Episode 1, Chapter 2 is here!

This update concludes the events of the first day, evening and night and ends in the morning of the 2nd day at Willowtown University. We also introduced all of the main female characters - but there are still many side ones. The male characters... Well, nobody really cares about those, right?  

I just read that while mixing our logs and even i'm laughing    --Dev

After this, we have one, last chapter that will conclude Episode 1 and our cycle of free releases per chapter. Starting with Episode 2, chapter releases will only be available to subsribers in those Tiers that have access to them. That said, the game will be free for all, but retroactively: after we finish Episode 3, Episode 2 will be free and can be found on any of our sites including itch.io.

We hope you like the game so far. Until the next time, we wish you good fun and good health!

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Devlog from 'The Dev' (updated since the last release)

• Intro skip

The intro can now be clicked through entirely, may take a couple clicks (or taps on mobile) due to the transitions, but it works...on PC you can also use any mouse button or hit Enter, Escape, etc. to avoid that issue.

• Interface font

Added a font choice for the entire UI in all versions, now selectable in the preferences/options menu.

All the original fonts except for Courier New and Comic Sans MS have been included. Those made keeping the interface lined up nearly impossible with the others.

Made the menu buttons regular text that changes with the new interface fonts for translation purposes.

• Improved Outline selection

You can now choose the direction of outlines as well as the thickness to help make the font/color choices more customizable and easier to see.

• Panic Button

Added a Panic Button accessible by pressing 'p' or 'P' (to avoid accidental caps lock when tab skipping) and returns to the game using the same button.

Its been updated to map to the Guide / Steam / PS button to the Panic Screen as well since the original code update. Updated the help section to include this accordingly.

The Panic Button brings up a clone of the main menu without any extras that might hint at adult content (I.E the Gallery button)

From the 'panic menu', you can Start a new game in 'Replay' mode which will not lose your current progress (for those extremely nosy people), as well as click 'Help' to abort the game immediately or click 'Quit' to end the game with confirmation, either will save your progress in the first quick slot so you can get back to the game after the moment of panic 😅

• Gallery Update

Added a third button to the gallery type selection at the bottom to prevent the buttons from switching in different sections and confusing people.

• Dedicated Builds

Made Dedicated Builds for Standard and Special Edition for Subscribers with bonus content, so people won't see the images or scenes that they can't unlock to prevent confusion.

• Continue Button

Added a 'Continue' button to the load game menu screen for quick access to your last save (does not use autosaves by design)

• Preference Reset

Added a 'Reset' button under the Performance tab in the preferences screen to reset all options to default, the only other method would be to delete persistent data...and we don't want that. - may be required ONCE on mobile to set the UI size properly.

• Updated About Section

Updated the credits in the about section, including an entirely new thanks section to users who helped us and beta tested for us.

Updated again since the code-only update to include more people, which include the people who funded any of our sites so early in our project. We apppreciate the show of support! 

• Manual Save

At the end of each version, skipping is halted and you are prompted with the option to save manually (or quit the game) before the credits, the autosave was left intact regardless and saves in the first COMPLETELY empty save slot PAGE starting with page 10.

• Keymap / Controller binding change

Added experimental controls to switch tabs in the Preference, About, and Help screens using the A and D keys, or the Left and Right Trigger if your using a gamepad. Updated the help to include this.

• Ease Of Translation 

Prepped the game for Translation after a few offers from users to do them (next update may include spanish), this is behind the scenes...but it involved me gutting text from the entire UI to other files, it was likely the most work in the entire update.

Translators now have 2 base files of entirely strings that should never change, and a only few others that couldn't be removed, aside from story obviously.

• Made the warning, intro, and end credits all shorter or load faster in general.

• Temporarily Removed the Tier section in the end credits since we had no subscribers.

• Added more insults during credits.

• Laughed...hard. (It's all in good fun)

Known Issues

• Unfortunately my SSD crashed and I was forced to make a new Android key file, so users who played the mobile version before version 1.04 will need to restart once. (it won't happen twice--the new key is on multiple external media including DVD)

• Sometimes the new tab switching keys just blanks out and doesn't work, likely due to previous default mappings or multiple screens visible at once, i'm working out the bugs

• Due to the language addition users may need to click on English once to make Ancient Medium show up in the font list again due to a new persistent variable and language autodetect. Ancient Medium won't work for most languages but we insist on keeping our default choice for our entire UI so it's automatically removed and changes when not using english.