Rainy Days

A Clangen/Lifegen mod

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Rainy Days Masterpost

Rainy Days is a Lifegen mod made by @rowannothere ; it does not currently have a download, but this post will be updated when it does. If you'd like to suggest a feature, look through the planned & banned features list here, then submit an ask if your suggestion isn't already on either list.

Planned Features

Pages to view and interact with other Clans in the same save file

A toggle to skip by weeks

A toggle to save a log of all patrols & events in your save files

New sprites, pelt patterns, and pelt colors; sprite generation will be based on hex codes, which makes modding in your own spritework much easier.

Patrols now have choices unique to the patrol, and some options may lead to more choices for an extended patrol; all patrols will be rewritten to fit this new structure

Events are restructured to make the storyline more cohesive by building more on previous events.

Dialogue, patrols, and events can all reference each other using a flagging system; for example, a choice made during a patrol can add a flag that will allow a certain event or dialogue to be triggered (this does not mean it WILL be triggered, but that it CAN)

The ability to play as multiple cats at once

Realistic biology is completely removed; any cat can have kits with any other cat so long as they are not related, and cats can be born to 3+ biological parents, or even just one. Additionally, surrogacy and adoption will be expanded upon, and cats will choose random pronouns not constrained by gender.

More traits + an expansion on all traits' in-game effects (mechanics and flavor text). Additionally, cats can have 2 traits, and these traits can change over time.

Cats can now train in specific skills, but can only have 2 skills at a time; their highest-level skills will automatically be chosen to fill these slots. There will also be more skills and an expansion on all skills' in-game effects.

A website version of the mod for those who cannot download the game.

Modding tools to make it easier to add events, patrols, dialogue, sprites, pelt colors, and pelt patterns.

A randomize button on the cat customization screen.

Territory as a Clan resource. Successful border patrols increase territory and vice versa; the larger a Clan's territory, the more prey & herbs they bring in on timeskip. Larger Clans will require more territory.

Banned Features

Any form of discrimination (ableism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) (this applies to any flavor text as well as mechanics such as toggles for "disabling" permanent conditions or queer relationships.)

Any form of abuse (while we love our kitty drama in Rainy Days, abuse is not just "drama" and can be extremely triggering to players. Additionally, I am just not comfortable writing it. There will not be a toggle for it either.)

Human disabilities/disorders & mental disabilites/disorders (due to clangen & lifegen rules, and to avoid misrepresentation)

Explicit content (gore, sex, etc.) (the fanbase of this game is primarily children, and the characters are cats, so this should be self-explanatory)

Mod Credits

Wingedgen - Sprite generation system

White Guy's Cat Customizer Mod - Cat customization screen

Genemod - Other Clans pages

Lifegen - All Lifegen features

Sel's MegaMerge - No longer used as a basis for this mod, but was originally, so I'd like to credit Sel + all the mods listed in the MegaMerge thread

More may be added in the future; if this happens, I will make a new post announcing the new credit and update this post accordingly.

Mod Rules

If you post screenshots of Rainy Days or any other content pertaining to the mod, you must link this tumblr blog for credit.

If you intend to create a mod using Rainy Days as a basis, please ask me first. If it contains any content in the banned features list, I will not permit you to share your mod publicly or connect it to Rainy Days at all. Otherwise, you never know, we might even be interested in adding your content to Rainy Days ourselves if you'd be comfortable with that! (If so, you will be given credit and an offer to join the dev team. If not, that's fine, you can still make your mod and connect it to Rainy Days publicly so long as it doesn't include any banned features; we may even help you advertise it! Just be sure to include all credits from this post when making a mod using Rainy Days.)

These rules may be updated in the future; if this happens, I will make a new post detailing the new rule and update this post accordingly.

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This isn't actually relevant to Rainy Days specifically, but I've been debating working on a "Mod Maker" mod that makes it easier for people to make their own mods without having to learn how to code... I think it'd be super fun and I'd love to see people use it, but I'm hesitant to put more on my plate right now.

Would anyone actually use a "Mod Maker"? For reference, these are the first features I'd want to include in it:

- A whole overhaul of how sprites work to make adding new colors, pelts, poses, & accessories much easier (major change would be using hex codes to generate colors instead of having to redraw every pelt per color) + a screen for adding in new hex codes & spritework

- An updated event & patrol editing screen that adds events to a new file separate from base game so that you can download multiple mods that use this Mod Maker without having to manually edit everything into the same file

(For context, this is what the event editor currently looks like in-game without my changes):

In the future, I'll consider more features, like an easier way to add camps & patrol art, an easier way to add new traits & skills, etc., but for now these would be my main focus.

Also, if I do make this Mod Maker, I would totally test it out by making my own mod separate from Rainy Days with it 👀 Maybe a "Rainy Days Lite" that's more of an expansion on base game instead of a total overhaul

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Patrol + Event Rework Progress

The patrol & event reworks are going smoothly so far! In the first 3 images, you can see a full patrol from start to finish, with options unique to the patrol and 1 - 2 extra stages of the patrol with more options. In the last image, you can see an event being "interpreted", which will affect future related events (we'll ignore that the cats involved are warriors with "mentors" haha)

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Rainy Days Dev Applications

If you would like to volunteer to contribute to Rainy Days, fill out the form appropriate for what content you'd like to contribute: Coder

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