Demo 0.0.5 is finally out!

hi everybody! excited to announce that v0.0.5 is now live, and can either be played in-browser or downloaded as usual.

most of the new things in this demo are already covered on the main page, but here's a more comprehensive list for anyone interested:

• more customization options: scar, eyelash, and eyebrow color (offered based on your skin/hair color), marking opacity option, character expression options, character name entry, some new assets within the existing options
• sprites now blink and have walking animations (still only facing one way)
• pekko, vemni and vren are now on the map and have basic demo dialogue to check out
• speaking of the map, it's a little larger now, handles panning, and has some y-positioning fixes to make things look nicer
• dialogue history is now available at any time - just press the H key to display or hide it
• a lot of behind-the-scenes work with cleaning up nodes and code to make everything work better

next up will be a couple more customization options that i didn't get into for 0.0.5, a bit more sprite graphics, a variety of new menus (settings, journal, profile, etc), and maybe even starting to set up actual gameplay if that's on the table after everything else. the menus are going to be the main focus for 0.0.6, with some of the rest possibly being pushed to 0.0.7 instead depending on how things go. i'm aiming for 0.1.0 as the first update with concrete (if probably very basic) gameplay before really getting content going.

on this note, friendly reminder to anyone interested that elf game has a discord, and as of this update it also has a patreon! there's nothing exclusive on patreon, but since i keep the releases free it's a way to leave a tip if you're so inclined c: