Special Delivery v0.1c Release!

It's here! Hooray!

I know a lot of people celebrate Christmas today rather than tomorrow, but for me Christmas is the 25th, so I consider my pre-Christmas deadline to be met :D

Here is the newest build of Special Delivery! Still in it's early days but it's coming along a lot better than it was with 0.1b. 

For those who might now know of it yet, SD is a game project I've been building in Ren'py for nearly 2 years now, centering around my Vendiri character Yshel, and set in the fantasy world of Aslithe :D it's gonna be a free game for everyone once the development hits a certain point, but for now while it's still in it's early days, the builds are supporter exclusive! <3

A reminder: SD is still in quite an infant stage, and a lot of it is still subject to vast improvements and re-works. The project is moving along slowly because I am not always committing my time to it, since I need to produce other things to keep my income stable. Many systems and parts of the UI are presently empty or disabled, these will all be getting introduced (probably) in the next patch!

Here's some quick patch notes for v0.1c:

Menu/UI:

- The status screen has been re-designed (again) to include new buttons, overlays, stats, and avatar display

- Navigation screen HUD is now implemented with time of day and menu buttons

- The in-game journal is now available! Accessed from the status screen, it shall keep track of objectives, quests (tasks), and progress through the game

- Edited transition functionality so that fades are quicker

- Added tutorial screens (optional) to help explain some of the games systems-to-be

- Updated credits with new attributions

- Fixed many errors in window-hiding and transitions throughout the game so far

Story:

- Progressed the story until the very end of the linear section of SD; after this point exploration becomes available and the game shall open up to a non-linear style for the remainder or chapter 1

- Introduced new characters: Effie, Eloise, Crelli.

- Added the first secret scene!

- A new lewd scene with full set of animations!

- Tweaked much of the existing dialogue for better clarity and quality of writing

Art/Visuals:

- Once again re-lit and re-posed many of the character sprites

- New locations: the bakery, traders, and alleyway.

- Finally fixed issues with button size and focus masking so that buttons will now more accurately represent their intended shape, rather than just be a huge rectangle over the general area

- Added new renders for the bakery, alleyway, and with Des.

- Added the next big lewd scene complete with animations and renders.

- Added new blurred versions of navigation screens for smoother transitions out of areas

- A fair amount of new music to help bring it all together!

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Downloads:

PC: https://mega.nz/file/xnxnFZTZ#uvP1fdOkySr6m5aWd-QQMSHW3Qp7ES1DYsRIE90x81o 

Mac: https://mega.nz/file/cqhlSbxQ#J82vouAcydghKkGPWlOLyOzTE1ls1ZUR3VE0TvImudg 

Reminder: SD is not currently compatible with mobile devices, so it's desktop only for now. I hope you have a chance to download and try it, and I would greatly appreciate feedback, bug reporting, and heads up about grammatical errors / typos and the like!

Also, if you played the previous build, sorry to say that you will have to start a new game for this build, there are just too many fundamental changes! Remember you can hold Ctrl to skip through text in Renpy to get back to where you were quicker!

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy the game! Have a wonderful weekend all, and happy holidays! <3