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wym_lawson16 days ago

Hi! I've started drafting some new alternative rules. May I ask would you suggest keeping the following rules:

  • Calendar seasons be kept or it's still fun to play with festivals even if relationship points are not important?
    • If there's no need for days/seasons, should Action Points be kept
  • Community News: I'm thinking of getting rid of community news or at least having a kids friendly version?
  • Visit: I'm thinking of replacing Visit with Craft as you suggest. Right now the idea is perhaps crafting to decorate your museum or crafting buildings/rooms?
  • Should I get rid of Community Request or replace the rewards for something else?
    • If we keep the Request, perhaps it could be related to Crafting like combing 3 rocks for a necklace that kind of thing?

Sorry I have a lot of questions!

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aynfarika16 days ago

I like the idea of the days and seasons being kept! Yes to a kid friendly version of community news. 
I really love the idea of crafting decorative items for the Museum or other areas.
Im not sure about community request unless someone is requesting a crafted item for a gift for another NPC.

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wym_lawson14 days ago

Hi! I've uploaded an alternative version but no one I know can really help with creating a kid friendly version. So please let me know if anything should be changed/taken away.

What is different:

  1. Got rid of the community aspects of the base game. So no npcs, no community requests and no birthdays. But the player's birthday is kept and would receive a gift on their birthday.
  2. Changed one of the move from Visit to Craft. There are two types of items you can craft. 
    1. One is for decorative purposes and maybe for displaying in a festival (players decide whether the festival needs anything) or using it for a specific community news.
    2. One is for providing short term boosts (similar to what visit does) or permanent boost (replacing building community buildings). This is completely optional so it shouldn't matter if a player opt out of crafting boost items
  3. Replace the community news with something kids friendly and with no npc interactions. There are prompts with sea creatures though, like taking care of baby dolphins, or a sea turtle is here to tell adventure stories, that kind of interactions.
  4. Created two extra optional tables for decorative items and sea creatures just for inspiration.
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aynfarika14 days ago

I would love to help on kid friendly projects in the future if needed! I think the update is really good I was looking at the crafting and the decoration table and realized that a container could also be a container of flowers so I might use that and since 3 items are needed possibly 2 sea mushrooms and 1 seaweed would work lol.

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wym_lawson13 days ago

That would be awesome! I personally like creating games without combat so maybe if with some twisting, some future games could have a kid friendly version. 

A sea flower container is very adorable! I think that's what a merfolk would make 100%. Please let me know if there's anything that needs to be changed or modified to help with playing!

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aynfarika13 days ago

Is there a way to contact you outside of Itch?

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wym_lawson10 days ago

I'm on Discord @wymlawson!

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