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🕑 Added 2019-02-09 01:26:13 +0000 UTCAs I stated earlier this week, I wanted to give everyone a quick little overview of the game I'm working on. Here's a list of things I wanted to make sure were in the game.
- Animations
- Cleaner UI
- Simple gameplay with the option for advanced strategy
- Modular characters
- No wasted clicks
So what do those all mean?
Modular characters: I have a system I refer to as Archtypes. Archtypes represent a collection of intrests and bans. So for example, Diane(see above) is the MCs mother. She has the Mother Archetype. The Mother Archetype dislikes overly sexual, lazy, or crude behavior, while also liking tidy, responsible, and good mannered behavior. Archetypes however are not permanant. Each character has some additional space to learn new intrests, and if the right collection of intrests are unlocked on a character, you have the potential to change a characters archetype. Which can happen multiple times.
Here are some examples of Archetypes I'm playing around with Diane (not a confirmation of anything)
- Mother (standard)
- Cool Mom
- Party Mom
- Trophy Wife (requires working on Mom and Dad)
- Lonely Housewife (requires working on Mom and Dad)
- Desperate Housewife (requires working on Mom and Dad)
- Lush
- Addict
- Dictator
- Dominatrix (requires working on Mom and Dad)
- Complete Degenerate
Now my initial goal would be to make enough archetypes for each of the initial planned characters to make the game intresting in all the Mature only ways. Which as it stands is probably something like 4 archetypes for a single path. And the initial plan is to have 5 characters. Once I have that in place, I'llexpand the cast as needed, but so long as I can come up with new Archetypes, I can keep adding to current characters.
Simple gameplay with the option for advanced strategy : I want there to be a pretty straight forward way to get each character into an AdultOnly state, but to also have more advanced Archetypes that may be more difficult to reach, that are more rewarding in other ways (such as unlocking new skills, additional scenes, introducing new characters). I also don't want any given Archetype, to lock out other archetypes. So for example, if you pushed Diane into being a Lush, I would make sure there was a way for you to also convert her into a Trophy Wife though that may be a lot of work to get to.
No wasted clicks: I plan for every action you take, to give you something. Clean your room...get some xp and Diane favor. Peep on the neighbor, get some xp. Watch a video, get some xp and pick up a conversation topic. Everything you do will advance you in some way, and I plan to use RNG very sparingly. So that you're never just cyceling to try and trigger any specific event.
Cleaner UI: This is specifically in comparison to SP. SP has such complex systems that the Tooltips, tend to be painful to read, and a lot of systems are just not explained in the game, because there's no good place to put those explinations. Not so with this game. I want every tooltip to be pretty easy to understand. It also helps that I'm redering in 16:9 Ratio, so there's a lot more room to explain things if needed.
Animations: I don't plan on animating every scene. But every Archetype will have at least one or two animations. I know that's a big sticking point for some people.
Finally I added a video for you to watch if intrested. It's a very tiny glimpse of what I've got so far. Keep in mind that this is the third time I've built this, and I'm only demoing about 6 hours of work. I say demoing, but this isn't even a tech demo yet. Only the foundation of a game has been made. So try to keep your expectations low :P
Comments
Jacob T. Madsen
I have to say, for me the thing that interests me the most about this project is the "no wasted clicks" statement. The character models havent really caught my attention. That said, I'll still check out the demo for this project once you release it. :)
Dunx
The archetypes thing is such a good idea and right up my alley. Looks fantastic, and I really hope you can manage both games. Maybe, as opposed to Superpowered, fewer characters but more content per character? Seems like putting in the baseline content for each of the students was a huge slog in Superpowered. Five very deep characters seems like enough for this design.
