Happy New Year, 2020!
Added 2019-12-31 17:15:53 +0000 UTCWith all the family gatherings and travelling, I was unable to work on any more art for StreetWalker. I did code and fix bugs but nothing really worth an update.
There is some new art: Swank Outfit, Makeup, (Tattoos -not working well) but most of the time I was fixing bugs or modifying code to run more logically. Much time was sent on trying to add some quests. So far, it's mostly the mother's quest continuing, and you need to interact with the doctor and gardener to eventually unlock a new area: East Woods, where the Orcs live.
I finished some new functionality: Vaccines now work, 3 Drugs now offer 10~50% attitude bonus, Credit limit raises, can auto-pay rent from bank, Haggling works on some items.
The biggest problem now is: You need to go though ALL the slum-mother Billy quests again to play the small amount of new content. I need a way to skip that, especially for replay value. Ideas I'm considering are 1. Having the interactions unlock randomly from the customers, 2. Different starting women with alternate paths to unlock skills, 3. Some savePoint or levelUp codes to skip ahead in the storyline.
However, none of those ideas are coded yet so, likely no update before Jan. 5. I'll keep working on StreetWalker and possibly have an update by the 15th or 25th, but it really depends when I have a satisfying product for you to test.
Another minor detail is I made a personal rule not to work on a game longer than 6 months before releasing it (to avoid another debacle like the 3 year wait for BBC) which means Streetwalker needs to be finished on March 1, 2020. That is a 'soft' target but I do desire to reach it! So, two months left to pull everything together into a cohesive project!
Thanks for all your support, and have a safe rest of the holidays!