0.17-0.18 plans

It's time to tell you about our future plans, and this time we'll be talking about both 0.17 and 0.18. Both of these updates will have the same focus. College. There's no way we'll be able to do everything in a single month. We'll show you our roadmap in the next couple of days. It will have all our plans for 0.17-0.18 and only time will tell how much of it we'll be able to implement. Unfortunately, we can't correctly predict how much time every feature will cost us, but we'll do our best.

Right now college is more of a placeholder than a worthwhile gameplay mechanic. Kate is forced to spend a lot of time on it, but there isn't much interesting content once you're done with college-related storylines. It's time we change that.

Most of our next two updates will be all about college rules. Let's use "punishment in the principal's office" as an example.

• First, there's a conversation with Nicolas about the new rule.
• Next, Kate needs to talk to everyone on the college committee and learn how they feel about it. If they don't support it, Kate will have to find a way to change their minds.
• Every committee member will have their own ways to persuade them. Veronica already has one, Kate can win her vote in strip poker. Zoe will vote the right way if Kate agrees to test experimental pills. There might be side effects, more on that later. Adam is already hooked with Kate's selfies and the game needs more content in this direction. Karen will automatically support most initiatives from the get go. At this point Maya's vote doesn't matter as long as she doesn't veto the whole thing. We have grand plans for Maya, but we won't be able to do everything in just two updates, so we'll probably have to shelve her for now.
• Any new rules need reaction from the students. Kate will be able to learn all about that by talking to them.
• And last, but not least, is the implementation of the new rule. All kinds of events here. Kate, along with all other students, will need to be punished if she makes mistakes. And if Kate refuses, there will be serious consequences.

And that's just one new rule. We plan on adding way more than just one. Here are some examples:

• Checking the uniform. New uniform rules might have new underwear requirements some characters might find embarrassing.
• Mandatory health checkups in the medical office. Several stages. Personal and group ones. Luckily, Kate is Zoe's assistant...
• Punishments. In the principal's office, in the class, at home, with clothes and without them.

We also plan to add events not related to the committee:

• Events in class, some of which might be about side effects.
• Events between classes. Some random, some related to side effects.
• PE class, locker room, and the shower. Some events will be related to the cheerleading squad.
• Swimming lessons, if we have enough time for them.
• Cheerleading squad, or, more specifically, try outs.

Each of these will take us a lot of time and will have many events.

As a nice bonus, most of these updates will also work with Max once he gets into college.

We also plan on spending more time on character stats and balance. Right now the game has a lot useless stats that don't really do much. We plan to improve this aspect of the game.

As you can see, we have big plans. Unfortunately, we can't see the future so we don't know how much time it's going to take us. We'll try to do as much as possible. 0.17 will be released in August and 0.18 in September. We'll try to release them before the 16th so none of our Patrons will go without an update for the entire month.