Solanaceae: The Visual Novel: UPDATE 5 🌱

(NO DOWNLOADS DUE TO WORKING ON EARLY ACCESS)

*REMINDER TO NOT LOAD ANY OLD SAVES AS IT WILL BREAK THE GAME! I thought the last update was gonna be the last time folks needed to restart, BUT, turns out we needed to revamp some stuff in game, sorry about that! I can no longer promise this won't happen every time, aha.

It's been a hell of a ride, and maybe this release is a bit premature, but it's HERE, update 5 is here!

Here's what this update includes:

• The very first version of the gathering, crafting, and buying/selling system. This took us a hot second to get done, but now that it's there, it's there! 
• The WIP version of Chapter 2. This means you can play the chapter, but none of the art is done, it's just most of the dialogue. Play this part at your own discretion, if you don't like looking at WIPs, then just avoid it.
• The game generally has more tiny scenes here and there, a lot of new songs, and quests and such. It's shaping up!
• Roughly 24k words~ (That's 9k more than last update.)
• Slightly optimized menus and other GUI. Different font now from last time I believe too.

As I'm writing this, I feel totally out of it and in a brain fog, so hopefully there's no critical errors in the game, but IF THERE IS, I'll release a new version ASAP.

Right now, I'm trying to focus on finishing out a few projects so I can dedicate more time each week to this game. Like Lee's game, this game has just dragged on in production more than I would like, but that's just how being a game dev on the side seems to be. I'm trying not to beat myself up about it!

Regardless, I feel like I know where the game needs to go, I've got outlines for all of the chapters, and I just wanna sit down and GO HOG on the story at least, while my buddy Grue helps do the more serious programming aspects. (We're focusing on getting the other half of the game done for the next build, which is the coven menu with the buildings and coven members and all that!)

Thanks for your patience everyone.

Please leave me any comments/questions/bugs/spelling errors/etc down below and I'll respond to you and update the game accordingly!