Parasite Black [v0.196]

v0.196

New Content

• The Tarbecks Part 2
• Dreamhouse quest
• New characters
• New locations
• New travel maps
• New enemies
• New items
• Four new sex scenes

Localization

• French translation
• Korean translation
• Gameplay & UI
• Arena gem option
• 8 save slots
• Number key shortcuts

Bug Fixes

• fixed a bug with cheats not working properly on saves
• compressed game files a bit to trim game size x2
• fixed some typos
• Relationship fixes
• Sprite fixes
• Quest fixes
• Typo fixes
• Backend improvements

v0.190

Bugfixes:
– fixed a bug with map auto-pathing reverting to fastest from safest
– improved mc and sypha character sprites
– pressing keys on input screen will now properly input a letter (instead of opening a bound screen)
– pressing X will now properly toggle the map screen off
– other engine changes

new/improved:
– new quest: Big Trouble in Little Hamun
– 13 sex scenes as a part of new quest
– black diamond arena now has ai vs ai battles
– added third route to the big trouble in little hamun quest & marbella relationship
– added restaurant bg to the LTBH quest
– improved first ves encounter scen
– improved a couple scenes in price of life quest
– Tweaked Mika questline, players can now look away and avoid Mika flashing them.
– added a char entry & missing meeting code for giselra
– “take all” now closes container
– new cheats in cheat menu
– butcher’s place and all libraries are now actual shops
– shops will now dynamically sell their inventories and restock in a more natural way
– all in-game shops will now only trade in their specific item categories
– very large health potion (also changed icons of health potions for consistent scaling)
– improved items sorting code
– new celeste char sprite
– new dros female char sprite
– improvements and additions to marbella char sprite
– added russian translation (by Deus)

fixes/tweaks:
– fixed Girl Troubles quest possibly bugging out in rare cases
– fixed some typos & mistakes in narrative
– added DLC screen for steam version
– updated all translations with latest content
-Fixed Nyx romance route repeat bug
– fixed a bunch of typos & wrong names
– fixed being softlocked from arlena content due to low char relationship
– fixed sypha dialogue during beast of novaras
– fixed-improved some replay-based gallery scenes code
– improvements/additions to all translations
– many translation-related engine fixes
– changed/simplified underlying location nav code which in turn fixed some small play sequence errors
– fixed a bug with story-mode poison status effect
– fixed multiple bugs with playing back audio during some sex scenes
– fixed a bunch of translation-related bugs
– fixed a couple typos
– marbella and numa now have their own rel. screen entries and are properly “met” as you encounter them
– fixed lvl up to fadeout smoothly
– fixed white bear name (from rhuvar)
– added first meet scene to giselra
– fixed nyx sprite being displayed off-screen during one scene
– fixed one divine sex scene using obsolete anim
– fixed/improved Graceful Rebirth quest goals
– fixed impregnation events for myu, nijah, mika firing off too early (they will now start a week in, when the bump appears)
– fixed/improved placement of rhuvan hide dialogue in girl troubles qst
– fixed arlena scene progression during dazzling tail qst
– ui hotkeys will now work regardless of what keyboard language you’re currently in (if they dont – report as bug)
– fixed double-% in skill descriptions
– fixed mrs. winward name in one of her scenes
– polish on es and ru translations
– more translation-related engine changes
– fixed a bunch of typos all over script
– clicking or pressing space/enter will now interrupt waiting
– a bunch of new UI sounds for various types of events
– added a way to jump to a page in saves screen
– damage during Dark Mage riddles section is now non-lethal
– tamer level up visual effect
– improved some ui anims to be smooth
– improvements to other language translations
– fixed a wrong callie-trayan scene
– fixed a bug with myu lines
– restored missing kiara missionary gallery scene
– fixed a bunch of typos in varied parts of the game
– tweaks/improvements to save compat
– lots of deeper engine changes/cleanup/improvements

v0.177 – 0.179
N/A

v0.176

• started a process of transitioning the game from using movie animations towards using sprite-based animations: for now about a couple dozen characters have the new battle animations, more to come.
• fixed a loving kiss of death skill causing an error on use
• fixed a bug with girl troubles quest, asking divine about each girl caused an error on repeat
• fixed a bug with assassin/valchek smoke bomb skill causing an error
• fixed a bug with nyx romance not triggering if you have “Failed” the slavemaster quest
• improved save update code in various ways: skill point recalculation and more
• fixed a bug with mc & markus staying transformed after the Beast of Novaras quest
• fixed “zanzibat” character entry causing error on loading a game
• fixed plenty typos all over the game
• fixed elena’s poisoned fangs skill to no longer cause a crash on use
• other smaller fixes/tweaks

v0.175

big stuff:
– new act 2 quest: The Beast of Novaras
– multiple sex scenes as a part of the new quest
– new area: Hamun spa, a bathhouse with corresponding services
– new area: Hamun Arena with 10 battles to beat and a boss fight to tackle
– Sypha as a party character, with her own skillset
– new characters: Luna, Garen, Yarrick, Lord Zanzibat and more
– TRANSLATION SUPPORT. Two translations now ship with the game: spanish and chinese. Both should be about 99% complete.
Smaller additions/tweaks:
– new fort sebastian battle map
– new abandoned fort (end of prologue) battle map
– notifications will now stay on screen 2x longer
– fixed (now hopefully forever) the wait button to not flicker in-out when its unnecessary
– fixed price of life guild quest to not be available during novaras siege
– you can now see hp/ep bars of party chars in pre-battle character selection screen
– fixed some visual artifacts in dros sex animations
– fixed markus face sprites to not glitch out on expression change
– fixed small ui layout bug in journal
– more changes/fixes/improvements to save update routine
– fixed plenty typos
– plenty backend enginework

v0.174

– fixed a bug with not being able to enter the fort during the dark knight quest
– fixed a bug with choice menu during Poltrik estate entrance jumping to wrong sequence

v0.173

– fixed a bug with bookshelves
– fixed dros calling 160 coins 200
– fixed a value in a prayer for the dying skill not being color-tinted
– fixed quicksave to drop a proper notification (as opposed to an overlapping top-left one)
– added scrollbar to perks
– added (hidden) hotkeys to confirm screen. y or enter to confirm, esc to cancel
– fixed a typo in a book
– other smaller engine stuff

v0.172

• fixed a bug with babazhul during elena quest
• fixed madam Amara to be Carina
• fixed dros clothes visibly changing to normal when leaviong bordello
• fixed nijah belly lines displayed at wrong time
• fixed a couple translation-related bugs
• improved save update code

v0.170

– upgraded to renpy 8.4.* (among lotsa other things, that should fix steam achievements not working)
– fixed a bug with entering a cheat code and starting a new game potentially leading to steam achievements not working on this save
– you can now tell which items are worn by the currently selected char (brighter item frame outline)
– fixed auto-pathing: in map navigation, picking “safest” will now also pick the shortest path in case of 2+ equally safe routes
– mrs winward’ tannery now has an extra line to re-explain what she does, as long as a persistent note on animal hides
– fixed marbella’s mining shop income after investing, also dropped in a persistent note after investing
– fixed wrong sprites in one of the versions of divine bj sex scene
– hangings and mad prophet will only cut-in once: then they’ll appear as clickable events on Novaras streets
– you can’t save during a gallery replay scene anymore
– improved items’ descriptions in combat/story
– fixed a bunch of typos & markup errors
– there’s now more info in error reports
-Being able to talk to party characters via characters/inventory screen (work in progress)

v0.168

hotfixes:
– fixed being unable to return to carina during the coming storm quest
– (hopefully) fixed an error related to UnlockAllGalEntries function
– fixed an error in mika sex scene during Let’s Celebrate quest
– fixed a bug with pages on container inventory screen (like chests) not changing
– “fixed” total transaction value to now also be displayed for selling items, not just buying
– fixed adara titjob gallery scene keeping adara naked into the game
– fixed kiara wash scene causing mc to stay in civ clothes

bigger additions:
– new dream event when sleeping in hamun
– new rare act2 travel event between novaras and lake balun
– new party banter scenes happening occasionally in Novaras or while traveling/camping
– new hamun location: beshar’s smithy, with new items to craft
– new hamun location: marbella’s mining co, to streamline your ore needs
– a bunch of new items, mostly for the above 2 places
– new (possibly) lewd encounter at desert normal and animal travel nodes: jackal girl
– also, camp visit events & preg content for jackal girl
– new alt path to take during the coming storm quest, looking for poltrik section, with lewd content too
– in same quest, new way to help out carina instead of putting on a sex show
– characters, scenes, battle enemies, skills, sounds and such for the above two
– new repeatable variants of mika x markus sex scenes, at palam tower
– preg logic for mika: can now get knocked up
– new preg. variants to mika bj, doggy, missionary scenes
– new romantic scene with kiara when traveling in act 2
– balancing tweaks to classes’ skills: inquisitor (erika), berserker (ves), rogue (elena), rogue wolf (elena too), warrior (mc/markus)
– balancing changes to zanarak

smaller additions/tweaks:
– lizards’ gang size is now slightly random: it is not guaranteed to always be increased according to your party size
– chars rejoining party are healed (example: myu or elena during siege)
– during bloodhound resolution, infection gain is disabled to avoid killing player in case of near-100
– plenty choice options reordered (positive topmost, negative bottom-most)
– added mika gallery doggy scene
– added various bits of fluff to deceased characters’ profiles on relationship screen
– added missing hotkeys to navigate some areas
– choice options involving barter attribute check now have an icon
– added missing music to some training battles with mika
– widened some “morning” time checks (mostly for mika questline) to also include dawn
fixes:
– fixed an error related to 2 of the wolf form skills’ description formatting
– fixed fawha at black diamond to now speak to the player about the resolution of the Tarek situation
– fixed kiara being in her wrong “form” after meeting her in the camp
– fixed (more like restored) quick save & quick load functionality: you can now hit F5 and F9 to quicksave & quickload
– fixed wait button flickering between active/inactive when moving between locations
– fixed a bug with worn items removed from player inventory causing errors/crashes
– added an indicator showing steam/nosteam build kind in main menu
– fixed a bug with infection death right at midnight causing an endless death loop
– fixed alot of character expression sprites glitching out: adara, regina, mika, dros, myu, sypha, perhaps more
– fixed (restored) being able to select mika’s clothes for rep. bj scene
– fixed mika gallery bj/missionary scenes displaying wrong stuff or missing variants
– fixed a bug with nyx dominant scene happening in romance route
– fixed a bug with nyx gallery scene
– fixed/improved alot of cinematic stuff all over (character placement, scenes)
– fixed plenty typos all over

other:
– improvements to save update routine
– lots of various backend codework
– improvements to save update routine (namely items will now always be updated on load)
– errors will now have extra data appended for easier debugging
– cleaner mika preg logic (hopefully fixes errors some people had)
– travel map nodes draw order is now top->bottom, fixes visual artifacts
– some notes now have permanent/delayed icons attached for convenience
– almost all item descriptions are now based on their function, not just written out as text (still in progress)
– item containers are now initialized more cleanly and in 1 spot, that should improve save compat reliability – other backend codework

v0.158
Enhanced Visuals: We’ve fine-tuned the graphics to make the world even more immersive.
Smooth Gameplay: Improved mechanics for a seamless experience.
Optimized Performance: Bug fixes and enhancements for all systems.
Rich Storytelling: Additional dialogue and choices to deepen the narrative.

v0.157

1.) DO NOT try and use old saves. Use the quick save feature – delete persistent data if you encounter any strange errors or bugs whilst playing and see if that resolves the issue. Otherwise, please report it in the discord!

2.) There’s a lot of ‘balancing’ issues and things to be sorted due to the sheer amount of changes happening, as well as missing elements yet to be implemented. We will be working on this once the final skills/stats and things are in, very soon!

3.) It’s been a long wait for this update (largely due to the amount of prep for the upcoming steam release) – we plan to fire out some much quicker updates as we get ever closer to the release, including the next major city and continuing the main story!

Big changes:
– prologue overhauled: it is now split into multiple quests, plenty narrative added/changed, new locations, characters & more
– In-depth overhaul of attribute & leveling system
– Battle skills overhauled: a class system & skill leveling is now in place instead of pre-assigned skills
– Changed many choice options to display the required gold/perk/attribute
– Sex infection reduction mechanic overhauled
– Plenty of new items to buy, loot or craft
– Crafting system: Drax now provides crafting services, some new enemies will now drop crafting materials
– New quest, characters, romance & sex scenes (Novaras tanner)
– Battle interface redone (once again) into something better
– new relationship screen & underlying code
– post-battle loot system (by default, everything is looted)
– Battle attributes changed and rebalanced for most of the enemies in the game
– New game changed: it now features a character creation screen
– Potential allies (party characters) had their initial attributes changed
– Perk system (finally) in, only a couple perks actually implemented
– skill checks are a fixed value pass/fail instead of rolls now
– Introduced (and tweaked) xp rewards for all quests
– Seeing sex scenes for the first time now adds experience
– Battle now only adds a very small amt. Of experience for each unique enemy team composition
– Leveling formula changed: you will now reach level ~10-12 on completing most of the current content
– Traveling mode expanded: plenty enemies & encounters (including sexy ones)

Added smaller changes:
– Kylisa can now cleanse the player of corruption
– persistent data and saves will now force-reset between versions
– From Another World quest narrative sequence changed & improved
– censorship option & its code tails removed
– travel map nodes randomize every 1h of game-time
– Intimidation removed
– Wait block on plenty locations, such as shops
– Magic resistance as an attribute removed: it is now a will-derived battle stat
– Attribute descriptions tweaked to be more informative
– Changed styling of items’ desc (attributes given & more) sprites & other assets:
– Nijah bj sex scene changed
– new mc prologue battle anim
– new bandit story artwork
– new shani sprite
– new lucius mal sprite
– new vala sprite
– new kiara sprite
– new divine sprite
– new arlena sprite
– new markus art
– new kennel master art
– new drax art
– new guard art

Fixes:

• All Vizura events have been added to the quickstart
• Magic users were using energy instead of magic during battle, this bug has been fixed
• Elena drunk event bugfix
• Some texts in the battle log have been improved
• Skill Dodge of the Warrior class has been nerfed.
• The Win Battle button is now working stably and no longer crashes the game.
• Some typos that were causing the game to crash have been fixed.

– fixed a bug with infinite character creation attribute points
– auto-battle option is now enabled for all battles except prologue fort tutorials
– fixed transform resetting skills (hopefully)
– fixed a bug with ctd on saving post-slavemaster quest
– fixed a wrong prologue skill ID
– cloak of darkness quest added to quickstart
– transform button is now shown even in battles where you cannot transform
– fixed damzel in diztrezz black diamond scouting section
– Fixed a wrong riddle answer (tree/fire)
– Battle teams rewritten to never bug out anymore
– Markus female gallery scene fixed
– Divine gallery scene fixed
– Thea gallery scene fixed
– Vizura quest tweaks
– Added plenty of missing change relationship calls
– Quest log / notes GUI fixes
– Plenty typos fixed all over the game
– Other smaller fixes

QOL:
– More robust & helpful tutorial messages sprinkled all over the game, shown once as certain conditions are met
– Added a large fonts option
– Added auto map navigation
– Auto battle team fill option
– Notifications when a character joins/leaves party

v0.154
Remaster
-This is only a DEMO: – It is NOT an official update! It only contains the opening prologue, which has been fully reworked and mostly remastered, pending a few character models. The next official release will incorporate all the changes you see, and more, as well as new content! DO NOT DELETE YOUR OLD BUILD!
-There is some light new additional lewd content, alongside new story related content and swathes of improvement to gameplay!
-Improvements are still continuing, this is not the finished product! Stay tuned for the big release!
-The game is planned to enter EARLY ACCESS for the end of Act 1! (Within the next 2-3 updates!)

Well guys, it’s finally here!
A couple things:
-The travel maps mechanic is the last major feature/mechanic to be integrated into the game. From here on out, we’ll just be adding depth to ALL of existing systems and improving on them, such as combat, enemy AI, etc.
-The next focus now, is on (finally) the Mages of Palam quest(s) and wrapping up Captain Nyx for Act 1, before moving on towards finally wrapping up Act 1’s main quests and leaping ahead with the story (with Regina content). We’ve already made a start gathering assets and things already~
-Apologies for the lack of communication on this one, we’ll try get back to our more regular news updates shortly.

As usual, thank you all for your amazing amount of support helping to bring this project alive,
you guys are awesome!
Love,
-The Damned Studios Team
0.153 Changelog:
New stuff:
– Added a traveling system: getting to remote locations has never been this exciting
– Added a travelling merchant you can encounter on your travels (and have fun with)
– New holiday event (with two sexy scenes)
– An assortment of items related to the holiday event
– Adara’s place can be visited (after the holiday event) – Adara can now be “properly romanced” (after the holiday event)
– Three new music themes for the holiday event & travels
– Couple new cinematic sounds
Tweaks/fixes:
– Already-clicked choice options are now slightly greyed-out
– Fixed a small display error in prologue
– Fixed pregnant characters spamming birth and behaving weirdly in general
Translation-related:
Books now won’t crash due to splitting text tags no more
– Fixed a bug with Thea not appearing on quickstart romance option
– Some other smaller fixes

v0.152
N/A

v0.149
content:

– new quest: The Slavemaster. Involves captain Nyx and is unlocked after The Bloodhound quest.

– new sexy scene w/Captain Nyx, happens during The Slavemaster quest.

– 5 adventure guild quests, 4 of which are repeatable.

– two new sexy scenes happening in one of the adventure guild quests. (Please note, the catgirl/catboy rotate weekly during the ‘price of life’ quest.

– new enemies, cgs, backgrounds as parts of the Adventure Guild quests.

– Thea romance content including sexy scenes, unlocked by advancing your Adventurer Guild rank.

– new regina sexy scene, happens after the Dazzling Tail quest.

– new Elena sexy scene, happens later into her romance.

– Myu can now be impregnated. Alt sex scenes are added, as well as some narrative. – new celeste sprite.

– new celeste returning to the city artwork.

smaller changes/fixes:

– numerous smaller fixes to old quests, such as transitions, dialogue, char positions and more.

– healing items can be used in story mode. Only one place where this is relevant as of now.

– books are now items you can carry around and use to read.

– WASD keys can now be used to navigate most of the locations in the game. S leaves most of the city’ buildings. (we’ll have help screen eventually listing all the hotkeys, promise).

– you’re now notified if you’ve succeeded or failed a skill check (or, charm check as of now). – retreat from battle added to demorai hunt & balun exploration.

– Elena facial expressions no longer clipping’ around.

QoL:

– you can now use potions in combat with numpad keys.

– saves can now be named. you can toggle this option on/off in prefs menu.

– double-click-to-proceed is gone for good.

– error screen changed to account for the game’s early stages of development. – combat log can be toggled on and off permanently.

v0.147
– new quest: a tale of two emperors
– a bunch of new characters & scenes as per the quest
– new location as a part of the quest
– new quests, char & lewd stuff if you bring the slime jar with ya during The Bloodhound
– From Another World quest as a part of prologue: act1 now starts at either ves camp if player saved her, or at novaras city if they did not.
– quickstart changed to accomodate for FAW being merged into prologue sequence, added a choice sequence to alter pre-act1 choices
– Para dream sequence tied into Adara Reunion quest: doesn’t rely on weird sleep trigger anymore
– gallery rework: characters as categories, scene variants as additional flags that are saved on being seen
– tons of fixes to existing gallery scenes
– gutted native renpy gui, rebuilt entire ui from the ground-up: main menu, save menu, credits, options
– as part of the above, plenty changes to ui big & small
– massive amount of typos fixed, big thanx to ivann for providing a list of most of these (was it 400+ total?)
– map doesn’t have location names baked-in anymore
– valley of death as a separate location southwards of novaras
– “hunt demorai” moved to VoD
– added missing elena grind + lingerie finish arts – quicksave/quickload with f5/f9
– non-flickering main menu video (finally) & non-bugging-out save thumbnails
– some tutorial popups placed around the game, explaining functionality
– prologue intro stretched on x-axis a bit
– the dark knight lists gangs slain
– Added additional soundtracks
– new adara hug cgs
– replaced some prologue artworks w/better ones
– replaced nijah prologue doggy w/improved one
– prologue revisited, fixed some chars overlappin & other visual hiccups
– chars are shown on a separate layer by default now, as to avoid any vfx overlap
– relationship change lists capitalized name
– also tons of under-the-hood changes & smaller visual ones

v0.146
General:
– world map & travel
– dros romance & corresp. content
– mal’s shop is now working
– church location
– new mc artwork
– black diamond arena
– skill tests, currently used for charisma rolls in quests. Whenever you see one, you’ll see a “drama” icon (two masks). Percentage tells your odds on “passing” the skill test.
– cheat menu replaced with cheat codes

Party battle:
– a bunch of combat sounds
– cancel skill button
– music lists as opposed to fixed tracks
– floating numbers (dmg)

Quests:
– From Another World quest now ends with a tavern scene
– The Dark Knight quest (after From Another World) – The Bloodhound quest (after The Dark Knight)
– A Graceful Rebirth quest (after High Fashion) qol/fixes:
– a bunch of ‘Regina’s replaced with [regina_ref]
– restored accesibility menu (a key)
– restored self-voicing (v key)
– made “goodbye” choices always the bottom-most ones – sometimes waiting would be blocked if ya skip too fast, not anymore (hopefully)
– arwen scenes static placeholders replaced with anims
– bunch of typos/text edits (umicans anyone)
– consistent infection change across any and all sex scenes
– startup disclaimer is a text now, not a picture

0.145 Changelog:
– new character: arwen, a prostitute that cosplays occasionally
– 3 sex scenes (involving arwen).
– 2 (4 variants) cosplay sex scenes involving arwen
– palam tower now has a night music theme
– library has a new background art
– party battle turn counter/side indicator
– party battle ui no longer blinking in/out of existence
– first combat sound: bottle pop, expect more
– options to delete persistent data and saves
– new adventurers guild’ background sprite
– mad prophet wanders about novaras
– new book readable at vala’s
– added small unique scenes in case nijah & elena are at mc’s at the same time
– black diamond not immediately available if you take the bloodbath route, extra scene there
– clothes shop new background & sound (after you bring the power crystal)
– nijah can now be impregnated on vaginal sex
– a bunch of scenes revolving around nijah pregnancy
-lukkan can be found at the tavern every few nights
– extra dialogue lines for nijah post-damzel quest
– new kylisa sprite
– entire ves questline revisited, reworked into separate quests & polished up
– no-lingerie version of ves 69 scene added
– some ves sex scenes improved visually
– ves tent flap soundbank
– adara reunion (“visit her at iron unicorn at night”) turned into a quest, to avoid players getting lost
– Sister Divine dialogue slightly altered to not clog up questlog
– resting now ticks clock per-hour of rest
– resting also plays a clock sound
– you can now rest up to 24h
– “relationship with character changed” now lists char. name
– clock choice icon to indicate events that are gonna take up quite a bit of time
– elena music theme improved – regina story description improved
– vala first meet scene only happens at day
– gallery is now 5 gold per view
– nijah rescue sequence only happens after the “parasite dream”
– sunrise/dusk times tweaked to match those on the ingame day/night circle
– missing nijah house name fixed
– plenty of grammar fixes

-The Damned Studios Team 0.144 changelog: –

-fix: saves breaking after combat

– fix: a bunch of ‘bought’ vs ‘brought’ typos – fix: alea wearing mask proper during her lewd scenes now

0.143 changelog:

– new: thea character (during adventurers guild sequence)

– new: alea & fawha character sprites (during black diamond quest)

– fix: missing ves camp button names – fix: dialogue history causing error

– fix: double click on messages

– fix: relationship char duplicate entry

– fixes: plenty of typos – new: elena the wolf-lady, questline available after completing adara reunion

– new: a bunch of new quests and events revolving around elena

– new: two rep. sexy scenes w/elena

– new: butcher character, curently used in elena’s questline

– new: regina masturbating animation

– new: kiara sprites

– new: helena the courtesan

– new: a bordello helena works in

– new: slightly changed ‘parasite first meet’ cg

– new: gold coin amount interface bit (if player has any)

– new: scrollbars in dialogue history

– new: time frames (dawn, noon etc) are now displayed on the clock

– new: ability to select a choice menu entry with number keys

– new: hotkeys for most of the general interface stuff (not editable yet)

– new: three music themes; babazhul, bandits (nijah questline) and elena

– change: traveling around passes time a bit, so does demorai huntin’

– change: player now has some gold at the start of act1

– change: hunt rewards raised

– change: simplified how sleeping in bed works, as to avoid silly progression hiccups

– engine: moved over to python3 renpy

– engine: reverted .py separation: entire codebase is native .rpy files once again

– engine: while at it, cleaned up & optimized plenty of engine nuances such as init stages

– engine: midnight check for quests/logic

– engine: bare-code groundwork for leveling, pregnancy system, party management system

v0.140
-Nijah romance heavily extended past Damzel quest
– Black Diamond lewd scenes (servant during Damzel quest)
– Sell Nijah option during Damzel quest
– As per feedback, pauses whenever lewd scenes happen
– Gallery scenes tweaked according to
– Novaras market location
– New party battle healing item obtainable from Nijah’ market stall
– Tarek death CGs
– Couple under-the-hood tweaks

v0.137
Engine: – Fix to android (.apk) builds. They now work. Again.
Content: – New Nijah character sprite. – A new quest revolving around Nijah (Damzel in Diztrezz) that you can begin if you visit pleasure district after completing From Another World. Might want to daily-revisit ~twice or so for the event to fire.
Note: this is a first not-quite-linear quest we’ve got. Bring feedback if anything borks up.
– The Black Diamond location. Currently only visited temporarily for the duration of Damzel in Diztrezz quest, will be re-visitable once the quest is finalized & missing assets acquired.
– Three new enemy types: a bandit, a thug, a guard. Currently only used within Damzel in Diztrezz quest.
– Nijah house & some coding scaffolding for her TBA lewd content that is unlocked post ^ quest.
– Applied a quick & dirty visual tweak to sewers battle map.
We’ll most likely change it further down the line. Till then, boosted brightness/contrast should do.
– Added a country-ish street battle map, currently used in Damzel in Diztrezz quest.
– Markus added as a character that you can speak to in his house. Not much there for now, just a consistency’s sake.
– Added a small cozy system playing a random sound from an SFX library. Currently only used for door creaks around the city.
Will come full force when we get to combat sounds. – Added more ‘glowing lights’ VFX to locations. Think we’ve covered all of them.

0.134
fixes a major bug causing quests to bug out.

v0.133
Visuals:
– Artwork replaced with new & improved versions: princess cg, day/night tavern, prologue laboratory
– Tweaked NVL (bunch of text on screen, like when reading books), so that it’s more beautiful.
– Fixed Vala bugging out duplicating herself

Mechanics:
– potions you can use in battle are now taken from your inventory. you can fill your belt slots yourself, or let the system autofill it.

Quests/Progression:
– as per feedback, fixed mismatched ves dialogue
– disabled (fixed) sleeping during prologue
– high fashion quest now properly triggers on entering the shop for the first time
– added lewds gallery: you can find it around novaras pleasure district
– changed hunt bronze reward to lighten the grind
– reworked arlena questline: arlena’s content was most likely not seen by most of the players due to tricky triggers it had set up & it being untracked. it is split into two complete quests and a repeatable romance stage after you beat those.
– added arlena as an interactable character after her introductory quest is complete
– as part of the above, some writing & narrative was added/changed
– cleaned up redundant notes and added a couple more to the journal

Interface:
– implemented new mouse tooltip instead of an obsolete one we’ve used
– as per feedback, added dialogue history screen, top-right textbubble-like button
– sound values now display in options screen
– added new tooltip to the battle, showing skill descriptions
– “censore violence” option moved to options menu as a toggle
– fixed main character’s house interactables positions
– during reworked arlena qustline, you will sometimes see icons representing permanent outcome. these are meant to warn player to think twice, and should be visually self-explanatory. if this idea takes root, we’ll have more of those placed around when appropriate.

Quality of life changes:
– Added party battle skill numbers, these indicate keys you can press to select a skill
– As per feedback, added an ability to cancel combat skill choice. after choosing a skill, press either esc or right mouse button to cancel skill selection
– Added cheat menu player can toggle on/off in options. a top-right flower-like icon, it allows you to add gold & change corruption levels. in battle, open it to access a “win battle” option. not recommended if it’s your first time playing.

Under-the-hood changes:
– Baked kiara prologue scene into a webm: game folder size reduced by 15%, lag it caused is gone
– Tons of background & cg images converted to .webp, cutting game folder size further by ~%20, with this and above, file size optimization is now pretty much complete
– Codebase optimizations

Other:
– Novaras smithy got an ambient SFX loop