DevBlog

Friendship, Gossip, and Bullying

by Info-Chan

I’ve finally prepared a new build of the game! This build introduces the concepts of friendship, gossiping, and bullying to the game.

This video should explain everything:

In addition to those features, some other miscellaneous improvements were added to the game. Here’s a full list of everything that’s new in this build:

Gossip

  • It is now possible to damage a student’s reputation by gossiping about them with other NPCs.
  • It is not possible to gossip if your reputation is “Bad”.
  • You cannot gossip with a student more than once per day.
  • Gossiping damages your own reputation.
  • Having a high reputation will enhance the effect of your gossip.
  • Wearing the right panties will enhance the effect of your gossip.
  • You can pay Info-chan for information that will enhance the effect of your gossip.
  • Being friends with a student will enhance the effect of your gossip with that student.
  • It is possible to damage a student’s reputation by badmouthing them on social media.
  • If you lie on the Internet, your reputation will drop.
  • If you expose your rival’s dirty secrets on the Internet, her reputation will drop.
  • You can check a student’s reputation on your smartphone’s “Student Info” screen.
  • If a student’s reputation drops low enough, they will no longer be welcome around other students, and will sit alone instead of socializing.
  • If a student’s reputation drops low enough, other students will begin to vandalize that student’s desk.
  • If a student’s reputation drops low enough, they will stop coming to school.

Yandere-chan’s Room

  • Added night and day to Yandere-chan’s room. Certain activities are only available during the day, others only available at night.
  • Added a bed for sleeping, a TV for gaming, a shelf for manga, and a computer for cyber-bullying.
  • Yandere-chan now gets her panties from a drawer instead of an armoire.
  • Replaced Yandere-chan’s room with a new environment model.
  • Added placeholder music tracks to Yandere-chan’s room.

Tasks and Friendship

  • It is now possible to use the “Task” option in the student interaction wheel to accept a task from a student. There is currently only one in the game.
  • If you complete a Task for a student, your reputation will improve, and that student will become your friend.
  • Being friends with a student enables you to access the Favors menu.
  • All of the options in the Favors menu are now operational. You can ask a friend to follow you, leave the area, or distract another NPC for you.
  • Being friends with a student also means that your compliments and gossip will have a stronger effect on that student.
  • You can check the status of all of your current Tasks on your smartphone’s “Task list” screen.

Other Improvements

  • Fixed a bug that would cause Senpai to have white hair and white eyes if the player made no selections whatsoever when customizing Senpai at the customization screen.
  • It is now possible to take photographs by aiming the camera and then pressing the CTRL button instead of the left mouse button. (“RB” for Xbox controller users.)
  • Attempted to fix the bug that would cause Yandere-chan and a student to freeze in place when Yandere-chan tried to interact with a student.
  • While speaking with an NPC, it is now possible to tap the “Confirm” button during a conversation to advance the text.
  • An audio clip now plays when trying to look up Info-chan’s information in the Student Info screen.
  • After you kidnap a girl, the girl who appears in your basement will have the correct hairstyle.
  • Fixed bug that would cause Osana Najimi to disappear under specific circumstances.
  • It is now possible to access the phone pause menu when in Yandere-chan’s room.
  • The “End-Of-Day Results” screen has been sped up to twice its previous speed.
  • There is now an operational vending machine on school grounds.
  • Added a new Easter egg.

Hair

  • Adjusted the contrast of the hair textures so that some hairstyles are not drastically darker than other hairstyles.
  • Fixed a problem that would cause Ryuto Ippongo’s bandana to appear black when viewed from a certain angle.
  • Gave the teachers unique hair and glasses so that they no longer look like clones of Yandere-chan.
  • Added three new hairstyles for Yandere-chan.
  • Gave Ryuto Ippongo some less-extreme hair.
  • Improved Pippi Osu’s hair.

If I’m still going by my “1st and 15th of every month” update schedule, then this update was 7 days late, and I only have 7 days to produce a new update. It would be impossible to implement something elaborate into the game in such a short span of time…but I can think of a few features that people have been begging for that wouldn’t take more than a few days to implement, so that might be the focus of the next build. However, I don’t want to make any promises just yet. We’ll just have to see how things turn out.