July 2025 Release - Contents

This has been a difficult month to put in order. Writing so many Junko scenes back to back and placing them into the week, where dialog options from earlier during both texting and phone calls can influence later conversations, turned out to be a beast of a task.

But the good news is, there is SO MUCH new content in fleshing out who Junko is and what her current struggles are.

Junko Scenes

• Connected Spirits - Junko wants to test an intuition that you have a special connection to her by trying to do some metaphysical testing. But whether it works or not, that might not be the real reason for her interest in doing this.

• Crouching Tiger, Helicopter Mom - In a panic, Junko calls you to say her mom is hovering around her taking up the whole day with plans she didn't ask for. If you agree to help, you can text her prompts for what to say to her mom to navigate out of a wasted day. Or not. Or make it worse!

• Dried Up - if you respond well to her text messages but then don't take any of her calls, Junko has one final conversation to suggest you're out of things to talk about as friends. And yet there are secrets bubbling to the surface when the friendship hangs in the balance.

• Interrogated - Having been at her new job a little while, Junko calls on lunch to compare her work environment to yours and get an idea of how good or bad her job is likely to be. You can settle her mind, or stoke her fears.

• Otaku Desu Yo! - Moving into her own apartment, Junko finds herself going through old boxes of manga and anime DVDs she's owned since she was a kid. And since it's a shared interest, she wants to talk about it with you.

• Show and Tell - Since she's all moved into this new apartment, Junko wants to take a moment to show you around the place.

• The Good Times - As college friends a few years out of school, Junko is starting to realize adult life doesn't present you with a ready-made group of friends who are going through classes and life together. And she pauses to reminisce about this with you.

• What's in a Name - In the event that her day is ruined (see Crouching Tiger, Helicopter Mom), Junko will have her ire stoked that she's just not getting to live the life she wants. And she'll call you in a tizzy to try and express her frustration. With encouragement, she might reveal the core of her identity crisis, as she sees it.

In all, Junko's additions are a hefty 1466 new lines of dialogue this month, with a bit more to go next month to finish off this arc.

UI Changes

Junko calls you several times in the week, which means indicating to the player that a phone call is incoming with a notification and an audio prompt, giving you a limited time to respond, and making sure the phone has the UI necessary to accept or reject calls, and a call log to show calls taken, ignored, missed, etc.

From there, when you do take a call from Junko's phone (portrait) or laptop (landscape) it seemed like a tiny inset window was not good enough, so some transitions to make these expand to full screen scenes was in order.

I've really gotta wrangle the style elements to remove that magenta border and recolor the scrollbar. Might be able to use that as a break from rigorous scene work partway through the month.

Audio Improvements

Phone calls have a call vibe sound. Text messages have a message vibe sound.

Pulling from free online sources for sound clips, it turns out there are a lot of kinky people who want to have the sounds they make during sex recorded for posterity, and many of them are willing to put that up with only an attribution license to both use and edit their sounds.

So with the magic of Audacity, there are a host of sexy moans, blowjob sounds, and orgasms to zest up the sexual encounters already in the game. And I have the original files at hand to cut up in other ways for new scenes, Voices for particular characters to follow.

Next Up

I was just plain out of time to create the first Junko sex scene and another upgrade to IDM After Dark. The Dreaded Day Job needed a lot of time in the last couple weeks that prevented me from spending the time to do more than rough in cameras and animations. So to make up for it, August will start with BOTH of these scenes, and then the back half will be wiring Junko's scenes together and rewriting where necessary to turn them into coherent objectives.