Reconstruction and Improvement

 

Aside from the increasingly hectic clutter and issues going on, I have been continuing progress on the game. Sorry about the lack of updates on my end, and as usual, there are some serious systematic changes going on before the release. There are a few older scripts and menu options that were placed in the game a long time ago and never really had much work done on them, or they conflicted with other aspects of the game. The entire alchemy/extraction system has been stripped away and replaced with an easier, more flexible one. 

This has added a few new things to work on, on my end. Crafting has been divided into 3 sub-types so far: Smithing, Alchemy, and Cooking.

 

Smithing: Collecting ore and minerals to upgrade weapons and increase damage done during battles.

Alchemy: Making potions or items that affect the player or npcs, including arousal and bodily changes like futa making.
Cooking: Making food to either gift to npcs or eat for healing properties.

 

You can see where this will severely affect the game, and hopefully it makes the entire crafting system more user-friendly. This means I will have to make changes to certain books, maybe a few shops, and make new ingredient sources. Speaking of ingredient sources, I took it in my own hands to make some edits to plants for the new harvesting system.

I am not a master sprite maker, nor am I a tileset artist. However, the edits should be reliable indicators of when a plant or source is ready to harvest. Every source relies on a timer to spawn more items, varying from 120-900 real time seconds. More changes include coconut trees and pineapple bushes...There will be 5 trees in the main town that will be changed to apple trees.

Also, for anybody who hasn't kept up with the comments, a generous script donation has been made by a fellow user,  axelmherkor. For anybody who was waiting on a way to talk to npcs through a menu while they are followers, you can thank this guy. We are currently adjusting it to fit in with the other scripts.

 

Also under construction is the genetic system for Izuna's kids. I am trying a more 'randomized' approach with a greater variety in appearance. This will require some toying around with the current system, and there is a choice that it won't work well enough to put in before the release, but here are some sample sprites for the kids.

 

 It should also be noted that if the whole thing is put in and works well, having children by npcs will change a bit. Instead of taking appearances from the npc by default, there should be a 50/50 chance of the child getting Izuna's colors instead. Like I said, this is all on the hopes that I get it working properly first...