0.7 Public

What's different from the last (0.6) Public version?

Better UX and UI, including pop-up notifications for tests and skill-ups! Speech bubbles to break up text blocks and clarify who's talking Some improvements to flow, sequence, and writing to various points in the Prologue The Legendary tattoo from the Club HSV is now in-game! Some bug fixes in the Prologue New faces and expressions for the 'Claire doll' Implementation of some visual representations of some of our NPCS -- faces with names! More passage art!

So what are you missing out on in the 0.7.3 version?

Claire can progress through the full Prologue //and// enter the main game of Act I! Claire arrives in Manila (maybe via a misstep and other location first!) to begin the search for her mother She learns about the mission in front of her and come to terms with what that entails She can begin to investigate the nefarious Club through being a patron or trying to work there...or both! She can pursue other tacks in Manila including being recruited by underworld characters and see where that leads EROS can evaluate her abilities as a fledgling agent Claire can go through some rudimentary training with her EROS handler in four different spy 'disciplines' Claire can now start to pursue a normal dating life. Claire can try and make some meaningful friendships with 'real' friends at 'school' Quick-Start Claires! Don't want to go through the Prologue? Just pick one of our pre-generated Claires, make some aesthetic choices and jump into the spy-story! Implementation and first blush of the main-game Corruption. Under duress, Claire might crack...crack too much and the game might end! Ability to improve both Skills, Traits, and Sex Skills through use States that affect Claire -- drunk? horny? sick? tired? And most of all? The Club arcs (only one portion of Act I) combined into the largest file to date. Over 12,000 lines of code comprising so many options, paths and content to encounter!

If you'd like to continue Claire's journey, please support the game!

In supporter versions of Blue Swallow, you'll be able to progress into the main game (where she gets up to spy-stuff!) and see how the skills and traits she picked up during the Prologue character creation set her up to succeed when everything rests on her shoulders.

What's up next for the upcoming (0.8) release schedule?

We'll be moving to a 'timed' release model -- our supporters will be receiving ''every'' full release, but delayed depending on their tier. Prologue: Enhancing and Expanding the Cheerleader and Gymnast Vignettes. Prologue: Enhancing and Expanding the Backpacking Gap Year Arc. Prologue: Enhancing and Expanding High School dating. Main Game: Enhancing and Expanding the Working Girl and Dancing arcs in Act I! Prologue: Creation of a new HS Arc -- the Loser Claire! A rear-view for certain situations/scenes. HD Art! Mix-and-Match Outfits! Improved performance of the dossier. Additional hairstyles! Piercings rendering on the doll. New animations! New outfits! Disheveled versions of clothes -- pulled-down and pulled-aside underwear, for example!

Final Quick-Start Claire

Here's our final (for now) Quick-Start Claire for you to select from to skip the Prologue.

A drop-dead beautiful and //tall// winner of Districts, who came from a tight-knit and caring family.

Despite her mother's disappearance, she went on to get shot in Africa and become a Tri-Delta in College before being recruited by EROS.

She swings both ways (maybe leaning a //little// more towards ladies), but considers herself no more promiscuous than the next girl.

0.7.3 and then the public version should be releasing in the next few days! Hype, hype, right?

0.7 Progress Report

In the past week we've released the 0.7.2 (Beta) and a Hotfix.

Development-wise?We've been improving the Skillcheck popups, added in a few new states and icons, a series of bugfixes (thank you!), and begun to build out our Quick Start Claires, which will release with 0.7.3.

Who's up first?

She's a gorgeous former Prom Queen, who never knew her father and so when her Mom disappeared, she jumped at the chance to go after the only stability in her life.

She's always kept men at a respectable distance, worked her ass off to graduate High School early, and participated in a youth group.

She's one of the three that we'll release with the final version of 0.7. As we move forward, we'll add a couple more for variation's sake. Their intention is to give players a quick jumping-off point into Act I without requiring a playthrough of the Prologue if you've already done it a ton, don't care about the meticulous customization, or just want to see some of the new content when it releases.

On another note: How's HD art coming along?

Yep! We haven't forgotten about it, in fact Noice has been working tirelessly on conversion of the pixel-art assets into HD assets and we're nearing the finish line.HD art will be a toggle for our supporter releases, so it's an exclusive!

We hope to release with 0.7.3, but if not, I'm positive it will be early in 0.8's dev cycle.See you all tomorrow for our Poll results!