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The Sexy Cosplay Cafe 0.2
🕑 Added 2018-12-23 10:48:54 +0000 UTC*Edited on 12/23 to add release notes and other details*
Release Notes for 0.2
General stuff first. This update brings Serena up to roughly the same content quantity as Mira already had. This doesn't mean that she has exactly the same types of content, each girl will be different in exactly how they behave and thus how you can interact with them, but the quantity of content between them, as well as the number of images, is now roughly even. So what exactly does the update add. This:
-15 new Serena images, 12 of which are significantly different from one another, and the other three being variants.
- Rewards and punishments for Serena
- Chats for Serena in each location (Work, Mall, Park and the Club)
- A new location: The Club. Which has some minimal content for Mira and Alice as well as content for Serena.
- A gift for Serena at the giftshop
- (Spoiler!) The ability to purchase an item for Serena from the Goth Store backroom...after you've discovered it! Needed to unlock two of her Reward/Punishment options.
- New information from Alice about Serena...and an item she has that might be useful (make sure to talk to Alice about her more than once!)
- Sexy times at the end of some of the chat conversation chains...make sure you actually explore the Mall, Park, and Club chats to their ends...
(Fixes/Changes)
- Returning to the same location with the map no longer makes time pass. Moving from one location to another inside a building doesn't make time pass (it was never supposed to, something went wrong near the end of the first build and no one knew it wasn't supposed to do that...so I didn't realize it until the play testing for this version).
- Some Bugfixes and spelling corrections from previous content
-Probably other stuff I'm forgetting about...
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Now...that's all fine and dandy, but as mentioned in my original release post, there remain some standing issues with this build. So...
Known Issues:
-Time is still super annoying. I have a plan to fix this, but ran out of time. I only really realized how annoying it still is (even after the changes above) on my final play test.
- It's possible to accidentally miss most of Serena's chats, some of which are important to her character development. I didn't realize this was going to be a problem until play testing, and I didn't have enough time to overall it to fix it since it's going to be a fairly big code change.
- DON'T CLICK ON PEOPLE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO THEM. Mira shouldn't be an issue, but I realized at like 4am, just before I uploaded the build, that I hadn't done the necessary slight-of-hand in Ren'py to change people's talking button (the ones that you use to open their options by clicking on them) to a static image that can't be clicked on. I know how to do that, I did it in the original build of the game for all the characters, but it slipped through the cracks for this one and it was much too later to fix it at the point I realized it. I think it'll probably only happen with Serena's new outfit, but don't quote me on that. Just...don't click ON people when you're already talking/interaction with them.
- Relationship gain/Chaos reduction for Serena is probably horribly unbalanced at the moment. Needs more play testing.
- The inventory needs totally scrapped and replaced. Don't expect anything but money and gifts to show up there for now. Though those two things do at least work.
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I'm intending to release a build that fixes this stuff(except the inventory, that will be in 0.3, probably), but it will be January before I have time, since I still have to get the Eros Academy update out.
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I made it, barely, before I crashed. Holy fuck the testing took forever. Worse, and I'm gonna be brutally honest here for a moment, this build has a few issues. SO FAR AS I KNOW there are no outright bugs. Though, to be honest, I'm fully expecting that there ARE some bugs that my attempts to test just didn't find. I tried, really I did, but I just couldn't test it thoroughly enough in the time I had.
However, there are a couple of things I know are wrong, like the fact that it's possible to miss some of Serena's chats if you aren't careful...important, character building (but not game breaking) chats. Unfortunately, I'm out of time this month. I HAVE to start on the Eros update to have any prayer of finishing it. So I'm releasing the update as-is. I'll fix any bugs you guys report fairly quick (assuming I can), but repairing a few things like the chats, the screwy way time is currently handled, and some balancing issues are going to have to wait for a in-between build in a couple of weeks. None of it's game breaking (I think), just annoying.
Also...I'm fucking wiped out at the moment(as evidenced by my frequent cursing, which isn't exactly normal for my posts by I've absolutely had it with this build atm), so I'm going to hold of on writing the release notes, which frankly have a metric ton packed into them, until later. Check back for them late tonight, probably.
Anyway, here's the build downloads:
