A lot of work this past fortnight had to do with bug fixes. Several long standing “irritations” have been addressed. Additionally, we spent some time working on beautifying the preferences screen.

Eagle-eyed viewers may notice a new preference: quick menu opacity. This is now settable, along with a new feature: the ability to hide the quick menu with a visual cue to restore it.

You can also now disable user interface click sounds if it bothers you all that much.

Small little improvements, to be sure, and we’re sure they matter more to us than to you, but they’ve bugged us since day one, so…

Snax also made a first pass at adding an achievements system, in preparation for listing on Steam after the game is completed. If you’re not on Steam, then notices for achievements would look like this:

Achievements will be in the next release. We’ll have the same problem that we had when we introduced the gallery: if you’re playing from a save file, you won’t have “achieved” anything up to that point, so they won’t show up. You’d have to restart from the beginning if you want to play the “I want to get every achievement” game…

Work continues on Chapter 9. Scene 4 of 13 is now completed and we’re into scene 5, a pretty long and involved scene involving multiple paths, so we anticipate it’ll be slow going.

Just a reminder that we recently added a live channel to our Discord server. It’s connected directly to the git version control server that we work with everyday for both source code and renders/artwork. You can stop by to see where we are and what we’re doing on any given day. Also, if you’re a Ren’Py developer, another reminder that we have a channel on our Discord with snippets and utilities that we use everyday. Snax just added a file that allows you to add “Ken Burns” style zooms just like the ones used in Confusion.

Welcome to our new supporters! We really appreciate it—you’re the reason we keep doing this. If you haven’t already, please join us on our Discord and say hi!

Gather ’round, gather ’round! Behold the wonders wrought by two weeks of tireless toil!