Published: November 18th 2021, 2:17:34 pm
I am nearly done converting the entire game to objects and sub-objects now, with the inventory and merchant code all working flawlessly again after many many hours of hunting for little bugs. The shitty work is almost over and I've gotten back to the more enjoyable part, which has definitely made it easier to sit down and actually work on the game again (I also blame the release of Forza Horizon 5 for eating away some coding hours, not gonna lie).
Today I started working on a randomized quest system. This will make sure you will always have something to do in the game, even when I haven't added any quests yet or when you've just done them all. For now there are three random quest types. Elimination will just have you kill a bunch of raiders or mutants that are wreaking havoc on LA. Search & Rescue will have you answer distress calls from people. They might join your camp when you rescue them! Gather quests will have you gather stockpiles of much-needed supplies.
Balancing the economy in terms of dollars and XP is still far from done so I might very well have to change these values later on. But the system is working so far.
Also, I don't think I can hide it any longer as she's popping up in more and more screenshots... Emilia Clarke will be the main girl in this game. She will guide you through the intro and tutorial and will always be the one you go to for quests or other camp management. Maybe someday I'll make this camp leader interchangeable to a celeb of your choice, but for now you're stuck with Emilia :) Not the worst case scenario I'd say!
This month's girls poll will go online soon. Since Anya Taylor Joy won last month's poll, two people have subscribed to the $50 tier and added their favorites to the to-do list, which is now 57 girls long. The two newcomers are Chloe Bennet and Paris Barelc. Two absolute beauties so I'm happy to add them to the list.
More good news soon, hopefully, as it looks like I'll be having a long weekend home alone with tons of time to code. If this goes through you will probably get some good updates again soon and we might just see a alpha launch later november or early december.