Dreams of Reality: Chapter Four (0.4.0) Release Date.

Hello everyone, It's an understatement to say the last 2 - 3 weeks have been extremely busy for me. It feels like with each new update, and each new system I add to the game, more and more problems arise.

This, of course, makes sense. But it bears repeating for any prospective developers out there, always give extra time for bug fixing!

The next update for Dreams of Reality: Chapter Four 0.4.0 has the following (planned) release dates:

SUPPORTER II TIER ($5+)  - Thursday 30th June 2022

SUPPORTER TIER ($1) - Thursday 7th July 2022

PUBLIC RELEASE - Friday 8th July 2022

The update is going out to beta testers as I type, This is quite an aggressive release schedule, but I really want to have this update into the hands of supporters by the end of the month. These dates are subject to change - sometimes things happen that are outside my control.

Sometimes they were within my control, but I never say I'm perfect!

CHANGELOG:

• Game updated to version 0.4.0
• Fixed a display issue with two of Melissa's bonus images.
• Clean-up and re-organisation of the project files. Not important to you, but it is for me.
• Character relationship pages now cleared when starting a new game.
• [l] now has a relationship page if you're really {i}really{/i} mean to her. (You meanies!)
• Cindy's age has been updated to reflect the fact she has a child.
• Ren'py updated to latest version 7.4.11.
• Missing variable found and put back.
• Alignment on relationship screen fixed.
• Some improvements to UI screens.
• Several text corrections to ch1, 2 and 3.
• Bonus images for Danielle have been corrected.
• Achievement system implemented.
• Journal system completely removed as now depreciated.
• Small corrections to the hidden gallery.
• Fixed an issue when hitting Sebastian the correct number of times.
• Graphical choice menu (psudo freeroam system) implemented.
• Task list added for the above GCM.

STATS FOR NERDS:

• Game is now 4.58Gb in size
• 6436 game files (including images)
• Update has 19634 words of 155508 words in total
• Update has 850 static renders
• Update has 2460 animation frames for 41 seconds of animation
• The game has a total of 5178 static images.
• The game has 44760 animation frames for 746 seconds (12.43 minutes) of animation.

I think that about wraps this up. This comming week will be just as busy, but I plan to have a week off not too long after release (providing there arent any major issues found).

Cenc