Beta Build: [Emberfate] Day 3

Hey everyone! 

After a lot of tears and persistent bugs, I've finally gotten v0.2 build of Emberfate (Days 1-3 content) ready for you all! 

If you are a patron of $15 / $30 tier in June 2022, you should receive a private message from me soon with a link to the files for download. Patrons who have made or raised their pledge to $15 / $30 tier on or after July 1, 2022 will receive the Day 1-4 build as the July reward in the third week of July.

Here's a few things to note before you start playing: 

1. UPDATE Jul 1: If you downloaded the game files within the first 12 hours of receiving my message, please re-download the files before playing! A game-breaking bug should have been fixed so you can progress normally past Chris' video call on Day 1. I'm so sorry to anyone who was unable to play last night because of that! 

2. As you may have heard, Chris' voice actor is no longer working on Emberfate, and Chris will be recast. As a result, all of Chris' voice lines have been removed from this v0.2 build for now.

The audition for the recast is closing today, so tomorrow, I should be able to go through all the auditions, shortlist a handful that I like, and then throw up a poll so you guys will have a chance to vote on whose voice you think would suit Chris well! 

Since I want to have Chris' new voice lines in the v0.2 public release & Patreon v0.3 build next month, unfortunately, that means the poll would only be open for a short time. Maybe a few days at most, so that I can finalize the casting decision, sign a contract with the voice actor, then get them to record all of Chris' lines from Day 1, Day 2 and then new ones in Day 4 as well by the third week of July.

3. Previous saves from the v0.1 demo build are not compatible with this build. Please restart from the beginning to play this build. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience.

I had hoped that this build would be the last one where you guys would have to replay from the start for future updates, but unfortunately, I think for the next build, you would probably still have to replay from the start one last time. There's an engine update for Ren'Py that came out literally a couple of days ago, so I was unable to update this build to the newest engine version. There's also a couple of things I want to add into the next build that I didn't have time for this time, nothing big but just flavor things like more flavor items in the guild bank / inventory and such. 

4. The notification that there's a new version / update available on the title screen might permanently be there despite there being no new updates. I have the update check linked to a private game page on Itch.io, and apparently, it doesn't read the version channel very well since the game page is private and locked behind a password. This feature should work reliably when using public builds. I'm sorry about that annoying notification!

5. There might be bugs and typos that I've missed despite doing my hardest to catch them all. Please let me know if there's anything that's not working as intended. You can leave a comment below or PM me on Discord / in the Patreon channel in Discord server!

6. Please do not redistribute these files to anyone else! This is a Patreon-exclusive early build after all.

That's all I can think of for now. Please do let me know your comments and thoughts if possible! Live reacts in the Discord server would be amazing too!

Thank you so much for the support! I'll take a quick break for a day and get back to working on the next build for next month!~