Hopepunk City 1.1 Beta Patch

I took a break this week from updating SITAR and started working on the Hopepunk City first anniversary patch (version 1.1) and I am far enough in to release a test patch you can try out.

I have not finalized an official release or the promised Android versions yet, but if you have the game, you can use this patch to see what I have done so far.

The biggest addition is the help paths which you can find by clicking "Help" on the main menu.  There are three categories of help: Dialog help (magenta), romance help (red) and career help (orange).

I've tested the first two categories as well as the harder career ones, and they seem to be working. You will likely see multiple colored choices, especially when shopping or planning your week.  In those cases, it is mostly use your own judgement.

The rest of the changes -- dialog and graphical changes -- are mostly making the game work as a sequel to Date Ariane Remastered and Something's In The Air Redux. The image above has been updated by improving the lighting of the original, but also the pictures of Rachel on the back wall are from the SITAR version of "Beach".  Because this image also appears in Date Ariane Remastered, there may be a small update of DAR in the future.

I updated all the photo wall images where they appear, also the Drive-N-Dine now has the new SITAR wall photos. A couple of close-ups of Ariane where her skin looks rough have been smoothed out.  Also Ariane in the Council Chambers scene is now wearing the purple outfit from DAR.

The epilogue has been updated. Ariane is now sporting DAR hair in the epilogue, and the random name shout outs are pulled from the current list of Patreon subscribers as of September 3. 

Finally there are some dialog changes, some spelling/grammar corrections, and some to be more in line with DAR and SITAR, for example when you go with Ariane to her old pool, it is clear that it is the "one behind her old house", not the one in her "old back yard".

Test it out, see if you find some bugs or paths that don't work, or paths that tell you to do something you already did.  I'm shifting focus for the next two or three weeks back to SITAR, but I want to come back to HC and get the anniversary release ready for everybody in late September or Early October.

ETA: Final version of patch has now been attached.  Version 1.1 now available at https://arianeb.itch.io/hopepunk-city/patreon-access