Joker's Trip Patreon Release - v 0.2.3: Meredith! (UPDATED HOTFIX)

UPDATE 9/28: Fixed Meredith's crowd sprite issues, fixed a few typos

UPDATE: The post now has version 0.2.2, a hotfix enabling Joker's gallery tab and updating the patron credits!

Hooray! She's finally here! Our very first voter-chosen character, Miss Meredith!

This update was primarily to bring the lovely lady into the cast, and we'd like to thank you all for your patience these past two months. Surgery, a new job, and relentless attacks upon adult artistic expression have not stopped us from bringing a brand new babe to the blackjack table.

WHAT'S NEW!

Meredith! Duh! But in terms of new content, she brings with her a new strip sprite, a crowd sprite, and 4 new unlockable scenes! We hope you'll have fun stripping her layer after layer--she has a whopping nine items to get through, and she's no fool. Good luck getting to the heart of this goth mommy!

WHAT ELSE?

Strip Playlists! We've added new functionality to the way the girls choose what items to strip. No longer will they always go in the same order every time, but they'll instead be assigned one of multiple "playlists". Syd might save her sexy leather jacket for last, or you might catch Prill in just her robe. Rosalie might not even wait to get her dress off to kick away those panties. I (TT) have wanted something like this ever since I first designed their strip sprites. There's something so inherently sexy about turning a girls' layers on and off and discovering new combinations. You actually have Kim, the loser of the last poll, to thank for this function being added.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Dang dude play the update we just gave you first!!

Just kidding. Joker's Trip is a very character and dialogue focused game, and we've been slowly refining our toolset to give ourselves as many opportunities for interesting interactions as we can. Reactions and conversations between characters are now possible, plus dialogue based on what specific items a character is or isn't wearing (another new feature tied to the strip playlists!) We've even added functionality that should prevent you from seeing the same joke five times in one round.

We finally have a working dev tool that makes writing dialogue significantly easier than it used to be. Previously, me and Leo would scratchpad in a google doc and they'd have to go through and manually add all the text tags and then manually add them to an excel sheet. Miserable. Now we don't have to do that! Writing dialogue has never been easier! So we want to spend an update doing nothing else! I'm sure those of you that have been playing the game for a while are sick of seeing the same taunts and responses over and over. We feel the same way!

We'll be spending the next month or so just writing new dialogue and refining the dialogue that's already there. All patrons should keep an eye out for a survey asking what you think needs the most love. $7 patrons will be determining what we do after the dialogue update, and will be receiving their own special survey soon as well.

Thank you for your patience, and for playing Joker's Trip!

-- TT

(PS)

(It was really, really close.)

Bonus: unused version of the promo

Ay yo, it's me Leo

Thanks for being patient with this one! Like I mentioned in the past I have a full time job now, and getting used to the swing of things. But I still work on Joker's Trip after logging off the work computer, because I truly can't help but look forward to working on this project. So thank you for playing Joker's Trip, and allowing us to make it better, one update at a time :)

So this update! Meredith's here and loving it. If I'm going to be honest a majority of my Brain Power went into those aforementioned dev tools. The idea of having to write over 400 lines of dialog for her in a google doc, then edit them, format them, then copy and paste them one at a time into a spreadsheet made me break into a cold sweat.

It's a pretty developed program now, lets you do everything the game lets you do with dialog! Makes conversations really easy to write, can add expressions easily, even lets you check which articles of clothing are still present. It still needs some improvements, but It Works.

Anyway, enough technical mumbo jumbo, hope you have fun playing blackjack with Meredith! And now, for the changelog.

0.2.1 - Changelog

Additions

• Added Meredith!

  • A new gambler joins the roster!

  • 4 CGs with Jack, Queen, King and the Crowd

  • A unique crowd sprite with animation

  • 265 Dialog nodes (~400 lines of dialog!)

• Added more conversations between gamblers

• Strip playlist! Now characters have multiple presets for the order they'll strip in.

Changes

• Gamblers hit/stand dialogue combined into the taunt dialogue when appropriate, no longer separate triggers

• Moved various reactions into other character's dialogs

Fixes

• Fixed the hide dialog box bug by disabling its tooltip.

• Fixed various typos.

• Capped Rosalie's ability usage

• Fixed a bug where characters would strip more than once.