Posted August 29, 2025 by Matters at Play
Over summer 2025, our team worked on narrative updates and related artwork. It's coming along although there are a few more art assets that need to be created). It should be in a fairly good place to showcase the latest beta version at the BIPOC Games Showcase at the Strong National Museum of Play on September 12-14, 2025.
There is now a music room (Merit School) and the performance hall is now properly populated with a full audience.
In the previous version we were using public domain images as placeholders for the 2001 montage. The montage now has several new images that visually align with the severity of the historical events being shared. The location and timing of Tereza's flight was important to highlight, which is expressed here in dialogue and art updates.
This build fixes audio continuity issues. (Fix: The audio that needs to persist between scenes had to be created and handled outside of the Audio Manager; then added a couple functions to call via PerformActions to start and stop it.)
There is also now OpenGameData integration and the dialogue labels now horizontally move to reflect where the speaker is located on the screen. (We still need to fix the vertical positioning of these labels once the first flashback scene.)
The credits will get updated (soon!) once we have our game logo. And we are working on a game menu. Stay tuned!