Refuge of Embers 0.16 release


Version 0.16 which is the first of Lena's romance path updates is now ready for play testing. In addition to a new animated h-scene on Lena's romance route there are main story updates and a partial rewrite of the first day of the prologue. The script is now up to 28,763 words and about 17 mins of gameplay has been added. Now that we're moving into the romance paths we're starting to discover what is and isn't working on the routes, so expect major revisions to the story between now and about version 0.20 or so. A lot of newer scenes will also be missing sound and face animations until we're sure that we won't be making major changes.

For now I would highly suggest making a save just before you decide to go to the festival with. That should be a good launching point over the next few versions for you to explore all of the new scenes that are exclusive to each character. Eventually when we move further ahead in the story there will be other ways to view each scene with different dialogue in the harem path, but that won't be for another several versions. We also updated the gallery unlock code to "THEGAME" if you just want to view the new h-scenes that way.

0.16a Changelog:

  • Script increased to 28,763 words with additions to Lena romance path
  • Added the prologue day 0 and day 1 rewrite with more sprite animations
  • Added new Lena scene (laying on bed, 6 eyes, 5 mouths, 2 effects)
  • Added new Lena animated h-scene (lodge above tavern, loop and climax)
  • Added new background props to slum background (supply delivery)
  • Reworked all 31 Eryn sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, small fixes)
  • Added 6 new Eryn sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
  • Reworked several existing Eryn sprite mouths
  • Major rework on Lena sprite (lowered neck, repainting)
  • Reworked or remade all 16 Lena sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, fixes)
  • Major rework on all 5 Lena sprite arms
  • Reworked Lena sprite hair
  • Added 7 new Lena sprite mouths (4 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
  • Major rework on Lucine sprite (lowered neck, smaller forehead, repainting)
  • Reworked all 19 Lucine sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, small fixes)
  • Added 6 new Lucine sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
  • Reworked shirts on Lucine sprite
  • Reworked socks on Lucine sprite to add thigh muffining
  • Redesigned Aina sprite hair
  • Reworked Aina sprite makeup and added freckles
  • Added 9 new Aina sprite poses
  • Rework on Raisa sprite (repainted the torso)
  • Added 6 new Raisa sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
  • Added bottom underwear to Raisa sprite
  • Added more clothing variation options to Raisa in the gallery sprite viewer
  • Reworked or remade several MC sprite mouths
  • Added all new characters from Act-2 into the gallery
  • Remade and streamlined pregnancy morphs and clothing on all sprites
  • Added previously unused face animations to Lucine intro scene
  • Added a darkness mask to beginning dream sequence that fades away
  • Added sprite blush fade effect to make it less jarring
  • Added flicker effect to the candle in the intro scene
  • Added movement to MC sprite picking up and setting down firewood on day 1
  • Added firewood pick up and set down sound effect to day 1
  • Added cloth sound effect for MC and Eryn picking up towels
  • Remade door closing sound effect
  • Changed gallery unlock cheat code to something even more archaic
  • Fixed glitchy timebase for background and sprite time of day fades
  • Major revision to gallery code and gallery sprites
  • Removed a metric piss ton of now unneeded gallery variables
  • Added a dev mode to speed up face and pose animations
  • Small and boring code changes to things like sprite names to stay consistent
  • Updated game engine and broke everything, then unfuckulated it all again
  • Changed ending text & stat screen to be controlled by variables instead of manual edits
  • Fixed using the name Harth in the last Eryn h-scene instead of the player name variable
  • Further optimizations from old png files to smaller lossless webp files
  • Other minor bug fixes, story changes, and added sprite animations

Files

Refuge of Embers Beta 0.18a - Android
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Sep 03, 2023
Refuge of Embers Beta 0.18a - Mac
External
Sep 03, 2023
Refuge of Embers Beta 0.18a - Windows/Linux
External
Sep 03, 2023

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