iksanabot wrote:Yeah, I'm not happy with how it worked, but I do still think the concept of competing with Richard could work very well. In the expansion I'm going to make it harder to keep up with Richard, and add many short scenes directed at putting some tension in where you see both Lisa and Tracy finding Richard really impressive and some concern on Justin's part is generated about losing the girls to him. Like others have pointed out, I think I will need to add in a RELATIONSHIP stat for each girl to make this work better. That is, Richard is never going to be a threat to Tracy if Justin is acting like a great husband and father, and spending quality time with her. But if he spreads himself too thin, and gets Tracy mad enough at him, or feeling ashamed of him, then the threat is very real. Likewise with Lisa. And similar for the new girls, who are biased toward Richard but can be seduced with enough attention and respect. I'm also going to have a RELATIONSHIP stat for Richard. I realize that Justin should be able to reconcile his differences with Richard, moving toward a very happy ending where Justin and his cousin can actually end up friends again, like they were when they were young. It will be interesting to write. I hope that none of this seems like a spoiler. I'm rushing to get this posted. For anyone besides Tlaero that is reading this - none of this stuff is promises. These are ideas, and intention, but ultimately Leo and I will have to figure out whether all of the coding changes can be done or not. But I'm optimistic.
this sounds very good,i like this ideas alot and i think they would improve the game significantly,especially what you said about adding many short scenes to put tension between characters,since there is no classic interaction between characters (like in lwt1) i feel that this would help with character development through the game,aswell as the build up of the events of the story
i see you said that nothing of this is promise but i hope that you'll be able to pull it off
iksanabot wrote:In combination with there being a limit on just how much content I could include, many of these explore scenes feel like dead ends because nothing really happens. I can correct this in an expansion by including more of the scenes I always wanted to include, but also bu tweaking the mechanic to give more purpose to all the scenes - more on that below.
this interests me greatly,where is the limit for the content you can include?we know that lwt2 is biggest lop game so far in terms of content and that is currently 300mb,how much further can you expand the game?
i see you mentioned earlier possible new scenes that will be available in expansion,along with your ideas above,could you fit all of them in one week of gameplay?
and would it be possible to expand some other scenes,for example fixing lisa's laptop or going swimming in evening on day 2 to something more?
i know i'm asking a lot of stuff here and i'll understand if you won't answer them,you created another game that just keeps on bringing endless possibilities for more,just like lwt1,so hats off for great work again