More characters?

[Mrs.Snail]

Tbh I don’t really play games often OR for a long time, even an hour is difficult.
But after playing this, realizing you’re just remarking everybody over and over is… not as fun :/
Is there a plan for more characters?

[janbehchanbeh]

Originally posted by Claire_Esque:

Tbh I don’t really play games often OR for a long time, even an hour is difficult.
But after playing this, realizing you’re just remarking everybody over and over is… not as fun :/
Is there a plan for more characters?

To be 100% honest, we're unsure! We'd LOVE to add more characters, but we're a really small team so it takes us a really long time to add new characters (character art, animations, their room, move-in comic, music, diary entries, all the relationship combinations, all the couple art endings).

Just adding 4 characters (total of 16 characters) means 120 combinations (as opposed to the current 66 with 12 characters)! The combinations are factorial, which grows faster than exponential! We want to make sure that each resident and each couple are unique as possible, and unfortunately that takes a lot of time with our small team.

I'm sorry that I don't have a clear answer yet!

[ittybittybingo]

Originally posted by janbehchanbeh:

Originally posted by Claire_Esque:

Tbh I don’t really play games often OR for a long time, even an hour is difficult.
But after playing this, realizing you’re just remarking everybody over and over is… not as fun :/
Is there a plan for more characters?

To be 100% honest, we're unsure! We'd LOVE to add more characters, but we're a really small team so it takes us a really long time to add new characters (character art, animations, their room, move-in comic, music, diary entries, all the relationship combinations, all the couple art endings).

Just adding 4 characters (total of 16 characters) means 120 combinations (as opposed to the current 66 with 12 characters)! The combinations are factorial, which grows faster than exponential! We want to make sure that each resident and each couple are unique as possible, and unfortunately that takes a lot of time with our small team.

I'm sorry that I don't have a clear answer yet!

I really hope you can!! I just beat it for the first time in only 6 hours because I didn't realize there weren't more characters but I did love it and I'm sure I will play through it again. I would gladly pay for an expansion or DLC.

[TamanduaGirl]

I'd love to at least get enough characters to fill both shelves. Even if they had to be DLC would be great. But I know the game is still pretty new, and assumed it was a small team so would expect it to not be any time soon. It's just sad the second shelf didn't get filled.

[Shipper65]

Originally posted by janbehchanbeh:

Originally posted by Claire_Esque:

Tbh I don’t really play games often OR for a long time, even an hour is difficult.
But after playing this, realizing you’re just remarking everybody over and over is… not as fun :/
Is there a plan for more characters?

To be 100% honest, we're unsure! We'd LOVE to add more characters, but we're a really small team so it takes us a really long time to add new characters (character art, animations, their room, move-in comic, music, diary entries, all the relationship combinations, all the couple art endings).

Just adding 4 characters (total of 16 characters) means 120 combinations (as opposed to the current 66 with 12 characters)! The combinations are factorial, which grows faster than exponential! We want to make sure that each resident and each couple are unique as possible, and unfortunately that takes a lot of time with our small team.

I'm sorry that I don't have a clear answer yet!

I love this game to pieces and I always play it when I am having a bad day because the sheer adorableness of this game cheers me up instantly. I would love more characters, but I understand if it can't happen, however if it is possible then take as much time as you need. :)

[blonde_guardian]

By the time I expanded the manor, I didn't have enough residents to fill it because I had matched some up. I would also love more residents!!! I hope it could be a plan for the future :)

[ptrst]

I just want to put my support in as well for a DLC with new characters. I know it's a lot of work, but I'd definitely be willing to pay more for it!

[Cas]

The expanding combination problem is a big one for sure.
More characters in the same house feels like a gargantuan task.

The only real solution I could see would be DLC set in different houses, a "first moving out to college" DLC would be pretty fun and you could do different houses with 4-6 rooms and have 6-10 characters in a shared house for college. Could be a fun dynamic to play with as they all get used to being away from home, possibly for the first time. I enjoy found family stories and I think there's a lot of potential in this one.

Or a space or colony DLC where you have a small group of characters moving into a space station or the first colony etc. Could also work as a ship DLC (either space or sailing!)

Isolating characters to their specific theme/DLC avoids the impossible number of combinations needed if they were mixed together.

I love this game and would love to see more of the adorable art and writing from your team! I can see how expanding the base game is tricky so to me different theme DLCs seems like both a practical solution and fun as you can play around with different date ideas and items specific to the theme. Apologies if you've already thought of this, I would just love to see more of this game!