Deluded Diaries: Roadmap. Character customization

We are continuing our series of posts about the roadmap, where we explain in detail what each checkpoint in our development roadmap entails.

This time we’re talking about the “Character customization” system.

You can read the previous roadmap post about the “NPC schedule” system here.

Character customization is one of the most requested features from you and the one that’s being talked about the most.

Character customization in Deluded

It’s a system that’ll allow you to change different aspects of Alisa’s appearance. Before continuing with the topic I wanna make something very clear: there is a difference between “character customization” and “character creation”. Deluded will have the first but not the second. Deluded is Alisa’s personal story, so you’ll be able to shape Alisa’s appearance only through gameplay mechanics, quests and interactions, not create the character from scratch or edit her with sliders.

I’m sure someone was expecting the character creation to be implemented, but it is how it is and it’s not subject to change.

Features

So, which aspects of the character will actually be customizable?

Progression

Of course, not all character customization options will be available immediately. E.g. applying certain make-up patterns already requires some make-up skill in 0.3.5.1. Other customizations that require skill will include: lipstick, hairstyle, pubic hairstyle, brows and nails.

Skills can leveled up by simple practice or by reading special journals, with 4 journals for each skill scattered across the open world.

It works the other way too, like make-up increasing the S***ness level.

Certain customizations will be tied to attributes. E.g you can’t have “dominant” tattoos if your Dominance is not high enough.

Also, the customizations will be tied to certain areas and NPCs.

When will it be implemented?

The game already partially has the code and features for character customization, but the 0.5 build will have the whole functionality.

Of course, most of the customization features will be available in the open world, but we’ll make sure to add more ways to test this mechanic in 0.5, like: asking mom to do Alisa’s hair, using mirror, etc…

Anything else I didn’t mention you wanna learn about? Let me know in the comments! 😉

Best regards,
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