Polishing day 004 report
Added 2019-04-10 18:24:44 +0000 UTCA polishing day is a day I spend improving an existing part of the game, instead of always just working on the next sprint. The current polishing task is: add mom and dad jobs to the Lifepath.
I finished adding the starting mom and dad jobs today. Some of them are conditional (e.g. stockbrokers can only spawn in certain hometowns), so we’re repurposing part of the relationship table code to make that work.
I know this is a minor feature, but I’m excited about it because of the way it interacts with two other systems: Hometowns and Upheavals.
For example, today I wrote an Upheaval for a military family: dad leaves the army and gets a job as a military advisor in Hollywood. To support this I created a new hometown (Los Angeles), which gave me the idea to create a clutch of new mom and dad jobs: now parents spawning in LA can start with jobs ranging from Starving Actress through Stuntman and Screenwriter to 80s Film Star and Movie Producer (depending on the family’s Social Class).
This is now nearly ready to release! I’ll continue on the next polishing day, which is next Sunday.
I'll continue with this on the next polishing day (which is next Sunday).
Comments
Maybe she's deliberately doing the casting to wipe her parents off. Or maybe her parents are porn producers, and did not want to see her daughter in such movies. Stupid only that Kate has just grown up with such garbage, and therefore it is perfectly normal for her. Or maybe she goes to the casting without knowing that her parents are the producers. That would be a nice conversation in the evening, when the parents have seen these scenes in the editing room. I just get a big grin on my face when I think about all the other combinations.
Falloutbabe
2019-04-11 15:49:46 +0000 UTCI like the white stockings/black suspender belt look. She looks very smart.
Crushstation
2019-04-11 07:30:25 +0000 UTCYou know that if you keep posting pictures of sexy French maids, we're going to want a sexy French maid costume, right?
Alliterative Acolyte
2019-04-11 01:09:41 +0000 UTC"Not exactly the demo reel my parents were hoping for"
Hotenhornay
2019-04-11 00:54:19 +0000 UTCRight, EXACTLY! :-D Once we've coded in these hooks we – and future writers – can make *all kinds* of uses of them.
Crushstation
2019-04-10 21:09:10 +0000 UTCIf she does the casting couch scene with her parents being in the real movie biz: "Mom and/or Dad wouldn't be proud if they saw me now", Kate thought.
Breadloaf
2019-04-10 18:44:34 +0000 UTC
