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Lifepath youth regionalisation complete

Added 2024-08-27 23:18:09 +0000 UTC

Hey guys! I finished the regionalisation for the youth section of the Lifepath today.

This is, of course, the least sexy part of the game. But it's used to set some important backstory flags like her social class, whether she was a rock chick or a track star at high school, etc. It also includes the character creator, and is where the first skills are awarded and added to the new character sheet.

Revisiting it, I felt like the existing version lingers a bit too long in the youth section, so I've tried to make it faster moving and more fun in general.

Next steps

I'll push the test version out to contributors in order to get their feedback and improvements
While waiting for that, I'll pivot to tech work – the new hair and skin system has broken the youth avatar so we need to fix that and do some testing
There are now new art requirements for the youth section (e.g. Aussie schoolgirls don't wear English school uniforms), so our illustrator lovely Victoria needs some time to create the new assets required
- note to speed up production we're going to disable the rear view for the lifepath avatar (but it will still work in the main story)
- note 2 Victoria couldn't start on this until the exact structure was firmed up

She's been busy hand drawing haircut rear views anyway.