News 0.8.0

Hello everyone

Update 0.8.0 turned out to be more complicated from a technical point of view than I expected. I decided to rework the functionality of messages. For example, so that when you click on a notification, you can immediately go to a new chat (I don’t know why I put it off for a long time). I also worked on making the “bull channel” chat not mandatory for the storytelling, i.e. you can ignore it and not watch what new “bull” posts. But there will still be notifications that he posted something. Here I encountered the most difficult functionality. After all, you hardly want to open the “bull channel” and immediately see the latest entry, right? Therefore, I had to work on making the game remember and show the last entry you saw first, so that you yourself could scroll to new material.

Also in this update there are many moments that are difficult to generate in AI. The AI models either simply do not understand what I want from them, or I cannot convey it correctly) but of course I will not post an update with low-quality pictures. I have a plot planned out up to update 0.9.0 and even partially done something. However, I will most likely have to slightly cut some events in update 0.8.0 so that they get into version 0.9.0 for the integrity of the narrative. There are still many ideas that I would like to implement. For example, move the "bull channel" from chats to a separate application. Improve the AI with Mia. Sometimes I think about implementing a simulator of two phones at once so that it is better understood where the main character's phone is (where he communicates with his girlfriend and friends) and the second phone where you can observe "secret" actions (for example, the "bull channel" and wiretapping), but it seems to me that this is work that will take more time than it will bring.

Please wait a little longer. I will try to post update 0.8.0 this weekend. I hope I will have time

P.S. if you have any suggestions for improving the game, I will gladly consider all your suggestions (as a developer, I may not see what you see)