Version #4: Walking Buddy & Balance update

Hello everyone!

Over the past week, I’ve been working on balancing gameplay and bringing new exciting feature. Now, you can take Blop outside!

🚶Walking Buddy

• You can now take Blop for walks in the Activities section.
• Screen is not locking while walking is active.
• The accelerometer tracks steps and kilometers are calculated from steps.
• Introducing the new Stamina skill, which increases as you walk with Blop.
  • Stamina influences how quickly energy decreases during physical activities.
• Battery status is now displayed while walking.
• Smaller needs indicators are visible during walks.
• A new Quick Inventory is available during walks to meet Blop’s needs on the go.
• New task and wish related to walking.
• Walking decreases energy and slightly lowers hygiene, but it improves stamina and mood.
• A new instant "pop-up tutorial mail" will tell you how this feature walks in-game.

⚖️Balance changes

• Skills now gradually decrease over time.
• The last day of happiness now has more weight, causing faster happiness changes.
• Base mood is now calculated as Happiness + 5, making it easier to boost happiness (if was just happiness before)
• Meals now provide more satiety.
• While sleeping, Blop’s mood is no longer affected by poop, hygiene, or hunger, reducing nighttime sadness.
• Health decreases faster when hygiene is critically low.
• Fitness traits have been renamed to Physical Activity traits, which also influence stamina.
• Fat decreases even while playing basketball.

💪Other Changes

• (Dev) Statistics are now live and track your progress in real-time.
• In the Skills window, only skills with values are displayed.
• Catching up changes are now processed faster and draining battery is smaller.
  

🐞Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed a bug where Blop could die from pooping while the game was off.
• Blop no longer disappears for a frame after eating.
• Message and journal entry limits have been added.
• Fixed the black background issue in the adoption screen.
• Service mails are now being sent correctly.
• Skill percentage progress in report mails is now fixed.
• Various text adjustments and minor improvements.

Please report me if you find something, you would like to improve or have suggestions to balancing a game. It is hard to balance all of the needs are dependencies.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the game!