I've made a TON of progress these last few days. It's an honest-to-goodness game at this point.

You alternate between "day" and "date" phases. During the day phase you have time to make two improvements to your deck. These are either replacing any card with a basic card, or upgrading a basic card to an advanced card. I'm also considering an option to add a new filler card to your deck to expand the limit above 15.

Each time you are successful on a date, your relationship with the love interest ("Lexi") deepens. This is reflected in a few ways:

• The challenge level for future dates increases.
• The idle chatter Lexi gives between rounds changes, becoming flirtier.
• Lexi will send you a new text message including a photo. These will get quite risque eventually.

I still haven't added any new card options for Lexi to play on her turn - all she ever does is add an "Allure" to your deck. I think I might leave it that way, I'm not sure yet. In any case I do want to add an animation for that card getting added so it's not confusing as to why your deck size keeps changing.

I also composed two songs in LMMS, very basic 3/4 guitar loops with the same drum beat behind them. One for the overworld and one for during the card game.

My next step is to keep working on the cellphone feature, adding the ability to go back and look at older messages and to see the attached picture in full screen.

At some point I also need to do all the scenes for the very NSFW bits at the end. Haven't touched that yet but I have a lot of exciting ideas.