Dev-Diary 5

Greetings, I´m back from my vacation! I hope everyone had a good time too, because mine was amazing. But let´s get back to work, shall we? Starting with a quick update on progress.

On my To-Do-List:

New event with Xici: Written and "animated". All done.

Joint training events with the girls (Aline and Jade): Almost done. Text is written, some work on the images left. The idea is to make basic training a bit more interesting by creating events with the other girls. Some gameplay-bonus are involved (like bonus motivation or reduced exhaustion), but I really just wanted to write Aline drool over Ginas muscles or having Jades and Ginas teacher-stundet roles reversed at the gym.

Streets of Rage: Intro is written, right now I´m on the VERY complicated mission of getting the basics of OOP into my head. So a lot of working on basic variable-handling and creating functions. It´s the dirty work, but it has to be done. This will be keeping me occupied for a while. A have a good idea on how I want combat to work (fast and snapy, highly descriptive, tied to the main story and somewhat strategical..), but getting it done with my limited knowledge will prove a challenge, But as a shimmer of hope, some really talented people offered me help whenever I´m stuck, so we´ll see how that turns out. Combat was never meant to be the focus of this game, but it was part of my original vision. So I´ll see how far I can get in a few weeks and if it sucks, I´ll probably reduce it to some written out events. Also a lot of work on images (here´s some concept art of Stella in her basic "battle-gear". Whip is still missing though..). Will take some time until I get to finally use the second image in-game😅..

Gina-Level 4: Not even started..

Dream-Sequence: Concepts are written, I´ll just make 1-2 images and post them later this week.

Flower-Shop and new NPCs: Slightly started. A few concept images from way back, when I thought the flower-girl might be main-cast. I´ll share them once I´m further ahead there.

So there´s a lot left to do. Question is now, do I try to crank that all in one update or do I split?

Kinda problematic is the Strength-Level 4, which should trigger an event-chain leading into Act2, therefore it has to be done at the end. And I have this really cool idea on how to progress the main story-line (at least I think it´s cool..), but it´s very character-driven and for it to work properly I need all my girls introduced and present at the gym (hence the quest-system with growth-requirements linked to the story).

But don´t want to put out another update without finally letting Gina grow.. So I´ll see. Feel free to voice your opinions though..

One last thing: I feel like I´m not really good at hosting a Patreon-Site. All I do is write about my progress and thoughts. If there are any wishes on what I could do here, feel free to tell me.