A Housing Update

As you might guess housing is one of our main priorities right now, so here's another update!

Teddy has finally implemented a way to actually get the house, which is up and running in our inhouse version. The way you get the house, for now, is that once you've completed Flying Fortress, the scientist Kim will appear in Evergrind City next to your currently not-yet-built house, explaining one or two things about the science behind the houses in the game (and your own)!

She also wonders if you'd like to help test out some new systems, and upon agreeing to do so you'll be able to purchase the house from the carpenter, who will build it for you. After this is done we plan to move Kim back to the lab in the HQ where she'll continue doing other experiments (gotta keep busy, you know)!

As for the house, once it's been finished (this happens once you change screens once), you'll get a very short and basic explanation of how to use it upon entering the building.

We've continued working on the icons that illustrate what tool you're currently using, and here they are in action:

First up, the style icon (seen above). After some thinking we've decided the arrows for each of the icons need to be remade, and it's also missing a proper outline and an animation at this point.

Next, the carpet tool's "carpet version":

For this one we're actually considering using the old version (seen below) after all, to make it stand out a bit more from the carpets you're editing. 

Finally, a GIF showcasing both the stack and the move tool:

The stack tool (as well as the carpet tool) don't use the correct freeze frames right now which means the animation isn't paced exactly right (it'll pause for longer on each stack once it's been fixed), but it gives you an idea of what it'll look like. The move tool is missing an animation as well, but works for now. 

I think with some proper outlines and new and improved arrows for everything, this will work out quite well in the end. We did have a discussion regarding whether or not to use a more simplistic style for each of these (like the old version of the carpet tool), but decided against it in the end. This way there will be a little more color, and hopefully each icon will stand out enough on their own once the outlines and proper animations have been added!

Our goal is to have these fixes done asap and then upload the whole thing for you to try out on Frontline! So, fingers crossed, the patch might be up and running later today! :)