It's immersive and accurate, in ways I really wasn't expecting - but the places where it breaks with reality for the player's benefit are great. (I wish jobs worked like that in real life - just walk in off the street after an all-night party, your veins throbbing with coffee, and flip burgers for an hour.) I'm having a great time playing it and it's a great December distraction.
I have three suggestions. First, the QOL option to minimize/use drop-downs and otherwise chose the order classes appear in under School and Studying. Not needing to scroll down to find outstanding studying or homework would be nice.
Second, I have a suggestion for what to do with Writing (and I suppose the same format would work with Artistic and maybe Photography too): have the character submit stuff for publication after finding a posting in a magazine/on the wall in Chamberlain. The character would decide to write something and it would appear as a project under School, to be completed by Studying (the idea being that the character decides to organize their art creation using the same scheduling notebook as their classes, and happens to write or draw well in the same circumstances). The kicker though, would be to have the Skill only increase by a negligible amount per session, with greater increases coming after they get feedback on what they submitted (so on a 100-point scale, it'd be a 1 point increase per session, but like 5 or 10 points when their story comes back with feedback or gets published).
The writing projects themselves have certain word counts, say 2000, and each 1 hour session would finish +/- 500 words (a critical fail would be 0); published stories bring in $0.08 per word, so $160 per story or so. To keep this from being a cash cow the odds of successful publication would be low, maybe 1 in 4 (so $10/hr over 16 hours or so of effort). A higher skill level would mean more successful sessions but not necessarily an increase in publication rate, since that's out of the player's hands.
As a side-bonus, it would give the Mail Center more prominence. In the real world, of course, e-submitting has been a thing for close to 30 years; the character just likes analog stuff.
...Oh, right, third suggestion! Campus Landscaping as a job. Gets easier to do with each Physical level and counts as mild but paid exercise. Would require purchasing overalls and a hat, and it keeps the character on campus with opportunities to interact with students (the kind who either like or hate paper towel mascots). The boss comes in only two flavors: Marisa or Zangief.
Thanks! I like these ideas. Secondary skills are definitely due some attention sooner or later... except for the video gaming skill, that one is doing fine, lol
In theory, yes. From what I've seen, you need to have a low Release stat, you need to encounter someone in the showers, and you need Disinhibition of 2 (for a shy proposition) or 4 (for a bold proposition) in order to trigger it.
Love the game. Really well done, I'm super impressed. I don't use discord, so I just wanted to report a quick bug: when starting a cam stream - it says there is an option to select the toys the audience can interact with but there is no clickable option that I can see. It also defaults to the first toy purchased, even though I have that hidden in encounters.
I'm pretty sure the sextoys available for use in camgirl streams are long-distance vibration ones, you buy them from the app in your phone, they arrive in like 4-5 days or something idk i don't do cam streams
Loved this game! One of the few games that have high replayability value due to the random and interesting events that pop out. The layers of randomness and complexity by the randomly generated npcs make every new playthrough a unique experience. Can't wait for 0.4 where the world gets fleshed out more!
To romance the best friend I just need to go to quad parties until I find out the secret correct? Its the 21st of Gourdtober and I just feel like I've gone to a LOT of quad parties. I've been using the sex talk too, but not prying further with the show boobs thing (Disinhibition 2).
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the 'Romancing your Best Friend' route ISN'T a quick thing. Also, how you first become aware of the Friday night Party secret is different depending on if you are playing a guy or a girl. Hypothetically, you might not get the clue at all if you are playing a Girl character who is sexually abstinent (and that is the last I am going to say on the subject). If you are playing a guy, you will probably be due for the initial clue here in the next party or so, pay attention to your interactions with your hosts.
I took me 6 weeks to get it to pop, specifically trying to get that, with cheats enabled. Then me and friend got assaulted. I as playing an abstinent guy. Maybe abstinence makes it more difficult? Side note: Dancing doesn't seem to be a skill you can learn, is everybody constantly terrible at the dancing at the party?
My best theory is that it's linked to the Physical skill (it would make sense, if nothing else), so you'll need to go to the gym or something, but it is possible to succeed on the check. Or it could be related to your party popularity, etc., hard to say.
At present, the only reliable (though not very) means I have found to improve your Dancing skill is to have a computer & a Livestreaming account & put on Dancing streams. When Dancing became something you could do at the Friday night parties, I was very happy, until I also noticed that even successful Dancing tests there don't seem to advance your Dancing skill. I hope that is just a bug that will get fixed eventually.
do clothes get dirty over the course of a few days? ive been rigorously washing my clothes every morning and night trying to avoid having my clothes get dirty and im not sure its even possible with me doing nothing. just curious because if i dont have to go through the trouble of washing clothes when i dont need to, i wont. lol, thanks in advance.
Certain circumstances can cause clothes to become 'soiled'. When that happens, the only way to get them un-'soiled' is to wash them in the Laundry. For verisimilitude, I wash all my clothes once a week 'just because', but so far as I can tell, you only 'need' to wash them if they become 'soiled'.
Hey!! I just wanted to say that I'm in love with the game, and I can't wait to see what the future brings :D
and also, at this point in time, can we date/have sex with the class harasser, the quickburger boss or the roommate boyfriend? like, is there a way to actually "booty calls" them?
I can't really figure this out. because the only way I know to get the "booty calls" opinion, is to go on a date first (i think??). but every-single-time I tried to invite them, they always decline! even if I cheat the 'lust' and 'romance' bar to max.
NPCs that have a specific narrative role like that are often handled only through their specific events. My idea is generally that you'll be able to progress their stories to the point that it makes sense to interact with them freely, though not all the characters' events are there yet.
Honestly, at this point I should really just get on the Dischord, because I would be fairly surprised if my questions haven't been asked before. But I'm not great with making changes to my routine... So...
When you are Playing With Someone in the Lounge, you have the option of letting them win. But, if you do & they then decide to make it 'a little more interesting' & you go for the non-fiscal option, you have no choice but to play to win after that, even if you ACTUALLY would prefer to 'lose', if you know what I mean... Will it ever be possible to throw THAT match as well?
Completely unrelated, if you have the Cooking skill advanced to the point of like Eggs or Pancakes, will it ever be possible to make breakfast for you & your date/booty call if you spend the night over at their place? That 'Hi' you get from them when you wake up the next morning shakes me every time (in the best way possible, absolutely not a complaint) & I just really want to keep that vibe going. Also, if it's a Class day that is almost the only way to have something to eat before the first class unless you are just being an anti-social slob.
Finally (well, for this post), so if you are being a trash human & going the 'Dominate THEM' route with your Classroom Harasser, is there anything more that happens after 'Following them into the Bathroom' & 'Showing them a lesson'? Or is that something that will have to wait for further down the line? Is it ever possible to have a Booty Call with THEM? I noticed for a while you could text them, though it looks like now you can't any more...
1 and 2) I like these ideas and I've added these to the big Ideas List.
3) Right now that's pretty much the end of their event set, though the break they grant you is only temporary and the events all recur. I'll add more to these events over time.
For the streaking dare, it happens mostly automatically. Once you're outside, just keep walking and get some distance from your dorm. A few moves in, an event will fire about you completing the dare.
But I see where the confusion was, I'll have to see what I can do to clarify that
I love this, a whole lot. But I’m starting to get a tad antsy because it’s been nearly 50 days since the last update. But whatever is coming, I bet it’s gonna be the most groundbreaking thing yet. Like pregnancy or further expanded classes. I’m betting it’s gonna be great. And I’m betting the team is working hard.
Glad you like it! The next update should happen approximately mid-December and will add sports and professor interactions. After that I'll work on having quicker, smaller updates for a while.
Could you elaborate on what you're asking for? As a HTML file, this should run easily offline both on a PC and on most digital devices, via the free download, as long as that device has a browser.
Yeah, nvm figures, anyway, how to do the roommate's girlfriend quest where I have to sneak out and send her a photo? I did what she said, and I've sent her a selfie but after a week she still said that I didn't do it and then she stops interacting with me(??)
Is it currently possible to sleep with the Best Friend, or fool around at all? I have two saves, one with cheats abused and one normal, and I was thinking at the Friday night party I'd have the best chance of it, but I haven't found a scenario.
A suggestion is being able to talk to your roommate while in the dorm. Like a "socialize" option, or for certain NPCs like the roommate or best friend specific topics of conversations.
Sex with your Best Friend is opened up by 'completing' their relationship storyline. So far as I know, that is the only way to accomplish it. It's not quick. I think my 'speed run' was like basically the entier first 'semester'. Part of this is because it also involves the 'Friday night Party Secret', you'll know it when you encounter it & you have to bring that to a close as part of bringing the relationship to a climax. Besides that aspect, you also need to choose the 'Sex Talk' option whenever it comes available when hanging out with them. It only becomes available occasionally as it also requires that your best friend's roommate not be there when you go to visit. you can talk with your best friend in their dorm once a night, every night except Friday, between six & ten.
Do you have any plan to make it possible to move dorm or apartment? I've been playing this for months and I've been wondering if that will be possible, also wondering if the pregnancy route will be possible soon(??)
Moving: someday! Especially once it becomes possible to graduate college. But there needs to be a lot more content around town before that happens, so I'll probably be getting through the current roadmap before I even think about it.
Pregnancy is a decent candidate for the next major update. It's almost certainly going to be in the running at least, then it'll come down to a poll.
Slams open door and running towards the comments. SUGGESTIONS-
Uhh... Sorry for having to see me just rapidly running there, hi yes. It's me again. More outfit suggestions specially after a long while and after scrolling through Pinterest- So, let's begin with the suggestions.
1) Sleeveless Vest.
As I was reminded of the formal clothings that you can buy at the shop at the mall, and definitely not after stumbling on people wearing sleeveless vests on Pinterest- I think sleeveless vests would be a great additions to the formal clothings, specially as sleeveless vests is suitable for people to wear as a another option for vests.
2) Corsets.
Corsets are often associated with formal wear, they can be worn for many different occasions. Best of all, anyone can wear it. Men, woman, non-binarys and gender non-conformings individuals can wear it! Of course I've done research on this and found a website about corsets. https://www.missleatheronline.com/blogs/corset-blog/corsets-101-a-beginners-guid... (This is the link.)
Phew, that's enough for my brain to think about. So again this just a suggestion so please take this lightly, and all that's said... Take care of yourself and don't rush! Adios.
A bunch of us in the discord are experimenting with modding the game, and it's actually INCREDIBLY SIMPLE to add clothing. Trust me, even if it's not "officially" added yet, we - or even you! - could easily add to the already existing clothing!
I love the idea and where this game seems to be going. I always love these games with such open feeling systems, and can't wait to see it fully realized.
i absolutely love this game and have spent hours on end playing it. after a week or so i end up taking a break and i always make sure i've saved the game before closing my tab. then i come back to play and all of my save data is gone. it's happened twice so far and i'm not sure what's wrong.
This seems to be a common issue with playing browser games directly from itch. Try playing the downloaded version and if you're still worried, backup your saves by using the "save to disk" option in the save menu.
does anyone here know the most effective way to gain weight? I might've overdid going to the gym and ended having an almost bony* frame, not that it affects* my performance in-game -but it does not bode well for my imaginary costumized character..🥲
Simple answer; whenever you eat, always overflow your food need bar. More complicated answer, try to keep you Food need bar at full or near full at all time & always overflow it when eating. The Quickieburger job is your friend in this. I was basically taking a break every two hours to nom down a quickieburger with cheese while just motoring the job. This assumes you've already resolved the [redacted] there first so you're earning $15, but I think even at $7 hourly it is worth your while.
i've got a "big boned" character i've been playing and so far she hasn't lost any weight(only 3 weeks in so maybe not been playing long enough yet), and she only works out maybe 2-3 times a week. 1 weight session and 2 laps in the pool.
Yeah, three weeks, you would only see noticeable change if you were exercising regularly enough to hit your daily Physical skill cap every day. Even then, you would likely only go down one 'build' so to speak. the OP was describing a consequence of probably daily skill capping for several skill levels & that generally takes more like months. Which will definitely burn the plumpness away as well if you don't eat up to maintain your girlish figure.
I've got a question. I'm only on the third week and have gone to the quad party twice so far. Is the best friend route available yet because so far he just seems to reject any romantic texts, and any other romance progression/related events I can't seem to find.
Hey there. For the best friend romance you've just got to do two things: 1) Keep going to the quad party until the plot advances. You'll know it when you see it. It should usually take like 3-5 times. 2) Visit your BFF's dorm in the evening and use the Talk About Sex option when available. You'll see some plot advancement here too, especially after #1 occurs.
Thank you! Not yet, but teacher interactions are coming in the next major update (0.4). Bartender stuff will come when the River Rat job is added in a future major update.
Love the game! I've been playing for 12ish hours so far, exploring and testing different things out. I can see how much effort you put into it and I am really impressed! I can't wait to follow along and see how it develops.
If I had any feedback, it'd maybe be limiting the number of generated characters? Unless there's an option I missed. You rarely see any of the same characters outside of classmates and your dormmates. As for the ones you see outside, like at the bar or arcade, there doesn't seem to be a way to call on those characters aside from randomly seeing them again. You also automatically acquire the number of people you befriend which can really clog up your phone. On one saved file, I think I had 5 pages of "friends"? Limiting who gets your number might be a good idea too. I really can't tell but it almost feels like the game is constantly making new characters which would lower the chances of meeting previous characters you have rapport with. Unless, again, the number of generated characters is just that high.
I know the game is still young, but it's kind of crazy how far and how few story/character events are, given how much time we have in a given day. After a month or two in-game, I couldn't tell if there was anything left to do, or if progressing was just spaced out THAT much. I know you're working on adding more content, but it's just something that becomes quite noticeable with the current version.
I'm still messing around with the dating system, but it becomes harder(?) to do anything sexual after becoming romantic with a character? Maybe I'm just doing something wrong or picking the wrong options, haha.
Loving the game so far!!! While playing, I ran into a bug, or I guess not really a bug and more of just a situation that the game doesn't handle. I was playing as a trans woman character, and during the event where you and your best friend find out the truth about the milkshakes, she says the line about "Unfortunately, neither of us has the equipment to produce jizz.", which isn't really true in this case. It would be amazing if you added an option to use your own (maybe even with best friend helping out?), but if that isn't possible, then I think it would be good to at least have slightly different dialogue there for a trans woman character. Thank you for all your work on this game, and I look forward to seeing where it goes in the future!!!
I just got that event in the latest Patreon update, and the new version of it is fantastic! Thank you again for all your hard work, and for taking the time to listen to my feedback!
for male characters: it would be cool/nice if. . . just like some clothing options outright state "will hide hard-ons", it would be cool if some stated the exact opposite. That way if players are doing full on exhibitionist type shit, they'll have better ideas of what to go for.
For all characters: let me wear a jacket/outerwear as my sole top, lol
Not sure if its in the works but, some kind of "sprite" to gauge your character by? I mean, doesn't need to be fully detailed or anything, even a faceless outline for a body that can change shape as your character does, and shows a "simple" color scheme overlaid with the clothing options you have on.
Could it be possible to have more dominant/forceful options? It feels like the beggining its just the character getting manhandled over and over.
When you play as a woman men are constantly coming over, groping, choking and touching you, but when you play as a man you can't do that to anyone. I have a big, tall, muscular MC and he keeps getting overpowered by short skinny girls
0.4 will add some stuff like this, particularly if you go down the football route. Also, after 0.4, I'm planning to do a series of shorter, quicker updates where I go back and extend some existing events.
One thing I do when I want to do a "buff" guy playthrough is put the skill slider up to 3x when doing the character creation - you can start as high as a 9 on Physical, which should win most physical checks.
Then after the game proper starts, I put the slider back to normal, unless you want to quickly create an all round Superman.
This is probably the best sandbox life sim game I've seen on Itch. I'm so happy with the non-binary inclusion, both for your character and NPCs.
There's really only two things I'd love to see! Maybe pansexual and demisexual/demiromantic identities? They're easy enough to roleplay, but it would be nice to see dialog involving them, just like the extra dialog that enby characters get! Sexuality is a spectrum in general, and it would be nice to see some more experimentation with that, especially in a setting where people are starting to open up and explore who they are maybe for the first time. The ability for sexuality and gender to change during the game would be great - actions that push the character one way or the other may trigger a "self-reflection" scene where the PC goes "I like feeling more masc/femme. Could I be trans?" or "I've never really felt this way about this gender.. could I be queer?" etc.
The second thing is I'd love an ability to choose a visual representation of our character or others - not any complicated pixel art or paper dolls, but just selecting a image file on our hard drive. We could do this at the start for the PC to assist in roleplaying a specific character, and do it for others to help remember who they are. These photos could then be displayed in their profile when we click on them. The possibility exists that we "unlock" this function by taking a picture of a character, too - with the concept being that the profile photo is the photo you took of them.
All in all, though, an absolutely fantastic game, I think it's already better than DoL.
Other types of sexualities are an interesting idea, and could work as inclinations. I'll probably try getting into that stuff when it's time for the relationships update.
I also like the idea of questioning your sexuality/gender mid-game. I'll think about this.
About selecting an image, that's something I may implement soon. You're right, a paper doll system would be a lot of work and, in the absence of an artist, certainly isn't coming anytime soon, so that'd be a good stand-in.
After playing the game a bit more, I definitely agree that the more "obscure" sexualities are much better as inclinations.
High friendship before sexual relationship happening more than a few times = considering they might be demisexual, and high friendship before romance = demiromantic consideration. Genderfluid could work here too, with the player even toggling if they are presenting more masc or fem.
Also, can trans NPCs PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reveal to you that they're trans once you become friends with them? I don't want the opportunity to "reject" them, the player can just stop talking to them if they want, but there is the very harmful trope that trans people are trying to "trick" people and this game kind of does that by you not finding out if someone is trans until you hook up with them. A quick, casual conversation where the player is just like "Okay, thank you for telling me!" would go a long way!
Great game. I also like how small the file size is.
Anyways, I want to ask a few things:
1. Where can we send suggestions like for dialogue or new items?
2. Is there a hard maximum limit for my weekly financial support to my parents? I like how this pushes me to find new income sources but I also worry that it will overtake my revenue stream sooner or later.
1. Discord is the best place, most suggestions come through there. The link is under the Support button within the game. If you don't have discord, I guess right here is the best bet.
2. It caps out at $200 if I remember right. Usually you can do arcade stuff by then, if you need to supplement income. It'll probably go higher one day, but only when there are more sources of income.
Tinder or somthing would be cool for more relationships
Possible 2 characters 1 save? Like u can have 2 characters and swap with them or like u can make them never meet or be friends or date
Aka other character customization just not as much main mc if u get what I'm saying be cool for like sandbox mode or some u good dev so keep up great work
Some group scenes will be coming in 0.4, with the encounter system extended to accommodate multiple partners.
Multiple characters is interesting. I've had the thought that maybe your past PCs could get converted into NPCs that you can meet in future games. Actual character switching might be kinda complicated, considering all the other game variables. But it's something I want to experiment with at some point.
we can possibly have threesome with roommate gf/bf and and parties with like orgys but 4sum would be great mfff fmmm ffmm more I play it more I like it
So I hope it's okay to just ask a couple of quick questions?
1. Does the Friday night party happen every Friday? This is just for clarification, I wanted to figure those out.
2. How many of the persistent characters have events/can you progress your relationship with? I'm trying to figure out if I'm just doing it wrong when trying to date the Best Friend, plus I've only managed to trigger the Roommate's Partner events once (when they hide in the showers), plus certain characters just don't seem to show up again at all (Classroom Harasser). Obviously, the game's still a work in progress but I'm just trying to figure out if it's like, a settings thing.
3. Do the clinic, frat houses, and suites not really have anything to do yet, or is the former for when your 'health' gets low (or birth control/morning after stuff), and the latter just related to hooking up with specific students?
1. Starting the second week of school, yeah, they'll start reliably every Friday at 6pm.
2. The BFF events rely on two things: the "talk about sex" option in their dorm room, and figuring out the quad party mystery, which you will if you just keep attending. The roommate's partner events have a specific trigger where you have to overhear them having sex first. The classroom harasser should show up now and then during class events mostly (I've increased the frequency of their stuff for the next update) but make sure you have Bad Situations turned on for them.
In general when I design storylines, I try to get them to kick off in a fairly natural or interesting way and then have events occur at a reasonable frequency... but this is pretty easy to get wrong, it turns out, so I often end up retuning them based on feedback.
3. The clinic has a little content if you pass out (due to hunger or exhaustion) and yeah, it'll be the home for birth control type stuff when that's in. The other two don't have any content yet, but there will be a major update related to frat houses and upperclassmen stuff sooner or later.
Thank you for the reply! Glad to know I was going along the right lines of thinking re: 1 and 3, and it's good to know regarding 2 that it's mostly me just not trying everything out + stubbornly trying to ask my best friend on a date. I do think a couple more events triggering might make the campus feel more alive, but I can see you're already doing plenty of work there (saw the changes to the park and the cafeterias) so I'm eager to see where things go either way.
One last question and a suggestion, then, if that's alright;
- Question: You don't need to share (unless you want to, ofc) because giving it away might take away some of the fun of it, but do all Persistent NPCs have (or will in future) have events to pursue/unlock? The QuickieBurger boss and the mail desk employee and so on? (tbh, with them and the classroom admirer and the ones I've already mentioned, I can't think of any others, but you might have more planned, I don't know).
- Suggestion: This is a bit of a take-it-or-leave-it because it's probably a lot more work and I don't want you to make things too hard for yourself. But something along the lines of the Things To Do tab (which kind of serve the same purpose already) or that shows up by enabling cheats, because walkthroughs are a little bit cheaty, to give hints/suggestions towards the different character storylines, maybe even in the character profiles, i.e., with the Roommate, you could have a 'Wait and see...' hint or something like that.
Yup, once the BFF is down to try dating, you'll know, it's a whole thing. ;)
More "everyday" type events, reactivity, and socializing is something I'll keep working on. I try to keep a balance between big new content additions and just going back to shore up the foundations, so to speak. Both are important.
I don't think every special NPC will have their own big storyline... some just sort of fill particular niches, or I wanted the player to be able to see at a glance who they are, and that's why they have a listed role in the story. At some point I might have to make some distinction in the UI between NPCs that you can pursue a full storyline with and ones that are more just minor side characters.
Your suggestion would be a bit of work but is possibly something I could build into the existing data structure for events. "Things to do" is meant to be sort of a placeholder until content is more generally findable or tutorialized/introduced in a more immersive way. Moving toward storyline hints would be better for sure, and better address the questions players tend to have.
This game is fun to play with and it's been a while of me playing it so I would like to drop some suggestions for clothing options.
1) Masks. I've been interested of the ideas of masks in the game, like a simple full cover face mask for those who like to stay hidden about their identity while doing the streamer job or the camgirl/boy job. (Of course with eye holes so our characters can see-)
2) Gloves. Gloves can add some flair into a character so would like to see it in game. Like fingerless gloves or just plain gloves in general.
These are all I can probably think of though but of course I might think of more if I could... (If you're fine with suggestions of course.) Anyways, take proper care of yourself and don't rush yourself!
Thank you! Masks are an interesting idea. When it comes to streamer anonymity my ideas have been more along the lines of the vtuber thing (and the risk of it failing or something) but yeah, I don't think masks are unheard of with the camgirl/boy thing. I'll think about it! I'll need masks anyway whenever I add seasonal events (for halloween).
Gloves are an easy add, I'll put them on the list.
Suggestions are perfectly fine! And thanks. Although I feel like I should be working on like ten major content updates all at the same time, I try to pace myself lol
I played your game and I really liked it. The game definitely have a potential. I have a few questions. 1. When attending art classes such as photography and drawing, photography and artistic skills dont rise . Its kinda strange. It would be nice if classes (all classes, not just photography and drawing) developed skills. 2. Are you planning to add the possibility of group sex? Three/ four participants? 3. Is it possible to fight back and add more aggressive reactions to unpleasant events ? For example, slap/punch groper's face. 4. Unfriendly interactions. When rivals do their obnoxious stuff I want their BLOOD pay them back in kind, instead of just putting up with it.
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5. In the quest with milkshakes, where do you need to report the "secret ingredient"? I couldnt find it, loaded game save back to choosing option and took money. Is it was end of quest?
1. You're right! I have an idea to redo homework at some point to tasks that actually use the relevant skills, or as you say, just have those skills boosted as you attend class. This might end up in the 0.4 update, which requires tweaked school mechanics anyway since it'll involve professor interactions.
2. Group sex also will be coming in 0.4. I just got it working in the dev build the other day.
3. and 4. You're not the only one asking for this sort of thing! It'll take some writing but yes, I think it would be a good idea to go back and add new reactions to some events for more dominant/defiant characters, or even let PCs initiate some bullying now and then.
5. At that point reporting them is just a threat, though the Helleborine boys won't like it. If you take that option, there is a followup event the next time you attend the party... but with either choice, that's about as far as it goes for now.
Amazing game! Loving it so far. Am I right in assuming Degrees of Lewdity is a heavy inspiration for this game? The UI and mechanics are very similar XD
It's pretty bare bones and repetitive in terms of content, but since it's still pretty early in development that's understandable. My only suggestion is to maybe have separate customisation for gender and sex? It's plenty great as is--I haven't found a lot of games whose customisation wrt that doesn't stop and end at cis man and woman--but it'd be nice to be able to mix and match bits regardless of pronouns.
Thank you! Yes... it doesn't help that in terms of overall layout neither DoL nor this game stray far from the Twine-SugarCube default, but certainly it was also a huge influence! DoL is a great game, I love the minute-by-minute life simulation aspect of it. I'm trying to go for more of an emphasis on a population and school simulation and just, you know, a different vibe.
The game is basically in early access mode at the moment with a lot more planned, which I work on every day. I'm currently deep into the next major content update which will add sports and interactions with professors.
I hear you on the sex/gender thing. You're not the first to ask for it. It's definitely possible to separate pronouns from bits and that's probably something I'll rework pretty soon.
Another thing: is something like school clubs a possibility in the future? I didn't notice anything that specifically mentions that, but it seems like it would fall under the secondary skill implementation development.
Yes very likely. I always intended the Friday afternoon space to be for sports and activities... and, well, in the first implementation it's turning out to be just sports (football, cheerleading, swimming, and esports), but it's the sort of thing I can expand on over time.
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It's immersive and accurate, in ways I really wasn't expecting - but the places where it breaks with reality for the player's benefit are great. (I wish jobs worked like that in real life - just walk in off the street after an all-night party, your veins throbbing with coffee, and flip burgers for an hour.) I'm having a great time playing it and it's a great December distraction.
I have three suggestions. First, the QOL option to minimize/use drop-downs and otherwise chose the order classes appear in under School and Studying. Not needing to scroll down to find outstanding studying or homework would be nice.
Second, I have a suggestion for what to do with Writing (and I suppose the same format would work with Artistic and maybe Photography too): have the character submit stuff for publication after finding a posting in a magazine/on the wall in Chamberlain. The character would decide to write something and it would appear as a project under School, to be completed by Studying (the idea being that the character decides to organize their art creation using the same scheduling notebook as their classes, and happens to write or draw well in the same circumstances). The kicker though, would be to have the Skill only increase by a negligible amount per session, with greater increases coming after they get feedback on what they submitted (so on a 100-point scale, it'd be a 1 point increase per session, but like 5 or 10 points when their story comes back with feedback or gets published).
The writing projects themselves have certain word counts, say 2000, and each 1 hour session would finish +/- 500 words (a critical fail would be 0); published stories bring in $0.08 per word, so $160 per story or so. To keep this from being a cash cow the odds of successful publication would be low, maybe 1 in 4 (so $10/hr over 16 hours or so of effort). A higher skill level would mean more successful sessions but not necessarily an increase in publication rate, since that's out of the player's hands.
As a side-bonus, it would give the Mail Center more prominence. In the real world, of course, e-submitting has been a thing for close to 30 years; the character just likes analog stuff.
...Oh, right, third suggestion! Campus Landscaping as a job. Gets easier to do with each Physical level and counts as mild but paid exercise. Would require purchasing overalls and a hat, and it keeps the character on campus with opportunities to interact with students (the kind who either like or hate paper towel mascots). The boss comes in only two flavors: Marisa or Zangief.
Thanks! I like these ideas. Secondary skills are definitely due some attention sooner or later... except for the video gaming skill, that one is doing fine, lol
are there any shower sex scenes?
In theory, yes. From what I've seen, you need to have a low Release stat, you need to encounter someone in the showers, and you need Disinhibition of 2 (for a shy proposition) or 4 (for a bold proposition) in order to trigger it.
Love the game. Really well done, I'm super impressed. I don't use discord, so I just wanted to report a quick bug: when starting a cam stream - it says there is an option to select the toys the audience can interact with but there is no clickable option that I can see. It also defaults to the first toy purchased, even though I have that hidden in encounters.
Keep up the great work!
I'm pretty sure the sextoys available for use in camgirl streams are long-distance vibration ones, you buy them from the app in your phone, they arrive in like 4-5 days or something idk i don't do cam streams
Yeah, I bought two of them: one before I started streaming and one after. I just don't see the option to toggle them on when I start a stream
Thank you! I'll take a look at that.
Loved this game! One of the few games that have high replayability value due to the random and interesting events that pop out. The layers of randomness and complexity by the randomly generated npcs make every new playthrough a unique experience. Can't wait for 0.4 where the world gets fleshed out more!
To romance the best friend I just need to go to quad parties until I find out the secret correct? Its the 21st of Gourdtober and I just feel like I've gone to a LOT of quad parties. I've been using the sex talk too, but not prying further with the show boobs thing (Disinhibition 2).
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the 'Romancing your Best Friend' route ISN'T a quick thing. Also, how you first become aware of the Friday night Party secret is different depending on if you are playing a guy or a girl. Hypothetically, you might not get the clue at all if you are playing a Girl character who is sexually abstinent (and that is the last I am going to say on the subject). If you are playing a guy, you will probably be due for the initial clue here in the next party or so, pay attention to your interactions with your hosts.
unfortunately playing as a sexually abstinent girl but i will def keep trying. :)
You can get the event without having sex. It just, as you're noticing, takes a bit longer. Anything that boosts party popularity will help too.
I took me 6 weeks to get it to pop, specifically trying to get that, with cheats enabled. Then me and friend got assaulted. I as playing an abstinent guy. Maybe abstinence makes it more difficult?
Side note: Dancing doesn't seem to be a skill you can learn, is everybody constantly terrible at the dancing at the party?
My best theory is that it's linked to the Physical skill (it would make sense, if nothing else), so you'll need to go to the gym or something, but it is possible to succeed on the check. Or it could be related to your party popularity, etc., hard to say.
At present, the only reliable (though not very) means I have found to improve your Dancing skill is to have a computer & a Livestreaming account & put on Dancing streams. When Dancing became something you could do at the Friday night parties, I was very happy, until I also noticed that even successful Dancing tests there don't seem to advance your Dancing skill. I hope that is just a bug that will get fixed eventually.
do clothes get dirty over the course of a few days? ive been rigorously washing my clothes every morning and night trying to avoid having my clothes get dirty and im not sure its even possible with me doing nothing. just curious because if i dont have to go through the trouble of washing clothes when i dont need to, i wont. lol, thanks in advance.
Certain circumstances can cause clothes to become 'soiled'. When that happens, the only way to get them un-'soiled' is to wash them in the Laundry. For verisimilitude, I wash all my clothes once a week 'just because', but so far as I can tell, you only 'need' to wash them if they become 'soiled'.
ok thanks lol. time to not wash my clothes.
Hey!! I just wanted to say that I'm in love with the game, and I can't wait to see what the future brings :D
and also, at this point in time, can we date/have sex with the class harasser, the quickburger boss or the roommate boyfriend? like, is there a way to actually "booty calls" them?
I can't really figure this out. because the only way I know to get the "booty calls" opinion, is to go on a date first (i think??). but every-single-time I tried to invite them, they always decline! even if I cheat the 'lust' and 'romance' bar to max.
Thank you!
NPCs that have a specific narrative role like that are often handled only through their specific events. My idea is generally that you'll be able to progress their stories to the point that it makes sense to interact with them freely, though not all the characters' events are there yet.
Honestly, at this point I should really just get on the Dischord, because I would be fairly surprised if my questions haven't been asked before. But I'm not great with making changes to my routine...
So...
When you are Playing With Someone in the Lounge, you have the option of letting them win. But, if you do & they then decide to make it 'a little more interesting' & you go for the non-fiscal option, you have no choice but to play to win after that, even if you ACTUALLY would prefer to 'lose', if you know what I mean...
Will it ever be possible to throw THAT match as well?
Completely unrelated, if you have the Cooking skill advanced to the point of like Eggs or Pancakes, will it ever be possible to make breakfast for you & your date/booty call if you spend the night over at their place? That 'Hi' you get from them when you wake up the next morning shakes me every time (in the best way possible, absolutely not a complaint) & I just really want to keep that vibe going. Also, if it's a Class day that is almost the only way to have something to eat before the first class unless you are just being an anti-social slob.
Finally (well, for this post), so if you are being a trash human & going the 'Dominate THEM' route with your Classroom Harasser, is there anything more that happens after 'Following them into the Bathroom' & 'Showing them a lesson'? Or is that something that will have to wait for further down the line? Is it ever possible to have a Booty Call with THEM? I noticed for a while you could text them, though it looks like now you can't any more...
1 and 2) I like these ideas and I've added these to the big Ideas List.
3) Right now that's pretty much the end of their event set, though the break they grant you is only temporary and the events all recur. I'll add more to these events over time.
Hi! I just wanted to say that I love the game so far. <3
I’m a bit stuck on the streaking dare atm – could I please get some tips on it?
Thank you!
For the streaking dare, it happens mostly automatically. Once you're outside, just keep walking and get some distance from your dorm. A few moves in, an event will fire about you completing the dare.
But I see where the confusion was, I'll have to see what I can do to clarify that
Heyo, first comment on the site.
I love this, a whole lot. But I’m starting to get a tad antsy because it’s been nearly 50 days since the last update. But whatever is coming, I bet it’s gonna be the most groundbreaking thing yet. Like pregnancy or further expanded classes. I’m betting it’s gonna be great. And I’m betting the team is working hard.
So Work Hard, and Work Well.
BaconatorFries, signing off.
Glad you like it! The next update should happen approximately mid-December and will add sports and professor interactions. After that I'll work on having quicker, smaller updates for a while.
genuinely love this sm. cannot wait for future updates :))
Will you be planning to make application for this? It sucks when I want to play but there's no internet.
Could you elaborate on what you're asking for? As a HTML file, this should run easily offline both on a PC and on most digital devices, via the free download, as long as that device has a browser.
Yeah, nvm figures, anyway, how to do the roommate's girlfriend quest where I have to sneak out and send her a photo? I did what she said, and I've sent her a selfie but after a week she still said that I didn't do it and then she stops interacting with me(??)
I'm stuck in the same way.
Real. The creator still hasn't responded to me for any solution.
I think i will make another save and try to see if I'm doing something wrong
i love this project so much! ! it reminds me of DOL, another favorite of mine. I'm excited to see the future of this game!
are you planing on adding grapics of any kind like in DOL or something simpler ?
It's definitely something I'd like to have as an option at some point, but sourcing art for it is the tricky part.
try ai and and clothing opion diplayed over ai generated characters
Is it currently possible to sleep with the Best Friend, or fool around at all? I have two saves, one with cheats abused and one normal, and I was thinking at the Friday night party I'd have the best chance of it, but I haven't found a scenario.
A suggestion is being able to talk to your roommate while in the dorm. Like a "socialize" option, or for certain NPCs like the roommate or best friend specific topics of conversations.
Sex with your Best Friend is opened up by 'completing' their relationship storyline. So far as I know, that is the only way to accomplish it. It's not quick. I think my 'speed run' was like basically the entier first 'semester'. Part of this is because it also involves the 'Friday night Party Secret', you'll know it when you encounter it & you have to bring that to a close as part of bringing the relationship to a climax. Besides that aspect, you also need to choose the 'Sex Talk' option whenever it comes available when hanging out with them. It only becomes available occasionally as it also requires that your best friend's roommate not be there when you go to visit. you can talk with your best friend in their dorm once a night, every night except Friday, between six & ten.
Do you have any plan to make it possible to move dorm or apartment? I've been playing this for months and I've been wondering if that will be possible, also wondering if the pregnancy
routewill be possible soon(??)Moving: someday! Especially once it becomes possible to graduate college. But there needs to be a lot more content around town before that happens, so I'll probably be getting through the current roadmap before I even think about it.
Pregnancy is a decent candidate for the next major update. It's almost certainly going to be in the running at least, then it'll come down to a poll.
I can not wait for the poll, I really want to see what happens when pregnancy options are in the game
Slams open door and running towards the comments.SUGGESTIONS-Uhh... Sorry for having to see me just rapidly running there, hi yes. It's me again. More outfit suggestions specially after a long while and after scrolling through Pinterest- So, let's begin with the suggestions.
1) Sleeveless Vest.
As I was reminded of the formal clothings that you can buy at the shop at the mall, and definitely not after stumbling on people wearing sleeveless vests on Pinterest- I think sleeveless vests would be a great additions to the formal clothings, specially as sleeveless vests is suitable for people to wear as a another option for vests.
2) Corsets.
Corsets are often associated with formal wear, they can be worn for many different occasions. Best of all, anyone can wear it. Men, woman, non-binarys and gender non-conformings individuals can wear it! Of course I've done research on this and found a website about corsets. https://www.missleatheronline.com/blogs/corset-blog/corsets-101-a-beginners-guid... (This is the link.)
Phew, that's enough for my brain to think about. So again this just a suggestion so please take this lightly, and all that's said... Take care of yourself and don't rush! Adios.
A bunch of us in the discord are experimenting with modding the game, and it's actually INCREDIBLY SIMPLE to add clothing. Trust me, even if it's not "officially" added yet, we - or even you! - could easily add to the already existing clothing!
Thanks! I will add these
Thanks
I love the idea and where this game seems to be going. I always love these games with such open feeling systems, and can't wait to see it fully realized.
i absolutely love this game and have spent hours on end playing it. after a week or so i end up taking a break and i always make sure i've saved the game before closing my tab. then i come back to play and all of my save data is gone. it's happened twice so far and i'm not sure what's wrong.
This seems to be a common issue with playing browser games directly from itch. Try playing the downloaded version and if you're still worried, backup your saves by using the "save to disk" option in the save menu.
ok i don't know if it's related or not, but whenever i turned on the cheats menu it stopped deleting my saves.
does anyone here know the most effective way to gain weight? I might've overdid going to the gym and ended having an almost bony* frame, not that it affects* my performance in-game -but it does not bode well for my imaginary costumized character..🥲
Simple answer; whenever you eat, always overflow your food need bar. More complicated answer, try to keep you Food need bar at full or near full at all time & always overflow it when eating. The Quickieburger job is your friend in this. I was basically taking a break every two hours to nom down a quickieburger with cheese while just motoring the job. This assumes you've already resolved the [redacted] there first so you're earning $15, but I think even at $7 hourly it is worth your while.
To add to this, more expensive items usually have more "plumpness", as the code calls it, and the food with the highest plumpness is the cheeseburger.
i've got a "big boned" character i've been playing and so far she hasn't lost any weight(only 3 weeks in so maybe not been playing long enough yet), and she only works out maybe 2-3 times a week. 1 weight session and 2 laps in the pool.
Yeah, three weeks, you would only see noticeable change if you were exercising regularly enough to hit your daily Physical skill cap every day. Even then, you would likely only go down one 'build' so to speak. the OP was describing a consequence of probably daily skill capping for several skill levels & that generally takes more like months. Which will definitely burn the plumpness away as well if you don't eat up to maintain your girlish figure.
I've got a question. I'm only on the third week and have gone to the quad party twice so far. Is the best friend route available yet because so far he just seems to reject any romantic texts, and any other romance progression/related events I can't seem to find.
I might be wrong, but I think you dodged the best friend route by not going to the party. At least I had 2 events with him/her by going there.
Hey there. For the best friend romance you've just got to do two things: 1) Keep going to the quad party until the plot advances. You'll know it when you see it. It should usually take like 3-5 times. 2) Visit your BFF's dorm in the evening and use the Talk About Sex option when available. You'll see some plot advancement here too, especially after #1 occurs.
how do you know that you got pregnant in this game?
Pregnancy is not yet in the game, actually! As of right now, all the NPCs are shooting blanks.
same for the PC? cause theres at least half a dozen gals(and older dames from the bar) runnin about with my swimmers in them.
Great so far. Are there ways yet to get with the teachers or bartenders?
Thank you! Not yet, but teacher interactions are coming in the next major update (0.4). Bartender stuff will come when the River Rat job is added in a future major update.
does anyone know how to rise or awaken the intelectual? Im getting banned on stream
I've started down that road on two characters, and I believe it's:
- talk about sex in their dorm room whenever possible
- discover the secret of the Friday night party
After this, the "talk about sex" conversations will slowly get more spicy.
You need party population and to swallow cum. The more cum the better.
Love the game! I've been playing for 12ish hours so far, exploring and testing different things out. I can see how much effort you put into it and I am really impressed! I can't wait to follow along and see how it develops.
If I had any feedback, it'd maybe be limiting the number of generated characters? Unless there's an option I missed. You rarely see any of the same characters outside of classmates and your dormmates. As for the ones you see outside, like at the bar or arcade, there doesn't seem to be a way to call on those characters aside from randomly seeing them again. You also automatically acquire the number of people you befriend which can really clog up your phone. On one saved file, I think I had 5 pages of "friends"? Limiting who gets your number might be a good idea too. I really can't tell but it almost feels like the game is constantly making new characters which would lower the chances of meeting previous characters you have rapport with. Unless, again, the number of generated characters is just that high.
I know the game is still young, but it's kind of crazy how far and how few story/character events are, given how much time we have in a given day. After a month or two in-game, I couldn't tell if there was anything left to do, or if progressing was just spaced out THAT much. I know you're working on adding more content, but it's just something that becomes quite noticeable with the current version.
I'm still messing around with the dating system, but it becomes harder(?) to do anything sexual after becoming romantic with a character? Maybe I'm just doing something wrong or picking the wrong options, haha.
Loving the game so far!!! While playing, I ran into a bug, or I guess not really a bug and more of just a situation that the game doesn't handle. I was playing as a trans woman character, and during the event where you and your best friend find out the truth about the milkshakes, she says the line about "Unfortunately, neither of us has the equipment to produce jizz.", which isn't really true in this case. It would be amazing if you added an option to use your own (maybe even with best friend helping out?), but if that isn't possible, then I think it would be good to at least have slightly different dialogue there for a trans woman character. Thank you for all your work on this game, and I look forward to seeing where it goes in the future!!!
Thank you! I'll take a look at that passage.
I just got that event in the latest Patreon update, and the new version of it is fantastic! Thank you again for all your hard work, and for taking the time to listen to my feedback!
Is there any pregnancy allowed here? And if it is possible to move houses or dorm?
None currently in game but I’m pretty sure it’s on the roadmap
enjoying this one quite well so far.
Some things I'd like to see more of/changed:
for male characters: it would be cool/nice if. . . just like some clothing options outright state "will hide hard-ons", it would be cool if some stated the exact opposite. That way if players are doing full on exhibitionist type shit, they'll have better ideas of what to go for.
For all characters: let me wear a jacket/outerwear as my sole top, lol
Not sure if its in the works but, some kind of "sprite" to gauge your character by? I mean, doesn't need to be fully detailed or anything, even a faceless outline for a body that can change shape as your character does, and shows a "simple" color scheme overlaid with the clothing options you have on.
Could it be possible to have more dominant/forceful options? It feels like the beggining its just the character getting manhandled over and over.
When you play as a woman men are constantly coming over, groping, choking and touching you, but when you play as a man you can't do that to anyone. I have a big, tall, muscular MC and he keeps getting overpowered by short skinny girls
0.4 will add some stuff like this, particularly if you go down the football route. Also, after 0.4, I'm planning to do a series of shorter, quicker updates where I go back and extend some existing events.
One thing I do when I want to do a "buff" guy playthrough is put the skill slider up to 3x when doing the character creation - you can start as high as a 9 on Physical, which should win most physical checks.
Then after the game proper starts, I put the slider back to normal, unless you want to quickly create an all round Superman.
This is probably the best sandbox life sim game I've seen on Itch. I'm so happy with the non-binary inclusion, both for your character and NPCs.
There's really only two things I'd love to see! Maybe pansexual and demisexual/demiromantic identities? They're easy enough to roleplay, but it would be nice to see dialog involving them, just like the extra dialog that enby characters get! Sexuality is a spectrum in general, and it would be nice to see some more experimentation with that, especially in a setting where people are starting to open up and explore who they are maybe for the first time. The ability for sexuality and gender to change during the game would be great - actions that push the character one way or the other may trigger a "self-reflection" scene where the PC goes "I like feeling more masc/femme. Could I be trans?" or "I've never really felt this way about this gender.. could I be queer?" etc.
The second thing is I'd love an ability to choose a visual representation of our character or others - not any complicated pixel art or paper dolls, but just selecting a image file on our hard drive. We could do this at the start for the PC to assist in roleplaying a specific character, and do it for others to help remember who they are. These photos could then be displayed in their profile when we click on them. The possibility exists that we "unlock" this function by taking a picture of a character, too - with the concept being that the profile photo is the photo you took of them.
All in all, though, an absolutely fantastic game, I think it's already better than DoL.
Thanks for the kind words!
Other types of sexualities are an interesting idea, and could work as inclinations. I'll probably try getting into that stuff when it's time for the relationships update.
I also like the idea of questioning your sexuality/gender mid-game. I'll think about this.
About selecting an image, that's something I may implement soon. You're right, a paper doll system would be a lot of work and, in the absence of an artist, certainly isn't coming anytime soon, so that'd be a good stand-in.
Thanks again!
After playing the game a bit more, I definitely agree that the more "obscure" sexualities are much better as inclinations.
High friendship before sexual relationship happening more than a few times = considering they might be demisexual, and high friendship before romance = demiromantic consideration. Genderfluid could work here too, with the player even toggling if they are presenting more masc or fem.
Also, can trans NPCs PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reveal to you that they're trans once you become friends with them? I don't want the opportunity to "reject" them, the player can just stop talking to them if they want, but there is the very harmful trope that trans people are trying to "trick" people and this game kind of does that by you not finding out if someone is trans until you hook up with them. A quick, casual conversation where the player is just like "Okay, thank you for telling me!" would go a long way!
That's a very good point! I'll see what I can do to address that.
Where does the Friday party happen
Starting the second week of classes, every Friday night from 6pm to 4am.
Great game. I also like how small the file size is.
Anyways, I want to ask a few things:
1. Where can we send suggestions like for dialogue or new items?
2. Is there a hard maximum limit for my weekly financial support to my parents? I like how this pushes me to find new income sources but I also worry that it will overtake my revenue stream sooner or later.
Thank you!
1. Discord is the best place, most suggestions come through there. The link is under the Support button within the game. If you don't have discord, I guess right here is the best bet.
2. It caps out at $200 if I remember right. Usually you can do arcade stuff by then, if you need to supplement income. It'll probably go higher one day, but only when there are more sources of income.
Thanks for the answers, I've joined the discord and added my suggestions there.
Hey, I love the game and i already see you've answered many question about it but is there any specific action in order to date the BFF?
They answered this for me a few days ago; for the best friend route, you need to go to the end-of-week parties.
Great game just would like group sex / orgys/
Tinder or somthing would be cool for more relationships
Possible 2 characters 1 save? Like u can have 2 characters and swap with them or like u can make them never meet or be friends or date
Aka other character customization just not as much main mc if u get what I'm saying be cool for like sandbox mode or some u good dev so keep up great work
Thank you friend!!
Some group scenes will be coming in 0.4, with the encounter system extended to accommodate multiple partners.
Multiple characters is interesting. I've had the thought that maybe your past PCs could get converted into NPCs that you can meet in future games. Actual character switching might be kinda complicated, considering all the other game variables. But it's something I want to experiment with at some point.
Thanks for your post!
we can possibly have threesome with roommate gf/bf and and parties with like orgys but 4sum would be great mfff fmmm ffmm more I play it more I like it
So I hope it's okay to just ask a couple of quick questions?
1. Does the Friday night party happen every Friday? This is just for clarification, I wanted to figure those out.
2. How many of the persistent characters have events/can you progress your relationship with? I'm trying to figure out if I'm just doing it wrong when trying to date the Best Friend, plus I've only managed to trigger the Roommate's Partner events once (when they hide in the showers), plus certain characters just don't seem to show up again at all (Classroom Harasser). Obviously, the game's still a work in progress but I'm just trying to figure out if it's like, a settings thing.
3. Do the clinic, frat houses, and suites not really have anything to do yet, or is the former for when your 'health' gets low (or birth control/morning after stuff), and the latter just related to hooking up with specific students?
Of course!
1. Starting the second week of school, yeah, they'll start reliably every Friday at 6pm.
2. The BFF events rely on two things: the "talk about sex" option in their dorm room, and figuring out the quad party mystery, which you will if you just keep attending. The roommate's partner events have a specific trigger where you have to overhear them having sex first. The classroom harasser should show up now and then during class events mostly (I've increased the frequency of their stuff for the next update) but make sure you have Bad Situations turned on for them.
In general when I design storylines, I try to get them to kick off in a fairly natural or interesting way and then have events occur at a reasonable frequency... but this is pretty easy to get wrong, it turns out, so I often end up retuning them based on feedback.
3. The clinic has a little content if you pass out (due to hunger or exhaustion) and yeah, it'll be the home for birth control type stuff when that's in. The other two don't have any content yet, but there will be a major update related to frat houses and upperclassmen stuff sooner or later.
Thank you for the reply! Glad to know I was going along the right lines of thinking re: 1 and 3, and it's good to know regarding 2 that it's mostly me just not trying everything out + stubbornly trying to ask my best friend on a date. I do think a couple more events triggering might make the campus feel more alive, but I can see you're already doing plenty of work there (saw the changes to the park and the cafeterias) so I'm eager to see where things go either way.
One last question and a suggestion, then, if that's alright;
- Question: You don't need to share (unless you want to, ofc) because giving it away might take away some of the fun of it, but do all Persistent NPCs have (or will in future) have events to pursue/unlock? The QuickieBurger boss and the mail desk employee and so on? (tbh, with them and the classroom admirer and the ones I've already mentioned, I can't think of any others, but you might have more planned, I don't know).
- Suggestion: This is a bit of a take-it-or-leave-it because it's probably a lot more work and I don't want you to make things too hard for yourself. But something along the lines of the Things To Do tab (which kind of serve the same purpose already) or that shows up by enabling cheats, because walkthroughs are a little bit cheaty, to give hints/suggestions towards the different character storylines, maybe even in the character profiles, i.e., with the Roommate, you could have a 'Wait and see...' hint or something like that.
Yup, once the BFF is down to try dating, you'll know, it's a whole thing. ;)
More "everyday" type events, reactivity, and socializing is something I'll keep working on. I try to keep a balance between big new content additions and just going back to shore up the foundations, so to speak. Both are important.
I don't think every special NPC will have their own big storyline... some just sort of fill particular niches, or I wanted the player to be able to see at a glance who they are, and that's why they have a listed role in the story. At some point I might have to make some distinction in the UI between NPCs that you can pursue a full storyline with and ones that are more just minor side characters.
Your suggestion would be a bit of work but is possibly something I could build into the existing data structure for events. "Things to do" is meant to be sort of a placeholder until content is more generally findable or tutorialized/introduced in a more immersive way. Moving toward storyline hints would be better for sure, and better address the questions players tend to have.
This game is fun to play with and it's been a while of me playing it so I would like to drop some suggestions for clothing options.
1) Masks. I've been interested of the ideas of masks in the game, like a simple full cover face mask for those who like to stay hidden about their identity while doing the streamer job or the camgirl/boy job. (Of course with eye holes so our characters can see-)
2) Gloves. Gloves can add some flair into a character so would like to see it in game. Like fingerless gloves or just plain gloves in general.
These are all I can probably think of though but of course I might think of more if I could... (If you're fine with suggestions of course.) Anyways, take proper care of yourself and don't rush yourself!
Thank you! Masks are an interesting idea. When it comes to streamer anonymity my ideas have been more along the lines of the vtuber thing (and the risk of it failing or something) but yeah, I don't think masks are unheard of with the camgirl/boy thing. I'll think about it! I'll need masks anyway whenever I add seasonal events (for halloween).
Gloves are an easy add, I'll put them on the list.
Suggestions are perfectly fine! And thanks. Although I feel like I should be working on like ten major content updates all at the same time, I try to pace myself lol
I played your game and I really liked it. The game definitely have a potential. I have a few questions.
1. When attending art classes such as photography and drawing, photography and artistic skills dont rise . Its kinda strange. It would be nice if classes (all classes, not just photography and drawing) developed skills.
2. Are you planning to add the possibility of group sex? Three/ four participants?
3. Is it possible to fight back and add more aggressive reactions to unpleasant events ? For example, slap/punch groper's face.
4. Unfriendly interactions. When rivals do their obnoxious stuff I want
their BLOODpay them back in kind, instead of just putting up with it.SPOILER AHEAD
5. In the quest with milkshakes, where do you need to report the "secret ingredient"? I couldnt find it, loaded game save back to choosing option and took money. Is it was end of quest?
Thanks, glad you liked it!
1. You're right! I have an idea to redo homework at some point to tasks that actually use the relevant skills, or as you say, just have those skills boosted as you attend class. This might end up in the 0.4 update, which requires tweaked school mechanics anyway since it'll involve professor interactions.
2. Group sex also will be coming in 0.4. I just got it working in the dev build the other day.
3. and 4. You're not the only one asking for this sort of thing! It'll take some writing but yes, I think it would be a good idea to go back and add new reactions to some events for more dominant/defiant characters, or even let PCs initiate some bullying now and then.
5. At that point reporting them is just a threat, though the Helleborine boys won't like it. If you take that option, there is a followup event the next time you attend the party... but with either choice, that's about as far as it goes for now.
Amazing game! Loving it so far. Am I right in assuming Degrees of Lewdity is a heavy inspiration for this game? The UI and mechanics are very similar XD
It's pretty bare bones and repetitive in terms of content, but since it's still pretty early in development that's understandable. My only suggestion is to maybe have separate customisation for gender and sex? It's plenty great as is--I haven't found a lot of games whose customisation wrt that doesn't stop and end at cis man and woman--but it'd be nice to be able to mix and match bits regardless of pronouns.
Thank you! Yes... it doesn't help that in terms of overall layout neither DoL nor this game stray far from the Twine-SugarCube default, but certainly it was also a huge influence! DoL is a great game, I love the minute-by-minute life simulation aspect of it. I'm trying to go for more of an emphasis on a population and school simulation and just, you know, a different vibe.
The game is basically in early access mode at the moment with a lot more planned, which I work on every day. I'm currently deep into the next major content update which will add sports and interactions with professors.
I hear you on the sex/gender thing. You're not the first to ask for it. It's definitely possible to separate pronouns from bits and that's probably something I'll rework pretty soon.
Another thing: is something like school clubs a possibility in the future? I didn't notice anything that specifically mentions that, but it seems like it would fall under the secondary skill implementation development.
Yes very likely. I always intended the Friday afternoon space to be for sports and activities... and, well, in the first implementation it's turning out to be just sports (football, cheerleading, swimming, and esports), but it's the sort of thing I can expand on over time.