May Update, week 3

What a week!

This week had so many important upgrades and developments to support the next batch of scenes and moments in the new Stadium Park location.

Kim and Teddy

Kim lost her dog Teddy and is looking for him in the park. If you go looking, you can find him, and when you do, you can play a little game to catch his leash while he runs from you. So this required implementing an entire quicktime minigame. Yes, I know, they are very played out, but it was the right kind of game element to cover trying to catch a small animal.

Once you return Teddy to Kim, one variant of the scene includes her giving you her phone number, which leads to a whole text message and picture message chain that can then lead toward a chance to hook up with Kim later (to be implemented before month end).

But oh, I guess that means the text messaging on the phone needs to stop looking like ass, huh?

Phone upgrades

The text messaging no longer looks like ass. Messages have proper bubbles around them. Pictures can be received, and you can click on them to see them larger, and then collapse them back. There are a few minor glitches in this I need to address, but it's a big step toward making message chains work pretty much like they do in real life.

I don't even want to think about implementing emojis. Let's... let's not, for now. Put it on the 'would be nice' pile. There's more important stuff to do.

Aaaaanyway, making all this phone stuff work better serves one of the main stories, since the upcoming main romantic character Junko has her whole level 0 story play out exclusively over messages and video.

Next up

The Greased Lightning Diner is underway, and I plan to get enough renders and components lit up for it to work for now, and add more later when there are dates and side characters based out of that location. For now, just need to prop up another spot and it will dovetail nicely with other stuff I'm making this month. For reasons that the walkthrough will make apparent.

Rounding out the month with XXX content, specifically the sex scene with Kim, and then upgrading another Charlotte scene if there's time. This is likely to be the way I do things in future months; pack new scenes and features into the month, and then do a flurry of spicy stuff near the end. And when locations are done or mostly done, the pace of spicy contents can increase.