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Hopepunk City 1.5 Partial voicing upgrade
🕑 Added 2024-02-16 22:00:05 +0000 UTC
Here's the first voice patch for Hopepunk City, this months free game for Daters. I am making this patch available to all levels but if you are not Dater level you need the game version 1.1 to upgrade with.
Hopepunk City has a strange internal structure and the dialogues do not appear in chronological order. I am voicing them in order as they appear in the game code, some voiced scenes appear early in play, and some late.
Week one is mostly all voiced, week 2 is about half, there's one big scene in week 3 that is voiced, but only short incidental scenes after that.
On PC or Linux, extract the file to the directory where the HopepunkCity.exe is located, say yes to replace files.
On Mac you control-click (right-click) the Hopepunk City app, Show Package Contents, go to Contents/Resources/autorun/ and drag the patch game folder, and if a window pops up, choose “Combine”. See README.txt in the patch for more info.
I'm making some minor changes as I go. Unnecessary explanations are getting cut, and complicated dialog trees are getting pruned when I find them.
This patch contains exactly one updated image. Rachel has the correct last name when her image appears on the screen in the hotel lobby. I have more updated images to add, but I didn't include them in this update. Nothing that changes the plot of the game... yet!
Dialog Files voiced:
"script" - opening scenes to first breakfast
"crazyeights" - dialog for the strip crazy eights game, most of which was copied from the stand alone game
"Dialogues" - The first few dialog scenes up to the post cookie scene breakfast
"jobvisit" - scenes where you talk to someone about your current job, usually a roommate
"special" - scenes triggered by hitting friendship targets with roommates
"weekloop" - most scenes involve taking new jobs, or getting promoted
Not voiced yet:
"dateariane" - the longish segment in the middle of the game where you go on a test date
"endgame" - all the important dialogue scenes after the breakfast scene to the final scene
"romance" - All the scenes relevant to late game romance with the roommates
"epilog" - The epilogue where Ariane plays the game and talks about it like a fake Twitch stream calling out to Patreons by name. This one uses a different technology to display text, and an excessive amount of variables that I have to work around, meaning it might not be voiceable. I'll either update the patreon names and leave it unvoiced, or use fake names and turn it into a video.
