Joker's Trip Patreon Release - v0.2.0: The Gallery Update

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Boy, this one took a lot out of us! New mechanics, new graphics, new scenes, new sprites, new menus...but it was worth it! The Crowd + Gallery Update is now out and playable! This is our biggest update yet, so you’ll forgive that we took a little longer to cook it.

WHAT’S NEW!

The Gallery menu has been expanded and polished to make it easier for us to add new scenes, AND we’ve given you a new option for viewing them. If you don’t want to watch with all the dialogue and effects, we now have a “View Art” feature that lets you flip through the individual CGs image by image. Take your time and appreciate the craft!

All the scenes have been given the letterbox treatment. This is to solve the issue of the chatbox consistently covering up the goods, and just makes them look nice and cinematic! We’d already rolled this out with Joker’s loss scenes, and now all of the scenes have been edited for parity. (Incidentally, Prill’s King scene has been redrawn from scratch. The original just didn’t work very well with the change, but it’s much better now!)

THE CROWD! This is the one you can blame on the update taking so long... I (TT) got it in my head to give everyone new sprites as a reward for stripping them by the time the crowd shows up, and special scenes. Which meant a lot more art than we’d initially planned for this update, plus a lot more programming to make it work at all... but it looks great! There’s even some animation... everyone loves animation in their porn games. We’ve expanded the turn duration for the crowd to make it easier to see this new feature! The crowd will now remain for 5 turns rather than 3. If you want to see the special scene, make sure you wait till “Showtime” turns rainbow before clicking it (but we’ve set it to unlock in the gallery if you miss it).

We’ve also added conversations! Characters at the table can now talk back and forth with each other if certain conditions are met. Previously we only had reactions, where a character could react to something happening to another. (For example, Syd reacting to Rosalie’s big boobs when she takes off her bra). Now they can respond more than once. We don’t have too many of these in the game just yet, but they should pop up now and then!

And... that’s it! With this done, our next focus will be adding Meredith to the game and polishing up the dialogue systems. I’ve learned my lesson of calling my shot for when things will be finished, so... she’ll be in when she’s in! But you’ve got plenty of new stuff to play with until then.

Thanks for supporting the game, and have fun! Please let us know if you run into any bugs by filling out this form. Since this one adds a bunch of new features, we’re expecting a few hiccups...

—TT

And now Leo, with the change log

—LG

0.2.0 - Changelog

Additions

• Four new crowd CGs! One for each gambler. 

• Added new expressions to Syd, Noriko, Rosalie. 

• Conversations: characters at the table can now talk back and forth with each other and Joker.

• Added ~120 dialog nodes ( ~355 new lines of dialog! )

• New Gallery Screen with new modes. Now you can view the CG as the scene, or as a series of images without dialogue.

• New Crowd Mechanic

  • New “fondled by the crowd” sprites for all characters with 4 phases and limited animation.

  • New “Special Showtime” scene for all characters with the crowd at the Blackjack table. 

Changes

• Made Rosalie’s boobs slightly bigger.

• Updated all CGs to suit the new letterbox format.

• Redrew Prill/King scene.

• 6 CGs were touched up to support the new letterbox format.

• Tweaked “shake” effect in CGs.

• New blackjack table.

• Increased turn count on crowds to make the new content easier to get.

• Lowered reaction dialog chance.

Fixes

• Fixed the hide dialog box functionality.

• Fixed various typos.

• Noriko's glasses should now actually change during certain