1. Right now im working on expanding the dialogue for support and gift. What unique interactions are you thinking of?
2. I like that idea of "delaying" the inevitable ending. I had some notes of this beginning this idea with the car and gym location initially being locked.
This is something will continue working on and i can look into expanding more fun puzzles.
The main bottleneck for me is writing dialogue which hopefully should be better after i convert all my jsons to rpy files >_>
3. Yes right now the relationship and sanity is just for show unfortunately. Something i really want to keep expanding. The update 5 series of updates was just to get system online, and i still need to go back.
I was going to use sanity and relationship affect the yields of the nightly gathering first. I think i can go back and have the dialogue be affected by sanity once i get the new character art in the game. (featuring facial expressions)
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4a. So im trying to give each character more input as the story goes on. One note of that is in day 1 and 2 where there the game selects 2 teammates to comment on the current situation. That feature will be expanded more so that npc conversation feel like it is more than just you and captain glued together for 10 days lol.
4b. Yeah that is something that is lacking for sure. Especially since most of them dont know each other from the start.
4c. I do have a note on why they never consider the drinks, but the explanation for that is not in the game. More to come in the future ;)
4d. Thank you! Yeah i have a big backstory written. Im sort of picking and choosing what i want this game to reveal.
4e. Yeah the strange items interactions will be expanded on in the future. I wanted to leave them there early for people to get a firm grasp that something bigger is at play... maybe even bigger than what is currently presented and known.
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That would be interesting for sure. Ill think on this one more. Thank you!
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Yeah this was recently added i think like 2 or 3 updates ago? I want to add more checks or use existing check and have the stats affect what you see or understand. Now with the new idea of puzzles i could add more there as well.
Questions:
1. No the owner is not Mother. The owner has their own part to play but that will come later as i keep expanding the dialogue
2. I need to double check but i added dialogue at the start that says something like:
"There is a machine here." The machine takes care of converting things into what they team needs
when presented the right ingredients. I think I may have introduced the machine but not its functionality to the characters.
I need to change dark water to strange water. I think "dark water" is too heavy handed.
The machine was built to work with the things that are grown around the facility. I need to spend
more time expanding the dialogue so the machine's purpose and rules make sense.
3. It has story meaning, but right now you are unable to decipher it. soon(tm)
4. There are, but none have had dialogue written for them.
I hope that answered most of your questions.
Sorry that most of them boil down to "I need to get to it". I am one person working on this project on my free time after my full time job.
I dont want that to be an excuse on the development, just to help player understand how my development time works.
If you have more questions or any of my answers are lacking let me know!