Hey Everyone!

This release, and the lead-up to it, allowed us to fix a lot of our processes and improve overall game functionality. The overall changes are outlined below if you want to review all the different changes.

Regarding Future Releases

We have been releasing the 0.0.x versions only to Patrons, going forward the 0.x.1 versions will receive public releases on Itch which will cut the overall wait time between releases in half, currently averaging around 45 days with a target to reach a 30-day release cycle. We will start posting full release schedules on our socials once the content patches are complete so that everyone is aware when they can expect the new content.

Changes

Merger 0.4.1 & 0.4.2

Audio addition to 0.4.1 & 0.4.2 scenes

Adult content changes: All adult scenes moved to adult.rpy and all lead ups sanitized if this file is missing.

Steam Achievements: Base code for all initial achievements has been entered and achievements will go live during the public release.

Episode Selector: Reskinned and Updated with Episode 5

Replay Gallery: Reskinned and updated with the two scenes from Episode 5

Steam Achievements: Baseline code has been implemented.

Introduction Changes: You can now choose to name all characters during the intro, during game play, or set them to default to be changed later. I've also added some of the adult scene-related variables to the intro as well. This can be chosen to be completed there or during game play (Blood and Sleeping variables).

Outro Changes: Updated ending to be cohesive with all changes made thus far and added an image for the website.

Nicole Animations: Re-processed Nicole's animation from the 0.1 into video form smoothing out the frame rate.

Bug fixes, so many bug fixes, not only reported but many that I found as I was fixing other problems. All reported bug fixes have been corrected for this release aside from the Sumida02 scene where her clothes are still on in between position transitions.

 0.5 - Known Issues

    Bugs: When accessing and starting Episode 1 through the Episode selector it immediately throws an error. If you encounter this bug, attempt to start normally with the Start button on the home menu or switch to another episode and back before starting.

Animations

    Sumida & Nicole: Video animations have a split second of a black screen between repeating. This has to do with the way RenPy runs the videos. I've extended the animation videos to +/- 10 seconds to reduce the frequency of this as I look for a resolution. If I cannot find one by the next release I will extend the animations further.

Android Release

I'm currently receiving key errors when attempting to build the android version of the release. I will be working on this over the weekend and hope to have it resolved and uploaded soon.

Thank you all for supporting our game and I hope you all have a great weekend!

~Virt