0.2.26b RC - Public Release

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• fixed freeze on day 1 "you're not the barmaid" improvement from "a" patch

• added a new feature that will resize a text if it would otherwise overflow outside of the message box
  • a note will also be added to the console log when this happens for easy diagnosis
• improved the day 1 "you're not the barmaid" scene when first entering the Golden Barrel
• changed some dialogue that had text overflow issues
• improved the dialogue around some text overflow dialogue
• changed the "Cross Section" message into a tutorial pane
• fixed a freeze on day 1 when returning downstairs after walking upstairs.
• fixed some text codes not working in the quest tracker
• fixed an issue where a the previously loaded bust would sometimes appear for a split second before the new one loads in
• fixed an issue where the message box would appear in the upper left for a split second when loading in on a map for the first time.
• fixed an issue where choice boxes would appear in the upper left for a split second when loading in on a map for the first time.
  • choice text still appears there for now (will be fixed in a future patch)
• fixed a game crash when tracking a cursed quest

• added SIX new H-CG sets
  • John 2
  • Hermit 4
  • Dryad 2
  • Uzul 1
  • Lucian 4
  • Sophie 1
• added 6 h-scenes
• added two CG sets
  • Fallen
  • Mirror
• added 3+ mini-cgs
  • Several to Barmaid mini-game
  • Uzul "chilling"
  • blacksmith sniff
• added two new VN busts
  • Templar
  • Lucian Transformation
• added workout outfits for Cassandra and Emma VN busts
• added new GUI screens for the following:
  • Main Menu
  • Title Screen
  • Message Box+Choice menu
  • HUD
• added day 18-21 MSQ content
  • There is a lot of story here!!
• added Sophie and Uzul week 4 jobs (Day 22 and 23)
• added hermit 3+4 visit
• added new barmaid mid-shift event
• added 3 new Parallax Maps
  • Golden Barrel 1 reworked
  • Golden barrel 2 reworked
  • Gate District
• added 3 new tiled Maps
  • Dryad Grove reworked (with special tint)
  • Path to Cave
  • Cave
• added Chibi Cassandra battle sprite
• added templar walking sprite
• added new tileset for cursed realm and updated it's visuals.
  • added monoliths to cursed realm
• added new simple Fog of War (FoW) feature
• added sideways and interior down/up door sprites
• added barmaid floor clean scene
• added quick scene on Day 1 regarding visiting the bathhouse
• added several new BGM to several maps including Grove.
• added bust preload feature (busts will load into RAM at game start)
• added new feature auto adjust busts height and placement
• added small dialogue when entering GB room for the first time
• added several new Quests
• added Cassandra Workout 3 and 4
  • four will be finished with the combat update
• improved logic on several maps
  • Castle, Night Events, Church, Grove, Caleb/Hilda, Cass training, Onsen, Hilda Calls, Uzul, Sophie
• improved Lucian Week 2 job with "Blacksmith sniff" mini-CG
• improved and imported all old Golden Barrel events to new maps
• improved/cleaned up gallery map a little bit
• improved day 7 afternoon - you can now leave to the hermit which will automatically skip to evening.
• improved smokestacks again to improve performance
• improved faces.png for party members
• re-balanced merchant silver gain (again)
• testing out possible FPS improvement (limited this patch but RC should have more provided this new improvement doesn't cause more trouble than it's worth.)

• fixed several quest tracking issues
• fixed textbox not staying between characters entering/exiting
• fixed john barmaid midshift event from not triggering
• fixed ingame discord link
• fixed several bugs in the cursed realm on day 1
• fixed a bug when refusing Merchant Shift 5

0.2.25a RC - Public Release

Changelog 0.2.25a RC

• fixed Sophie week 2 afternoon bug (led to players getting stuck on day 10 morning)
• prevented visited cursed realm for a 3rd time until Day 8
• fixed an Emma sprite during Day 1 Hermit scene.
• added a couple more Emma reactions to General Store jobs.

Changelog 0.2.25 RC (Includes s-1 notes)

• added FIVE new H-CG sets
  • Lily 2
  • General Store 3
  • Emma bath 2
  • Blacksmith 3
  • Merchant 2
• added a new CG (non-H)
  • crystal
• added 7 new Mini-CGs (All are H and H-adjacent)
  • Emma changing x3
  • Drinking 2+3
  • combat flash
  • casual flash
• added Dryad VN bust
• added Necromancer VN bust
• added two new variations to a H-CG set
• added 7 new customer sillouttes for general store job
• added 11 new Emma expressions for general store job
• added 6 h-scenes
• added new Town Square Map
  • and the pain of updating everything to it
• added new Title Screen
• added new placeholder GUI for most windows
• added new GUI for time of day
• add "blackscreen"/ghostly images fix (located at bottom of general options)
• added major revision to D2 Barmaid and Golden Barrel questline
  • new dialogue on D3 morning too
• added system that checks if Emma is wearing Barmaid dress
• added new scene when Emma first wears Barmaid dress
• added outfits as actual items
• added new system for changing into outfits
• added cursed realm visit 3
• added Tenebrium
• added two new fonts
• added system for randomized seating based on time of day to the Golden Barrel
• added random patron dialogue to non-working Golden Barrel
  • this will be expanded in the future
• added new transition stinger for passing time in the afternoon
• added small final dialogue to gropler quest
• added support for "workout" clothes (no visual yet)
• added missing busts to Dryad scene.
• added support for randomly shown images of Emma dressing herself when changing in/out of night clothes.
• added General Store Shift 3
• added new dialogue and feature when returning from the raid.
• added new dialogue system organization for recurring quests (like shopkeeps)
  • allows for easier branching dialogue as well for various world states.
• added our new logo!
• changed omnimancer -> arcanist
• changed first drinking event to use drinking2
• updated alll (most) NPCs to a new "talk" system
  • Lorraine
  • Sophie
  • Uzul
  • Lucian
• updated barmaid logic
• updated corescript
• updated plugins
• updated MSQ logic on several maps
• updated a bunch of Quest logic
• updated balance of silver gain during General Store and Merchant quests
• updated pass time event location
• updated save/load menu
• updated Merchant quest dialogue
• updated credits
• updated some Mayor shindig stuff
• updated D7 Duke scene dialogue
• updated patron event preventing spamming during barmaid mini-game
  • checks are performed every few seconds rather than via movement.
• updated credits
• updated General Store Intro
• updated Onsen Mayor Scene
• refactored Lyra interactions
• refactored Cassandra interactions and content
• refactored several D2 scenes
  • General Store intro
  • Lorraine intro
  • Blacksmith intro
  • waking up
  • cursed realm visit
  • Hilda scene
  • Meeting the Barkeep
  • Cass+Gar Meeting
• refactored database (not fully)
• revamped General Store shifts 1 and 2
  • Good amount of new and updated dialogue
• improved VN bust system
  • When changing speakers busts will now fade
  • busts should stay in RAM longer which should hopefully improve loading performance on slower systems.
• disabled ability to work Tavern on Day 6
• moved Lily TJ placement (after raid)

• fixed exiting cursed realm not tinting correctly
• fixed bug allowing Emma to leave instead of finding source of sound for Sophie
• fixed bug that advanced time incorrectly if Midnight or Night
• fixed Hermit visitation time advancing bug
• fixed Uzul intro talking
• fixed a bug where you are missing a party member during the "raid"
• fixed a few transitions during "raid"
• fixed ability to leave cursed realm of 2nd visit
• fixed a bug allowing travel on day 2 when looking for Hilda
• fixed bug on day 2 which has BS+Hilda door reappear
• fixed HUD showing just "night" when it was "midnight"
• fixed Caleb reverting to old pixel art
• fixed game over and soft locks from getting KO'ed (HP should be set to 1 after battle)
• fixed performance degradation on lower end systems (again)
• fixed Emma's waterwalking ability
• fixed potential Cassandra day 5 crash
• fixed many typos
• fixed black screen issue with General Store content (for real, for real)
• fixed the ghost of HJ's past
• fixed pacing Uzul during week 2
• fixed bro sprites during week 2
• fixed not being able to fast/skip during General Store week 1 and end of week 3's content.
• fixed a bunch of typos
• fixed a bunch of other small stuff

0.2.24b RC - Public Release

• fixed Kazuma having 0 HP during Slime encounter
• fixed freezes when talking to Lorraine from the side.
• fixed potentially skipping Hermit visit on Day 14
• fixed Gropler Quest not awarding silver and completing.
• enabled "End of Content" message
• enabled the option to skip mornings on Day 15 (this will obviously not be canonical)
• enabled portraits not showing up during Gropler Quest (oops!)

• fixed bloom/oversaturation/color settings for battles
• fixed potential null error crash when returning to the Golden Barrel on Day 2
• fixed potential freeze on day 11
• fixed potential freeze with lil John
• fixed "wet chest" from being slightly off during certain interactions

• added FIVE new H-CG sets
• added 2 new CGs (non-H)
• added 3 new Mini-CGs (All are H and H-adjacent)
• added two new variations to a H-CG set
• added 7 h-scenes
  • John 1
  • Hermit 3
  • Tentacle 3
  • Hilda 2
  • Kazuma 2
  • Merchant 4
  • Merchant 5
• added 3 new Emma Expressions
• added 4 new walking pixel art sprites
  • Kazuma
  • Lily
  • Caleb
  • Sophie
• added new content to Gropler Questline and refactored it.
  • scenes do not automatically trigger now and are now psuedo-random with chances affected by corruption level.
• added Hermit Week 3 visit and refactored Week 2 visit
• improved hermit week 2 "service"
• Curses/Cursed Realm changes
  • added new curses
  • added a new scene when entering cursed realm after completing requirements for at least one curse
  • added ability to re-enter cursed realm at will after a single curse has been lifted
  • rebalanced curse quest amounts
  • implemented new Cursed Quest tracking system
    • when a curse is unknown a graphic will flash.
• added new events, balancing and updates to barmaid job.
  • add new special event (triggers once when working during Week 2)
  • added psuedo-random triggered delivery events
    • certain stats will affect chances of certain events happening
  • added new expression to barmaid & mini-cg
  • minor rebalance on corruption gains
  • randomized tips gained
  • certain variations can only happen at specific corruption levels
  • added a small consequence to drinking too much
• added Blacksmith week 2 job continuation with a small post-job follow up
• added new scene to General Store 1 event
• added repeatable Cassandra workout event
  • can be done in the afternoon after triggering the second workout event
  • for now increases Emma's level each occurrence
• added 3 replacement maps for the old Onsen maps
• added 5 new placeholder MSQ maps
• added battlelog feature to combat
• added new icons (replaces all old ones)
• added a new questlog backend tracking system
  • for easier quest implementation (will be back ported and used going forward.)
• altered golden barrel sunset tint
• altered day 7 start text
• changed Dryad quest to be week 3
• add system to limit "night events" to one a night
• removed border on passing time event
• added context based interaction popups
  • Note: this will be expanded further
• added better controller support
• added dynamic button prompts based on input
• added rebindable controls (HELL YEAH!)
  • located at the bottom of the General options screen
  • Note: only letter keys are available for rebinding currently
• added 60fps lock toggle
  • default is on (You should keep it there!)
• updated corescript and plugins

• fixed ability to sleep on day 7 without seeing the Hermit
• fixed bath 3 playable earlier in the day on day 4
• fixed church BGM playing when searching for Hilda
• fixed potential locks preventing progress (eg day 9)
• fixed some incorrect Emma sprites at day 1 onsen visit
• fixed bug with onsen doors
• fixed Emma's wall walking abilities at the Onsen
• fixed some BGM bugs when entered the Gallery map (and start location)
• fixed a bug when Lily appears on the right side of the screen
• fixed some calls to old NPC sprites
• fixed a repeatable advance time bug when returning from the Grove
• fixed some choice menus that defaulted to the right
• fixed a few bugs with Emma's pixel/bust system
• fixed fps regression
• fixed merchant 4 blackscreen
• fixed more volume "nul" errors.
• fixed some typos

0.1.23a RC is now live for Everyone!

• improved day 2 lily/kazuma/mayor/lyra scene
• fix crash when entering/exiting golden barrel too fast
• fix barmaid job not giving silver

• added 2 CG sets
  • ??? H-CG set
  • Blacksmith Intro set
• added 2 new CG scenes
• added 2 new maps
• added new placeholder map: Dark Forest
• added the remaining optimized VN busts
  • Barkeep
  • Blacksmith
  • Cassandra
  • Duke
  • Hermit
  • Hilda
  • Lily
  • Lorraine
  • Lyra
  • Mayor
  • Priest
  • Seras
  • Sophie
  • Uzul
• added four more custom pixel sprites
  • Lorraine
  • Mayor
  • Priest
  • Seras
• added some further polish to Demonlord magic scene
• added several more icons in various locations
• added a new BGM track for the evening/night/midnight slots on the main town map
• added alternate "no" option to General store 2 scenario
• added alternate "Defer payment" option to Hermit week 1 visit
• updated scene: "Waking Up in the Church"
• updated scene: "Kazuma Mountain Trail"
• updated scene: "Onsen Entry"
• updated scene: "The Hermit"
• updated scene: "Hermit at the Church."
• updated scene: "The Curse."
• updated scene: "Cursed Realm 1st Visit."
• updated scene: "Everything Has A Price."
• updated scene: "The Golden Barrel"
• updated scene: "The White Wolf"
• updated scene: "Meeting the Mayor"
• updated scene: "Bath 1"
• updated scene: "The Blacksmith"
  • contains the new CG
• updated scene: "The Magic Shop"
• cleaned up some of the post-mayoral party dialogue
• added small flavor text if you re-enter the church when finding the hermit.
• added a 60 fps cap
  • Feedback requested!
• changed a few pronouns to just be the proper noun to reduce confusion.
• improved map reactions to time of day
  • stores now close at night
  • a few more non intractable NPCs appear and do different things based on time of day
  • tints should more reliably change based on time of day
• updated credits
• fixed an issue where Emma would walk all the way to left when talking with the Mayor.
• fixed some issues with the Hermit week 1 visit
• fixed some issues with the Cassandra training 2 scene.
• fixed a scene that didn't play on the morning of day 3
• fixed a bug that allowed you to progress to day 7 without attending the party.
• fixed a bug during the general store week 2 event where busts overlapped the CGs
• fixed issue with general shop dialogue line not playing
• fixed an error with Garland not showing up after talk to Hilda on Day 1.
• fixed some dialogue that displays twice when sleeping the first night.
• fixed pathing and overlay issues on blacksmith map
• fixed floating face in cross intro
• reduced volume of NPC footsteps
• various small bits of polish and optimizations
• fixed A LOT of typos

0.1.22a RC is now live for Everyone!

We also just updated Snorkeler+ track with a snapshot, 0.1.23s-1, earlier today.
View Public Post: https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1303854

If you'd like to read more about the patch, feel free to read the follow public post as well.
View Public Post: https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1271263

• ​added a Kazuma's Prologue Quest questlog
• updated gallery map
• fixed a pathfinding error with the church door
• fixed a name error during Sophie's Quest
• fixed an awkward location during the sophie quest
• reduced Grimnr's overuse of cleave
• buffed hobgoblin
• goblin fights revised during Kazuma Prologue Quest

• added 2 CG sets
• added Cassandra Training 2 scene
• added playable blacksmith enchanting job
• added corruption gauge to main menu
       -various events should increase it and once it fills up Emma's corruption level should increase.
• added Seras's bust
• added Grimnr's bust
• added new expressions for Emma's bust
• added Kazuma prologue quest
• added new "Battleground" scene
• added new Lyra Sprite
• added new Cassandra Sprite
• added new Lucian sprite
• added new Cross sprite
• added new Duke sprite
• added new Hermit sprite
• added new Hilda sprite
• added Battlefield Map
• added Cross Prologue Quest placeholder map
• added Kazuma Prologue Quest placeholder map
• added training room placeholder map
• added 3 new music tracks to dance event.
• added Combat-Off mode
      -just wack em!
• added new menu option for toggling combat on or off at any time
      -default setting will be "off" for only this snapshot.
• added new dialogue system
      -should remove wonky behavior when new busts slide in over older ones.
      -also adds support for greying/tinting non-speaking busts.
      -updated all dialogue in the prologue to this new system
• added Grimnr boss fight
      -should be easy mechanics-wise
• updated cursed realm map (still placeholder)
• updated/rebalanced all stats (not final)
• updated Kazuma prologue dialogue
• updated Cross prologue dialogue
• updated love scene dialogue
• updated Demon Lord encounter dialogue
• updated castle storm dialogue
• updated Demon Lord H-CG dialogue
• updated Demon Lord encounter 2 dialogue
• updated 2nd Eye Text
• updated Finding Cross Scene
• updated Camp Fire Scene
• updated Garland Talk Scene
• updated Demon Lord's bust
• updated Garland's bust
      -Also added new props
• updated Kazuma's bust
• updated Cross's bust
• added a tiny amount of zoom which should help reduce shimmer.
• added a wooden dummy to the camp map
• fixed some events that showed the older pixel art for Cassandra and Lyra
• fixed several lines that repeated in the first visit to the Golden Barrel innroom
• fixed a typo in the merchant quest
• fixed a repeating line in Cassandra's Training CG
• fixed a missing word in the butler's text when visiting the mansion
• fixed a pathing issue on the camp outskirts map
• fixed a freeze when doing the pot cleaning quest
• fixed collision issues on camp map
• updated plugins
• improved overall performance
• fixed several typos and polished even more dialogue

0.1.21c RC is now live for Everyone!

• added a warning regarding loading old saves 
     -not explicitly blocked or prevented. The game just informs queues a warning after you load the save.
• improved intro scene slightly
• fix blacksmith intro freeze
• fixed some collision issues and a visual error on the camp map
• cleaned up some backend errors when loading certain maps
• fixed a potential game freeze when certain conditions were met during the merchant event
• fixed an error with the battle HUD (heh)
• fixed message buttons not showing during merchant intro
• fixed not being able to leave the potion shop
• fixed typos

• Added 2 new H-CG sets
• Added three new h-scenes
• Added repeatable Barmaid Job 
     -can be done Day 4+ in the evenings
• Added 1st afternoon job - Merchant 
      -chain starts on day 4 and can be first done on day 5
• Added Garland Sprite
• Added Demon Lord Sprite
• Added Uzul Sprite
• Added new Potion Shop map
• Added new General Store map
• Added new Blacksmith map
• Added new Magic Shop map
• Added S*x stat Icons and numbers. 
     -rudimentary implementation. 
     -removed old variable window
• Added Datalog menu to the main menu screen. 
     -has several more items nested within. 
     -eg: Bestiary, Message Log, Patch Notes 
     -many are currently disabled
• Added "Exit to Windows" option when selecting "Game End"
• Added Time of Day system 
     -ToD will progress based on user input rather than being real time. 
     -added quick tutorial to day 4 to explain passing the time in the afternoon.
• Added basic Day/Time UI element
• Added ability to pass the time from afternoon to evening. 
     -located on the right side of the bar in the Golden Barrel 
     -can only be done on days where there is no afternoon event
• Added back playtime window.
• Added new social icons to the Title Screen replacing the old orange "Support on Patreon" button
• Added a label above the chest in Golden Barrel room to indicate it as an intractable.
• made both of the morning events on day 6 and 7 pass time to the afternoon.
• Improved movement system 
     -slight tilt when running 
     -increased run speed
• Improved sleeping mechanic 
     -can be done either in the evening or night.
• Improved indoor/outdoor  transitions
• Improved Save slot information 
     -it will now state the save's current Day and the patch the save was originally started on.
     note: this is not retroactive.
• fixed text buttons not showing during "Eyes" intro
• fixed a couple instances of the Garland sprite showing up.
• Updated plugins
• Various other small improvements/optimizations