Moonripple Lake [v0.77]

v0.77

• 450+ new renders and 120+ new animations
• 4 new songs: It’s dripping wet, Make It Pop, Velvet Ride and the new title song, Under Your Spell
• 8 new achievements.
• 11 new polaroids, 13 new scenes to replay
• A brand-new look for every menu
• 16 total languages

The route map HERE post shows how it all branches (updated for no spoilers)

GALLERY & ACHIEVEMENTS
– A new Achievements page with all 32 (yes, on Patreon too). Locked ones give a hint.
– Locked polaroids now tell you roughly where to find them.
– Favorites, a full-screen viewer, and a pink NEW on anything you haven’t opened yet.

NEW LOOK
Every menu is rebuilt in a loud “summer pop” style: stickers on pool water. Saves are photo stickers, speaker names sit on tags in their colour, the title screen cycles through 9 animated wallpapers and plays music, and Customize Your Story is one clear row per decision.
The bottom left and bottom right on the title screen below here have new functionality:

• Music player (more songs that fit the main menu from the game will be added)
• Change wallpaper (middle click)
• Stay on current wallpaper (left-click)
• Play through all wallpapers (left-click)
• Hide UI and show only wallpaper

LANGUAGES
Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Italian, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Turkish, Polish, Hungarian, Slovenian and Croatian. Pick one at the start or in Options → Languages. Machine translated for now, human translations for launch, so tell me if a line reads weird.

ALSO
– Magnify with + / − or pinch.
– Fixes across earlier episodes, like the white screen on the Episode 5 ferry.
– Your v0.72 saves should load as normal. If one ever breaks, the game recovers and keeps your decisions. Still stuck? Tell me.
– No free roam in this release – so chess and the other minigames that were planned sit this one out.
FREE ROAM will be available again in the future updates, but that’s for another post — and I’ll share my plans for the rest of this year sometimes next week 

v0.7
At the start we get the resolution to the events at the end of the last update, then our couple goes out into town, to check out how their car repair is coming along. That’s where they meet Duke.
It’s short and sweet, I had about a month of development time for this one, and I plan to deliver the next one with more content!

v0.62:

• Broken save freeroam clickable locations should be fixed
• Broken load/save screens should be fixed
• NEW ‘Latest posts’ widget added
• Additional Android fixes
• Alternate way to get alcohol in EP3
• Some of the ai animations were upscaled and color-corrected to reduce redness
• Added ‘1 week later’ screen after the cave scenes in Episode 6, as was intended

v0.61

• Fixed Android build (had sound issues)
• Added a ‘a week later’ transition screen’
• Added broken saves disclaimer

v0.6

This one was full of setbacks, actually similar to Episode 4 in my mind.
It moves the story along, and pushes some boundaries for the main character and his girlfriend 

The project has moved to 1080p to be more accessible to more people, as people have complained that their older machines can’t handle the 1440p+ images, especially when motion is applied. This change should rectify the issues 

 (notes below)

Near the end of the update, I had to resort to using a lot of ai animations, because onboarding a new animator to take on that load was simply not possible. You’ll let me know what you think about those. They’re mostly an improvement in regards to movement, but a downgrade at times in terms of quality, which can be fixed in the future 

v0.51

• DOWNSCALED MOST EP5 ANIMATIONS TO 1080P (performance fix)
• Added option to turn off animated backgrounds (performance fix)
• fixed a couple of bugs
• spelling & grammar adjustments

v0.5

• 380~ new images
• 39 new animations (not counting femboy versions of those, or the 5 xray overlays)
• 18 new polaroids to see (12 base + 6 femboy versions)
• 10k lines of code (lots of conditional stuff)

v0.4.1
– spelling errors, minor fixes
– fixed wrong image displaying despite femboys being turned off
– broken thumb on cee’s image removed during truth or dare
– using compressed images for android release, should fix crashing
– all replayable scenes now showing despite your decision in game.
– removed currently unused extra star button on the gallery screen

v0.352
BUgfixes

v0.35
Changes, additions, and fixes:
Halloween content
New Gallery functionality! (polaroids, replay scenes, special episodes)
Added sound effects to the scene where Suzie grinds on Skeeter’s face (the drunk at the town square).
During the run up to where you have the option to fight Caleb, removed the first stolen kiss due to it being over the top (IMO). You now only get the stolen kiss if you try to be passive.
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t see Trevor’s phone conversations with Suzie
Several spelling mistakes found thanks to the good people in Discord 

Fixed a myriad of instances where the characters used wrong names (due to dynamic naming )

v0.3
This one comes with many more choices, more content than the previous episode, and is more heavily seasoned with NTS flavor

A couple of notes:

• Your choices affect scenes immediately and later on as well. I’ll get to writing a walkthrough in the coming days when I find the time.
• EP2 saves SHOULD work fine!
• If you wish to change Suzie’s name (as is now possible), and don’t want to restart from scratch, just start a new game, change her name, confirm, then load up your save. It should register across all saves.
• Two polaroids have femboy/non femboy versions. When you find all of them, just turn femboys off/on and go the the ep3 gallery to view the differences.

v0.2

• There is now a free roam system enabled at story-relevant points in the game. It is not always accessible and I don’t aim to make gameplay revolve around it.
• At the start of a new game, you can now change the MC’s name, along with setting some preferences relevant to the story and content- you can change these later in the options as well.
• Polaroids. Throughout EP1 and EP2, there are now 6 total free-roam polaroids available for you to find, 7 depending on the preferences you set at game start or in options. After finding them you can view them again in the new Gallery.
• You can unlock the whole gallery without having to search for polaroids in freeroam – if you’re a Patron, with the code I’ll provide in the release post.
• EP1 now has more content after Anon leaves the house to get money from the ATM. There are a couple of new scenes in there before he returns back home.
• EP2 is longer and has more scenes than EP1, and it has much more actual story development with some introduction to Moonripple Lake’s mystery. It also brings the first simple choice you can make as a player (there will be more in ep3).
• Experimenting with a zoom/pan feature on certain scenes on certain sprites. It is at the moment used in only one scene in the game. Give me feedback on it if it was beneficial to your experience so that I know how to handle it in future content.
• You can now HIDE/SHOW the character’s dialogue black background. This is to prevent it from obscuring the art. Just click the eye button in the bottom right corner. The background was meant to provide a slightly higher text readability on bright scenes. But some find it useless, so the option to hide it is there. This is different from renpy’s HIDE (H) functionality that hides all gui elements and prevents dialogue to continue.

v0.1
Initial Release