Weekly update...

Finally, with Mrs. Rachel placed on the shelf of finished projects, I can work most of my time with Marco's quest. I'm still hesitant about the name, the closest one for now is:

The Quest for Spankytown: The Naive Knight and his Dream Lady.

This week I worked on defining mechanics with the wrestling training. Wrestling will be Saturday's mandatory activity on Spankytown College, as the school will prepare for the city's annual Xtreme Wrestling Competition. This is a story arch that will continue in Melvin's game. Below is an image of the skills Marco must work on.

Doing it solo, besides being boring, won't be as effective as training with his classmates, or much better, with his beloved teacher.

With each char will be different, and some will have more than 1 training technique. Some exercises will require to roll the dice, some others quick reactions, and some both. I completely redesigned the dice rolling, where Themis, the spanking goddess, will set the objective. She might be benevolent and ask you to roll any number above 4, or be pretty cruel and ask you to roll a 4. Her dice rolling mercy will depend on a skill in the game I don't want to reveal yet (will be a minor spoiler). Let's call it for now the Luck-o-meter. The higher, the easier the rolls will be. At the lowest point they will be close to impossible.

(Remember: If you get very unlucky and perhaps frustrated from bad rolls, blame HER, not me. Our fate is the hands of Themis, the Spanking Goddess). LOL

Also, I made the rolls realistic, where rolling a 7 is far easier than rolling a 2. A 7 can be obtained by rolling 1-6, 6-1, 2-5, 5-2, 3-4, 4-3 while a 2 can only be obtained by 1-1. That's how I did it with Ms. Harley but not with Supergirl and Quest.

Coming back to training, the first image is some typical crunches with Ms. Schumann. As she's always devoted for her students' learning, she will choose what you need. In this case, she knows your power is low and she decides you need some stronger abs.

With, girls, things will be different. Violet always loves to use Marco as her human podium, which is a good way to improve power and resilience.

Greta is a strange bully who loves to tease Marco. Here she's challenging to resist more than her, knowing she's far better than him. Anyway, Marco will get some resilience points.... if he doesn't fall before....

Emo Bruce's dream is to become the Batdude. He works very hard every day, and training with him will improve fence

Are you slow and need to work on your  speed? Ask Angela, the fastest girl in school! Guaranteed her ping pong paddle won't let you slow down!

And well, sometimes training can lead to undesirable outcomes like in this case when Ms. Schumann ordered Marco to do some push ups with an extra pressure...

...because if he falls, he will land in a "pretty dangerous" position.

The next couple of weeks will be critical to set a possible release date. My goal is to finish the wrestling battles and another mini game called Spankgika, the Gathering (a small game inspired in the famous fantasy card game). I chose this from Jason's suggestion (a Sith Lord) from the poll. It would not only be fun and easy to make, but it will tie many things about the story.

p.s. be nice boys and girls, and go and visit Mrs. Rachel if you misbehave.