ZBZ Dating: changes to come. (Patreon)

I must tell you that I was too ambitious for ZBZ Dating, I will have to make changes.

What I am talking about is the event animations after a Party. People like the animations but it takes me time to do them and the quality isn't what I would call good. Making a pair of feet moving isn't the problem.

The problem is that there are 4 Parties, for each Party you have 3 Events possible. There are 12 girls. Let's do some maths, 4*3*12=144. That would be 144 events possible to animate.

To solve the problem, for the first time, I was aiming for neutral animations where I could change just the skin color of the girl and the player (because I have to do variants for the player too.) This had to be close ups or views with few modifications needed between girls. And I would still have to do a certain quantity of animations because some girls would have totally different events. Let's say that it would reduce to 1/4 the animations needed. That would be 36 animations (with variants to do for girl/player?)

If I want to release a new girl every month and have a finished game for December 2020. I would have to do like 3 animations every month, it's not impossible but still adds work to do. The problem is that a girl has 12 events, with some math I can tell you how many times the animation will become familiar. 144 (events possible) - 36 (base animation with color variants) = 108 times where you will have an already seen animation with just a color variant.

I tried to find a better solution, using still images instead of the animations. But, I don't have an artist for it and that would be my work. So let's do the math, 4(Parties)*3(Choices)=12. Remember that I want to release a new girl each month, it means 12 pictures to produce added to the rest of the work I have to do every month. And I still have to do graphics for other stuff in the game.

Then I decided that the best solution is to remove the graphics for this part. Writing 12 small events per month is a lot more feasible and you don't see the player's look. Another option would be a new minigame but I don't have ideas for now. Or I finish the game in December 2021 but I don't want that.

I prefer graphics to text but I'm stuck for the events after a party. I wanted to make tasty animations for everyone to enjoy but it is unrealistic for the schedule planned.

There will be text only for the events after a Party. Let me know your thoughts on this in the comment section. I hope that this post will make you understand this decision.

(some annoying bug fixes are coming for next week version of ZBZ Dating)