[Perpetual Change] Weekly Report #42

Warning ! Don't open and scroll on these posts if you want to keep the surprise for the final Chapter 4 release.

It's time to begin a month of polishing on the game!

I started by finishing a graphic asset for Chapter 4 : Karlton's googles.

Then, I spent some time on minor bugs corrections from previous chapters. There's a lot of little bugs that may have been unnoticed, it's sometimes hard to track them down and I can't explain or repair some of them (random crashes due to menu features for example).

I'll probably need the help of a programmer who knows how to use ruby at some point to correct some of them.

I had a lot of feedbacks from previous chapters telling me that the potty system was too fast, so I extend it a little. There was 2 minutes between each accidents previously and I extend it to 3 minutes in most of the cases.

On the same topic : Fiona's house made her apparition on previous chapters, which need some new dialogues.

The more important dialogue is obviously for chapter 3, when Fiona is on your team.

Speaking of Fiona, I tought it would be cool to integrate a relationship variable into the game, as there is many things you can do in chapter 3 affecting her (the sidequest with her, the choices when you confront Ronald between "Save yourself" and "Save Fiona").

We already have a maturity variable and I don't want this to affect the game too heavily (it would be a nightmare to have different dialogues depending on maturity x the status of your relationship with Fiona).

BUT! It's something we can take in consideration for the last chapter of the game, when Fiona have to make some decisive choices. I think we can go for three different relationship status : bad, neutral  and good.

Next, I worked on a new location and npcs. Don't worry! This bustset is just a placeholder! Nothing this ugly will be feature in the actual game.

This new place is a shop you're going to be able to visit during all the chapters. There is three new npcs with a good bunch of dialogues for each day.

This location and npcs are actually the wish of someone who made a big donation to the game. It's a kind of thank you. For the player, it will be interesting, especially in chapter 2 since the manager have a secret kink...

And that was all for today! 

Next week, I'll continue working on this new shop and probably start drawing the bustset of this new character!