a sandbox game with many gameplay elements. Originally we were planning to make college lessons our first gameplay element we add into the game, but it's taking a bit more time than we anticipated, even though we're working on it every day. So it looks like the first gameplay element in the game is going to be a hotel maid job.
For now, hotel is going to have four rooms with five long-term hotel residents. Two women and three men, but that's all I'm going to tell you about them today. We have plans for two more rooms. One is going to have a famous rock star, second will have a character from BB, but you won't see him until 0.5, it's going to be a surprise.
Besides five long-term residents, we'll also add Louise (Angela's mom) — owner of the Magnolia hotel network, Monica — hotel administrator, and Lien — a masseuse. You might have seen those characters in earlier post next to reception.
Now, let's talk gameplay. Each shift Kate will be cleaining one hotel room: bedroom and bathroom. Sometimes the room is going to be empty and cleaning up the room is going to work like a find-an-item minigame. Most of the time players will get to decide what to do with stuff they find. Adding a minigame will take some time, but we're aiming at 0.4.
Sometimes the room won't be empty and players will see events. Every character will have a series of events and dialogs, Kate will establish relationships with all of them. For now Kate won't have any say in what room she's going to clean, but eventually Monica will let her make that decision in the future.
Hotel is going to play important role in our story, we'll be adding new characters, expanding already existing ones and adding new content.
Soon I'll tell you more about our long term big plans about the game.