Dev Blog: What's in the Bag?

[p]Happy new year![/p][p]The gang at Porcelain Fortress is back in the development mines, hard at work on the next update which will be hitting your game later this month. As we mentioned in the previous dev blog, we are working on a bunch of stuff, but one that we didn't really talk about was clarity. [/p][p]There's still a bunch of not-so-intuitive stuff in our game and we're working on making things more clear, especially for newer players. Our inventory was an incredibly well hidden feature until we added the role specific backpacks to the interface, and now we're overhauling the character sheet to be better looking as well as more informative.[/p][p][/p][p]Behold! This is the new character sheet (along with a brand new player avatar!) where you will find everything you need to know about your equipment, your traits as well as the role you're playing. Depicted here is the unreleased Drifter role, along with a short description of how the role functions.[/p][p][/p][p]The Drifter is the mysterious stranger who shows up at the workplace, turns things around, and then vanishes as quickly as they arrived. The role rewards the player for working for short spurts at a job before getting fed up and wanting to find a new one. As an added bonus, after getting fed up with a job, the perks from that job will linger for a while, allowing the Drifter to have multiple job perks at the same time. Neato![/p][p]But back to the character sheet![/p][p]Your equipment will cover your transportation method and clothing, while items will be stuff such as fish and lottery tickets which take up space in your inventory. The various traits you accumulate throughout the game will show up on the right along with a description for each of them.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Many people have found scoring to be a little confusing in their first games, so we've added a tab to the character sheet where you will find a handy score guideline, detailing the ways you can get score throughout the game. Fishing and Stocks have made their way under the 'Other' section next to the Pets, but it's unlikely we'll sort scoring out for those systems for the next update.[/p][p]That's it for now! LATERS.[/p]