Version 0.12 is now ready for early access play testers. New gameplay is pretty short in this one because the new scenes required a lot of poses and complex movement, and the scene immediately following requires new locations and characters that will be coming in version 0.13. We also added a new background that isn't used in this version yet. Under the hood we've made some major changes. The GUI should look more or less the same but the way it works will make translations a lot easier for us. All of the menu tabs that say Start, Load, Options, etc used to be pictures that already included text. Now the buttons are all blank and the game generates the text on top which sounds simple but turned out to be pretty tricky. In addition to that I added hover effects for all of the buttons based on some feedback from controller users. Hover effects used to only be on about half of the buttons previously, but with the new button text system adding hover effects to everything was easier to implement. Coming in about 30 days is version 0.13 which will include the story that we don't have the assets for now and is also planned to include 3 new characters, 3-4 new backgrounds, and 4 new scenes. Let us know if you find any bugs.

Changelog:

• Added story events that continue through the day that the MC wakes up
• Added 2 new main story scenes (4 backgrounds, 30 poses, 8 eyes, 19 mouths)
• Created background for market center
• Added 4 new sound effects (waterfall, various sword sounds)
• Added h-scene & effigy counters to revised end screen
• Made new GUI buttons with game generated text
• Made hover effects for all buttons
• Changed formatting of all translatable strings to make fan translations way easier
• Added additional language support and functionality
• Changed MC's default name from Biorn to Harth
• Minor bug fixes
• Wrote audio functions packages to handle game sound
• Fixed audio not playing in some gallery scenes
• Added audio debugging button to audio options menu
• Added end of build screen with gameplay stats
• Slightly touched up face on first Eryn scene
• Added 4 new Eryn mouths to sprite
• Remade all options menu UI
• Remade all buttons and frames
• Fixed the janky old cheat code options screen
• Reworked how gallery scenes are unlocked
• Removed several hundred variables that are no longer necessary
• Touched up Eryn dialogue and face animation on act-1 day-1