I'm proud to announce that Version 1.9.0 is OUT NOW for the Public! 

This update is, once again, a pretty big one. Coming in at 33,000 words and around 4 hours of additional content, this update centres around the latter half of Kirei’s Birthday! There’s a lot of content, a lot of chaos – and a all-around good time!

Alongside the main narrative included within the update, there’s also a load of changes under the hood. There’s a new ‘Latest News’ feature – where I’ll be regularly updating y’all with any news in relation to the game! There’s also a new in-game Updater, where the game can update itself automatically, and only downloading the update data that it needs – which means less time waiting for downloads, and no more confusion on newest versions!

I’ve also added extra quality-of-life features – such as hotkeys for muting audio (‘M’) toggling Auto-Play (‘A’) or accessing the phone (‘P’), as well as adding options to disable any extra visual elements such as kinetic text or overlays, as well as optimising the fuck out of many of the more resource-intensive screens in-game to make sure they’re running smoothly on any device, and restructuring the internal filesystem of the game to be updateable and scalable for the future.

That’s not everything I’ve added, though – you’ll see a big ‘ole list of everything just under me here, if you’re interested:

Version 1.9.0 ( / 1.9.2) Includes:

• +33,000 words (~189,000 Total), with approximately 4 Hours of extra gameplay
• 21 New Events (15 Main Events, 6 Character Events)
• Rewritten & refreshed Character & Club generic events
• A New In-game News System – for providing updates related to the game
• Support for in-game updates through the new ‘Updater’ system
• In-game options to delete Save Data & Persistent Data
• New Hotkeys to mute (‘M’), toggle Auto-Play (‘A’), and access the Phone (‘P’)
• Options to disable Overlay Effects & Animated Text
• A refined list of Content Warnings (found in ‘Settings - Content Warnings’)
• Supporter-only ‘DLC’ Content, now fully installable in-game
• Custom portrait phone menu background options for Supporters
• A restructuring of entire internal filesystem to allow incremental updates.
• Optimisations to various screens for faster performance
• Refreshed ‘Light Mode’ GUI Theme to retain clarity & legibility
• Updates to the Music Player - including a new music visualizer
• Scripting & Menu support for C̶h̶a̶p̶t̶e̶r̶ 2̶
• Various Fixes/Changes/Optimisations for older content

NOTE – ANDROID RELEASES

To allow for incremental updates, the Android filesystem has been changed to offload all of its data outside of it’s APK file. This means that most game data is actually installed on the first boot of the game. To install, please:

• Backup your save data to Ren’Py Cloud (Found in the ‘save’ menu, in the top-right corner)
• Fully uninstall the game
• Reinstall the new ‘Android Game Downloader’ .apk
• Load the game, accept the conditions, and download game data
• Redownload save data through Ren’Py Cloud (Found in the ‘load’ menu, top-right corner)

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Maelstrom