Lust Complex Roadmap

Hi guys,

Time to share my plans for Lust Complex with you all! 

I'll start by repeating what I said before but my goal with this game is mainly to get some experience with 3D games before making something more serious. This means I'm planning to keep Lust Complex not too... complex (Ba Dum Tss! :D). Several parts of it will be reused in my future games to speed up development, like the discussion management, girl customization (though it'll be improved with more options in future games) or more behind the scenes elements like external data XML or JSON file management or save features. I'm still quite slow now since I have to soak up a lot of tutorials online to figure out how to do the things the way I want but I should get faster with time. Those parts are always similar in games so it'll save some time and I'll be able to focus on giving each of my game a unique gameplay and make them feel different of each other despite sharing the same girls.

What you have in Lust Complex v0.4 contains most of the final gameplay and my main focus now will be to add some features, improve some aspects and make it a bit more challenging and entertaining to play. Just to explain a bit better what I mean by "final  gameplay", you won't get much more new stuff to do: Build and upgrade your rooms, get tenants, spy on them and fuck them in this management game. You can already do most of that and I won't add more on this aspect. By features, I'll detail them below.

So here are my ideas of what's left to do with Lust Complex to consider it complete.

Better interactions with the tenants

• Currently, you only see the tenant when you have sex with her or during blackmail. The objective will be to update the panel when you click on a door to show the tenant if she's home and have her react to you visiting her based on her parameters.
• Besides seeing them when clicking on the door I'd also like to make the front wall of the apartment togglable so you can see inside and watch them do random stuff if they're at home.
• Adding some random events during gameplay and have tenants show during discussion and react to the way the discussion is going. Said events could possibly impact the tenants parameters the usual way: be good or bad.

Complete the missing features

• Tenants finder: There are three ways to get tenants but only one active right now. The agency option will allow you to fill a simple form to describe what kind of tenant you want, like hair color, body type, job or personality which is still randomly generated based on your choices but still better than the newspaper which generates the tenants randomly. The head hunter will allow you to 100% customize the tenant to your taste, similar with the main character customization.
• Free mode: Once the player completes the story mode, he'll unlock free mode where you'll be able to rush directly to unlimited sex and direct customization during animations.

More customization elements and animations

• Of course, more hair style and outfit so the tenants are more unique.
• And obviously, more sex positions! I'll also improve the existing ones.

Visual improvements

• The game still have issues with lights which I hope to fix before the final release
• Some better backgrounds would be welcomed too if I can figure out how skyboxes works. Watched some tutorials but I'm still lost lol.

Better save system

• Only one save game at the moment. I'll make it similar to the one in Glassix with the option to choose the name of the game since I'll be reusing this system in the future, better make it right from the start.

Game difficulty

• At the moment, the debt interests only increase when you open a new room making the game is pretty easy. The only way you can lose is if you have too many rooms without tenants. I intend to keep this as a casual difficulty and I'll be adding a challenger difficulty where the interests increase with time so you'll have to manage your business much more efficiently.
• I'll also have to have a better look at the fear/blackmail system to make it more meaningful. It appears a bit too simple in the current state but I didn't have time to think more about it yet.

Bug fix

• And of course, fix bugs as they are reported. 
• At the moment, I'm aware some of you couldn't complete the tutorial due to a bug preventing you from clicking on the indicated button. I couldn't reproduce it myself so I still have no clue on how to fix it but I'll add an option to skip tutorial so that the game is still playable despite this. Hopefully I'll find the issue before final release.

To be determined

• I was planning to make the small main character shack as customizable too but in the end found it redundant with the tenant's room so I gave it up. A player suggested using it as a sex dungeon which is a nice idea but would add a lot more work so I'll leave that to your own decision at a later date.

That's about it for the roadmap! I expect all of this to take me 3 to 6 months top depending on how fast I'll figure out some of the more complicated stuff.

I hope this roadmap will suit your taste.

I would not be able to create all this without your help so thanks again for your patience and support!