Build 02.24.22 release notes

Hi everyone,

Finally another Patreon build is out for you to try.

Sorry it took so long but this was quite a big release with a bunch of new features/content.

Some of the highlights are the new Professions system which will now govern each specialty under certain professions. For example, the farming specialty is now part of the Agriculture profession.

Professions level can be increased by using their corresponding specialties, and as you level up each profession, you can unlock new traits that gives you new advantages/abilities/more specialties, etc.

The other focus of this build was the dating system. HTopia is a dating sim and I've had that system quite abandoned for a while, so I've been iterating over how to make it better. Right now I've defined a process for the dates into two levels. 

Level 1 is dating in certain locations to raise a character's friendship level further.

Dates Level 2 are focused on more intimate moments with characters in order tto raise a character's lust and get them some hot moments with them ;)

Right now the dating system has been enhanced with a few new UI changes to know how good you did in a Date level 1. There is still just one date in the Theme Park but you can now see how each character behaves differently depending on their personality.

I'll continue enhancing the dating system in future builds.

Other big features are the ability to lockpick and break into houses/businesses to steal stuff and an improved real estate system to manage properties/housing of the game.

Anyway, sorry for the long post, here are the full release notes:

REAL ESTATE SYSTEM

+A proper Real Estate system is now in place to manage all properties related stuff.

+Each real estate property now has a proper type (business, residence, etc)

+Introduced a new concept of property ownership with roles for each individual for every property they are involved with.

+Shops/Businesses will now have a list(internally) of users for each property with their corresponding roles (owner, employee, etc).

+Real Estate system will also take care of the housing system, giving the player the role of Owner or Tenant in their home (and future houses they buy)

PROFESSIONS SYSTEM

+Added a new Professions system. Each profession will have several specialties the player can use and level up.

+Added a new UI to display the Professions tree.

+Each Profession allows to unlock certain traits/specialties.

+Using a specialty will increase their corresponding Profession allowing to unlock new traits.

BURGLARY PROFESSION

+Lockpicking is now allowed outside of dungeons. ie: breaking into a house in a location.

+You can now lockpick some private properties (houses and businesses) in certain world locations and break into them.

+Added new profession trait to steal from points of interests for the Burglary profession.

+Added stealing points of interest to certain locations.

CRIME SYSTEM (IN PROGRESS)

+Started adding a Crime system.

+Breaking into houses can add a felony to your crimes list if people see you trespassing.

+Stealing can add a felony to your crimes list if people see you stealing.

+When cop characters are added tp the game, the Crime system eventually will make the cops look for you and be more aggressive.

CHARACTER GENERATOR

+Added 2 new facial expressions to both types of randomly generated characters.

DATING SYSTEM

+A more formalized Dating system has been created.

+Moved existing dating functionality to the new Dating system.

+Added a way to keep track of the dates completed and give them a score.

+Dating requests' locations can now be used once per day per character. You can no longer invite the same character to the same date on the same day.

+Added UI to show the score after each date so you know how well you did.

+Added ability to chain invite a character to a second date during first date of the day.

+Date Selection UI now shows the current score for the character for each date.

+Slutty characters should now be easier to date without many requirements.

+Improved the Theme Park date with a new standard flow that will be used in future level 1 dating events.

+Dating at home event has been improved to support follow up dating.

COMBAT SYSTEM

+Added Big Spider enemy.

+Added Big Snake enemy.

+Added Big Spider and Big Snake to show in random battles in the Forest location.

UI

+Character's stats raised indicator may now show the value by which it is increasing by.

+Fixed a bug with the smartphone's WhosApp app making impossible to talk to a character in person.

EVENTS

+New CGs for ecchi study event have been added.

ENGINE

+Added dialogues for stealing events.

+Added dialogues for lockpicking events.

+Bumped up game version. This version will not be backwards compatible, sorry.

Thanks and stay safe!