re:Dreamer Alpha 0.10.11

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Sorry for the slight delay! I genuinely thought this would be out last night, but I did the classic CaptainCaption thing where I made things too complicated for my own good... except for once in my life, I knew where to stop (kinda?)

re:Dreamer (0.10.11) continues the mall date on the second day of Britney's route. She's fun to write.

Changelog:

• A lengthy 15-minute (timed with Ren'Py's default auto-advance speed) extension to the Day 2 mall date with Britney that sees Zach and Britney roam the mall looking for parts to put in their liquid-cooled second attempt of making a chest binder for Zach's H-cups and then visiting a lingerie store for a more proper bra for him. That 15-minute length is a bit deceiving as this is a highly variable segment with many, many interwoven paths in the back half based on the C.H.E.A.T.S. stats, Zach's answer to Ai's "therapy" session, the bPoints value, what underwear set Zach picked, whether or not Zach insists upon paying for and picking the underwear himself instead of letting Britney pay and choose for him, and what that underwear ultimately ended up being; to illustrate, Britney might end up taking up an offer to work part-time at that lingerie store after she proves her worth with women's measurements and realizes that even associate employees have a 10% discount. The second part of this shopping segment that would see Zach and Britney shop for a choker for him from a jewelry store, a skirt for him from a women's consignment store, or (if he won his bet against her in the arcade) material for a cosplay outfit for Britney for cosplay sex. All three of those store visits are going to be possible in a single playthrough depending on meeting certain specific conditions in the arcade, C.H.E.A.T.S. values, and Zach's answer to Ai's "therapy" session, but I've learned not to bite off more than I can chew in a single update when it comes to this mall date.
• Some minor pathing fixes in the arcade date where dialogue that was supposed to show was missed or some dialogue that wasn't supposed to show up did. The most important of these is Britney convincing Zach to wear a choker (or a skirt and a choker if Trans 5 and the Trans "therapy" answer) for their next date, in exchange for the cosplay sex he wanted to have with Britney, if Zach lost the Tower Topper bet on the second game, realized that Ai cheated for him (causing her to comment on how he should be put on a leash and a collar), and the first game wasn't Mrs. Puck Man (meaning that Zach already lost the bet).
• A small but important edit to reword Britney's second bet of the arcade date to be in addition to making Zach wear a skirt (if he lost the first bet). It was previously Britney waiving her win in order to get Zach's help with the theater club, but I realize how lame that was.
• Finally fully fixing the rollback on the arcade games. This took way too long too figure out how to foolproof, and if anyone's curious, renpy.block_rollback() was blocking all rollback after being used, but that was finally circumvented by using both renpy.suspend_rollback(False) and config.rollback_enabled = True in the same interaction. Man, I love this weird, wacky engine!
• So Zach has sprites now. They're not used anywhere in the game yet, but they're available to view in the sprite viewer. If Zoey is on screen, her expressions are parsed to give the closest possible match to an expression Zach's sprites are capable of making and showing him with that expression in the sprite viewer. I had to make remake every sprite image for the girls and most of the sprite code to finally put Zoey's bunny costume sprite outfit into the game, but it's visible in the sprite viewer.A cool opportunity presented from having to remake the female sprites was something I'd been thinking about for a while, and that's having a way to adjust the height of the female characters based on the shoes of their current outfit. As an example, Zoey is 160cm/5'3" and Britney is 161cm/5'3.5", but in almost every scene, Britney is maybe a pixel taller than Zoey despite her usually wearing short heels while Zoey wears flat shoes; now, Britney is noticeably over an inch taller than Zoey in many scenes, and I think that's hot. I was previously unable to do this as the bottom of the screen was the bottom of any character's sprites because I didn't think I would ever need to mess with the tried and true yalign 1.0, but while remaking these sprites, I added a buffer of a few pixels to make the girls taller or shorter as needed. Another thing this buffer does for Zoey and Britney is significantly simplify making animations when their sprites need to walk into the background, rotate slightly, and so on for.
• The author's note setting, Zoey's hair color, and her eye color return to their customized option upon re-entering a new Sustainer password. No more re-entering that every release!
• A few minor bugs with the sprite viewer have been corrected that could lead to missing outfit parts under certain conditions (most involving the full-body outfits such as the one-piece swimsuit and bunny girl costume).
• A few typo and grammar fixes scattered about.

As I mentioned in Friday Update #33: Break on Through (To the Other Side), Zach's sprites will be fully debuting in the next release (0.11.0) on Friday, September 9, 2022 with a short introductory afternoon of what his college life was like before he stumbled upon re:Dreamer.

Until next time!