Update News #44 - Housekeeping
Heya, it's been a long time since the last post but it's here now! I've been pretty busy IRL (working to take over the family business and whatnot) but I've also been busy working on new stuff for the game and I'm finally confident enough to share these with yall. So here are what's coming in future updates:
Simulation Life Game Mechanics
Any of you who have been around since version 1.0 would have known that the game started off as a linear visual novel, but because of various reasons, it is now a point and click adventure game, with simulation life game mechanics. I've been hard at work implementing some additions that would help shape the game going forward.
The previous Time System has been redone to split the day into more chunks, most activities will use up a 'chunk' of time, while some events or activities might move you to another time of day. Each day will have 8 time 'chunks' in total, and split between 4 times of day (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night).
Stamina System, doing various activities will require stamina, usually things that require stamina will earn something in return, like increasing stats, or earning money.
Lust is a stat showing how aroused Alexandra is, it will increase slowly over time and will get affected by different events happening. Some events or options become accessible only if your have enough lust.
Lunars is the main currency used around the land and Alexandra can make money by helping various people around the city with their tasks, doing various things. You can spend money in stores to buy new items, food consumables and services.
Important: Right now some of these mechanics won't matter too much. These are only implemented now so that we can make use of it, going forward.
NPCs and Schedules
Minor and major NPCs will be visible in various areas in the game, you can talk and interact with them. Some NPCs (usually all the important ones) will have a dedicated dialogue screen (the one showing Olive is a WIP screenshot I took a while ago).
NPCs have their own schedules and will move around the map (if they do move around).
Minigames and Side Content
As of right now there are two minigames that will become playable in future updates, a mining minigame, and a card game. These are completely optional and you can choose to ignore them if that's not your thing.
Regarding upcoming Version 6.0 Updates Version 6.0 will come with most of these new additions, along with the continuation of the story, getting to Princess Caroline's magic training.
There are no dates, but I will have a post up whenever the final build of Version 6.0 is finished. Supporters (current and past, I'm sorry for making yall wait this long) will get a slight early access when it does come out.
The next version SHOULDN'T break your Version 5.0 save files, I think.
Version 7.0 will have no new mechanics added, I'll just be focused on adding new story content.
So much time has been spent on adding new mechanics that I've barely have time to work on the story stuff.
