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Hopepunk City 1.5 Released. NOW WITH VOICE!
🕑 Added 2024-04-14 14:10:03 +0000 UTC
After coming close a couple of times on Patreon, the game is now fully voiced and available on all sites and formats.
Patreon Note: Any Dater level or higher active since March has a 30% chance of getting a shout out during the epilogue. I didn't voice the shout outs and they are random, but keep an eye out for your Patreon name to pop up in the text.
Here’s the Devlog from itch.io:
Hopepunk City is now fully AI voiced like all my other games.
Besides voices some of the text was changed, Maya’s explanation of how the government works was cut in half, and some of the “technobabble” was cut in the science related scenes like the “Artificial Telepathy” scene. Some of the text and images were changed to make Hopepunk City a sequel to Date Ariane Remastered and Something’s In The Air Redux.
The epilogue is voiced oddly though. It plays the voice files like sound effects and the “sounds” volume controls it instead of the “voice” volume. For the epilogue, click once and let it stream like a video. Skipping ahead will skip line but will not progress the background pics which flip on a timer.
While all these changes are significant, this is not a “new” game and you don’t have to pay for it again. I plan to release this version to Steam in the fall.
I am including a new android version. Because of changes to android I get a message saying the file looks corrupted when I try to upgrade to 1.5 It is not corrupted. But it means you can’t upgrade your old android game. Uninstall the old android Hopepunk City and install a fresh copy. Obviously, this will delete any saved games you had.
I have to use an old version of Renpy running on an old computer to make android files, which I knew would come to an end eventually. I think I reached that ending, and will have to find a new way to make apk files in the future. The “lores” version has not been upgraded, but is still useble on older android devices.
If you have the game on itch, you can upgrade immediately. Coming to Steam later this year. (still working on getting Ariane in Paradise on Steam first.)
