Public News 01.10.23

That's what I worked on the last few weeks and now it's finished.
This is the PTA-Meeting. Maybe the stuff that gives you the most headache when trying to implement new rules.
It works like this: You select a rule, club or building to unlock or update with your journal and when friday hits, the pta votes for or against it.

But it isn't so easy as to just hit the necessary stats and you're off. There is a probability calculated based on the stats, levels and so on. And if you're perfectly meeting the necessary values, you only get a 50% chance of being sucessful. So it's possible, but better keep working on the stats to make it easier ;) 

During the introduction you'll also now go through your first pta-meeting, where everyone quickly introduces themselves.

Next update:

Now for whats planned for the next update, for which I have no date yet. I'm still working out my schedule, but if everything works well, I hope to get one out at the end of october.

For the next update I planned to add the pta-meetings, maybe some new rules and some events for free roaming.

PTA is already finished so not much to report here.

For new rules I already have some planned, but if you have ideas, feel free to leave them here in the comments or even better, leave them on my discord :)

New events! Those make the most work for me. I spent quite some time collecting some event ideas and now I have to select some, script them out and render the images.

Versioning:

I wanted to talk about this at least once, as peoples expectations tend to be influenced by the version numbers. Sometimes they think the update after 0.9 becomes the full release, or a big major update. That creates false expectations that could ruin the overall experience once the update actually comes out.

So I want to explain how I count the versions for this game. 

The last update was Version 0.1.1A.

Now you see 3 values. 

The first one represents the major game state. 0 representing the game to be in early access. 1 would be a full release.

The second one represents the overall level the content is. The game progress can be represented with the levels 0 to 11. After the introduction your school reached level 1. So the number represents on which level the update focused. Here it is a one so the update mainly focuses on content for level 1. I'll work on the content in a continous manner so there will be no jumps, once I finished level 1, I'll go to level 2 and even if I make changes for level 1, the version stays at level 2.

And the last number is just a counter for how many major updates have been in the current level. Here it is important to know, that I distinguish between major and minor updates. A major update mainly focuses on content and overall game progress, while a minor update contains small changes to existing content, bugfixes and patches. So the third number represents the major update in the current level.

A major update is represented by a letter after the Version.

So version 0.1.1A means this version is Early access, is progressed to level 1, and has one minor update for the current major update that is also the first one.

I'm really bad at explaining this kinda stuff. So I hope I explained it good enough :D

Now that is it for this months public update.

I'll post a ptreon exclusive update on the 15th of each month, so look forward to that.

Love y'all and have a nice day!