Weekly progress report

Hello guys! This week we had the first poll in a while (here) to decide the pictures MC will see on his social media, it will end tomorrow, so vote! This week I worked on the mall area so it's playable (but mostly empty), which will be fixed soon.

As always, we start with the 2D side of things. Erica should be completed this weeked, by that I mean the 3 outfists (2 new and the remake) and with that I'll start comisioning the NPCs that will show up in v0.2 aside from the ones you saw last month. As we're done with the NPCs Nicole gets her new outfit and remake and then we start again with the NPCs for v0.3. Now for the poll, Luna is wining so it would be her first apearance in the game if she wins! Cat ears aside I don't think her design will change that much from Lust Survivor unlike Xio who'll be flat and human.

For the game side, yesterday I took another tour of photo refferences. To the mall I'm basing the mall area of the game, it has changed a lot since I used to go but I got a few refferences to add some changes to the current map. Speaking of which, the game engine got an update and now I can add movies to the map, so the TVs can have small videos and we can have better publicity in game! Which does sound boring until you start seeing more stuff moving in the world, honestly compared to the first drafts of the game, just having NPC cars made the first area felt way more alive so imagine having more stuff playing in the background!

So, game wise. I focused mostly in making the mall area playable. Got the dialogues for the main story and main story related stuff. The shoping side of the mall I'm not completely sure on how to proceed, because on one side the easy solution is to give the player more money to buy the house stuff but then it would be hard to balance if one player spent all their money in furniture and the other spent the money on healing items. Other option is to have another currency, one is for the regular game items like healing and weapons and the other for furniture and gifts, the part that makes it feel weird is both currencies are the same on the game world which feels kind of dumb. But it also feels kind of dumb that by the end of episode 1 MC has more or less the equivalent of 5 usd and for episode 2 he needs to buy a couple thousands worth of house sutff, which a bring us to the same problem of my first option.

In any case, the last new area that I need is the national library. Which will be a smaller game area because it will be used for a couple of optional battles and getting Catalina in the group so there isn't much to explore there.