Glassix 0.26 released (Patreon)

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It took me longer than what I had in mind and I couldn't accomplish everything I wanted in this version alone but at least, you'll be able to see where the game is going with this new version.

What's new?

• New dating feature
• Kristina level 4
• New H options for jobs
• A few extra and a lot of bug corrections

About the dating feature:

I'll start by saying the feature is not complete yet (about 85% done) but is playable and will allow you to see where this is going.

First, affection cap has been changed from 100 to 200 (loading an old save will automatically multiply affection by 2 for all girls).

There is a first affection cap at 160 when you do normal stuff or give items then to increase affection to 200, you'll have to go on successful dates. (I'll review expensive gifts to increase affection above 160 too with a modifier to make them more interesting to purchase too)

Once a girl is friendly (120 affection), you can start asking her on a date by talking with her. You can choose a location, a day (week end only) and a period (morning, afternoon or evening). A new date menu has been added in the hero status page to track your planned dates.

With the current set up, you can plan 6 dates with 6 different girls in one week end. But of course, missing a date will result in an affection penalty with the girl.

Each dating spot has one or several hobby focus which you'll have to match to the girls hobby traits if you want to increase your date chances of success. You'll also have different choices during the date which will impact on the result of the date depending on her tastes and gifts preferences.

The player is now able to discover the girl's traits during a date (whereas before, you could only discover them with a spell).

To help the player during a date, I added some tooltips to the choice listing the related traits. If the player knows the trait, it will appeared in color (red for bad trait, white for normal trait and green for good trait). If unknown, it will appear in grey and if the choice is selected, the trait will be discovered and colored the next time a choice using this same trait is used.

So to sum up this feature, you just go ask a girl on a date, try to pick up the best choices you can during a date and at the end of the date, you'll get an affection gain (or loss if you REALLY fucked up :D)

With this new feature, I hope to give a lot of new things to do with your girls to make them feel more unique and fun to play with.

Now the bad news about this:

First, I've only been able to implement one dating spot : the aquatic park. With my focus on the code, I have to say my imagination ran a bit dry when it came to write the dates themselves. I'm not completely satisfied with this date because it's a bit too straightforward but I didn't want to delay it much longer. There is also a lot of new possibilities here to make dating entertaining by using the players skills as different result (for example, getting into a fight and requiring enough fitness to win). I'd like all the different I've been working on in the past to interact with each other to make an really fun game to play.

Second, I've not been able to complete the official girlfriend feature. The idea here is simply to make your relation official and unlock some extra stuff with your girlfriend. It also impacts the jealousy feature I planned (when you end up meeting an official girlfriend with a date resulting in a bad event).

Third, same for the phone feature which was planned to make it easier for the player to reach girls.

Those three points will be worked on in next update. In retrospective, this feature was quite ambitious for only one update. The code added was quite complex and even though the dates are shared between girls, they still have different reactions during those to make it as authentic as possible which means a lot of different text to write too. On this note, the variations per girl have not been added yet but are planned too :x

To sum up the bad news, the core of the feature is done but still need some work.

About the H options for the jobs:

Following the latest "Extra content poll" results, CarpeNoctem has been working on adding a lot of new sex options for the jobs as you wanted and I'll say he did a really nice job, some of those options are really arousing. I hope you'll enjoy them too!

On a side note, I'm planning to create a custom poll webpage to give more votes depending on your pledge tier since Patreon doesn't offer this feature (yet?)

Extra:

I also changed two minor things which should help in game :

• I've added a daily affection gain if the affection of a girl is below 100 and the girl has not been ignored. The idea is that a girl's affection will tend to come back to neutral overtime.
• I removed the travel time delay while taking the bus since I felt like it was a bit to punitive in the end (it was 20% slower than walking before). The taxi stays the fastest way to move with 20% faster travel time (besides teleportation of course :p)

And of course, some more bug corrections you can see in the changelog if needed (mainly some outfits issues). Bug reporters have been credited in the changelog, thanks a lot to them (and to all other reporters who also reported the bugs but a little too late :p)

I'd like to thank you all for your patience and support about this delay. I know only one date right now kinda suck, I underestimated the workload for this feature and a lack of imagination for the writing part since I was too focused on the code didn't help :x Now that the code part is almost complete, I'll be able to focus on writing interesting dates with the help of CarpeNoctem hopefully.

There have been a few optimizations in the code here and there too for this update so I kinda expect a few bugs. Let me know if you notice anything strange.

Have a nice day!