Version 0.18 is finally finished and ready for early access play testers. The script is now up to 34,729 words and we have about 145 mins of total game play across the different paths. This time around we added to the main story, including adding a pretty spicy new scene with Evana in her private bathhouse.

For Evana's scene we made some really cool looking animated fog effects that add a lot to the sequence, and we also played around with animating the water behind everything. Having the extra movement in the background really made everything feel a lot more alive. All in all I think we captured a really cool vibe with it and will be adding similar effects into everything else from now on.

We also added in another temple location, but it won't be making an appearance until a later version. The other major additions were to the early story. We significantly revised what happened with Remi in the prologue by adding in some new scenes, and baked in a few setups that will have payoffs in later versions as we went. 

Adding to the early story has always been tricky to manage with existing saves, so I've added in a new way to streamline how that works. Now if there are early story additions, at the end of a play through you'll have the option to play through any new scenes that have been added with a brief explanation of how they fit into the story, or have a short synopsis instead. It's pretty simple but should make it a lot less annoying. Let us know if you find any bugs. Version 0.19 which is a Lucine update is well underway at this point and is set for release within the next few weeks.