Are you bored? Adding a Notice Board to JodelTown | Weekly Update #31

A Wild Notice Board has appeared!

Have you ever been chilling in your lovely Austrian homestead, bored out of your mind watching your crops grow and wished you had something else to do?

Lo and behold, the newly arrived town notice board is just what you need!

Giving you the perfect opportunity to fulfill odd jobs for people around the town and not only banish the boredom but also get some extra rewards and gratitude while at it.

No, but seriously..

… adding a notice board to the game allows me to give the player more content, quests, and rewards without a lot of added effort in the writing department. These odd jobs also support the player’s progress and give them some goals to play towards.

These quests are currently in-game time-based to ensure they are seasonally appropriate, e.g., to not have spring veggie quests turn up in autumn, because that would be hella annoying now wouldn’t it!

On technical side, I also added ability for quests to inject conversation graphs at runtime. This allows me to keep the setup between quests and their related convos really tied together and make sure one can’t appear without the other.

Quests now also have rewards, what a crazy and innovative idea, I know 😉But I hadn’t had the need for it before because I gave rewards during conversations instead.
So until recently, that todo was just sitting there staring me in the face every time I worked on Quests – but no more! 😄

So, I better write some decent quests for the board so it actually has a use.

See you all next week for more updates, and have a sweet Staatsfeiertag (National Holiday) on the 1st May for the Austrians and a lovely May Bank Holiday on the 5th for the UK folk 🌈🥂👋Let’s all enjoy the lovely spring weather ☀️🌞