Hopepunk City 0.90 (final beta)

Here is what I am calling the final beta.  Basically it means I am done adding new content to the game, so whatever is in the game will be what is in the final release.  I suspect there are still bugs and grammar errors left to be found, and I am updating new Patreon names (Welcome new Exec. Producer Liam Gilmour) at least to the end of the month.  The epilogue was written to include random Patreon names from all levels, and I still have room for new ones.

0.90 notes

Changes since last update (see below)

• Made "normal" the default difficulty for new players.
• Added two short scenes after a roommate moves in with you.
• Rewrote portions of the epilogue, corrected spelling, etc.
• (new) Fixed issue with player not using hot tub for evening relaxation except in hard mode.

Made  an android version lowering resolution of pictures so they do not hog  all your phone memory and rearranging text so they can easily be read on  the small screen, Android version does not have "censored" mode to save  memory, but otherwise functionally identical to PC version.  Also ported the "Demo" to android, as well.

Known issues with Android: Game will randomly crash on my phone, this  may be an incompatibility issue with Renpy and the latest Android  release.  If you are using an older version of android there should not  be any problems, With newest android I recommend saving often.  Hopefully this will be fixed soon  (requires either the developers of Renpy, or Android to update their platform)

Also on android, be on the lookout for menu choices with dialog that gets cut  off, or where the inquiring text is behind the menu prompt and thus unreadable. I believe I fixed most of these, but there may be some I  haven't found yet.

Version 0.90 represents the end of new content. There may be bugs that need to be fixed, and spelling  grammatical errors that need fixing, but 0.90 will become the 1.0  release, possibly as early as October 1 without a good reason to make further changes.

0.86 notes:

Here are the notes from the 0.80 to 0.86 update, I deleted the post:

Sorry to anyone trying to get all the achievements, only 69 were working.  There was no bonus content for making 70 anyways.

Now there are 70 working achievements, and there is a bonus epilogue for getting all 70, and you are all in it! (You'll see what I mean when you get there)

Change notes:

Added 5 short scenes at the end to catch up on other characters after a romance has been established

Updated some graphics at the lake

Got rid of walls of text in the early game by splitting them up, makes it easier to read

Added some explanatory text to the marketplace to help players understand how it works

Re-balanced portions of the game, got rid of half points, combining them into full points, should not change the difficulty of the game.

Made it possible to date Ariane after the second checkpoint, but if it doesn't happen by week 10, it won't happen. (0.86 fixed issues with this)

Got rid of multiple cases of over repetitive text

Fixed the achievements, getting rid of two broken ones, and adding a new one to keep the total at 70.

Fixed some animations

Added an epilogue for getting 70 achievements

Made it so Franklin Medium is the default font when you first install the game. (was defaulting to DejaVu Sans, which is the Renpy default, this can be changed in preferences)

I've already uploaded the full 0.90 released to itch.io, but this small patch can upgrade your 0.8 or 0.81 easily.  On PC or Linux, extract the file to the directory where the hopepunkcity.exe is located, say yes to replace files.

On Mac you control-click (right-click) the Hopepunk City app, Show  Package Contents, go to Contents/Resources/autorun/ and drag the patch game folder, and if a window pops up, choose “Combine”.

To do:  If this version works, it is a good point to finishing the game.  Next step: Make an optimized Android version

ETA: Published the 0.85 before I could test the code relating to dating Ariane on week 9.  Fixed a few bugs.  Now works.