About piercings and tattoos. My first task is to ensure the feature works technically (code). This includes the ability to select which piercings a character has, saving and loading, rendering piercings on other characters, and icons setup. My second task is to assess the complexity of drawing and configuring this in Spine2d. I need to ensure the images are in the correct layers, that their size can be adjusted, and that they participate in animations. I just need to test the tongue and nipple piercings to write the code and understand how much time the art will take when adding content. Each of these features increases the demands on character images. I want to gather all these requirements before updating the character images —because the higher the quality of the characters I create, the more time-consuming it will be to fix them later.
I’ve left out the piercing bonuses and installation costs for now, because I know how to implement them in the code, but I don’t have an economic model to determine how much they should cost or what bonuses to offer. That’s why, for example, there isn’t a shop in the game yet where you can buy books or resources.
I haven't decided yet whether to give bonuses for the clothing, piercing, and tattoo collections at all. I want to create a lot of them; I enjoy drawing the details. However, a single character can’t wear every item of clothing from the wardrobe at once. If I were to give bonuses for a character choosing specific clothing (like a favorite color or a maid’s outfit giving a bonus to cleaning), that would involve micromanaging each character’s outfit (which I’d like to avoid). On the other hand, there needs to be some gameplay value to this—right now it’s just Luck that affects random rolls. So you need to fill out the clothing collection, but this doesn’t limit the player’s choice of clothes for their favorite characters. It’ll be the same with piercings and tattoos.
Later, we’ll add different piercing colors (silver, gold, black, and gem-studded). We’ll also add different shapes (ball, star, heart, thorn, composite, rings, and half-rings). By the way, I learned a lot about intimate piercings for women and men. I’m not including them right now because the characters in the game are too small and they wouldn’t be visible.