Dev Log 9

Hey guys!

Welcome to the patrons that joined with the release of 0.3 - I hope you enjoyed it!

0.3

In the week since its release I've put out a slightly modified version of 0.3 that fixes a couple of bugs with the gallery, and also some typos (predominantly from 0.1 and 0.2) that were kindly pointed out by Arglebargle on discord. 

The new version also gets rid of the sections at the beginning and end of the early days in 0.1 where you had to click on the bed and stairs to advance the story. These were leftovers from before I released the game, when I still had sandbox style plans, but they served no purpose any more and some people found them distracting.

None of this stuff was game breaking, so if you've already downloaded 0.3 there's probably no point in getting the updated version.

0.4

As I'm sure you can guess, I'm currently in the writing stage of version 0.4. I have both days 15 and 16 planned out in detail, and 15 is partially written. At the moment it's looking like both of these days will be significantly long, so I may shuffle some scenes around to make them shorter, or I may release them as individual days. Of course, if I release them as individual days, the update cycle will be correspondingly shorter to account for the smaller amount of content compared to the previous 2 day updates. I'll let you know what I've decided in the next dev log.

As for the story focus of 0.4, both days 15 and 16 are on a weekend, so there won't be much content for most of the school characters (with the exception of tutoring with the headmistress on Sunday). Instead there will be a good amount of progress for Victoria and Lucy, as well as some more developments regarding Sarah's situation.

Beyond the story and rendering, in the last couple of updates I spent a good amount of time building the gallery and improving the graphics, and since they're now dealt with I plan on giving a bit of attention to the sound effects and ambiance in 0.4. I want to be ambitious and make the sound top notch, but at the same time I think it's probably possible to go over-board and have it become too much. So I won't know to what extent I'm going to change things until I've played around with it and found the balance - I'll let you know how this goes in a future dev log.

If you have any feedback on any of this, feel free to let me know here or on discord, and as always, thanks for supporting the game!

- Cosy Creator