So! I've been working on the dating system and I think I got it to a T. As for how it will work:

• Each gem will have 2 likes and 2 dislikes
• There will be a total of 2 sets of 3 categories
• Each item will have at least 2 of these categories
• The more categories, the more expensive it will be
• Any item will give 1 point of exp to the gems
• For each liked category, it will add 1 point to that
• For each disliked category it will subtract 1 point (min 0)

That being said, I also want to implement a "work" system, so doing missions isn't the only way for Steven to make money. As for Steven, I'm also implementing stats for him for the upcoming combat sequences. What this basically means is that you will have the option to make them easier with some money/time invested in Steven's stats.

I'm juggling the economy of the game to make things slightly challenging at the start but for things to progressively get easier as the game goes on! And well, that's it for the boring mechanics section of today's devlog.

Now that enough weeks have been gone by, I can also release details on how the new scenes will work!

We are planning on doing a sequence, like if it was a comic, with a base image, and support panels for that. The base image will be the base for said scene, and supporting panels will have actions, some animated, some not, this will also include a special panel for "emotions", so we don't give individual emotions to each scene, each scene will use a general emotion panel, this to reduce the amount of time spent per scene. This will, hopefully, make scenes more dynamic while also making them easier to work with.

We will also be dropping the specialized backgrounds per scene, and, instead, we will just blurry the background of whatever location you are at. This will allow you to replay the scene EVERYWHERE without worrying about some background not being correct.

You can check out how this will slightly look in our discord server!

I hope you liked this devlog. I will be doing some tests myself in the upcoming weeks and likely upload those for you guys to see! See you soon.

Also, no 15$ update this week, sorry guys.