Star Knightess Aura 0.36.0-prerelease-2 (Patreon)

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The reverse summoning ritual development continues. I was hoping I could get to the second encounter stage, bug ended up just a bit short of that. I won't be posting too many details, since that means quite a lot of spoilers. But the plot is moving along quite fast, controlling the pacing is also what's kind of difficult. I don't want to make the scenes too long and overload stuff, but also don't want to feel it to be rushed.

I think I ended up with a decent compromise but it definitely could use more iteration, but I think it's on a level now where its just better to come back at a later time and iterate. Then, besides the Reverse Summoning Ritual, I have also integrated the new Elizabeth character artwork.

Apparantly the George beta smile is genetic or something. Continuing on from the art side, I have today also prepared the brief for Roland 6. In order to be able to catch up a bit with time, I am trying to go for a rather big asset reuse in Roland 7-8, so we will need to see if that works out. Still in the process of discussing with Emubi there.

Moving on to the next area, our assistant developer Trihan has finished a major refactoring of vice event logic. Basically applying a lot of improvements that have been made to processing lewd events like making them more tag based to the vice logic. Besides generally cleaning stuff up, this should make Vice related interactions and passives easier to develop in the future.

Aaaand that covers most of it. We also have a couple of other minor improvements. For the full list of changes, as usual check out the full changelog also containing the changes from the patch release.

Changelog 0.36.0-prerelease-2 (13.10.2023)

Added Elizabeth character artwork 

Added Cheerleading Club labyrinth room happiness content 

Added Library Club labyrinth room happiness content 

Added quest stub Labyrinth of Happiness 

Implemented willpower based escape rule for escaping labyrinth room 

Added Alicia memories on Heavenly Path 4 

Added scene for Alicia temporarily regaining her memories 

Added scene Dolus and Claire discussing progress of Aura and Alicia and taking action 

Added scene Claire and Dolus confronting Alicia

Refactored and unified vice event logic into a tag based common event analogous to the lewd logic 

Added a "-deluxe" suffix to the version for deluxe version

Improved audio options to use 10 step increments instead of 20

Balancing

Removed Lysander's Exhaustion gain after using a liberation skill

Increased prices of Elixirs to sum of most expensive base material values

Decreased EVA to 0 under timestop

Bugfixes

Fixed typos

Refactored events that prepare a vice choice but don't directly increase vice

Fixed incorrect wording at Souldust Mage 

Fixed guard flag being removed under timestop

Replaced all nullish coalescing operators for compatibility with Android 4 and below

Fixed costume saving/restoring issues in Underground City

Fixed broken code in battle HUD plugin

Fixed Beelzebub not weakened when fighting after player defeat

Fixed Flesh Puppet remaining in encounter after defeating Beelzebub

Fixed Barry and Darry dialogue in Goddess Domain scene being the wrong way round

Fixed Courage Fragment in Misfortune2 not being affected by Sluggish

Fixed tags in blessed items drawing over each other if item description is identical

Fixed HP sometimes not being full on day start

Fixed incorrect num count for Darry+ and missing boss kill increase after Lysander fight

Fixed being able to read when teleporting away from the shrine