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Version 0.5 Released

Added 2025-09-01 13:59:23 +0000 UTC

Hey all,

First of all, many apologies for the several delays, there was a lot of stuff that happened this last month of Summer that accumulated the delays. They were not intentional, and not done out of laziness or anything like that. Just uncontrollable circumstances. We spent actual sleepless nights back to back to get this update out. So big sorry for those of you who waited the extra duration, big thanks for understanding and the patience too.

But I'm sure you're here to sink your teeth in to the actual MASSIVE content update so onwards!

Changelog:

Annie Chapter 2 Updated
Annie now has a dynamic stat system with 2 stats that go in 2 directions: Corruption/Innocence and Dominance/Submission
Annie has gone from 2000 script lines to 8000 script lines. Approx 4x the size of base Annie story
Annie has 90+ new CG images added to the game
Annie has 4 different endings to Chapter 2

Detailed Info:

Through chatting with Annie you can gain trait points and at certain story flags, it will check if you have enough points to proceed 1 of 5 side stories. The checks are very generous so you don't need to think too hard about the dialogue choices (will be adjusted to be a bit more challenging in the future). This means that many of you will experience the story very differently and each experience will be more player tailored. But most of you will have 2 or 3 out of 4 of the stories experienced on a single playthrough.

The entire script is very different from initial release in the way it reads so everyone will experience new things in the main story. Annie's actions, dialogue, images even emojis all are dependent on her personalized character development. So there will be a lot of replay value. As for the end of Chapter 2, there are 4 different endings based on the traits your storyline, see if you can get them all!

We worked very hard on this update. It's huge, with lots of replay value, your dialog choices mattering a lot.

Known Issues & Upcoming Patches:

There are some known issues I've come across while playtesting but nothing will be too breaking of the player experience:

Annie's chat takes a while to load up. Script size being this large is tanking the performance a little bit but it will take a few seconds to launch Annie's chat, so don't be alarmed. No slowdowns during playing however, only on boot up.
Sometimes you will get 2 system messages in a row, this is just a mild logic bug.
I experienced one crash which I was not able to reproduce but if you do experience any crashes at any point please let me know.
Some images were rushed out so updated versions with extra polish will be released over the next few updates.
Some inconsistency with continues which is "- ..." button. This doesnt really affect gameplay much.
There's no Chapter 2 skip because there's too much new stuff in both chapters so this wont be a problem but will be added at a later update.
The ending of Chapter 2 will contain more images over time and the script will also be changed slightly. It was just a little bit rushed so now I'm seeing some things I'd like to add/change but the initial version probably won't detract from that experience.
Rewinding long amounts of chat will be buggy since the base dialogue manager has a naive set of functionality and Annie's script is hardcoded dynamic eventing. Use reset instead.

Next Update Content v0.6 + Engine Update

So apart from the maintainence and tweaking of Annie's content, we will be taking the month to work on Emma's reboot story, which will be a decently sized update. More info will be given on this later.

I'm also using the month to try to push an engine update. These are the following features I'm aiming for and we'll try to achieve as many as possible:

Gallery: Image hints, unlock code, and slight tweaks on UI like image count reliability.
Full profile support like profile picture, viewing status etc.
Full Sound Effects and UI Sounds (with volume controls).
A few interesting VFX ideas I have as well.
Video capable chat bubbles and gallery as well as starting to including them in game (possibly).
Group Chats.
Optimizing load times.
Fixing reverting, currently functional but needs more reliability.
Among a few others