Posted March 10, 2024 by hpowellsmith
A few fixes today:
Thanks so much to everyone for your reports and feedback, it's been incredibly useful! I read through everything and where I don't make immediate changes, I keep an eye on what's been mentioned to look at during later edits.
I've had reports about the end of Chapter 4 ending the game rather than going onto Chapter 5 as it should, but I'm having trouble replicating it. If that happens to you, please can you clear your cache, then try again and let me know if it still happens - that'll be helpful for me figuring out what's going on.
On a non-bug-related note, just to let you know that you don't have to start romances or flirt openly with characters as soon as the options come up! I had a couple of comments saying they wanted to get to know characters better before starting a romance which is totally fine to choose. To give a sense of the scale, I've been writing scenes all the way in Chapter 9 in which you can start a romance completely fresh with someone, having not flirted before then - so if you want to be friends with characters for longer in the early-to-mid game, slow play it, or simply play the field casually for some time, you can. To start a polyamorous romance, you'll want to do a little bit of flirting to make sure the people involved have the sense that you're interested in them, but even that can be started later than Chapter 5.