Info on Features / GUI

Main Menu Background & Happy Endings

The Main Menu background is getting an update for July 3rd. :)

I get a LOT of comments in the survey about happy endings.

It's probably obvious for anyone who's played the game in full. This is a game all about bad, twisted, fucked-up endings. I'm hoping to make that a little more blatantly obvious for new players by this new main menu background next update. 

So minor obvious spoiler --> happy endings won't exist until the very end of the game (if ever! No promises!), AFTER multiple worlds, AFTER Lux & Quispe have solved the big mystery. It will make sense from a story perspective why it has to be this way. :) Also, I make no promises about HOW happy the ending may or may not be. ^_^

Main Menu Itself

Based on feedback, I'm changing the main menu itself too. A lot of people were missing that the "CG Gallery" was under Extras. I've moved all those menus to the main list.

Music

I got one cool comment in the survey about offering a soundtrack or something for the game. I'm really happy people are liking the music, 'cause that was something I was pretty unsure about.

Unfortunately, all of the music in this game right now is open-source royalty-free stuff, which means legally I cannot sell it independent of the game.

The good news is this is open-sourced royalty-free stuff, which means you can get it yourself!

Custom music is something I'd like to do one day, but that's a far-future thing, along with stuff like voice acting.

So, there are two things I can do.

1 - The easiest action item is to update the credits for direct links to the specific music tracks. I'll put that on my short-term to-do list.

2 - Another option is to create a music gallery. That's probably not too difficult, but it will take a little R&D time. So that'll go on the long-term to-do list.

Font

I've gotten multiple requests about font-sizes via the survey now. This will go on my long-term to-do list. 

I have a concern that by increasing the font styles or sizes, it will push text outside of the text-box area. Which means I'd have to go through all of the game text to make adjustments. That would be incredibly time consuming and annoying.

I have intentions to eventually change the say-box GUI and in-game choices menu. That's been on my To-Do list for a long time. So when I get to that point, I'll be able to have a larger say-box window that can accommodate bigger fonts.

Childhood Sprites

A note far in advance - there's a lot of childhood scenes (of various ages!) that will be happening in Brandon's route. It will be some time before the sprite artist can get around to making childhood sprites appropriate for these scenes. So fyi - adult sprites will be used in the childhood scenes.

Side Stories & What Ifs

As a general reminder, I did a poll months ago about the priority of side stories and what-if content. The results were pretty unanimous that main content should be prioritized before side content.

That said, I have every intention of still developing such content. I have one specifically half-way written for Alexander & Monika, plus another ~15 ideas written down.

I've been considering the idea once Brandon & Quinn's routes are fully complete to take a full month just to work on SS & WI content before starting the next world, if I hadn't gotten much done by then. 

That would also have a bonus of giving me a full month of planning time too.

We'll see!

But I do take suggestions for SS & WI content! If you have scenes you want to see from another character's point of view, or ever wonder "what would happen if..." - feel free to send them to me!

Ultra+ members will get priority on their suggestions.

If I get too many ideas or suggestions, I will put up polls for people to vote on what they want to see. :)