yeah guess what i'm still unemployed, here we gooo!

sorry that this post took a bit, there were multiple setbacks, including a crash in the stable version of s&box which made the game unplayable, and i got a high fever the past week so i wasn't really able to do much computer related stuff, but i'm finally feeling better.

a lot of this devlog is scrambled together with what left over brainpower i had

Businesses were a core part of the original Garry's Mod gamemode, now they're back and already more feature packed.

Players can rent a business space and customise it with props, sell items via either a cash register or an NPC clerk.
Baskets can pick up items from bulk item holders or just placed in the world itself.

The classic money-making plant is back, ready to take up all your apartment watts. At the moment they can only be sold to an NPC buyer or other players, and cannot be smoked.

Until I get player police (which is opening a whole can of worms, needs further planning), I have implemented police NPC's around the map, which will arrest you if they see anything illegal, and magdump you if you try to fight back.

Wandering pedestrians will call the police if they see anything illegal going on.

A first proof of concept of the addictions system, but since I can't write shaders, there's just a camera wobble. Maybe one day some good shaders will pop up.

The same system will drive weed and other things in the future.

People don't read. But maybe these will help some people get some guidance. There are just two quests at the moment, which bring you to two key parts of the map. Since there's no clean way of making dialogue systems at the moment, it's just simple triggers.

This was kind of a thing in the original gamemode too. If you're super short on cash, you can collect trash and put in the pawn machines.

I made the settings menu separate from the pause menu layout so it can fit more stuff. Biggest change is a render distance slider, so until s&box is more optimised, you can at least do something about it.

All modern games need phones, right? This one can order stuff to your apartment/business, and you can send private messages to players. It's pretty simple for now.

I updated the post processing and skybox so it wouldn't look so drab and depressing.

Already a week in, my cold+fever is almost over. I'm not sure what to work on at the moment, will probably get better as my head clears up. I probably want to add more furniture and make weed smokable.