v0.16.5 Preview Images (Patreon)

It's been a while since there have been preview images, but I wanted to show what I've been working on. I've been implementing some backend quality of life changes to the game, the most significant of which is a brand new skip functionality.

Now when you start a new game, if you've progressed through the game, you will have the option to skip ahead to later days in the story based on your progress. You will be prompted with choices to make to influence the state of the game and your relationship levels with the girls, and then you will be dropped right into the start of the day you skip to. Certain choices will only be available once you've seen how that choice plays out, so if you don't choose certain options during a playthrough, you won't be able to select them while skipping ahead.

Another significant backend change that makes the skip function possible is the game now stores your progress persistently. Your progress down each route is now tracked. This persistent progress tracking also applies to certain choices with story impact. I have some plans for other ways to use this, but for now this along with the skip function means you no longer have to do full playthroughs if future backend changes break your save files.

There are also changes to how flags are saved and set, so expect some more requirements for certain scenes to trigger. There are only a few cases for now, but this is something I plan to use more in the future.

Another small QoL feature is an update to the relationship change notifications. They now will include more appropriate text for the moment in the story rather than a simple +/- notification. 

I still have some testing and checks to do, but my goal is to release this update "soon" to patrons (don't ask for a date, I don't have one, sorry). Unfortunately the continuation of the story will need to wait a bit longer as there's a lot of work I need to do for that, but I want to get at least something out in the mean time.

- K. Bro