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It's here! 1.07 - The Dragon.

Added 2021-03-26 18:11:48 +0000 UTC

Hey hey!

It's finally here, the 1.07 Update! Featuring Dave's 1st day.

-- If you don't care about these, the link to the builds is at the very bottom! --

So what's in store for this 1.07 update?

NOTE: Gallery is not fully functional at the moment. Some buttons will return you to the main menu.

This update itself is quite big in terms of progress. I did a lot of re-working in the background, revamping the side images and etcetera. I even attempted in creating the gallery menu, which in its current early stage, does the bare minimum and doesn't really have a lot of content in it. But the idea is there!

I have optimised the use of images, by utilising Composites! Now I can create a lot more variation of sprites while keeping the file size significantly lower! Previously, all I did was to create PNGs for every. Single. Variants. Which in the early stages, would be just fine. But in the long run, when newer characters are introduced, and the existing characters are given new items of clothing, the amount of storage used will massive. The same goes for the side images, which has been updated.

Gran, Dave, Norman, Pierre and Roderick assets have been touched up. Some characters have attained new items of clothing too.

The characters also blink too! Only in the most frequently used expressions though (neutral or speaking). Eventually, the rest will be covered, but for now, I think it'll suffice.

Re-did the textbox by making it a bit more minimalistic. The main menu background is now animated. The older rotating backgrounds will no longer be used but I'm planning to keep them and use them later on in the Gallery screen. For throwback sake ;)

Writing-wise, I managed to finish Dave's day 1 and have already worked on Norman's day 1 as well, but I haven't entirely finished it just yet so I've decided to cut it out of the current version build. I did some proofreading for some of the older parts with the help of some nice people. I also added a little bit more to Gran's route because I wasn't entirely happy with its pacing, so that's that.

I've added some newer SFX, GFX as well as backgrounds for new and older scenes. New animations and such have also been implemented.

Oh! And I've also added new assets for the old and new supporting casts such as Dr Sean, Damon, and two new characters that are meant for Gran's 2nd day. If you haven't already seen them, here they are. (showing them here since they don't appear in-game as of now.)

Brandon -