Act IV Release

After a rather hectic week of testing, editing, bug fixing and a last minute emergency surgery that rewrote the video engine and downsized the Android build from 2.02gb to 1.1gb, Act IV is finally done. Version 0.4.5b is our final version.

I had the end scene of this one in my head back when I started writing Chloe's first encounter, and also know I didn't have any of the skills I needed to actually make it happen. Which led me down a path of experimenting with AfterEffects, hopefully with results you guys enjoy.

One of the big things that's changed is the inclusion of video cutscenes. Apart from the ones in Act IV, and the ones that are used for backgrounds, I also went back and updated Day 1; you can give it a spin to see the changes. Another day 1 change is that Emily got re-rendered; she was one of the earliest spine characters still in the engine, and since her armor-set of clothes sees a lot of use in Act IV, she was starting to stick out.

Android's been the red-headed step-child for a while. Despite being a Droid user, I hadn't actually hooked up the phone to Unity, and a number of the new changes broke the Android build. The final straw was the Android build size creeping above 2gb, which made the APK unable to run. I went through, rewrote some shaders that didn't compile correctly on GLES, rewrote the video system, and resized some of the textures for Android (the fullscreen ones were 2048x2048 by default; I pulled them down to 1024x1024. It may be noticeable on high-res tablets, I can't spot the difference on my Phone, and it shaved 800MB off the download).

This brings our story up to day 76. The next public build is Act IV+ (so more world content, including Divine Coffee, which got pushed to make way for a more intricate training sequence with Emily). The final act of Book 1 (The Crown) is Act V, which takes the game all the way to the end of 2019.

It was an emotional journey, hope you enjoy it!

MEGA builds:
PC | OSX | Linux | Android

Steam has been updated (as always, if you want a Steam Key, just ping me on Discord or message me here).