Monthly Mini-Update for June!

We're in the final phase of polishing up MVOL for the big v1.00, and that means I've been working a lot less on pure content and more on finishing touches! I do have one special treat in the works that offers some new content, but I couldn't get it ready in time for this preview. Honestly, this whole update cycle has been a lot of heavy code work and frustration, it's slowed me down a lot more than I expected. The project is more complicated than ever and even Flash is slowing down on me.

Upshot is, I'm afraid there isn't much in the way of new content in this one! But the new animations are fully implemented at last (primary source of some mind-bending bugs recently), including all six species, and you can flip between them easily with cheats implemented to check out the extra little touches with the knottier species!

I've also been working on making fancier text a thing, and I hope the little touches I've added help make the game just a little more visually interesting. Hints are touched up, endings have a little more flair, and it's more visually clear when you unlock things in the early game.

After playtesting a lot with those new notes I decided they really didn't sound good in actual gameplay, so for now I've gone back to the classics. I've got some new stuff in the pipe and I'm really praying we'll have them ready in time.

In a way, the most exciting part of this update to me is just that the pre-release MMU gets the new version number-- so while it still has a lot of things waiting to get crammed in at the last minute, this is technically the first v1.00 of the game!

Sorry I couldn't offer more fresh preview content to look at, a lot of my work has been mostly invisible, and I've had a lot of other stuff on my plate with all this going on. I'll get into that a little more in the big blog post.

That said, I guess this means this is officially the last Monthly Mini-Update! If I'm looking at my archives right, this will make the sixty-seventh MMU I've released. Phew! That sounds like a ton, but it also feels like I've kinda been doing these... forever? I guess five and a half years of doing something once a month can do that.

Kinda makes me wish the last one could go out with more of a bang, but I know if I kill myself trying to pack stuff in here early it's just going to do me worse in the long run. I'm trying to get better about pacing myself and getting stuff done at a more even rate throughout the month rather than crunching and crashing so much.

Anyway, this last oddity aside, I hope you guys have enjoyed your early sneak peeks into MVOL's content! Thank you all for being such a big help in making this project succeed! Keep an eye out for more news soon on all the big changes coming in!

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