2020 goals (Patreon)

2020 is almost upon us!

I have a set amount of personal goals each month, mostly to finish X amount of chapters, or draw a set of sprites etc.

However, I wanted to share you my goals for the next year and the direction of Tailor Tales. My programmer should have time for me again so we can work on these projects. Here's my list!

2020 goals:
- Finish the Dating & Touch system for Neil
- Finish the Fashion Events
- Rework the fashion system
- Add DLC to Steam
- Release Caine's route on Itch and Steam


What is the Dating & Touch Event?
When you finish a main route, you unlock the ability to go out on dates with the guy. Click on the map to go out on a date and experience a short event with your favourite guy.

At the end of the date, the guy will ask you to extend it. If you say yes (completely optional!), you will advance to the Touch event, where you can touch the LI anywhere on his body.

Currently it is being reworked so that it is more streamlined and gives the player a sense of accomplishment with a small minigame. Right now you can touch anywhere you'd like without a purpose or goal, which can get boring. Hence the rework. Each LI will have some options that are unique to them (for example, you can peg Aiden).


What are Fashion Events?
What purpose does the designing have when Plus users do not need to pay gold nor complete client requests to read the next chapter? Players have repeatedly told me they still want to design for clients, and I have listened to them. Fashion Events will make use of tailoring exp and gold by unlocking fashion events to attend.

Each fashion event you compete in has a prize. You can win parts of an outfit (dresses, shirts, shoes, even hairstyles), making it a collectable game. There should be many unique outfits to collect and complete. Rosariy is an artist I enlisted that will help me with creating these outfits.

To compete in the fashion event, the player has to abide by certain requirements, which are different than the usual client request. Here the player has more freedom to create something cool or pretty. All items will eventually have attributes, such as elegant, cool or sexy etc. This means there's a big rework coming up. The fashion event might ask for a 'cool' blue dress, and it's up to you to make and style one!

(mock-ups are subject to change)

With restrictions here and there, the player is still challenged to make something that will get them to win. I'm hoping I can release many outfits the player can collect. I'm also hoping this is a great gold sink, as once you've purchased all items in the store, you have no use for gold anymore.

Steam & DLC
The free version of Tailor Tales gets updated roughly once a year, or whenever a character route is complete. Right now Caine has been completed, so I'm prepping for a release on Steam, including Plus DLC. But what about Patreons?

Patreons can continue to pledge to have access to the latest chapters and most current build of the game. Patreons will also unlock ALL current LI's Plus, instead of having to buy it individually, as you will have to on Steam.

I may look into giving out DLC keys for those that are Patreons, though it will require some research.  My current plan is to release Caine's full route on Steam, as well as add Neil's and Dimitri's Plus as DLC. Caine's Plus version would only be available on Patreon until the next character route is complete (which would be James). So yeah, being a Patreon still gets you some perks!  

And that's it! See you again next year :)