Since now I'll be coding this game (well, while others code other games... haha madness ) I'll be spamming the forums with teasing images.

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Mary-Ann + Kira path is the first. I decided to do with a "RPG-Style" choices *, a bit like Baldur's Gate or the more recent Pillars Of Eternity. In the robbery/catacombs instead there's the usual buttons.







* OK I confess: the reality is that the artist has drawn the sprites without the lower body part (except for the three sisters). This is normal, is called "waist-up" sprite (even PSCD sprites are like that). The problem is that either because of his style, perspective or whatever, the result wasn't good. I had two choices:

1) ask him to add the "lower part" to all the love interest AND all the various NPCs, and recheck all the sprites alignment, recode all the coordinates, etc delaying the game for another good 2-3 months

2) say "oh, F***K IT!" (tm) and just cover it with the dialogue window (you won't be able to hide the dialogue window in this game).



I went with 1 of course, also because it's really not noticeable. And you basically see almost the full sprite anyway (if you could hide the window you would just see the sprites cut, nothing sexy about it ).

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lol, this scene was fun. In practice there are 4 choices which are similar to the Loren's one (Friendly, Forceful, Joking, Sexy) but each character will react differently, so you need still to pick "the right one"

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haha I love Thalia's scenes. They are without doubt the most sexy and funny of the whole game

Gods be damned, I can't wait for this game. It is looking so damn smexy!!!

Thanks, I think checking all the scenes (there are a lot!) and merging the dating sim with the main gameplay, doing some basic testing, etc will keep me busy for whole March. Then depends on writer/artist speed to get the last main story scenes/CGs

We decided to add a few more CG and some flashback scenes featuring Arianna which should be cool to play.

I will wait, but only because I must!

or the more recent Pillars Of Eternity

I approve of your taste, but I disapprove of you thinking you have spare time. WORK.



The conversation options should be aligned left though.

Yes I thought about left-aligning them, but I'm not sure would look better...

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compare for yourself. I think is better centered ?

I'm used to BG/PoE so not only do I want it left aligned but I also want a number before each reply. Even if we can't use them lol.



I think it looks a bit out of place to have them centered when normal dialogue isn't, however that might be a good thing since it helps the player differentiate. Of course colors could accomplish that as well though.



In fact, let's fire up at 15 page discussion thread about the text alignment.

Yeah, I think the main issue is making it obvious those are player choices and not part of the actual dialogue. (I'm still not entirely sure if the first line is a choice or not.)

Yes, well when you hover the mouse on them they highlight, so I think in the final game should be obvious Maybe will add some other visual indicator.

Anyway back to work... I have still 81 scenes left to check!

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something I like about this game is that it's possible to have sex before the final romance (of course there's just a fade to black, not a new CG ).

It's more varied than my other dating sims, in which the final romance/sex scene was always the end of everything.



Of course in some cases the couple has sex and might regret it later... maybe like Kira in the image above



Also: 79 scenes left to code!

I like the sound of that, because it sounds like relationships will flow more naturally. In some relationships the sex is not really the romance, it is just the precursor to the real emotional bonding that is romance.

Yes indeed. It was like that with me and several other people I know, so...

I have a question that might be a bit off-topic in this thread (Art Thread) but as talk already went a bit of topic I hope Jack won't hold it against me.



Will other two sisters that you don't choose to play as still romance someone in that playtrough as it was done in PSCD or will it be more like in SOTW where a character that you don't choose to play as won't be romancing anyone? I hope it is a later as I thought I would play from all sister's perceptive and then fuse the 3 playtroughs in my head as one just shown from different perspective (And because I don't won't to see my girls romancing guys in my playtroughs).

Yes in practice this game is a sort of "The Sims" You control all the three characters, and you decide what each sister does. You can have all three find a love, or just one of them, or two, or none, etc. Of course you can also decide if they're all 3 lesbians or any other combination. Total freedom! Of course, you can't have two sisters get in love with the same character, at one point of the story based on the romance value, a choice will be made.

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currently trying to do another thing before I continue with the scene coding, I wanted to display all the romances for all the three sisters as a sort of "summary" in a single screen. It's not turning out to be easy!

I don't like much the empty spaces so I think I might just do it differently and for each girl display only the possible romance portrait with the hearts below it.

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Much better now!! I found a good layout. Also realized how many romances there are... crazy. Nobody can complain there aren't enough romances in this game!

It needed captions.



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