Profile Menu Showcase

As promised, today I would like to showcase my custom profiles menu. (I've blurred a few things to avoid spoilers.)

Let's talk about some of the features.

Convenient Sorting and Filtering

At the top of the image you will notice a "filter" and a "sort".

Filter makes it so that profiles will be filtered by the selected type and only show the ones relevant to that filter. If you choose Women, only women will be displayed. Mages will only show mages and so on.

Sort will organize the displayed profiles in a certain order. Default will have characters ordered by relations (kind of). Meaning family members will be next to each other, then friends, etc. There's also currently an age (youngest-oldest) and alphabetical (A-Z) function. The main character ignores the sorting feature so his profile will always be the first one in the order and easy to find.

Both of these features stack. So you can filter only women and have them organized by age or any other combination.

Dynamic Display

Each profile you view will have different options that will automatically display or hide depending on if it's relevant to the character or not. In the sample photo you can see that the MC has a stat bar for the karma system below his bio. This will only show for him since karma only applies to the choices you make through him. Other characters, like love interests, will have a different bar shown to keep track of their relevant stats.

Memories System (Replays) - Button not shown here, sorry.

Certain characters will have unlockable "memories" which are this games form of replays. The ones that do will have a button appear beneath their stat bar that opens a selection menu of unlocked memories to view. Within this memory selection screen only memories that pertain to the selected character will be shown. This means some memories involving more than one character will show in each of those characters respective memory selection. There is also a filter for showing memories that contain specific content at the top of the memories screen.

Outfit Viewer

Most characters will also have different appearances throughout the course of the game. I have made a system so that you can click the portrait and choose which appearance you want to be displayed as the default for their profile. Do note however, that this has no effect on how they will appear in actual gameplay.

Bio

On the left side of the screen the characters name, a few of their attributes, and the biographies will be shown. A lot of characters will have short biographies at first, this is because most of them are new to the MC and he has to learn about them. As he does their bios will expand with more detailed information.

Persistent Unlocks

Almost everything that you unlock will be persistent and carry across saves. Once you unlock a profile, outfit, or memory; it will be unlocked permanently, even for new games. However, you can delete your persistent data to clear it or use the built-in Dev Menu to reset all profiles and their unlockables or each item individually. (You can also cheat to unlock any and all unlockables, but I don't recommend doing so, as you will get spoilers.)

It's been setup this way for those of you who are completionists and want to collect everything. Most of these things will be unlockable in a single playthrough if you make the right choices, but some of them will require multiple playthroughs and exploring different character paths.

This about wraps it all up for now. If you have any suggestions or improvements that you feel could be made, feel free to share them in the comments. As usual, I hope everyone is doing well and having a good time!

My next post will be introducing the first love interest and going into a few non-spoilery details about her!