It's another exciting and wonderful status update... Not.

As you know already, I am working on improving the relationships/adding romances to the game.

Right now I am still working on Jane's part of this, and while I have made progress, I am wasting a lot of time in finding a good balance for the system, and thinking of a good scheme to make it work. I have added 3 scenes that are supposed to "introduce" you to the romance, and that give you a way to get out of it before it gets serious, in a sense. It should do for a good pacing to start a romance, if you follow it.

I am also thinking of some ways to keep things simple, while still giving the players something to do. I won't lie, romance in a game that isn't mainly about romance can be a real pain, and my game is sandbox-ish, so it makes things even worst. Since the game it's a long way from being done, I also have the problem of being unable to see how the pacing of the romance is going to work against the main story pace, so I have been worrying about this, too. Anyway, I think I am getting a handle on how I should go about it, and I should have something for my beta-testers in 2-3 weeks, I hope.

My posts are sliding toward the middle of the week because there isn't a good amount of progress done, just a lot of planning and switching back and forth some ideas, testing out how they work and all that, so I always get kind of demotivated when this happens, and end up waiting too long before writing. In case you were wondering, now you know why I don't keep a neat schedule with my posts here. :p