Update 2nd Mar '25

This was a pretty good week. I knew if I gave the CSS and other code full focus it would get things moving again.

The Elegant Woman's shop window is done (aside from a proper background pic - the one in the screenshot is borrowed from The Doctoress's shop).

After that I moved onto the core game loop. That's been updated to add the autosave functionality. I've also fixed some of the rng elements. Before, it was possible to reload the page and get a completely different selection of harlots. I've fixed the rng part to make the choices before they're shown to the player, which means autoloading preserves those choices. I've been doing this for everything that uses rng to make sure the autosave/autoload behaviour is consistent.

I've also given the game a preliminary title page and start menu. Those are a little rough at the moment. I'd like to add some rudimentary animations such as showing the curtains swishing open, but for now I need to put everything in the right place so I can modify them later.

After that it was a case of reassembling everything and making sure it worked. I also checked the UI elements to make sure the player can bounce to the notebook section and back to where they left off without any problems. While this version is only adding the autosave and new UI elements, I want to make sure the notebook parts of the code are present in the right place to be filled in later.

Currently I'm in the middle of overhauling the Character Sheet. Once that is done there are a few more tweaks to do and then the demo will be ready for release. I think that will be Tues/Wed next week.

After that's done I'll move on to getting the basic notebook functionality in - maybe just track something simple such as number of deaths to start with. Then I want to give 2 or 3 harlots the full notebook functionality to figure out the most efficient workflow. After that I can probably stop it with the programming frenzy and get my writing hat back on again!

Nice to get things moving again!
- manyeyedhydra