V0.6.0 and Artwork Improvements!

I feel like I made some good improvements these last few weeks. Let’s start with a picture, because those are worth a thousand words apparently, and words are also cheap, so we need a lot of them to make this worth it…..

Meet Eilana, the student librarian! While not entirely implemented, she’s rather prominently featured in this update!

I worked rather hard to improve my art skills, and like to think that this is showing some nice improvements. There is, of course, more lewd images of her with less on…. But those will have to wait until next update!

She runs the library’s book club, a major feature that was added this update. There are currently two books to read, with plans for at least 6 more! Her storyline starts off a little differently from the others, you actually have to join the club and participate a few times to kick-start hers!

In addition to forming a relationship, book club also gives the usual rewards of stats, and, in this case, a special reward. Over time your Mana Regneration will be improved!

This, in my opinion, was the last major thing I needed to have in the game before implementing the next set of dungeons. As your mana improves (up to, I think, the current cap of 200) your regeneration rate doesn’t keep up at all.

This was intentional, but it makes things a little difficult when you’re still only regaining 1mp/2s when you’ve got 60 or 70 mp.

In addition to these, I also implemented a bunch of other stuff! Most of it was related to make traversing the map easier (maps, secret passages, fast travel in the form of teleportation) but also some prep-work for the dungeon and artifact crafting update planned for the future! (mostly a bunch of crafting and gathering materials)

And, of course, can’t go without leaving some patch-notes!

V0.6.0 PATCH NOTES

Updates

• Added Book Club – Join a new character (Eilana) and help her revitalize the library’s book club!
  -Rewards -> Eilana likes you more, a sense of pride and accomplishment…. And a masturbation scene, as well as increased INT from reading the books, and over time Mana Regeneration increases!

-Added 2 scenes to Eilana’s storyline. These are accessable through befriending her in the book club and showing genuine interested in the club by reading each book you read together to its end.

• Added a new Secrets Passageway System!
  • These secrets are hidden throughout the castle’s current 3 levels, creating a network of passageways for those clever enough to find them.
    -Discovered passageways will automatically be added to your map menu, under a new “Secrets” Option that can be toggled to view these areas
    at will. When toggled, the passages themselves will also be easier to see while not on the map.
• Added 5 new classes – Basic Meditation, Basic Shielding, Fire Bolt 2, Splash Wave 2, and Basic Teleportation
• Added 5 new skills corrosponding to the above classes

-Added Basic Teleportation- A skill to travel quicker throughout the world
-Requires Teleportation Crystals to use
-These are both craftable, as well as available to purchase from the village shop after Semester 4

-Several new materials are available inside the dungeon! These vary in obtaining (field gathering, monster drops, etc) and are not currently used in anything yet. Spawn frequency, location and resource appearances may also need tweaking in the future.

Changes
-Added floor maps to the first 2 floors, positioned near the staircases with a marker (A small red circle) for your current location
-Made night a tiny bit darker
-Changed some prereqs for Basic Recall and Sleeping magic to better structure the class tree for that section of the school

Bugfixes

• Spending time with Andrew when no event played used two time blocks instead of just one
  -Fixed the fire Elemental classroom only entering classes when stepping
  on the central transport
  -Fixed the stats screen thinking your always corrupt, even if your purity is high
  -Fixed Gardening club planter hitboxes
  -Fixed imp birth never happening, causing perpetual, and rather confusing, pregnancy with imps!

Known Issues
-Gardening club plants don’t seem to die properly in some cases… Probably need a bit of refactoring still for that code

• Choosing classes can be kind a pain, and is growing worse the more classes are added. UI needs a complete rework, hope to get to that soon and make it much more friendly to navigate.
  -Workaround- Escape or cancel will cycle to the next class immediately.
  -Re-assigning skills is a little confusing, UI needs to display which skill is already assigned to which button.
  -Freeze when doing church work without any blessings

Misc Thoughts
-Passageway visibility on the map seems a little meh to me still, thinking of adding an arrow to the animation pointing in the general direction of
the passageway to help orient the player as to where they will end up.