Early Access Release 0.1501 - Hiroko Consent Route and Art Upgrade! (Patreon)

Hi, cheesecakes! It's another special day ^.^

Now, I have to say I wasn't initially planning on giving Hiroko her focus route right after doing Sayori's, but after trying out a few other ideas I realized I just really wanted to do it. And seeing Hiroko's sprite upgrade come in really solidified that decision for me. I mean, look at her! She's perfect! Don't you want to immediately write a story about her?

... Unfortunately I was pretty overambitious with this update. I needed three weeks to do Sayori's story, so trying to do Hiroko's in two did turn out to be somewhat optimistic; to say nothing of the fact that I spent a couple days exploring other popular ideas first. As a result I ended up missing my update day, which is why this is coming out a day late, so sorry about that ^^; Still, I hope what's being presented here is worth the little delay.

Oh, also this update puts the word count of Penlight over 100,000 for the first time. I'm pretty chuffed about that~

So now, with all three girls now sporting their art upgrades, I've removed the clumsy prompt at the start that asks which sprites to use. If you ever want to compare with the old sprites, or fancy yourself a purist, you can still see the original placeholder sprites in the game via the in-game menu, under preferences. However, as with the Sayori route, the introduction of Hiroko's new sprite may have created some new bugs that I wasn't able to catch. Let me know if you find any!

I really hope you enjoy the new additions! Next month's update will likely be more sedate as I take a little breather, but there'll definitely be something new to show. See you then~ 

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What's New

Hiroko Consensual Route - Work in progress, playable route from start to finish

New Hiroko sprite with one pose and a complete range of outfits

Hiroko's nametag colour has been tweaked to a different shade of pink, matching her hair in line with the other ladies

A few new sound effects added to accommodate the new Hiroko route 

You can now switch the game sprites between the new and old versions at any time by visiting the game menu, preferences and choosing "New" or "Old" under Sprite Style

Word count is now over 106,000!

As usual, made some more little script tweaks and spelling/grammar corrections here and there on the existing text