Star Knightess Aura 0.36.0-prerelease-2

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The reverse summoning ritual development continues. I was hoping I could get to the second encounter stage, bug ended up just a bit short of that. I won't be posting too many details, since that means quite a lot of spoilers. But the plot is moving along quite fast, controlling the pacing is also what's kind of difficult. I don't want to make the scenes too long and overload stuff, but also don't want to feel it to be rushed.

I think I ended up with a decent compromise but it definitely could use more iteration, but I think it's on a level now where its just better to come back at a later time and iterate. Then, besides the Reverse Summoning Ritual, I have also integrated the new Elizabeth character artwork.

Apparantly the George beta smile is genetic or something. Continuing on from the art side, I have today also prepared the brief for Roland 6. In order to be able to catch up a bit with time, I am trying to go for a rather big asset reuse in Roland 7-8, so we will need to see if that works out. Still in the process of discussing with Emubi there.

Moving on to the next area, our assistant developer Trihan has finished a major refactoring of vice event logic. Basically applying a lot of improvements that have been made to processing lewd events like making them more tag based to the vice logic. Besides generally cleaning stuff up, this should make Vice related interactions and passives easier to develop in the future.

Aaaand that covers most of it. We also have a couple of other minor improvements. For the full list of changes, as usual check out the full changelog also containing the changes from the patch release.

Changelog 0.36.0-prerelease-2 (13.10.2023)

• Added Elizabeth character artwork 
• Added Cheerleading Club labyrinth room happiness content 
• Added Library Club labyrinth room happiness content 
• Added quest stub Labyrinth of Happiness 
• Implemented willpower based escape rule for escaping labyrinth room 
• Added Alicia memories on Heavenly Path 4 
• Added scene for Alicia temporarily regaining her memories 
• Added scene Dolus and Claire discussing progress of Aura and Alicia and taking action 
• Added scene Claire and Dolus confronting Alicia
• Refactored and unified vice event logic into a tag based common event analogous to the lewd logic 
• Added a "-deluxe" suffix to the version for deluxe version
• Improved audio options to use 10 step increments instead of 20

Balancing

• Removed Lysander's Exhaustion gain after using a liberation skill
• Increased prices of Elixirs to sum of most expensive base material values
• Decreased EVA to 0 under timestop

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Refactored events that prepare a vice choice but don't directly increase vice
• Fixed incorrect wording at Souldust Mage 
• Fixed guard flag being removed under timestop
• Replaced all nullish coalescing operators for compatibility with Android 4 and below
• Fixed costume saving/restoring issues in Underground City
• Fixed broken code in battle HUD plugin
• Fixed Beelzebub not weakened when fighting after player defeat
• Fixed Flesh Puppet remaining in encounter after defeating Beelzebub
• Fixed Barry and Darry dialogue in Goddess Domain scene being the wrong way round
• Fixed Courage Fragment in Misfortune2 not being affected by Sluggish
• Fixed tags in blessed items drawing over each other if item description is identical
• Fixed HP sometimes not being full on day start
• Fixed incorrect num count for Darry+ and missing boss kill increase after Lysander fight
• Fixed being able to read when teleporting away from the shrine