Winter Warmth [2024-12-24 TEST] (2023) (Eng) [Others] [PowerPlower]

2024-12-24 TEST
Performance: On multiple front the performance is completely different. Some stats on what we saw on our own machine.
-10 Seconds less loading at startup.
-4 Seconds on loading a save.
-Fluent Skipping!
-Less lags in general
-Fluent Travel with the car (Stamina now gets deducted while traveling)
-Sleeping once more better
-SMS open faster and are more responsive
I am not done with the topic. But those were the things I was able to improve without having to refactor some of the bigger things (Exception phone system. That was big, that was pain).
Features:
We added or re-added some Features:
Boosters Paradise. This will give you the current active multiplier. Depending on the boost it can also give you Money, or Items. Type "PotatoKing" to test it.

Activity type boosts stack with your Patreon Tier. Meaning if you are Silver, they are twice as powerful. If multiple boosts are active at a point, they multiply with each other. Meaning 2 boosts for strength that are x2, will be 2x2 = 4, if Patreon silver -> 8. Those boosts have a duration however.
The investments are not fully done yet, the system will make more sense if that is included as well.
As for the boosts themselves, the idea is that you can get some of them from marketing, some from the discord bots (to do) and some even in game.
Chat overhaul:
The chat finally got a design update. It's a lot more pleasing to the eye.
There is an additional system for the timestamps. We might change that later.
Cross fade:
There is a new Cross fade effect when the time changes.
I might polish this feature still a bit.

Working:
The work events are now more embedded into the sandbox.
You need to farm points to get to see the next event. There is certainly quite a bit of polish needed on this front. But I have some ideas.
Sandbox
You now need cooking and planting, as well as leveling much more than you used. Also because the base stamina went down to 20.
In return running is unlocked a lot earlier. Remember Agility, Strength and Constitution (the most) give you maximum Stamina.
Food can automatically or manually be consumed for extra Stamina. We have new receipes, as well as new buyable items.
The sandbox itself will be polished in the coming weeks. But first I need to test and adjust the investments that we have.
We also added over 300 renders and some older scenes. Including:
New scenes with Mina & Ted at work.
New Fang Scenes.
Corruption based Scene with Melissa
Added the University
fish pond and fishing
Several bugfixes:
Fixed issue with loading
Fixed issue with pills (still hard to find atm)
Fixed issue with light path
Fixed issue with Scene Starter for Melissa

v0.1.9.8 - 2024-04-02
Training for tournament with Nora, Amelie story with cats combined with Pavani, 3 scenes with Andy harassing girls at home... Ramen story with Fang... and more

v0.1.9.7
Mostly bugfixes.

v0.1.9.6 - 2024-02-24
New events (Focus especially on Mina)
Estimated 200+ new renders
Story fixes, render fixes and grammar fixes
New animations
Hotfix:
We had some issues with the box and fridge gifts, so we put a hotfix in.
If your inventory sometimes gets an item or two. Don't worry, that is the current hotfix.

v0.1.9.5
User Interface & identity
That was a lot of work...and we are only about 70% done.
There is a lot that needs to be improved a little further and we have done more than what is currently implemented. But I believe it will be visible that a lot of love is being pured into that. So that we don't have to revisit it again (when finished).
As accent colors for the UI we went with hookers green and lion's yellow.

Easier to get started in chapter 1
We made it easier to unlock some things. For those that don't visit Shray at their first Wednesday. It should be a bit smoother to develop yourself starting in chapter 1.

Rewards
Not mentioned in the planned changelog, but essential. You now can get some rewards when you increase the stats. Not everything is implemented here.

Events
Events and talking don't take as much time anymore.

Sms & twitter pop ups
This one just feels great.

Gallery hints & redesign
If you are someone who likes to complete things. Now you should see where a scene is missing. The hints are rather straight forward. Chapter, Path etc.

SaveLoad work
We've done some extensive work there too.
As far as I can tell, save games still work.

Fixes
Some render fixes. But also fixes that held your progress. As example you shouldn't be able to get stuck in the prologue anymore.

New items
A couple of new items/symbols

Investment App
Investment App is back. Still needs to be designed properly.

Packages and Fridge
You can now get packages and open the fridge sometimes to get stuff!

Editing
A lot of scenes have been edited and will further be edited.

Optimization
We also took some time to focus on optimizing the game. I would say 1/3 is done.
Still some major improvements in other areas left.
But I also believe that you'll be happy to see the improvements that have been done including an around 70% reduced size with no noticeable quality loss.

Known Issues
Music sometimes behaves strangely.
It can happen that you get a message, but are getting locked out in the main view of the phone. Happened once, so far we were not able to reproduce it.
When you exit to main menu, but call for the exit menu again during the phase out animation and then exit again. You can bug the game.
"Sandbox mode" (it doesn't close off all rooms) doesn't start properly, when switching from prologue to chapter 1. However the game can still be continued normally.
Characters can appear on the same time.
One Shray events throws you back in time.

v 0.1.9.1
Fixed the issue with Minas storyline, when the messages did not arrive.
Powerscore doesn't go up on Sunday to avoid Dark side players to have too much positive power. (hotfix, will be reviewed)
Dialogue options with Mina in the hotel can now be selected.
Events can't start in the middle of t he cookie store gameplay anymore.
Melissa's yoga questline has been fixed.
Issue where saves seemed deleted after closing and reopening the game was fixed.
v0.1.8.5
N/A

v0.1.8.1
N/A
Now using the Godot engine instead of Ren'py

v0.1.0
Initial Release