What's New in 0.50?

Changelog:

• -Added an Original Soundtrack (22 Music Tracks)
• -Added Nathan Morin Route.(14 New Events, completed up to his Routelock, 1 CG Scene)
• -Added Nathan Sprite.
• -Added Madison Sprite.
• -Added Connor Sprite.
• -Added Dillon Sprite.
• -Added Markus Sprite.
• -Added BarretOfLaughsSprite to Aeon.
• -Added CaptainJenkins Sprite to Aeon.
• -Added Lilygant Sprite to Aeon.
• -Added 5p4des Sprite to Aeon.
• -Added August School Uniform.
• -Added Ryan School Uniform.
• -Added Tracy School Uniform.
• -Added Karaoke CG Scene
• -Added Cheer Volleyball CG Scene Part 2
• -Added Cheer Flashing CG Scene
• -Added Cheer Shower CG Scene (21 Variants)
• -Added Nathan Routelock CG
• -Added Matt Damien NTR CG Scene (One of Several)
• -Added Track CG to scenes missing them.
• -Added Damien Room Background
• -Added Damien Romantic Home Background
• -Damien Routelock Sprites Added
• -Alex is slightly taller now.
• -Added Cheer Girls Sprites to earlier events.
• -Added Generic Sprite to Cat giveaway event.
• -Added 5 Random Character Events for Tracy, August, and Sophie.
• -Added 1 New Large Aeon Event introducing the "Faithful" party.
• -Expanded Damien's Routelock with more call options adding more ways that the routelock can end.
• -Added 3 more "waking up" dialog comments.
• -Day limit increased to 91
• -Save Pages increased to 100. (The U.I does not keep track of the page number at the bottom, this is a Ren'py issue.)
• -Save deletion button re-added.
• -Fixed a clothing and background issue with the Rockhopper job. (Chelsea should now wear the uniform when working there)
• -Fixed a bug where the rockhopper job would jump to the bakery setup instead of the store setup.
• -Bought clothing is no longer persistent across saves.
• -Added a small increase to payments from all jobs.
• -Increased tips from corrupt cafe and bar job.
• -Lowered Cat expenses. Cat food is now $25, and the cat bed is now $50.
• -Cat food option should now appear after the first notification about low cat food.
• -Fixed a typo in Aeon side events.
• -Fixed a Bakery and Matt variable bug.
• -Fixed a bug with Matt and Violet's conflict event where you'd still get Violet's routelock event.
• -Fixed third Kenzie event triggering without homework.
• -Added a corruption check to a "fuck" option at the party with Kenzie.
• -Added corruption gain across the Kenzie party event.
• -Fixed an issue with Kenzie Catfish breaking character routes.
• -Fixed a bug with the peprally random event not setting your clothes back to normal.
• -Altered turning in your homework before a Kenzie event triggers.
• -Moved the "Should go to bed" notification to the map screen.
• -Shortened the notification that pops up in the mall if your cash or corruption is too low by 1 second.
• -Paying for damages at the Farmers Market has been lowered to $100 from $150.
• -Participating in the Farmers Market scam gets you more money than before.
• -Increased the reward for selling the Farmer Market info to $500.
• -Fixed Damien homecoming dress CG placement.
• -Fixed various outfit issues across the game.
• -Fixed a Bakery issue meaning a Keith x Lisa sex scene/cg variant was never seen.
• -Fixed a Bakery issue in which a generic male sprite would just sit in the corner for the whole event stalking Lisa and Chelsea.
• -Fixed multiple instances of Damien wearing the wrong clothes
• -Fixed bug were Chelsea would continue wearing the cheer outfit after practice.
• -Several background changes where needed.
• -Splashscreen now has a fadeout.
• -Added Credits to the end of the game.

I don't know where to begin with unpacking this changelog into highlights really so we'll do the usual as best as I can. Plus a new section that we'll start with.

Music:
We've been working on the soundtrack for a long time almost around this time last year is when we began with the new title screen track. With the 0.50 the game now has an entire OST ready for you to listen to as you play. I'm really looking forward to the feedback from you all about the location, characters, and situational themes.

While 22 tracks is a lot of music we are still missing some crucial tracks that we were not able to get finished in time such as a Fight, Tension, and Matt's character theme that we would have loved to have managed to get into 0.50, but time was not on our side.

A lot of love has been put into the music and I hope that you all enjoy it as much as we do.

Artwork:
Likely as much art added in this update as the 0.10 update years back that overhauled all the backgrounds and U.I. Several new outfits, CG Scenes, Missing CG Scenes, an a plethora of tweaks and corrections have been added into 0.50.
Damien's route lock has had his sprites and backgrounds properly added into the event so now it's not going to be as empty as it was previous to this update.

Writing:
Nathan Morin Route - Nathan fixes two issues we had with the game and that was that while we have a wholesome female route love interest we don't quite have a male one and we need on to round out the cast. So we went to work on creating a new character that could work within how the game is currently set up. We couldn't add his route into the game the normal way like all the other characters due to conflicts in their timings so we had Nathan piggy back his events off of other mandatory character events early on to get the ball rolling on his route.
I will warn you, Nathan's route is likely going to be pretty difficult for you to get on so I'll tell you now that if you don't manage to catch his eye that is completely intentional.
What he lacks for in artwork he more than makes up for in his character.

Side Character Events - We've added in several events including the side characters that we don't get to see too often outside of their respective clubs and jobs. With these new events you can now run into August, Sophie, and Tracy outside of their clubs no matter what route you're on and get to know them a little more.
Additionally, you can now have the opportunity to visit the Cafe on your days off and learn a little more about Emma and Zoey.

Aeon - This new event introduces the "Faithful" Pure party that you can interact with and is the first Aeon event written by our new writer Jackpot who is now in charge of the Aeon route, adding in several lovely new characters like Spades and Lilgant. Let us know what you think and we'll pass your feedback along to him!

Additional Damien Routelock call options - I know Damien's routelock can be pretty... stressful to say the least and now you're provided with more ways that you can end that event either for better or worse...

Technical:
Tons and tons and tons of QOL improvements overall. Bug fixes, sprite tweaks, background tweaks, small writing changes, you name it.
We've added the ability to have 100 pages of saves, but do note that the page numbers on the bottom of the save U.I don't update past a certain point and this is a Ren'py engine issue we cannot fix.
You can now delete saves from the save/load screen, it's good to have that back!
And your bought clothing is now no longer persistent across your saves, this was added due to player feedback, but after discussing it internally we've decided to remove this.
Lastly, we've added a proper credits screen once you've finished the game giving credit to where it's due.

The 0.50.112 update has so much in it and so much more that we planned to add that didn't manage to make it in this update, I hope this update makes up for the extra month you all had to wait for the update, and makes for a good christmas gift. We put our hearts and souls into this update, and I hope that you really enjoy the new art, the new music, and Nathan.

Thank you so much & Happy New Year,

Hizor Games

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