What's next? (version 2.5)

Greetings Traveler!

So last week Version 2.0 finally went live, it could have gone smoother since a last-minute change that I applied, broke the entire new Character... Luckily I pumped 2liters of energy directly up my veins and an amazing supporter pointed the "flaw" out to me within minutes via discord so I was able to resolve the issue pretty quick.

The next couple of days I spent the most time just reading feedback, responding and thinking about what I want to do next.

Btw.: I now also have a twitter, I don't plan to post much, I mainly set it up for contact and stuff like that. So feel free to follow (here) if you feel like it.

SOOO... the current plan is to include:

- Events for the "Arts-Wing", 

- A "Phone"

- 3 minor Characters that the MC can regularly interact with. (One of these Characters is the girl you already met when you took Natalie for a shopping-trip. Another one will be a little redheaded student you meet in an Arts-Wing Event and I haven't quite settled on the third one, but it's going to be another student.)

- Events that are tied to the "Entry-Exams"

I already started including the "Phone" and did some writing for the Events in the "Arts-Wing".

The idea for the "Phone" is that you can contact the "minor" Characters that will be put in the game via the phone.

I also included a little Music-Track for the Start-Screen, because... I wanted to. It was made by sickbeatschic you can find him and check his stuff out here on Twitter.

ALSO! Holy shit I did not expect more then 1k people would use the strawpoll (here) I was hoping for around 100 people so it at least wouldn't be awkward and was prepared for it to be like... a couple at best :D So thanks for that and make sure to vote if you haven't already!

And as always: Feel free to send me your feedback and/or ideas you have for the game.

Here a little look at the "Phone":

Now CHEERS, I'm gonna reward myself with a beer. Have a good one!

Version 2.0b

 Welp....

The version I originally uploaded had a minor bug that broke the entire new Character.

The already fixed version as well as a bugfix can be found HERE.

Sorry for the hiccup!

Version 2.0a

 BEHOLD!

We have a new post and a new Update!

So after a minor delay the new Update is finally live! (You can find the download here)!

The update brings a load of events scattered around the school and a new character for you to corrupt! Also the "visuals" have been overhauled to give the game a more unique look. I'm pretty happy with how the update turned out and hope you enjoy it. Make sure to let me know what you like and what you don't like.

Why so late?

1. I'm a fucking noob at doing this so it was a huge miscalculation

2. I'm a fucking noob and had a huge fuck up in the "code" and since I only tested it once I had everything in place everything fell apart

3. Number 2 really demoralized me and I lost interest for some time 

4. I was unhappy with how some stuff turned out and rewrote it

Also: Since a lot of you recommended it, I will take new approach to to the release schedule and this update is the first example for it (except the delay lol... hopefully). A "major" update will add an entire new Character to corrupt from beginning to end and some more events scattered around in the game (minor characters or just random scenes). This update will be considered "unstable" and once bug-reports etc. come in there will be a "stable" bug-fixed version.

From now on you will be able the Vote for the Character that will be introduced next in the game. I have a few in mind and will give you a "preferred" list. You can find it here.

If you're still reading, thanks for all the support and the feedback! It's really encouraging and please keep in mind that this is first and foremost just a hobby for me. I have a full time job and other things to do. Although I do dedicate a lot of time this project and I really want to finish it, I unfortunately am still a just a guy that with a hobby, that does this for the first time and just learns everything while he's doing it.

Well then, Cheers! And enjoy the Update! And as always: Feel free to reach out to me!

Date for next Release

Sup y'all,
Short post today. Took it a bit slower this week, didn´t feel really creative and motivated and forcing some of the more important tasks (Intro for New Characters)  on the road to next release doesn´t feel right since they´re the foundation for a lot of stuff in the full release. So I took care of some other minor tasks that had to be done (play-testing, bug-fixing, writing and implementation of more events, etc.).
HOWEVER! I feel comfortable putting myself on the clock at this point and want to announce the date for the next release: 23rd of May
A big milestone for me in development since pretty much all of the foundation for the game would be set.
That´s all for this week folks, thanks for sticking around and as always the updated road-map. (No sneak-peaks this week :p)

-Giving Lessons Events [Done]
-School Gym Events [Done]
-Sports-field Events [Done]
-Arts Wing Events [~50% Done]
-Science Wing Events
-Charisma Training [Done]
-Intelligence Training [Done]
-Flavor Scene for watching TV [Done]
-Intro for 4 more Characters
-Landlord/Milf Character (Full Path) [~75% Done]
-Training Fitness [Done]
-Arriving At School Flavor Events [Done]
-Yan (Character) Intro [Done]
-Library Events [Done]
-Wandering the University Events [Done]

It´s coming together

Wow, okay!
So yeah, its starting to come together. This week I worked on more events, the "Stat-Training" thing and I gave the game a more "unique" look, which I am really happy with. Some people send me ideas for events and other stuff they would like to see in the game, which is really encouraging! So I´ll look the work some of that stuff out, if you have any ideas for stuff you would like to see in the game feel free to reach out to me!
Put a good amount of effort  into the "Giving Lessons Events", those turned out fairly well I think.
So now you earn "Charisma" by "Giving Lessons" and "Intelligence" is gained by visiting the library.
So this week (apart from the stuff mentioned above) I´ll do some more play-testing and implement new things based on where I feel it´s still a little empty.

-Giving Lessons Events [Done]
-School Gym Events
-Sports-field Events [Done]
-Arts Wing Events
-Science Wing Events
-Charisma Training [Done]
-Intelligence Training [Done]
-Flavor Scene for watching TV [Done]
-Intro for 4 more Characters
-Landlord/Milf Character (Full Path) [~75% Done]
-Training Fitness [Done]
-Arriving At School Flavor Events [Done]
-Yan (Character) Intro [Done]
-Library Events [Done]
-Wandering the University Events [Done]

Play-Testing and Bug-Fixing

Heyo,
Spent the time since the last update with finishing the events for the "Sports-field" and quite a big chunk of time play-testing and fixing all the errors that showed up (quite a few). Also did some more basic writing for other events and characters (only notes so far), as well as some playing around with CSS and throwing in a couple "quality of life" changes (mostly tool-tips).
I think I went "a little" overboard with the random events for the first few locations i did and will the others have less variation (which players most likely won´t notice). but it will make further progress much quicker. Basically I made 3 variations for each combination of two to three stats, in increments of 3-4 different combinations, for example school corruption + player reputation + uniforms (do the math on that lol).
With the bug testing I did, I probably made big progress, since I now know what to pay attention to and what not to do in the future (again resulting in quicker progress).

-Giving Lessons Events
-School Gym Events
-Sports-field Events [Done]
-Arts Wing Events
-Science Wing Events
-Charisma Training
-Intelligence Training
-Flavor Scene for watching TV
-Intro for 4 more Characters
-Landlord/Milf Character (Full Path) [~75% Done]
-Training Fitness [Done]
-Arriving At School Flavor Events [Done]
-Yan (Character) Intro [Done]
-Library Events [Done]
-Wandering the University Events [Done]

Next on my list are Charisma Training and Intelligence Training (not much work so I want to get it out of the way). These will also tie into the some introduction scenes for some characters.

Sneak Peak Wander-Event

Next Progress Update On Monday

Just a quick heads up, that I´ll delay the next Progress Update until Monday, since I didn´t get to much done this week. However I don´t have to go to work on Monday and hope to get a lot done over these 3 days.
No point in posting now, since it would be outdated in a few days. So stay tuned for that!
Cheers and have a nice weekend!