A quick update, I will try keep it short.
I've mainly been doing play tests and trying to make the gameplay loop a bit more smooth and enjoyable. This has mainly come in the form of exposing mechanics and making them more obtuse and understandable.
This includes more tutorials and some tooltip additions/changes.
- Each area you can interact with now has its own sensitivity rather than girls having a single extra sensitive area.
- This sensitivity can be also be modified by traits.
- Rebalanced several Sponsor requests which were too hard to complete.
- Improved how girls react to exam actions, i.e responding positively while reporting the action.
- Improved some of the post exam office/home events. They are still quite simple and will be expanded upon after release in a large "content" update.
- Improved gameplay loop/flow for the weekend, when no exams are scheduled.
- Maked starting home visits take fewer clicks to help it less tedious to do.
- Added "during class" modifiers to Exam Subjects, so now something like "Sex Ed" increases arousal again during the exam.
- Added support for cleanly removing and adding girls and mothers.
- Added new notification system allowing multiple notifcations at once. Used to help report changes like earning money, reputation and prestige which can sometimes happen all at once.
- For clarity exam actions now show:
- Actions "tolerated" by rules are now highlighted in green.
- Their report chance, high report chance actions are highlighted in red.
- Girls sensitivity for the targeted part.
- Fixed and improved a lot of dialogue, mainly making it flow a bit more naturally including:
- Mother report calls.
- Photo/Video shoots.
- Fixes for modding:
- Exam subjects now correctly update when subject info is changed.
This is not an exciting update, just lots and lots of bug fixes and balance changes most of which I didn't bore you with. But its also a good sign, it means I am happy with most of the systems and focusing on polish and making them more user friendly.
As a small side update the sex interaction system is still being worked on, really struggling on finding a good balance with it. The first release will probably include a somewhat under developed version while I think of something better.
Currently is works as follows:
You can select a girl and part you want to interact with much like exam actions. You also have the option of "group" actions which involve both girls; this is only available in threesomes of course.
There are also "player" actions which directly involve a girl i.e "Take Break" above.
Your goal is to pleasure all the participants and not cum before you do so. Right now im not happy with it, its a bit simplistic and not really a fun system. There is also not much sense of "reward" for accomplishing your goal or failure if you don't.
This system has been less of a priority so its understandable but I would like to make it interesting enough to be a main system in the game. If you have thoughts or examples of a "sex" system like this please let me know, I would like to check it out for inspiration.
There I go rambling when I said I would keep it short but writing these does help me actually visualize problems and possible solutions. I won't be giving a list of my current blockers because I need to take a step back and actually see what still needs to be done outside of polish.
Thanks to everyone interested, I hope to have an initial release soon but I won't give a date because I have proven to not be very good at it. Anyway, back to work.
