Hello everyone!

I'm here to tell you what I've been doing these months since the last progress update and current state of the development.

Firstly, the ending of the previous update made some people unhappy with how the rest of the night with Helen wasn't visualized but described in text format. I, personally, thought that would be a good compromise for not oversaturating one exact moment with too many animations, since animations are the most time-consuming part of the work. But it seems like I was wrong about that, and some players disliked how it turned out to be, and others who I asked myself were just not happy about it. Thus, I decided to do a few more animations for this night with Helen, and in the next update, you can replay this moment to see them.

Next, of course, I was working on the rendering for the new update, which is slowly taking shape into what I'm finally happy about. As I mentioned in the previous progress update, this update script is the hardest to do, since I want to put too many things into one update to go to the next chapter faster. I still do some writing and rewritings along the way, but I finally feel like I'm on the right track and know what and how should happen.

I'm already finished with a few scenes in the update, one of which is where the new girl appears, and it's satisfying to see her in the MurMur at last. I was planning for her character to be in the game for a long time now. Pretty much since the 0.2 update, I have had an abstract idea about her, but now she is evolving into a real character with expressions and feelings behind the scene.

Also, I did what I wanted to do for a long time now (besides adding audio and translations, which will come one day too *:cope:* ), which is converting every image into WebP format for better image quality and a lesser file size. While I was doing it, I found out that the original files of two scenes where Kate first appears were lost, so I had to reshoot them. But now, if previously the game was in the JPEG format, which has relatively larger file sizes compared to the image quality of the WebP format. Especially, it was noticable in the compressed version, a.k.a. Android version. Now the game will have better visual quality with no image artifacts. Which basically means you will see almost the same picture I see when I capture it. Adding to that, I now have more control over the game file size and can reduce it if it's needed.

All of this above took me some more time to be able to update the Completions Status bar that you can always find in the about section on Patreon, in the info-desk channel on Discord, and above the comment section on the Itchio. And I don't want to promise anything, but I'm working as fast as I can to deliver this update at its best to all of you~

And here is the first preview for the 0.8 update!

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