Hello everyone!
It's been a busy month here at Modern Synthetic, our initial goal of 30 days of gameplay in 30 real-time days was accomplished with two days to spare! Starting with nothing but the renpy engine and the excellent Dating Sim Engine plugin we've come so far. Last month we:
Purchased placeholder art assets and put in all the basic backgrounds.
Rewrote the DSE to remove all the tutorial code, implemented custom stats, actions and all tweaked the graphics to fit the more than doubled size of the stats list.
Implemented custom events, with many outcomes for every default event that have different effects on stat gains and unique text. There are a total of 24 basic events for classes, 12 social period events, and 12 evening events. the 12 evening events have branching depending on your stats for exponentially more variety.
Put in the introduction, initial events, first day of school, and apartment selection segments in their final form.
Implemented the cybernetics system, including its effects on all of the basic events and branching for how it affects what you see in ways both subtle and large, and impacts on stat gains and event outcomes.
Put in the first romance and friendship events for every one of the 7 dateable and friend-able characters.
Implemented the exam system, warnings for failing exams (and misbehavior), and
And put in all of the tutorial text and setting exposition hyperlinks.
So far Cyberpunk Highschool has 11,561 words of text (!) 25 menus 14 images and 26 screens spread over 2,088 lines of original code (not including the renpy-generated code like the style page and program settings and the DSE plugin code I have not rewritten).
So far it looks like our vision is going to be successful: a dating sim with deep replay-ability from multiple sources of pathing, with deeper-than-normal dialogue and event trees and a unique setting!
Stay tuned for more updates on the state of the game as we tackle our next major project: Finishing the common path and implementing all of our non-dating endings!
It's been a busy month here at Modern Synthetic, our initial goal of 30 days of gameplay in 30 real-time days was accomplished with two days to spare! Starting with nothing but the renpy engine and the excellent Dating Sim Engine plugin we've come so far. Last month we:
Purchased placeholder art assets and put in all the basic backgrounds.
Rewrote the DSE to remove all the tutorial code, implemented custom stats, actions and all tweaked the graphics to fit the more than doubled size of the stats list.
Implemented custom events, with many outcomes for every default event that have different effects on stat gains and unique text. There are a total of 24 basic events for classes, 12 social period events, and 12 evening events. the 12 evening events have branching depending on your stats for exponentially more variety.
Put in the introduction, initial events, first day of school, and apartment selection segments in their final form.
Implemented the cybernetics system, including its effects on all of the basic events and branching for how it affects what you see in ways both subtle and large, and impacts on stat gains and event outcomes.
Put in the first romance and friendship events for every one of the 7 dateable and friend-able characters.
Implemented the exam system, warnings for failing exams (and misbehavior), and
And put in all of the tutorial text and setting exposition hyperlinks.
So far Cyberpunk Highschool has 11,561 words of text (!) 25 menus 14 images and 26 screens spread over 2,088 lines of original code (not including the renpy-generated code like the style page and program settings and the DSE plugin code I have not rewritten).
So far it looks like our vision is going to be successful: a dating sim with deep replay-ability from multiple sources of pathing, with deeper-than-normal dialogue and event trees and a unique setting!
Stay tuned for more updates on the state of the game as we tackle our next major project: Finishing the common path and implementing all of our non-dating endings!
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