12/08/2025 Update

In regards to the progress that has been made:

TL;DR: Two softlocks fixed, daily jobs and gifts implemented, crane game added, more date events + two story days being written now.

Technical Issues:

Fixed 2 softlocks.

One caused by using the CTRL Key which erroneously causes a character to not reach a destination during a cutscene.

One caused by RNG NPC movement. That specific NPC no longer moves and just holds position.

I did a lot of QA testing this week while implementing new systems. I played through the game from start to end multiple times. I fixed a lot of issues and transitions.

The interior of the apartments accidentally got reverted to the old design, this was fixed.

Gameplay Updates:

Added a new way to “Hide” rooms dynamically. I think it came out quite well. That will be visible in the next update.

Daily jobs are implemented (Finally...)

After doing the box mini game once, every day then onwards will let the player attempt the mini-game again. There are different setups that are chosen at random.

With a source of income implemented, gifts are able to be purchased from the underground mall and can be won by playing a small crane game minigame at the arcade. These items are now able to be gifted to Chizuru and Ruka. Unique gifts are planned as well that will have other methods to obtain.

New Status screens implemented. Item Menu option added to view your currently held items.

What’s planned next:

I'm working on writing 2 more date events for each girl since those are going to be increasingly important shortly. I also plan on implementing 2 more days of events in the main story.

I plan on touching up some parts of Chizuru's first date event. I feel like it's too short and also I considered having another HJ scene in the changing room, but I felt like it was too early to have her do that to him and I didn’t want to make her seem too out of character (I don’t want to stray too far from her characterization).

Things were pretty productive this week in terms of cleaning things up and planning. Writing is about to begin.

Since this is the first thing I've ever made, I hope I haven't mentioned that too much. But I'm working on ironing out those bad habits I have with procrastination. I also realized, while planning future ideas, that if I ever release another proof-of-concept demo, it needs to include all major functionality from the start.

That way, I won't have to implement new systems later during development. The demo should be a better representative of what is to be expected.

I appreciate you reading to the very end.