Happy Halloween! Update 1.200

Hey, folks!

Happy Halloween to you all! This year is a little different for me when it comes to my monthly October work. 9 years in a row, I've used October to work in different projects. I've created whole games in that time or worked on new projects to experiment and try new things. A lot of those projects you can get through my Itch page to see what I've done!

This year, however, I did something a bit different. It's almost like a 10-year celebration! Usually, October is a time for Ger to do Orctober things with his Tuskbuddy exchange, but he didn't do it last year, and he decided not to do it this year instead.

Soooo, he had some other wild idea that I couldn't resist, and we decided to do an ExcA update for Halloween this year! It definitely fits the Halloween theme with some spooky vibes, so you guys just have to jump in and check it out!

• To access the event, you'll have to go see Spencer on Day 2. It should be fairly obvious what to do when prompted with a certain choice on doing something.

I suggest having a few save points at a certain triple option you have, so you can explore each of the choices till the end.

And once you finish the event, perhaps continue along on Richard's route till the end of Day 5, if you feel so inclined.

I won't say more than that about it, so... just jump in! I'll elaborate a bit more on a future post to give folks time to check stuff out!

Some amazing art by CaptainGerBear, and to be honest, this story beat was his idea, I just wrote it and filled in the gaps. It was a grand idea, and we'll be having more fun with it. (Be sure you support him on Patreon too!)

Gavel's edits to the backgrounds worked wonderfully! Big props to him for what all here did

Then of course Civ's music adds a perfect touch to everything too!

• Tokens! Alright, so my token system was a HUGE FLUB. I fixed Coach's Day 28 deal, and it made me go... HMMM, I should check the other routes. Turned out, I kiiiiinda messed up like... 90% of them. I was going through fixing them, and then Medwyn helped me set up some more code that was... much more efficient than what I was doing. This -should- fix the token issue now, and they should be unlockable as intended. In turn, that'll fix the Day Skip stuff too. If you're in token debt, don't worry, it'll even itself out eventually! I added another image to the pinata stuff too, so there should be... 22 total unlockables right now.

• New Sound option! I saw a post where folks talked about features they liked/hated in VNs, and I used that to add a feature to ExcA. You'll see a new Option to have the VN's music muted if the game is either minimized or unfocused. Not the most groundbreaking feature, but I think it's handy nonetheless!

• We'll be back to normal updates after this, so Dwayne is next on the 16th, and December 1st... Well, I don't know just yet, but it will be something!

• I'd also like to add a little content warning to this update! Strong language, Sexual Content and Violence. Definite trigger warning kind of stuff, I'd imagine, so be mindful! I'd be careful playing with your volume too loud as well. There are a couple of sounds that could be too loud. I adjusted the volume manually of them (it made me jump once cause I kinda forgot), so it shouldn't be too bad, hah.

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Itch Link (please use this first if you can!)- https://dynewulf.itch.io/3-patreon-access/patreon-access

One Drive - https://1drv.ms/f/c/adecd44cbf75f088/ElP-GXKWYHlDgBtflKgB-EwBzpr5U3_wNcxPVnnGUwXYFw?e=rzOe3d

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- Don't forget, you can see my update schedule here!  It's updated periodically, so you can see what's coming!

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Thank you all so much for supporting me! Without your support, I can't keep doing this, so... thank you all! It's because of that that I can keep bringing you guys updates like this!