EN/ Devblog #05: What's new in v0.5.0

It's time to take a look at the content of v0.5.0. This version was originally intended to be shorter but a lot of content was added making it the biggest version we've made so far.

It's time for an overview of the new features and changes in v0.5.0!

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Grace and Zoey's stories

You will meet the dynamic and very confident Grace who will make you discover the very select VIP section of the Nighty's.

At the same time you will meet Zoey, a mysterious young woman who seems to have plans for you.

Their stories are told throughout the first three episodes and bring to Sunrise the touch of sexy content it was missing!

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The dating system

The first version of the dating system makes its appearance. You will be able to test your thinking to charm one of the two new girls.

We wanted to mix gameplay and dialogues to make a more immersive mini-game than the others, feel free to tell us what you think.

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Improved battle system

The combat system has had several modifications to make it faster and clearer.

Faster actions, clearer tooltips, redesign of the turn system, new action points, modification of the skill generation... Your feedback has been taken into account to make this system more pleasant and fluid.

The tutorial has been revised accordingly and contains all the necessary information to understand this new system, don't hesitate to have a look at it.

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New Starter

Working on the battle system was an opportunity to review Kyle's starting skills in order to add more choices.

Among other things, he has a new defensive skill that may well save your life.

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New AI

In order to make the battles less random, we have reworked the AI of the enemies. They now all follow a logic. If you can't beat a character, try to analyze their choices to figure out their strategy.

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Mission menu

The prologue is starting to get a lot of things to do, so it was a good time to add a menu to keep track of your different goals.

The objectives of the personal stories that were in the contact files were moved to this new menu in order to centralize everything.

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Dreamworld

This new menu is accessible via your bed once you have unlocked your first dream scene.

The possibilities provided by the Dreamworld to tell non-canonical content are huge and will allow us to add sexy content without disturbing the story if we had to put some at inopportune moments.

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Replay improvement

Big modification of the Replay system that now allows you to start over at specific checkpoints. In addition, there is now an option to rapidly run through the dialogs you've already seen.

The Replay should therefore be much more enjoyable to use to unlock content you may have missed or relive the moments you enjoyed.

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Changes to the Shop

In order to simplify the way to earn money, the Shop mini-game has been modified. Now every bad scan or item put in the bag without a scan removes time instead of money.

The amounts earned become therefore fixed and will allow us to propose evolutions of the mini-game more easily.

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Ergonomic improvement

Many improvements have been made to enhance your quality of life, among which:

• Added a shortcut (CTRL or mouse button 3 or 4) to display the elements that allow you to change location.
• Changed the save icon to be clearer between its available/unavailable states.
• Added an option to display texts instantly.
• Standardized some effects that were not the same depending on the chosen screen resolution.

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So much for the content of this version, we hope you'll like it. Feel free to give us your feedback here or on Discord!

-Sunny & Zack