Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.10.0

Like every week, grab the latest prerelease at:

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura-prerelease/patreon-access

Note that this week's prerelease is the 0.10.0 release but 1 day earlier. The public 0.10.0 release will be coming out a couple hours later on saturday.

This week was the mental changes focus week. And as the name suggests, a great number of mental changes and accompanying corruption scenes have been added. In total, we have 7 new mental changes and 8 new corruption scenes! 

The most prominent one is probably the new appearance change for Aura's clothing. Put the compliments Patricia has been gathering to good use to unlock this mental change. Distract Aura from working on her game by installing social media interests! Also remove the second studying book to make it harder for Aura to educate herself with reading in Roya (This change has been counterbalanced by initially making books quicker to read).

I am not sure how clear it has been from the previous scenes, but in the new confrontant scenes betweeen Aura and Rose you can learn quite a lot more about her. Also, watch Alicia and Rose have their first direct face-off since the intro!

With this we are nearing the completion of Chapter 1. There are only about 5 more mental changes missing and about <15 Corruption scenes. I need to reassess next week which scenes I really want to implement, but I think this is perfectly doable by 0.11.0.

On anther note, I have also already started work on 0.11.0 to finish the final confrontation with Arwin (The content however is not available yet in the game.) Have a short sneak-peek nonetheless!

Find the complete changelog for 0.10.0 below

Changelog 0.10.0 (27.08.2021)

• Added scene "Going Home With Rose 5"
• Added scene "Library Club 5"
• Added scene "Shopping In Mall 1"
• Added scene "Shopping In Mall 2"
• Added scene "Evening Chat With Alicia 5"
• Added scene "Evening With George 4"
• Added scene "Aura Bored At Stuyding 2"
• Added scene "Aura Dev 3"
• Added mental change "Remove second studying book"
• Added mental change "Install social media app"
• Added mental change "Appearance change casual clothing"
• Added mental change "Ugliness I happiness drain"
• Added mental change "Implant Shopping I interest"
• Added mental change "Fashion Magazine II"
• Added Arwin cellar dungeon maps 
• Added Arwin celler encounters 
• Added Arwin cellar loot
• Scripted Arwin cellar cut scenes
• Scripted Marten join event in cellar
• Finished scripting Arwin cellar quest content for Festival of Greed
• Added Money Domain 1 map
• Scripted Money Domain 1 NPCs
• Scripted Money Domain 1 cut-scenes
• Scripted Money Domain 1 encounters
• Scripted rigged blackjack minigame
• Scripted Perika mechanic for Money Domain
• Scripted Money domain special skills for Aura/Charlotte/Paul/John
• Scripted Counterattack and Protect flag to be compatible 
• Scripted passive "Useless Knowledge" 
• Integrated improved Northern Mines vault map
• Integrated improved refugee camp cave maps (Thanks to Dragonbait)
• Integrated improved northern forest of runes cave maps (Thanks to Dragonbait)
• Integrated improved refugee camp houses (Thanks to Dragonbait)
• Integrated Shopping Mall map
• Increased max Victory Score to 27 
• Increased max Mental Changes to 37 
• Added Money Domain 2 map
• Added quest "The Price Of Freedom" 
• Added item "Emerald Tea"
• Created curse "Eyes Of Greed"
• Integrated new Alicia expressions 
• Changed color of enabled but not activated happiness sources, drains and play animation on enable
• Changed initial Aura bed sheet to red
• Removed interim map between bandit camp and world map
• Automated release deployment to mixdrop and anonfiles

Balancing

• Reduced required reading progress for all books by 1

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos and editorial improvments
• Fixed incorrect theme when fighting Robert with party members 
• Fixed passability issues
• Fixed inifinite money bug Edwin
• Fixed being able to pay merchant in papertrail quest infinitely often