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Mini Progress Update
I finished testing everything on my pending queue. All is well. Tomorrow we move on to adding new features.
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Family is WIDE and DEEP
Hi everyone! I'm excited to announce that TopLife can handle your complex multi-generation families without leaving anyone behind....
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Progress Update
I've been working on adding your character's step-family (step-children, step-grandchildren, and step-great-grandchildren) and in-laws...
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Getting Inked and Pierced
Piercings Shop Your character can get piercings from their local piercings shop. The process is simple, just tell them where you want it....
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Let's talk about looks
Today I want to talk about how appearance works in TopLife. Every character has these attributes: Skin color Eye color Height Natural...
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People Have Opinions
I know I briefly mentioned that NPCs in the game will be able to have opinions of their own. Today I want to share more about how that...
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Driving modes and relationship changes
Driving Modes In addition to the fun transportation stuff I talked about last time, we’ve got driving modes now! So, all the cars start...
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Sober Stats and Driving Under the Influence
Hi everyone! Today is what I like to call “testing day”. It’s a special day I set aside to go head-to-head with the code I cooked up days...
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New Estimated Release Date
A lot has happened in the past few months, and one of the big changes involves the expected game release date. Initially, I had set a...
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New Updates Plan
Hi everyone! I know it has been very quiet on my end, so I have decided to do something about that. From now on, I’ll be providing...
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Welcome!
There have been a lot of new members in the past few days. I wanted to take a moment to say welcome and thank you for joining me on this...
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Progress Summary: Conclusion
The progress summaries are months of work condensed into brief information to give you an idea of where I am right now in development. As...
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Progress Summary: Shops, Bills and Loans
Shop Whatever resources you might need can be purchased from the shop. I have currently created 6 shops in toplfe: Food shop: sells ready...
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Progress Summary: Relationships
Another HUGE part of toplife is relationships. I have currently added these kinds of relationships to the game: Birth parent Stepparent...
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Progress Summary: Survival, Transportation, and Journal
Survival You are responsible for your character’s well-being. This means that at the very least you have to keep them alive. Four main...
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Progress Summary: Game’s Core
At the core of Toplife, we have: Time progression Aging People Location I’m going to go over what I currently have set up for these core...
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WHAT IS TOPLIFE?
Hi! I’m ChiTheBuilder and I’m the solo developer of toplife. I’ve been working on this game for about 8 months now and I’m really happy...
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