Character Sheet and social relations between villagers - DevJournal #11

Hello, Rulers!

The end of the year is almost upon us, and we have some good news to bring you before saying goodbye to 2022! As you may have read in our previous post, Lakeburg Legacies is going to be released in only a few months, in Spring 2023. We hope you’re as excited as we are!

In the meantime, we will keep you updated with our progress. And there is a lot to show you!

Rework of the Character sheet

As we refined most of the game’s systems to bring them closer to our vision during the last few months, the old character sheet became more and more obsolete. And now that all changes have been implemented, it’s normal that we completely revamp its interface too! 🛠️

The “Life” page will give you all the information you need about a villager’s current state, strengths and weaknesses, personality, and needs. This is where you’ll want to go to figure out in what buildings a villager would perform the best, understand what negative traits are affecting their stats, or see how much life expectancy they have left. 🕯️

The Legacy page is one you may recognize, as it hasn’t changed much other than aesthetically. This is where you can keep track of a villager’s lineage, and see their family grow with time (and just a little help from the storks)! 👩‍👩‍👦

And finally, there is one new addition to the character sheet, in the form of the mysterious “Relationships” page. 👀

Social relations

Drama and social interactions are at the core of Lakeburg Legacies, and as such they deserve their very own space!

The Relationship page of a villager's character sheet will show you the other villagers they have encountered, as well as the type of relationship they share. Are they simple acquaintances, secret lovers, besties, mentor and student, or even nemeses? ⚔️ This is where you can watch all these relationships evolve, and even generate some new ones yourself to increase the chances that your favorite villagers appear in the same events!

New interface for the Houses

Following the rework of the Dating system, that we’ve dived into in the previous dev journal, we’ve felt the need to rework the Houses’ interface to display more information about the state of a couple’s relationship. Players can now directly have an impact on the evolution of a family, by making the couple interact to improve their relationship, making them have a baby, or having them break up. 💔

We also had new backgrounds made for every time the house grows to host more children! 👨‍👨‍👶‍👶

New buildings?!

Could it be... Yes, there are indeed some new buildings we haven’t shown you before! They are going to join the town of Lakeburg to entertain the population. We should be able to tell you more about them very soon, but for now you can enjoy this first background! Will you be able to guess what the purpose of this place is?

The answer will be revealed in the next dev journal. 😉

Until then, we're sending you our best wishes for the year to come! May 2023 be filled with joy, laughter, just a little touch of drama...and perhaps some time spent playing a certain game!

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