Possibilty of more varied family types in future update?

trickloop · 2014-01-26 11:20:35

I bought the game last week and I'm really enjoying it despite how much of a noob I am. My only complaint is I wish the characters had varied, gender, race, and sexuality. Perhaps based on actual statistics of the U.S. population? I'm not saying I think users should be able to select any of these factors, it should be randomly generated.

For example does the builder/robber "head of the family" person always need to be a white man?

Here are two example familys:

-Family 1: two black female children, and a gay black couple (male or female)

-Family 2: asian boy and girl, male and female asian parents. The parent selected to be the player is random.

I understand this would probably be a big update but I think it's important.

g0m · 2014-01-26 11:29:18

I'd be down with that. The sprites are pretty androgynous so it'd just be a matter of adding more names to the generator and maybe adding a few palette swaps (or maybe I'm wrong? Hell, I didn't make the game)

colorfusion · 2014-01-26 11:41:39

Something like this can already easily be implemented for the wife and children just by just changing the textures in your own game files, although each one would still be randomized individually.

Changing the names and the father/player would require code changing and be harder, since you'd need to link it to a robber outfit as well as all of the dead states.

I don't personally think it's worth doing as a game update, there'd need to be a lot of new sprites so you didn't end up with just one family of each ethnicity.

Last edited by colorfusion (2014-01-26 11:46:53)

iceman · 2014-01-26 12:07:34

Also, Jason has stated in this thread that you aren't playing as a random character - you're playing as a specific, white male in a newspaper ad, who has a wife and 2 kids.

If you want to have some variety in the families, you can always go into the game folder, go into graphicElements, and edit the pictures in the son, daughter, or wife folders. In fact, you can even make a ton and distribute on a thread, like someone did with a halloween mod.

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