Careers and Shopping UI (WIP) (Patreon)

Hello! How is everybody?

These past two weeks we have been working a lot on a highly anticipated feature for Little Sim World: Careers!

💼 Careers 💼

You might have seen our Job Application UI in our most recent twitter post, but this week I wanted to highlight the other UIs involved and some of the mechanics behind the career system and all the fun stuff we have in store!

In Little Sim World you will have different careers you can swap through at any given time by looking up a job on your computer. For now all careers have an entry job that requires no specific skill level to get into, but as you develop as a professional you’ll have access to other jobs within the same career that may require specific skills to get into via job promotion. These different jobs, or career levels, also require work experience to get promoted into, which can be acquired either through working on your current job for long enough or by completing the weekly tasks given to you at the beginning of each week in your My Career UI, accessible through your Phone. As you advance in your career you will of course receive a higher pay, and some may even lead to fame!

We’ll be releasing the Culinary career first, as it ties well with the cooking skill, our first deeper mechanic I want to include into the game. In the future you’ll be able to cook different meals using raw ingredients with your character, so I want to get those systems fleshed out as soon as possible as it is complex and also highly promising.

🛒 Shopping 🛒

I am also currently working on a shopping interface for the players to buy food and, soon enough, furniture and everything else! These are still in an early stage, but the first building I want to include with the shopping interaction is the Pub, as it’ll allow players to purchase and consume ready meals. It’ll also be a great excuse to expand the playable area so everyone can explore more of our little London! One of the challenges will be implementing interactivity and daily routines to our NPCs, but I feel like we’re up to the task 😉

Thanks for joining us this week! (•ө•)♡

Terry & Michel