Hello body mod salespeople! As we wrap up the final touches on our demo, I want to take a moment to chat about the client interviews in Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced. These sessions really make up the heart of the game. They hold key moments where we ask you to learn about someone else and empathize with them, before then deciding whether to put their wellbeing ahead of your characters. For some clients, the decision is easy; for some, you might start thinking of them one way and end a different way; and some lie in a moral grey zone, where just your understanding and biases are left to support your decision. Since these scenes are so critical to conveying the themes and emotions of the game, we put a lot of thought into how theyre crafted. Each client interview has a uniquely designed dialogue flow based on the clients personality and how they converse. Jin (the player character)s job is to understand others and communicate with them, so we shape dialogue options based on how Jin understands the clients conversation norms. The client then responds to these options based on their own feelings and understanding of the situation. Take Ocean, the first client you meet in the game, as an example. (And mild spoiler warning here for anyone wanting to go into the game completely blind.) Ocean is fairly straightforward, but he feels bit uneasy sharing about some topics. Theyre also often willing to give the benefit of the doubt, choosing to be cordial and open until someone proves him wrong. Because of this, Jin will slowly breach and issue, generally only diving in more if Ocean seems open to talking about it. On Oceans side, the game tracks how many times youve upset him or said something that they view as a red flag. This is the main thing that impacts Oceans willingness to sharehe starts out giving you a baseline of trust and then watches to see if you abuse it. This, and Oceans straightforward honesty, makes them one of the easier characters to talk to in the game. We hope you enjoy meeting and chatting with Ocean in our demo (coming out in the next few days!). Be sure to let us know what you think of them and of the rest of the demo

Greetings sellers of all things body mod! Weve got some very exciting updates for the new year First and foremost, were preparing to release a demo of Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced (QDRP) to Steam in the upcoming months. The reason for our demo launch is tied to our second exciting news item: QDRP will be participating in two upcoming festivals! Namely, The Storytellers Festival and the Womens Day Game Showcase. Well be dropping a demo to coincide with the festivals and will be extra active on our socials, so feel free to reach out to us there or by email! Wed love to hear your feedback on the demo Those of you wanting to go into the demo 100% blind stop reading here! Ill be going over some of its details next. In the demo, youll meet Jin, the protagonist. Youll get to experience some key scenes from the first three days of the game. These include meeting with and consulting two clients, having a performance review with your boss, and spending some quality time at home with your rabbit! While upselling functionality isnt ready to share yet, we will have a bit of budgeting available! The budgeting features will be basic, but they should give you a sense of what itll be like in the full game. The demo will include five characters (including Jin), one adorable rabbit, four backgrounds, just under 30k words, and just over 1000 choice options. Each scene has multiple endings, and decisions made in each scene will be felt throughout the game. Your relationships with characters are tracked separately, and in the full game, they can influence each others opinions of you. Hopefully youre as excited to try the demo as we are to share it with you! Stay tuned for future updates

Hello body modification salespeople! If you're wondering what's going on with Quality Dream, Reasonably Priced's development, then this is the post for you! Here are a bunch of our socials where we post concept art, final art previews, sneak peaks at new features, and more Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zorkiestudios The majority of our updates happen here! (Mostly because YouTube doesn't support the photo slideshow things.) Fun jokes, new art, my painful struggles to program UI--you name it, we've got it. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@zorkiestudios Everything that's on TikTok except the photo slideshow guys. Also! Full version(s) of our trailer(s) are housed here. (Alright, there's only one trailer right now, and it's the same as on our Steam page--but we'll be adding more!) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/zorkiestudios.bsky.social This is mostly art posts. Sorry, I still don't really get this microblogging format... If you want to follow and let me know what kinds of content you'd like to see, I'd be more than happy to post more! itch.io: https://zorkie.itch.io/ Here you can find an early version of our demo! (Once it's polished up a bit more, we'll put it up on Steam, but in the meantime it's an itch.io exclusive.) Also, a bunch of free games that we've made are hosted here if you want to check out some of our past work Steam: You're here! If you haven't yet, please follow us! You'll get all our new updates and dev logs (like this one but way cooler) in your Steam news feed. Even if that's something you never check, wishlisting and following helps us a lot!!! Thanks for scrolling through this post. I hope you're as excited about this game as we are!