Posted March 09, 2021 by Juicy Drake Studios
Hello everybody! We're back with some more news.
This is our first update for 2021, and it's centered all around Garreth. We added the third date with the blue dragon to get some more nice private time. But Garreth has also finally been able to secure himself a permanent position as a barkeeper in the Heaven's Peak Resort, making Tish instead become a cook behind the scenes.
This build concludes our phasing out of Tish as a dateable character; Garreth replaced her wherever she appeared before, and now she is only mentioned in the story instead. We were always aware of our great character roster and that we needed to cut down on a few main dateable ones. Tish just happened to have little significance in the story overall, and even though she is a totally huggable beast, she was one of the few easy cuts. She might perhaps appear again, but only as a minor side role, if at all.
What's more important is that, with this build, Garreth as a character has also finalized the transition away from our original direction for him back in 2018. His dating content is brand new and his character development is more fleshed out as who we wanted him to be from the beginning. So for those who remember or have played the game some years prior and disliked Garreth's content, feel free to give his route another try!
Aside from these, the second and third day of the story have received lots of dialogue changes and additions as we continue to replace Yarin's monologues with proper narration and fix any inconsistencies we may find.
Garreth's third date also brought two new backgrounds along with it, one of which can be seen above. However, while more work has been done behind the scenes on updating character reference sheets and sound design, nothing else could make it into this build yet. You might see the new music and sound additions in the build after this one.
Download mirrors for this release are linked on this Patreon post. For a pledge of just $3 a month, you'll get early access to the latest builds 2 months before they go public, your name in the credits of our game and access to our Discord community server!
We hope you enjoy this new version and wish everybody a nice pre-spring season.
Changelog
- Added Garreth's third date.
- Added new backgrounds: adult bathhouse and the hallway leading up to it.
- Replaced Tish (bartender alligator) with Garreth throughout days 3-5 and added new dialogue for him during the bar segments.
- Revamped days 2 and 3 with many dialogue changes and additions.
- Other small text inconsistencies fixed with the story text.
Known bugs
- Mash clicking through text (not using skipping) can cause audio to be muted at certain points (will be fixed in future refactor).
- Some side images and sprites were added to some scenes to fill the blanks and will be replaced in the future as we get more sprites made.
- Sometimes loading a save will cause an audio pop.