I am definitely glad the update has been a hit! I am never sure how things come out when I go serious, since I am pretty out of practice at it.
@NJG That is indeed the end thus far. Although I am already working on the next year.
@Tridentking Yeah, I realized karate and gymnastics were incomplete on that year (I fixed the year names, so things might get confusing for a while) so I wrote it and apparently made a mistake not testing it first. I will try to push out a fix this afternoon. Glad you are enjoying it!
Iâm pushing back my estimated submission time again as this thing continues to grow. Hoped for end of May but thatâs unlikely. New target is the anniversary of my submitting NPT last year, so probably around mid-June, Iâll have to look up the date.
Stat sheet for year 16. Kid got driversâ license (does that raise freedom, independence, and popularity?).
Is the Buick event somewhat randomized (with some prior choices boosting the likelihood of getting the license with the big car)?
I feel that there should be a consequence (hit to Education b/c the kid missed part of a test, etc.) for delaying the license if the player lives outside of the city
Thank yâall for the stats. Failing or delaying the test actually increases grades, since they have less distractions due to stunted social life and such. But at the cost of pop and free.
I forgot who, but I know someone asked about how do you keep up with the acting. Just choose any options available to bump up acting, and then make sure to focus on Education and Popularity. Ditto for activities, focus on them at the expense of other things (sorry, canât have it all) and then focus on Edu for brain activites like music or Athletics forâŚwell, Athletics.
Oh, and about the license, it does have a random element. Itâs boosted based on the choices you made to get them ready for the test but still partially dependent on the die roller. Wasnât really a stat to tie it into.
Eh, by year 14 your kid would have to pick anyhow. Any kids doing both acting and an activity are forced to make a choice for one to focus on. Both realistic and easier from a code standpoint.
This was most certainly not useless! Stuff like that can give you motivation to keep going when your mind and your body are hanging up on you to throw in the towel. Thanks!
Speaking of the mind and the body, done followed it up two bouts of pneumonia with the flu. Did complete my 20,000 word push for April despite only being at 7,500 on the 15th. But not likely to do much right now, feel bad.
True, and a couple of the Choice writers have this as one of their numerous sources of income from freelancing or writing on other mediums. Although in those cases the bar for making a living wage is a lot lower since youâre usually talking about people who are either single or in a relationship with someone who also works.
In my case, I work and my wife stays home with our girls, so I donât anticipate ever being able to have all four of us live solely off the creative works I wrench from my diseased subconscious and inflict upon an unsuspecting populace, even if I branch out to work in mediums outside of Choicescript. And I donât just say that because my last NPT monthly royalty literally could not have paid for my wife and I going to see Endgame tomorrow.
@ToasterCorgi Yeah, it was unfortunate because I had a fair bit of time I could have done something, just not enough energy or focus to make use of it. Mostly just played Shining Force 2 on my phone or stared vacantly into space.
@Antonio_Tiger Glad you enjoyed it, and feel free to give a similar rating when itâs released on your platform(s) of choice. Also, something about this reminded me of an old haunt from my online days, so in the incredibly unlikely event any of my former Netrunners ever find this place I shall sound forth our clarion call: itâs true 5 stars lamlmalamalmalmalllmalmalalamalm
Also, Hookah sucks and Edouble doesnât.
Feel free to write this off as a byproduct of my numerous medications.
Well, for what it´s worth I like this kid raising sim a lot better than your last game. Though some of the American centric cultural content, while not going over my head due to being inundated by Hollywood produce is at times an odd mix of funny, worrying or simply bewildering to me.
I didnât think I would like this game, but I did, it was fun. There are multiple ways to raise the child, but personally for me, even though itâs not possible, I would like to raise him as a wealthy (old money) parent and be more like Iâm raising you this way because I donât want you to stain the family name or that kind of situation. I can even imagine picking his bride or groom and also threatening to cut him out of the will.
Also in a more serious note. There was this scene:
I donât remember it that much, but it made me a bit conflicted. It was when my child got sick, and he ended up in a hospital of some sort, and the doctor said he thought my child suffered from something and that it was best to take out some glands, and then he said that it would be good to also take out his tonsils. Then my son (William) started crying. He didnât know it, but he was very close to becoming an MSBP victim. However, my love for him won, and I just could not do it.
Kind of on this topic, and on other topics brought up by Mara and a few other people-
Why are the majority of games on this site so American? Like, I know we have a very large American demographic, but we have so many other ways of being open and accepting, especially in the LGBTQ+ community, but so little acknowledgment for varying cultures and races.
I acknowledge this could be hard to write in to âmany gamesâ but at the same time, one could say writing the option to be more than any designated sexuality/gender identity is hard too.
This game is amazing, and I know it was likely written to just be an insight into a generic potential American household, but arenât there opportunities of multiculturalism within America itself? Isnât America one of the biggest cultural melting pots on the planet?
Like, Iâm honestly surprised Spanish wasnât taught at a younger age for the child. Or the parent couldnât speak it.
In my country, the main second language at first language English schools is taught from the first grade, and itâs spoken by the entire country at a very high standard. I just find it all very strange.
The kid actually has a chronic issue in that scene (it isnât fake; I have lived with nasty sinus infections since my earliest memories). The choice is to treat the symptoms (recurring minor illness [but not so minor when you miss school/work for days on end to recover]) or to get the surgery to prevent future occurrences of the minor illness (with major recovery time).
Yeah, itâs hard to compare something as disparate as a sci-fi slapstick story focused a lot around a group of characters and a semi-serious slice of life story focused more around you and one character. But I would say I probably did a better job writing this time out. Hopefully that trend continues.
Itâs funny that I never meant to make this a snapshot of American parenting. It was just a parenting story, no nationality in mind. Only as things continued and people shared their stories did it become apparent how many things were not universal. That said, I believe the US still makes up like half of all readers for HG and CoG titles.
And making it more multicultural or multilingual would require not just one but many choices. If I offer Hispanic language backgrounds, how about Chinese? Filipino? German? Also, I donât speak these languages (beyond a smattering of Deutsch from high school half a life ago), so that could be a speed bump. And even CoG couldnât sell people on foreign language Choice games, given their reported failure on the Spanish version of Choice of the Dragon. I would also need to do a lot of research to make sure things were represented accurately, and research is not what I consider happy fun times. And even then Iâd get lots of things wrong because they werenât natural to me.
I must say I never expected Munchausenâs by proxy to pop up in this thread.
Well you could ask us forum members in helping develop the cultural background I believe. Some of us here in the forum are from other nations like Bathala for instance. You can ask us for assistance if you want clarifications for how this culture works, etc. This is only applicable though if you want to take the background lightly. If you want a looot of cultural background, then research is probably needed sadly. Regardless, though I do wish to not burden you further, in this instance, maybe adding just a touch of a cultural or national background can appease some of us.
Iâm not American and donât really find that a big deal. That being said, adding a slight choice / hint of cultural background does seem like a compromise if itâs not too much of a revision. I also think that the majority of players / readers enjoy some layered customization.
