Hey how's it going, I guess a lot of you have been wondering where I've been (well I hope so anyway).(Please not this is a kinda long journal)

Over a month ago I ended up badly injuring my back which ended up with me not being able to go to work. Well during this time I could've worked on the game, except I couldn't sit down because of this injury. Anyone tried using a computer while standing up and doing code. Well you've probably used the computer standing up, but it fucking sucks.
Anyway I'm hopefully will be good to do whatever I usually did before and I've made some changes to the game.

The game will now be a lot more difficult now, I've now changed the amount of hp you use to raise stats. Originally it only took 15hp to raise a stat, so you could do this 6 times a day and make 2 phone calls. It now costs 25hp so you can only do it 4 times a day at max.

The gifts now give a different amount of experience. Originally:
flowers/chocolates = 50 exp
toy chaos/power rings = 120 exp
emeralds/gem stones = 300 exp

New:
flowers/chocolates = 10 - 30 exp
toy chaos/power rings = 30 - 70 exp
emeralds/gem stones = 120 - 200 exp

As you can see, you now get a lot less experiience for gifts. You're probably wondering why I did this, why did I make things harder. I did this so that the game can actually be a lot more challenging. Originally I could play the game as anyone, get all my stats up to max by day 25 - 30, and then get all the girls to lover level before day 50. But now since I've gone and made these changes, it's going to be much harder to get all the girls by day 100, considering you can only give them 2 gifts per visit and you can't give them the big gifts until you've leveled up with them.

I'm also thinking about making it so you have to go on a date (x) amount of times before you can ask them, similar to how you have to go on a successful date 3 times for them to be your girl friend, except you'd have to take them out for another (x) successful dates. Right now I'm thinking x = 7, so that would mean you'd have to go on 10 successful dates before you could ask them to be your lover, that and the 2000 exp you need.

So lets see. 40 days to max out the stats, each girl would equal about 15 to 20 days each now (including dates), money would take up at least 10 days for decent amount for a few girls. You'd probably end up being really lucky to get 3 girls to lover by day 100. Awesome I just made replay value.
(Please note that these time estimates are off the top of my head)

I've also fixed the special item problem. Originally you could buy your girl friends special item so you had all the answer for the dates, but you couldn't buy it when you were their lover, this was a bug which has now been fixed.

Also I've thought about the Knothole minigame, I've decided that it will be either:
Tetris or Pong

I've made both of these games in flash before and they work, but I am having trouble with tetris in the way I want to set it up. So Pong will most likely be the final mingame, and it'd be similar to the Station Square minigame, raise exp for a girl, 5 rounds each round harder then the last, nude picture of a chcik each win with Gunnar1 being the final opponent. I've noticed that stats wont really play into this, but instead I'll probably make it so that you need 10 000 rings to enter, so you'll need to raise your stats for the entry fee, and ofcourse if you beat Gunnar1 you get a cash(rings) prize and a special item, Knothole trophy or something.

If your're wondering how tetris was going to be played out in this, each round you'd have to reach a certain score and each round would have a higher score and a higher starting speed. It's a good idea and I can kinda get it working, if anyone can or wants to help me out with this one just send me a pm or comment.

Okay well thanks for reading this much and hopefully this new version will be out soon