Developer Diary 30 - Creation

The start of the game begins with an opening piece of story (not written yet) followed by the character creator. This character creator will give you the option to have some limited control over how the character looks like at the start. 

I’m in the planning stages for the character creator right now, but I’ve been able to do some setting up within the game to make sure things to smoothly. I initially had the plan to create a room specifically for the character creator and have that information pass over to the actual game, but I’ve come up with a much smoother solution which requires a lot less code.

The creator will work in stages. The first stage will give you control over the physical appearance of your character. The second stage will let you choose the clothing of your character and the last stage will allow you to choose the name (and other info?) for your character. Since one of the goals of the game is to change your character into however you want her to look, this creator will only give you a few options, and will simply give you a small nudge in the back to start you out. In the actual game you will have many more options. 

After the creator is done, I will begin laying out the rough designs for the intro of the game, which will give you some context and motivation for why you are playing the game, and will set the overall story in motion. More on that next week :)

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