At ease, soldiers !

I could only work for the first part of this week so I tried to make it count. Having one more sex scene written, new assets added and several mechanics tested and debugged do sound like worthy progress so Yay me.

Among other things, I finally implemented the “monogamy lock” that makes it so choosing a monogamy route with a character transforms the others relationships into friendship : I had to make sure making Y’shtola or Estinien’s routes switch from, let’s say, Lv. 4 Romance to an equivalent in Friendship doesn’t create any bug or story inconsistencies.

Concretely, I stored the “ex-romance level” in a variable, and depending on that level, there’s a special dialogue to ease that transition.

Now, I know what many players are thinking : a choice between monogamy and polyamory in a harem game ? Well yes, that was the original plan but as there was a lot of feedback on that choice in 0.1, I decided to add a “True Harem Mode” : if it’s activated, the Monogamy choice is replaced by a Harem choice, which will let you both have your cake and eat it. It will mostly feature the same stuff as the Monogamy route (with different dialogues) but this time, without locking you from engaging with other characters. 

Next week, I’ll probably talk about the New Game+ feature, which hopefully won’t create too many bugs…