EN/ Weekly News #94

A lot of progress this week.

Sunny finished Ellen's apartment, so now we will be able to work on the ambiance (lights and effects).

We also finished a few more poses and added some sounds to the dialogues.

The script of the scene is almost finished, there is a lot to tell, especially through the dialogues of Ellen's "date", you will really learn more about her in this first one-on-one. As for the gameplay, a first draft of the date (theme, points, number of tries...) is finished, we'll now move on to a test phase to balance it.

Next week we'll be working on the different poses Ellen will have in the date and on some of the editing.

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We have been contacted about the elements that can be missed in the game and the replay that is not smooth enough to use.

We have provided an answer and we feel it is important to give you more information about what is planned for the replay.

The replay allows us to offer you content to explore or test choices, without making it permanent and penalizing to miss something. Whether it's a fight you lose, a choice you make that isn't the right one, or an element you miss in a background, you'll always have the option to fix it with replay without ever having to start a game from scratch or have to deal with multiple saves.

This is the ideal we are aiming for and for the moment everything is not perfect, but here is a list of the improvements we plan to implement (some very soon, others for later):

• Set up a tutorial for the replay.
• Propose to save when you leave the replay (it doesn't seem clear that you have to save what you have accomplished, even in replay).
• Indicate directly in game the progress in % of the episode you are replaying, to know when there is nothing more to do in an episode, without having to go back to the main menu.
• Be able to skip an already successful fight, date or investigation.
• Add a pop-up indicating that there is still side content to do before starting an event that would advance the story when you are not in replay. This option could be disabled for those who prefer to discover an episode, then replay what they miss afterwards.
• Make the replay of an episode available before it's finished so that you can directly replay a missed element (currently you have to finish an episode for it to be available in replay).
• Fix the money and the Blake bugs.

Finally, if you find that the replay lacks checkpoints from which to replay an episode (the golden circles in the Replay menu), don't hesitate to let us know.

And don't forget, your feedback is always welcome 😊

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That's it for this week. Don't forget you can join the community on Discord. Have a great weekend and take care!

-Sunny & Zack