The Conversatron at night - RPGs vs. Barbie Fashion Designer

BreederAnt

I recently started programming a computer RPG in my spare time, partly because I like RPGs. It is unlikely that it will be overly impressive, but it will have all the features that I personally want to seen in an RPG.

My problem is this: my cousin wants me to add a part to the game where you dress your character so that you can have different, snazzy-looking costumes. They do this in Ultima Online.

Now, I don't think I would enjoy this feature, but my cousin's actually willing to pay me some money to make a "custom" rpg. So I'd be willing to implement it if I could make it so that it would be moderately fun.

So, in short, is there a way I can implement said feature without turning my RPG into Barbie Fashion Designer?

Dilbert

You know you can just branch your project in CVS. Make BreederAntsCoolProject.A the main RPG game, and .B the branch with the dress-up code.

Dilbert

And try to make the code at least somewhat modular.

Dilbert

That way, later down the road, when you finally admit to yourself that you like playing with dolls, you can merge the code back into the main branch.