omg 😭 my bad, I copied most of the post from Patreon and forgot to remove Klaus from it. That new content for Klaus was released both for patrons and on Itch last month, there's nothing new for him this time.
Wes Anderson is a good catch, watching Asteroid City was what emboldened me to go further with the non-diegetic elements of narration. My first inspiration behind these would likely be Kunihiko Ikuhara's animes, mostly Penguindrum and Utena. I like the idea of these moments fading in an out, weaved into the narrative, complementing the more life-like fabric and vice versa.
We weren't fully happy with it - personally I aimed for a less cute and more stern and dependable look that the previous sprite didn't have. The more muted expressions and firm pose of the new sprite fits Devon's character much better. We don't plan any more redraws, perhaps only small reworks, but the new Devon is the first version of him I'm personally happy with. I'm sorry if you like it less - we know every change to existing sprites is bound to be controversial and we do it only if we feel it's necessary. - Keo
These questions touch on greater ones: the validity of art, self-discovery, the value of self-improvement, the writer-reader disconnect and subjectivity of art.
Instead of answering prematurely, I'll let the VN speak for itself as it unfolds in the last chapters. What I can say is that the endings existed before the beginning.
The option will appear only if you have NSFW mode turned on, as the legacy sprites only have nsfw variants. I'll make it more clear in the message if it isn't yet!
There used to be one and I was very happy having a public server, but moderating an open server turned to be quite a challenge and took a lot of effort and time. I transferred the ownership of the server and left u.u
We have an official Discord server for our patrons. There's also an unofficial and unaffiliated server that I know of, but I don't have a link to it sadly
That was a no and my reason why the option works as it does, I hope that makes it clearer as to why it's implemented this way. There are no two equally important sets of sprites - there's one main set of sprites, and there's bonus content. Preferences panel is endlessly expandable, but UI design guidelines still apply and I'm looking to make the UI cleaner over time instead of more convoluted. This is me being 100% honest and transparent here.
I'm happy that you found the option useful. I'm not doing community management as I barely have time to reply everywhere I might be needed; I wish I could be doing things differently in that regards, but with a project this big I can't be the public person people might wish I were.
I see your point, but I'd argue otherwise: having an option that should only be visible to older readers, and only those who might want to see the old sprites for nostalgia reasons, take precious space in options and confuse new readers, would be an unnecessary complication.
I know there are people who prefer older sprites, that's why they're available in the game, but they're really a hidden bonus content, not a regular option.
Only some of the saves, made in the last two updates, should be incompatible. If none work, we recommend using Jump to route option, and then skipping text with Ctrl button. Sorry for the inconvenience!
More about it is in the latest devlog. The current build should work on Mac, we have tested it on one machine, but I've heard of one other case of the VN not launching when NSFW patch was applied.
Changes to the code for the current Rune we've made in v0.50 turned out to be incompatible with some of his older legacy expressions x.x were sorry for that, we'll fix it in the next update.
We've downgraded from RenPy v8.4 to v8.2 because of issues on Android; saves made very recently might not work for that reason, we're sorry about that :c
It might crash with some older saves as we've downgraded from RenPy 8.4 to 8.2, the newer version was causing issues with UI on Android. I'll look into why Rune sprite might be crashing, thank you for reporting the issue!
I checked and it looks like I fucked up the jumps in the public build, I'm sorry for that. It tries to jump to new content from v0.50 update that's not out yet. That's the end of the current content!
Rune's getting a minor rework at the moment, we're going back to the front-facing head. I (Keo) personally share your feelings regarding him, but seeing the new designs, I think Haku has recaptured the magic of the previous sprite.
