Download: Character Creation Rework, Statistics, Police Station, and more! v0.34.2 Patch Update

Hello, our little sim community! We're coming right at you with a new patch!

This one includes some Police station functionality features, a menu scene remake, some preparations for the next patches, and some other… things 😋 (please *insert deity here*, help us solve these bugs!!!)

You can download the game here: LINK
Installation Guide: https://littlesim.world/about/installation/

These few months have been full of work, to be honest with everyone, we've been preparing everything so we can start adding more features to our Little Sim's worlds in the next few patches. Of course, though, this patch does include new features. Collectables coming soon hehe~

Let's get right up talking about the patch!!

Main Menus Rework

We decided to rework how the Main Menu and Character Creation look. We felt like our previous scene wasn't good enough for the game and it also needed changes to fit our new statistics system (Coming soon). You can now see your player information in form of cards before loading into the game, here you'll be able to see how your progress has been, and how your Little Sim journey is going. All menus are much smoother now, give 'em a look, we hope you like them as much as we do!

Bubble Feedback

Exercising your skills and maintaining your basic needs mostly required the player to just sit there and wait. We've seen this issue and well, we decided to change the way how the character maintains his stats and skills by introducing the bubble interaction system. Now while frying your loving loaf of bread or running on the treadmill, small and transparent bubbles will pop up from the wellbeing UI window, which will transition to the player and proceed to go to the experience bar up above the character's head. Visually stimulating, isn't it? Lastly, in order to increase the player's engagement with the game we added the possibility of interacting with some of these bubbles which will yield interesting boosts to the character for a certain amount of time.

Levelling up your interests and getting experience will now display a new feedback system, using Bubbles! See how your needs turn into experience while interacting with things, you now have visual feedback on how your progress is being made.

Police Station Functionality

We added the Police Station in the last patch but it didn't have any functionality, here's what it can do now: London Police department services offer the following:

• Citizenship-data-related changes
• Character personality reset (all inspiration and skill points are kept intact)
• Skip the current tutorial quest
• Pay fines (Fines aren't paid instantly now).

These have been our main features, we're really happy about these Character Creation changes, we need to do these in order to have our statistics system fully working. We'll soon add collectables and activity tracking on the player profile, expect news on this soon! Big read coming up, have fun everyone! Thank you so much for staying with us for these 4 long years!

New Content:

• Police Station:
  The Police Station is now working! Your character will be able to do many things when interacting with the counter.
  Your character is allowed to change their citizenship information (Name, Last Name, etc) when interacting with the counter!
  Your character can now swap their personality by interacting with the counter!
  You're also allowed to pay your fines here! Fines have been reworked, more on this later.
  Your character will be sent here after getting “caught by the police”. Make sure you pay your fines before leaving.
  If you're having a problem with your current tutorial task, you can also skip it here, just talk to the receptionist.
• Fine System:
  Fines are now paid through the Police Station counter.
  Fines aren't paid instantly, this means that you can have more than one at once.
  If you don't pay your fine after the first 7 days of it being written, you'll have to pay it at 150% of the cost.
  If you don't pay your fine after the first 14 days of it being written, you'll have to pay it at 200% of the cost.
• Gameplay:
  A new piece of furniture has been added! The Water Dispenser.
  A Bubble-Related feedback system has been added! It'll be shown when levelling an interest and getting interest experience.
  Added a “Toggle Visibility” button on both the Wardrobe and the Hair Salon UIs.
• Visual Updates:
  The fire in Simon's Pub is now animated! Go give it a look!
  There's now a fanfare effect that gets displayed after getting a task reward.
  Zebra crossings have now been added.
  Added a Loading Bar during the loading scene.
  Added a tiled hedge.

Updated Content:

• Visual Updates:
  Little Sim World's regular currency has been updated.
  The compass's UI (The Arrow) has been updated.
  Updated the clothes icon.
  Many UIs have been reworked!
• Menu Reworks:
  Main Menu: The Main Menu got an update! Now its much simpler and smoother (and cuter hehe~).
  Character Creation: Character creation has been reworked! It's been split up between different scenes:
  Appearance
  Wardrobe
  Identity
  Load Screen: The Load Screen has been updated as well! Check out your brand new “Player Cards”.
  Player Profile: The Player Profile is getting reworked, it'll be pretty empty for now!
  Disabled profile-changing through the Player Profile.

Bug Fixes / Dev Tweaks:

• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to open their phone while the game is paused.
• Fixed a bug that allowed NPCs to use public toilets while you were inside. This caused the player to be locked in the toilet.
• Fixed a bug that broke furniture inventories when returning books.
• Fixed a bug that caused the subscription's auto-renew to reset after updating the players' subscriptions.
• Fixed a bug that caused the button highlight to be stuck after clicking and dragging.
• Fixed a pathfinding issue that disabled the player to pathfind through a small space.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the character's thumbnail to be bigger than the container for it.
• Fixed a bug that allowed pathfinding while in BuildMode.
• Updated default cheeks to be Cheeks_None.
• Added support to the Hair Salon to purchase items when unequipping the socket.
• Added checks on the traffic penalty routine to prevent arresting the player when they're passing out.
• Disabled toggle button for the skin slider.
• Added empty state to fines view.
• Fixed some spelling issues.
• Added support to change personalities.
• Fixed inventory shift-click to move stacks.
• Fixed appearance/wardrobe from unequipping when toggling off colours.
• Fixed a bug that caused the texts on shops not to fit the UI.
• Changed the default colours on some clothes.
• Improved the stability of the Appearance and Wardrobe scripts.
• Fixed a bug that caused double-clicking in menus.
• Brought the fade canvas to the top for smoother loading screen transitions.
• Fixed the search bar to not restore text when pressing the Escape key.
• Improved main menu transitions.
• Updated the splash screen logo to use 3x size instead of 2x.
• Updated the wardrobe and the hair salon with new prefabs based on the changes to the Character Creation menu.
• Updated the gender display order.
• Updated some gender icons.
• Fixed a bug that caused music not to play on the main menu.
• Fixed primary text not fading on Item Coloring.
• Many prefab cleanups.
• Separated the fireplace assets at Simon's.
• Improvements on the Pinned Quest dropwdown.

4 Years of long development will turn into 10 years of a great game! In Little Sim World we trust!
Thanks for sticking with us! We wouldn't be here if it wasn't because of your support!

Gu-Bye, everyone! Big patches coming soon~