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12/23/2024

Hi all, If you read this site, no doubt you've been keeping up with the current progress on Boys & Girls. In case you missed it, we're currently undergoing a fundraiser for the Complete Edition, a digital book copy which combines Part I and Part II. If you support the fundraiser, you'll get a copy of the Complete Edition for 50% off what you would normally have to pay. Check it out! Support the Project!

Hi all, If you read this site, no doubt you’ve been keeping up with the current progress on Boys & Girls. In case you missed it, we’re currently undergoing a fundraiser for the Comp…

12/23/2024

Hey all, The title is only sort of a lie. While I initially was just going to think of 100 events off of brainstorming alone, I realized it was straining my mental capacity to think of things that would occur in a fantasy setting. Then, I had a eureka moment: what if I was going about all this wrong? What if instead of making up events so I could connect attribute effects to them, I had the attribute effects…...

Hey all, The title is only sort of a lie. While I initially was just going to think of 100 events off of brainstorming alone, I realized it was straining my mental capacity to think of things that …

12/21/2024

Previous Chapter May 14th, 2017 Kinsky, California, USA Graduation Russell sat rather nervously outside the Kinsky High auditorium. He saw a few passerbys – some students, mostly staff, none whom he recognized and almost all gave him strange looks. He wondered if they questioned why he was there so early, when the football team’s meeting wasn’t for another hour. He was about to take out his phone to blend in when suddenly he heard a voice pointed his direction....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

12/15/2024

Hey all, Another slow week for W7K. Just added characters starting dispositions/good-evil moral alignment for the classes as promised. At least this screenshot will clue you in on more of the classes coming soon. I'm in AZ for two more weeks. My plan is, to finish half the events next week, the other half the week after, and then implement them in January. Sorry again for the slowness but like I've said Boys & Girls is stealing most of the show!

Hey all, Another slow week for W7K. Just added characters starting dispositions/good-evil moral alignment for the classes as promised. At least this screenshot will clue you in on more of the class…

12/14/2024

Previous Chapter July 6th, 2016 Kinsky, California, USA Maria “Where’d you want this?” Maria turned around. Lukas was holding a small ornamental vase. He seemed particularly focused on not dropping it. Maria smiled. “That you can just put wherever. Just put it near the wall there. I’ll worry about it later.” Lukas did as he was told. He walked over to where Maria was standing in the doorway....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

12/08/2024

Hey all, Since I don't have the project files right now anyway, W7K has taken a bit of a backseat in favor of other more pressing projects, like the end of Boys & Girls. Right now I'm just doing design work, such as establishing class attributes. Next week we'll also set up default dispositions, as well as the first set of events....

Hey all, Since I don’t have the project files right now anyway, W7K has taken a bit of a backseat in favor of other more pressing projects, like the end of Boys & Girls. Right now I& #8217…

12/07/2024

Previous Chapter May 9th, 2017 Kinsky, California, USA Grim Trigger With a bottle of water and a sparsely-filled backpack Lukas walked the southern shore of Goldberg Lake. He had the vision of the place in his mind, however faint, and kept cycling through it in his head. He knew there was a hill, a grassy one, steep, somewhere closeby. He knew the tree had a large trunk, bigger than the others around it, and didn’t have many more branches beyond what held the house up....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

12/03/2024

Hey all, So, we have... somewhat of a problem. I'm going out of town for the next month, and I won't have access to the Godot project files. Since we've prepped the game up to the point where everything is plug-and-play, this isn't the worst thing ever: I can just plan out the events and stats while I'm gone, and then when I'm back the game will be virtually done....

Hey all, So, we have… somewhat of a problem. I’m going out of town for the next month, and I won’t have access to the Godot project files. Since we’ve prepped the game up to…

11/30/2024

Previous Chapter May 2nd, 2017 Kinsky, California, USA Prom A makeshift station was formed around the large mirror in Kat’s bedroom. Rose helped put on Sadja’s makeup while Maria did the same for Kat’s hair. In the background Emily was organizing the dresses and accessories of the girls on the bed, with Bonny the pomeranian sleeping right beside them. “Sadj, the silver bracelet is yours, right?”...

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

11/26/2024

Hey all, I know I promised last week we were going to go into events, but I realized a few more adjustments had to be made. The first was that the roster panel ChatGPT gave us only updated once ever, so we had to reset it to update with each relevant change. The second was that -- oops -- we forgot to add attributes!...

11/23/2024

Previous Chapter August 27th, 2015 Kinsky, California, USA Rodrigo It was only a few weeks since he had transferred, but Rodrigo already understood the social dynamics of his new high school. He had gotten used to moving from school to school, so this was a skill that he had built up as a form of survival. His role was the class clown – the kid who acted up, who teachers hated but classmates laughed at, who never belonged to any special clique....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

11/18/2024

Hey all, I hope you like switch cases -- the lazy man's way to get anything done! I refactored the nice-looking GPT code to handle more context for events rather than just text -- this should allow us to handle things like variable changes, functions, randomness, etc. This was a pretty straightforward process and didn't really give me a whole lot of trouble -- a first when it comes to Godot. Next week we can start populating with REAL events, and we'll be off to the races!

Hey all, I hope you like switch cases — the lazy man’s way to get anything done! I refactored the nice-looking GPT code to handle more context for events rather than just text — t…

11/16/2024

Previous Chapter April 24th, 2017 Kinsky, California, USA Days of Heaven Outside the apartment complex in which the Ayoubs lived was a small walking path covered in grass and trees. It was suburban – nothing like the real hiking paths just outside of town – but it was close. Those past couple of days Sadja and Magyar had gotten into the habit of taking a walk together in the mornings, drinking their coffee as they did so....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

11/11/2024

Hey all, As part of the conversion from Python code to Godot code, I've been getting the character creator converted from its ChatGPT prototype stage to what it looked like in the final game. Beyond trying to debug an embarrassingly simple typo for 30 minutes, today's session was good! With the character creator done, next week we'll start to add some functioning events that effect the characters and hopefully start making this sim more like a sim!

Hey all, As part of the conversion from Python code to Godot code, I’ve been getting the character creator converted from its ChatGPT prototype stage to what it looked like in the final game.…

11/10/2024

Previous Chapter February 29th, 2016 Kinsky, California, USA The Ones You Love Most Lukas waited on the bench outside his house. At that point he had rehearsed many times what he wanted to say, but it never came out sounding right to him. He could feel his body begin to shiver as the hour that Kat was meant to pick him up came closer and closer still, his inner rehearsals becoming more quick and fragmented....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

11/04/2024

Hey all, After two days worth of debugging ChatGPT code (turns out GPT is trained on Godot 3.x, NOT 4.x) we finally got the game loop working in a Godot instance. While the screenshot before you might not seem like much, it actually contains all code we will need -- so doing things like making the UI prettier and getting the logs to actually make sense should (hopefully) be trivial now that we have base working code. I'll update you next week with our progress!

Hey all, After two days worth of debugging ChatGPT code (turns out GPT is trained on Godot 3.x, NOT 4.x) we finally got the game loop working in a Godot instance. While the screenshot before you mi…

11/02/2024

Previous Chapter It was a Sunday night, and several of the friends – despite better judgment – decided to spend the evening drinking and traveling around town. Among those in the audience were Kat, Sadja, Rodrigo, Aaron, Lukas, and – who had given up studying that weekend – Rose. As the roaming band walked along the suburban sidewalks, Aaron and Lukas led the group as they heard their respective girlfriends gossiping behind them....

[Note: BOYS & GIRLS: PART II is under production, and this preview may contain lines and content that do not reach the final book. In addition, this book assumes that you have read PART I all t…

10/27/2024

Hey all, Since W7K is a simulation, we're going to spend much more time in the design doc phase this time around than the actual building phase. The idea is to work backwards: We start with W7K's original set of 25 jobs, which should hopefully inform us of some potential event ideas. We then worry about crafting 100 events (enough to add spice to the sim loop) and then based on the events we can figure out what we need for all the events to make sense....

Hey all, Since W7K is a simulation, we’re going to spend much more time in the design doc phase this time around than the actual building phase. The idea is to work backwards: We start with W…