As a character customization head, I've always disliked having to choose between "your hair looks beautiful, magnificent, exactly how you wanted" and "oh, you're wearing a hat now, okay here's a ponytail" and so early on in Sunkissed City's development, I came up with this.

I didn't like shop owners having to be stuck standing behind their shop counters all day, so I added this tiny little interaction so that they could wander about freely while still being findable and interactable.

Someone mentioned Rune Factory's fish sword and it reminded me of my favorite weapon in the Way of the Samurai series (BIG TUNA). Anyways, it's a secret, but if you use any fish as an upgrade item for a weapon, well...

I've been working on how NPCs behave after you marry them and I thought it would be a cute touch to have them always wake up facing you (unless you do something that makes them think otherwise...)

Once you've built up friendships with the people of Apollo, they'll lend a hand with maintaining the gardens you've set up around the city !!

I gotta make the sound less annoying, but I wanted to visually and audibly indicate how your interactions with characters changes your friendship levels.

Frawg

Plussed up the foliage in the forest a little bit. I've been a little unmotivated lately, so mindlessly drawing plants has been a good reprieve.

Domino runs the smithy, but is maybe more into the craft for how ripped it keeps his physique.

Your hoe/shovel can be used to cover up holes you create with them. Hat tip to Pokopia's treasure blocks for inspiring this change !!

Got all my Pokopia towns to level 10 and and so I finally had the time to implement this thing I liked from it. I spent awhile figuring out what to call it, because "pester" was accurate but maybe too mean. So NPCs will occasionally "approach" the player with gifts.

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I drew a bunch of modular rugs this week...

Took a few days off "actual" work to realize a joke idea I had back when I was rewriting Junimo Kart. "What if Junimo Kart was actually a Kart."

Just for the record (and because this is THIS platform and not the "other"), the context for this line is basically me saying "I left ConcernedApe LLC in spite of my salary because it felt right to do." I can deal with trolls, but this person has been stalking my friends/family and harassing them.

My brother has been helping w/ music for the game! One of his tracks fit the museum, but it was too upbeat for when the museum doesn't have any artifacts on display, so I came up with a system of transitioning between versions of songs depending on donation milestones !

Useful little QOL thing -- when you catch a fish, the game will show you all of the other fish that are currently available (for the current weather, time, and location), which can be a big help if you're trying to complete your fishing collection.

Ah, thanks Steam Replay.

Another small QOL thing I've shared with the Discord but haven't here, you can check the range of things like sprinklers or beehouses by briefly highlighting them.

Sunsets look a bit nicer now :)

I think it's time I have to admit to myself that SKC's 2025 release window's slipped :(. I've been working very hard on the game, but generally, this year was more taxing on my mood than I thought it'd be.

Snow Clump

Added the sun and moon to the sky (and surfaces that reflect it, like windows and bodies of water). The moon also shows different phases depending on the time of month.

I teased this on my Discord, but I finished Siouxsie's summer outfit too!

It's something I had planned for awhile, but I spent today writing systems to allow Siouxsie to change into her work uniform to cover up her tattoos when she's on the clock at Ramen-ya ATSUI.

Juliette's fall outfit!

I just checked and 12K wishlists, so thank you all !! Only 1 DAU, but the game has Acai as a fruit tree now, so I consider this weekend a success

After working on some tropical fruits suggested by my Discord, my girlfriend, who often has, hmm... "creative" ideas, said I should add a "Durian that you can make into a weapon." While I haven't added a "stink gun" (???), as she suggested, I thought Durian would be fun to add.

I made some changes to how farm animals produce items. It's no longer a "this or that" situation, so some animals, like sheep, can produce multiple types of items at once (wool and sheep milk). Sheep milk can then be used to make Pecorino Cheese !!

Since the game takes place in the city, it didn't really make sense for the player to be building old rickety windmills, but I still liked the idea of having something you could build on your garden plots that would have some ambient motion, so I came up with these buildable wind turbines.