- The traffic system has been rewritten. Cars in top-down mode will now avoid each other, stop at intersections, etc
- Added a "Scheduler" so that players can see a list of relevant upcoming events
- Added shortcuts to navigate to home/work ('1' and '2' respectively)
- Reduced frequency of friends calling to invite you out
- "Loud neighbours" mission no longer triggers in more expensive apartments
- Fixed a bug where the Work tooltip wouldn't stay open if you hovered the mouse over it
- Fixed a bug where the "Annoyed" state would never get removed
Little Lives
Update Notes for v0.95
Update Notes for v0.942
• Fixed crash relating to meeting NPCs
• Fixed issue where an event invite could have an invalid date
• Fixed various bugs with the Invite window
• Fixed various serialization issues
• Fixed a bug in the "Hospital Transplant" mission
Update Notes for v0.941
Changes:
- New social system for interacting with NPCs
- NPCs that you meet are now visible on the map, and have their own schedule, job, social events, etc
- Organise social events with multiple NPCs (eg. can organise a house party with 6 people)
- Choose from a set of "cards" to select your social responses
- Collect cards during gameplay for special responses (eg. "Good news" card when you get a promotion, "Scandal" card when you read a tabloid/newspaper)
- Start dating, get married, make your significant other jealous, make enemies!
- NPCs also organise events (sometimes without you)
- NPCs have randomized traits and interests
- NPCs have various desired items (can gift desired items to them to increase relationship)
- Various improvements to the UI
- Tooltip popups for every item/building/character in the game
- Many other things I can't remember!
Update Notes for v0.901
Changes:
- Added 9 career paths, each with 9 ranks (Technology, Science, Politics, Music, Crime, Healthcare, Hospitality, Law Enforcement, Sales)
- Added multiple job-specific missions per career
- Added multiple skills, each with 6 ranks to level up
- Added hobby shop, which sells items to improve your skills (chessboard, weight bench, etc)
- Added bookshop, which sells books to improve your skills
- Added various new buildings to support the new careers
- Added blue indicator in clock to show when your work shift starts/ends
- "High School" is now "Community College", and offers a variety of courses to improve your skills
- Added minigame challenges (these can be disabled via the options menu)
- Jobs now have varying stress levels
- Changed overhead view to be more angled, rather than top-down
- Changes to the map to make certain routes shorter
- Added character window which shows all of your skills/stats
- Work & home are now highlighted with different colours on the map
- Fixed bug with learning multipliers not stacking correctly
- Added achievement for reaching the top of any career
- Added pause button
- Added information windows to indicate when your work shift starts/ends
- Slider to control how much effort you put into your job
- Can only work on certain days of the week, varying per job
- Loads of small fixes and improvements
Update Notes for v0.88
Now that these changes are finally in, the next update will focus on improving the career system.
Changes:
- Character customization
- New clothing system
- Items of clothing can be arranged into Outfits in your apartment
- Your character is now shown in the bottom right (can also view their current outfit & switch between outfits from this UI)
- NPCs are randomly generated using the same character customization functionality
- Full views of characters are shown during dialogue
- Purchasing a closet gives the player more outfit slots
- New stores added for hats, shoes and sunglasses
- Each job now requires a specific dress code (based on clothing stats)
- Fixed various visual pops/glitches
- Added tutorial information for the various clothes-related features
- Added many new character animations
- Fixed bug with outlines displaying incorrectly at different aspect ratios
- Increased number of credits required for each level of High School
- Added an option to skip the tutorial
- Sleeping now removes fatigue more slowly
- A bunch more stuff I can't remember
Update Notes for v0.87
- Top-down auto-driving mode
- Added 1 new music track
- Tweaked the driving simulation to make it more fun
- Tweaked the frequency of friends contacting you
- Reduced ambient mission frequency
- Various mission tweaks
- Removed taxi functionality from previous patch, as it's redundant with the auto-driving mode
- Added options to set display resolution and toggle V-sync
- Reduced rent for the low-income apartment
- Various buildings are now open for longer hours
- Fixed a bug where load/save wouldn't work on some non-English configurations
- Made various UI elements more responsive
- Fixed an issue where skipping time was slower at lower framerates
- Fixed various issues with the navigation line indicator
- You can now rotate items with the mouse-wheel when placing them
- Reduced the cost of the Flat Tyre mission