Log in0.17 Full Release!
First off: welcome and thank you to all our supporters, new, returned and long-time. It's been great to see the swell of support for this release. It means you think we're doing a good job with Blue Swallow.
0.17 is now available through the website to all Dossier+ supporters. Want a copy on your hard drive instead? You can go there and download the APK and ZIP versions for offline play.
What've we been up to in the past five days since early release?
*Zach, Fict, and JoMOtta have been working hard to ensure the website is stable, fully accessible and bug-free -- we appreciate your bug callouts and patience, Zach just pushed some more fixes.
JoMOtta has begun sketching out an idea that he had pitched to me at the end of last cycle: why isn't there any possibility during the Prologue for Claire to become a stripper and get some pole-dancing skills? It was a good point. So there will be a couple of entry points he's building out to coincide with **0.18*. This will be somewhat styled like the modeling super-arc to pre-College and/or an extracurricular in College.
I've been reworking the RPG-start to be what I had originally envisioned: a quick way to head right to Act I with the version of Claire you imagine. A few screens choosing archetypes and into a skill/trait buy-up and sell-down screen before finalizing and jumping into the main story. It's going to need some vetting from my team, but will drop with **0.18*, fingers crossed.
Starting today, I'll begin on the content for 0.18. Some things that I've planned: - A potential appearance of good ol' dad. - Another new Honeypot arc. - An extension of an existing Honeypot arc. - Reappearance of Sallah, if you know, you know. - And, of course, another day of work at the Club where some choices will come to roost. - I'm also pretty close to putting in the first few tie-offs and tie-ins to Act II.
Not exhaustive, but the headlines.
On another note, towards the end of 0.17, I realized that I'd exhausted the Honeypot voting and mostly exhausted requests that you've had for content and other improvements to the game, so I'm calling on you all to drop into these comments or the Discord (#game-suggestions) and let me know what you'd like to see in a poll for future additions, either in 0.18, 0.19 and beyond.
Looking forward to your ideas! The Stripper bit was one of them and look at that -- adding to the game.
