Chasing Sunsets Release Quick Update

I just didn't want to leave folks hanging with the "imminent" word in last week's post. We're set to release ahead of the weekend for sure and ideally in the next 24-48 hours.

What added the extra time?

• Beta feedback was that groupchats in the phone app could be confusing, so I re-coded the phone app to make who is speaking very clear and allow in-convo choices to be made within the phone itself.

• Beta feedback identified one character who probably deserved a sendoff who did not receive one. We've created a small supplementary scene to mitigate this.

• We've added four new photo unlockables via phone chats that were not present in the original beta.

• Kent made all new phone app avatars for all characters.

• We've added some transition animations to represent travel.

• We've made some route adjusments based on beta feedback.

• We've added a Peanut Gallery of bonus artwork that is unlocked in-game.

• We've corrected some bugs in previous chapters that were preventing players from achieving maximum points.

• Kent re-rendered like 70 images because he hated MC's shirt asset.

As you can see, the name of the interlocutor and their image now shows up next to the line of dialogue. This wasn't important before, but with groupchats (and AI assistants) it became necessary.

As of right now, sound integration is likely to wrap up tonight or tomorrow at the latest and regression testing should take a day or so max.

As of this moment, I believe we'll launch Wed to all platforms or earlier barring any further surprises.

I will try my best to have a release candidate in the beta testers' hands late tonight so they have a full day to test tomorrow.

That said, Kent and I are pretty happy with the (near) finished product, and he has already begun working on remastering the Prologue and Chapter 1. (Thus the image outside Walter's bar above!)

Anyway, my next post will be download links, so stay tuned!