Cards of Gluttony Dev Log #7 [20/06/2023]

Guess what? It's time for another development log, let's start with the most exciting one!

Ring ring!

There is now a new addition to the main menu bar: your phone! Turns out a lot of the writing has very naturally alluded to a feature like this: the times you need to reach Gordon, Ikem's offer to work out at the gym, as well as Beau's suggestion to go on a date.

As you can see in the gif, each contact has a unique profile picture. I decided to take the time to imbue a bit of personality into each person's photo. Let's take a closer look at the ones I have so far:

• Gordon uses something of a more formal photo, it's an old one too, as you can tell from his hair color.
• Ikem's is more artsy in comparison, with a more dramatic expression and lighting.
• Ricky's is probably the most interesting out of all of these, he uses an older picture as well: one from before the incident™. We'll get around to exploring that at some point.
• And finally we have Beau, who uses a photo of himself at a pride parade! (Happy pride month!) He is so far the only character in the game that explicitly tells you he's gay, so I figured this would be a cute detail.

Clothes!

Now begins the road to populating the game with a bunch of clothing options. Here's the three I currently have in the works (we'll see how many of them I'll manage to finish before the next release)

Admittedly, I have a very narrow sense of fashion, so you can expect most clothes to just be something along these lines. On the bright side, I am open to suggestions, so as always, you can let me know what kind of outfits you'd like to see, here in the comments or through private messages.

And speaking of clothes, some of you might appreciate this work-in-progress of Gordon in a suit:

Sprinkling in some fun facts: those are the very same glasses he's wearing in his old profile picture, and they are in fact prescription glasses. He just prefers contacts nowadays.

Onto the... card of the month?

Am I going to try and make this a thing? Yes, I am. I'll try to showcase a new card in every dev log from now on. For the very first one, take a gander at this:

This card is actually already in v0.2.0, it is just inaccessible: it's part of Beau's 2nd Deck.

And this is the perfect time to reveal to you that your opponents will in fact update their decks over the course of the game. Not only their decks, they might also change their max. Wgt or the reward card you get after beating them! 

In this case, Beau's second deck appears after you had won one match against him, so if you managed to beat him, look forward to that on your rematch!

This card was originally in his initial deck, it was meant to help him catch up to you in card draws, since his lower max. Wgt means he can't reach the very useful 3 draws at 40+ Wgt. In the end, I decided it was a bit excessive for his first fight.

In fact, the deck Beau uses in the first fight is such a stripped down version of what I originally wanted it to do that... it doesn't really do anything particularly interesting. It's probably going to be a while before you'll be able to see the original deck in-game though.

... and that's it for now

As always, thank you for reading and for supporting the project!