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Phone Message system (texting Caine)

Added 2019-10-17 23:16:17 +0000 UTC

I honestly wanted to add this before Caine's epilogue was out (since you end up sexting with him in the epilogue), but alas, it took a while to get started.

However, my programmer found some time and managed to code the new phone message system! There's now an actual interface for the text messages and characters will even take a while to type their message to you. Pictures and emojis are also available. Scrolling through your current message history is also possible!

This means however, I'm going to have to manually go over each scene that involves texting in every story (Caine is the worst offender), and re-code it to fit the new system. It's a lot of work, but I hope to at least do Caine's full route before I release it in the next update.

(I had fun drawing emojis for this)

It's sooooo much better to see the texting like this! It feels very much like a texting simulation and it's a lot more immersive. We will likely change one tiny thing to show the player's input is needed (you have to click to respond) to advance, and that's it.

Eventually we'll be expanding on this system to create a chat simulator system for Aiden's route. Aiden is a gamer and you'll be spending a lot of time online chatting with him. So we'll be changing the phone system to accommodate a full-on chat system.

The sad part is that James' route will likely not use this system at all (he's not exactly the type to text MC!), but oh well. At least older routes will feature it.

Anyways, I hope I'll be able to release this feature next month!

(please leave my programmer some compliments, he's running on fumes at the moment)