It's just another currency for gameplay purposes

Robbering houses=>gold

Exploring dungeons=>honor

I didn't want the dungeon items set to cost gold, otherwise players could just buy them with the normal gold. Besides would be strange for the guard to ask for help and then "pay us for the items!". Instead with honor I was more like "we trust you're good so we give you the best item sets since you won't waste it". Stuff like that. I think in a game I saw also the term "requisition" though I'm not much sure what it means

So these sets, are they like the coolest stuff in the game? Are they a chain of upgrades or of similar power but for different builds? Like a tanky set and an offensive set for Kira, etc.

Well not the coolest, the basic one is simply 3 healing potions are predefined sets you can carry that can work for different strategies. Are all usable items, so potions/bombs. However since usable items are SUPER-RARE, I guess we can say that are powerful items

Even in the normal robbery mission, you can carry only a limited amount of items with you, though in that case probably will allow more freedom. I'm not sure yet though, might just reuse same sets.

Oh, "item sets" made me think they were equipment. Never mind then

Well, week didn't go as planned however, it was because did some brainstorming/design/work on Cursed Lands, so I was still working on a RPG. Also there's a big heat wave here, I can work well only in the morning...

And we're barely even in June :D



I foresee an unproductive summer, barring a sudden reversal of the greenhouse effect.

Haha depends, last year here in July was crazy, rained 26 days out of 31! So I was productive as you remember (was doing act3 of SOTW).

Anyways, I've setup an office in the garage room downstairs

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I went there today to check connectivity and desktop/chairs and I can do it. It's very fresh, in my office at 2nd floor of my house today was 26°C... in the garage 20°C instead! I can work

You sure you can work with that view?

How do you not get distracted by the beautiful views!

Haha I actually like it, when I take breaks (is healthier to not work for hours straight on computers!) I can just walk near the door and look at it. Before I had to go downstairs (upstairs I have some tiny windows that sucks).

Plus I get a +1 in writing inspiration skill

Ok that dungeon looks pretty cool, what monsters are in there?

Maybe some rats, but I have several "Summon Cat companion" spells that can take care of the problem

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speaking of rats...

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hehe was thinking as I coded the "always safe escape" thing and wrote that dialogue, that for SOTW players this will almost look like a cheat mode

In practice except for some rare key plot battles, you'll never get a game over in this game. I think is fine, since is a casual RPG!

Jack, the way those character models looks is amazing. Is Queen of Thieves like a "Loren" type game? Or a shade different like SOTW was?

No more similar to Loren, in the sense that is more focused on the romance than RPG part (albeit RPG is still present as you can see). I'll probably make another blog post explaining some more differences, but this one basically started as "otome" (GxB) dating sim only, then I turned it into a casual RPG and added yuri paths



In short:

- fixed party of 3 (the three sisters)

- male/female romances (3 + 3 characters). Each sister can romance 2 out of 3 boys/girls (fixed combos)

- party auto-heals after every battle

- fixed amount of gear (but each represented graphically), no jewelry, limited slots for items

- unlimited grinding (there is a level cap though, obviously!)

Disease rats or plague rats?

Can change to plague rats if sounds better in English

Can change to plague rats if sounds better in English

It's more the tenses that don't work. You should try either Diseased Rat or Plague Rat. Whichever you think works best.