Weekly News #64 (For Patreon) [eng] (Patreon)

A little more than a week has passed since the release of the 0.919 update and it's time to release a new WN. Undoubtedly, most of the past time we not only worked, but made a plan for updating, but even so, there is something to show us. In addition, today the results of the voting for the content part update are being summed up, so without further ado, let's get started.

As you can see, the clear favorite in the voting is, again, the plot, just 18+ content is in second place, and new random events are in third place... The vector of development is set and clear, so it is unnecessary to say anything else. In addition, there will be some news about this vector below, so now on we will start with innovations and the news itself...

First, two new tabs were added to the phone: camera and album. With the help of the first one, you will have the opportunity to photograph randomized NPCs/backgrounds of locations, and with the help, respectively, of the second function, you will be able to view your captured on camera works. In addition, a new button has been added to the menu of interaction with randomized NPCs, with which the camera tab opens. How to use camera entirely up to your imagination. You can take pictures of girls in the school pool or on the beach, you can also take pictures of something more interesting - the very fact of having this opportunity puts it on a par with the gallery and gives some scope for imagination, which, of course, will be used in its own way in the future. One drawback - for some technical reasons, the camera will not be available on android devices, and we are still thinking about how it can be adapted to them, but, accordingly, this has its pitfalls... However, let's not talk about sad things, it's better to look at the screenshots and proceed to the next innovation, which, oddly enough, acts primarily because of the camera...

We moved the button to go to the map to the main interaction screen. Now you can switch to it even without using your phone, however, it will be possible to switch to it in the and old way... The same thing was done with the diary. In general, you can look at it in the draft version.

There were also some other visual changes in this regard, but they are not so important, so we will omit them.

Secondly, what was done was the function of removing participants from the club, made at the numerous requests of the players. Now they can be kicked out, and some pages of the interface for the club as a whole have been redesigned, which is why there are many times fewer visual bugs associated with this. A small feature, right? However, you can see a screenshot of it below...

Third, the game of cards. Initially, we thought about this possibility for a long time, but still decided to make it optional. By purchasing certain cards in the store, you can offer to play them to randomized female NPCs when they are at your home. The bets, respectively, are different, starting from the usual game for in-game currency and ending with the game for undressing... Accordingly, all this was done because of the latter, but this is not about that now. The rules of the game are blackjack, which is chosen because of its ease and speed, unlike some other methods of playing cards, starting from the same "Durak", popular in the CIS and which can be played for ten minutes, and ending with Crazy Eights, which are already popular all over the world and are also not so fast to are being played... Unlike them, the game of blackjack takes place, again, quite quickly and you can finish it in the same ten seconds, provided that it will be played "non-strained", as originally intended. For those who do not know the rules, a brief excursion will be held, and for those who are not interested in mini-games at all, you can skip this game in the game and immediately go to the result, which will be based on your attributes, perks, as well as randomness, as it was done at work in a grocery store. A screenshot of how it looks can be seen below:

Fourth, small work was carried out on the technical part of the game. We can even say that compared to the previous version, they are not carried out at all, but nevertheless... Small game moments were refactored, a small number of bugs and some typos were fixed. At the moment, several of our testers are working, but they rarely find bugs, which is undoubtedly pleasing.

Fifth, as for the future of the game - a new appearance for randomized NPCs. At the moment, work is still underway on this, although it is slow due to the illness of our artist COVID19. So far, there are only sketches of the face, and it is not known whether we will have time to integrate them in this update due to the circumstances. Nevertheless, of course, we will try to do this. The sketches can be seen below:

And this is for those who have forgotten what the newly drawn body looked like:

In general, from this moment on, we begin to explain why new events were not made for randomized NPCs. In essence, all the forces are now thrown at redrawing the existing ones NPCs, which somewhat aggravates our situation in this regard, and although we try to somehow maneuver between different elements of the game, it does not always work out... However, this is a bad explanation, right? To put it more briefly and clearly, we are preparing for the integration of sex scenes with randomized NPCs. They will be drawn after redrawing the existing one NPCs, which is still going on in small and small steps, but in general, this will be possible in the near future, unless, of course, unforeseen circumstances happen, as a year ago... However, even in this case, we have some ideas, so you don't have to worry.

That is why at the moment we are working so hard on "home interactions with NPCs", because it is in the apartment that the very first scene will be, although I think it's too early to talk about it... Summing up, we can say that by ignoring the events with randomized NPCs, we were preparing for the integration of something larger and more expected. Instead, we did made a lot of events with story characters, which we are not going to deviate from in this update.

Nevertheless, we will end on this note. It was somewhat pleasant, perhaps even unexpected for some, but in general we told both about the plans and what was done. A new WN will be released soon and if something changes, we will let you know, and for now there is only a lot of work left for us on the game.