Hello everyone and welcome to a new sneak peek of Lucky Paradox

This time I had to make the post a bit late, since yesterday I got the third vaccine dose and I felt tired and sick all day long, but yet here we are.

During this week I have been finalizing everything needed for the Alpha version of what will be the 0.7.5 update (aka Christmas Update), and I must admit that it has been much more complex than I thought at first.

The most important thing for me during this update (besides the new content that was added), was to bring the climate change system to reality. As I said some time ago, one of my inspirations to make Lucky Paradox, were farm games (Like Stardew Valley or My Time at Portia), but more focused on the characters and less on the farming or grinding, you name it hahaha

That's why I wanted to make the attempt to bring a complete climate change in the village once the player reaches a specific date. This is something that brings a lot of life to each of the locations in the game, as it makes the date number not just an ornament number but takes relevance by setting the context of the game's story. At the same time, I would like to show some optional stories for special dates, as seen in the last update with the Halloween content, though in the future, the fireflies that allow "time travel" will be removed from the game, as they can take away from the immersion.

With the Christmas update there was an extra problem, and that was not only to do the special events, but also to bring snow to Argleton, and this snow would have to bring visible changes in some locations, with matching music themes and new transitions, not to mention that the snow or the extra code should not cause performance problems either.

In the beginning I wanted to add a snow effect with particles, but the extra RAM cost was considerably excessive, and it wasn't worth to sacrifice the performance.

Then I tried making the locations animated and pre-rendered with videos, but this caused performance issues in the Android version, not to mention that there was a considerable weight increase in the game.

In the end I wanted to go with a similar design to what I've been doing with the game so far, and I must admit it was a shame, but there are many things to consider before adding new features like these, and I didn't want to delay the release even more because of this.

However, I think I have reached a middle ground in what I wanted to achieve, so from now on it is already possible to make weather changes in Argleton. In the Christmas update (As those who have played the Alpha can see), you can see a lot of visible changes: From the night/day transition to some locations, with the Shogukuni being the biggest change.

I still feel I can give much more depth to this, adding changes in spring or autumn, with special events with bikini contests or whatever, at this point I’m not going to make it with the list of ideas pending hahaha.

And this time I not only wanted to bring the weather change, but I wanted to add some more significant special events, giving more depth and details about some characters, like with the Dragons in this update.

On the other hand, this hasn't given me enough time to add some erotic scenes I wanted to add during this update, so they haven't been finished yet, and I'm currently working on it. My idea is that they will be repeatable scenes and include variations with the new costumes.

Finally, in putting all the components of the update together, I ran into a problem. A few weeks ago, I had removed the Discord integration, but for some reason, when testing with everything working, it generated an incompatibility with the save games... I think that destroying the save games to make this change would not be fair. So, for now I have reverted this change, I will see if there is an alternative to this.

And that's all for this week's report.

Soon I plan to make a series of posts showing all the new content coming during the year, so you can know all the new features that will come in future updates.

I hope you are prepared, because it will be a lot of information, I hope you like them, because many new features are coming thanks to the suggestions of the community <3

As always, I send you a big hug from afar and I wish you a beautiful week.

See you soon with more news <3