I've spent the last week finishing off 0.3 and it's basically done now. A little bit of spit and polish this evening and then the early access release will be available tomorrow. This time I've let the proof reader do their thing on an early version, so there shouldn't be a litany of embarrassing spelling and grammar errors that are then latched out for this one.

Most of the last week was spent completing the animations and sound effects. The animation count went up significantly and I signed up to a new sound effects service to get access to more vocal effects as the selection I was using were probably starting to get a bit repetitive. I only did that about half way through adding in effects this time, so they start appearing later on in this update.

I think I can do the sex scenes sound effects better by actually adding the effects to the animations, rather than having renpy play them attached to a new speech line. I'll need to experiment a bit, but it's difficult because I don't know at what pace someone is going to read through these scenes and so don't know how best to position the sound effects so they don't fire off too quickly or too slowly.

Patch notes for 0.3 are as follows:

Added the 2nd Cartographer's Guild mission.

Fixed a crash related to skipping Isabella's romance content.

Fixed the max score counter for aberrant gnosis, Emelia, Lilly and Sarah being too high.

Added a correction in to make sure that the max score is set correctly for existing saves.

Updated the character galleries - added in character sheets and galleries for Saga, Felsia, Xanthe and Kaisa. These will unlock once you complete the missions that you encounter them in game. I also adjusted the position of the buttons to access character sheets for non-romanceable characters to the bottom row.

For these characters I created a new version of the character sheet, one that can I can easily update to add in lore and info, whereas previously the character sheets were all fixed images that I could not really update unless I edited and replaced the image. All the old characters are using the old format still, I intend to migrate them for 0.35.

Added in an explanation of the alignment system to the codex screen.

Fixed a few spelling and grammar errors.

The update stats are:

Approx 12500 words of story.

Approx 2200 lines of scripting.

56 sprites, 1 fixed image and 42 animations (approx 11.5 minutes) of Emelia added.

10 sprites and 1 animation of the player (there are several fixed images that he is also shown in).

10 sprites and 3 fixed images of Kaisa.

8 sprites and 2 animations of Xanthe.

11 sprites, 14 fixed images and 4 animations of minor characters.

25 backgrounds and 4 animated backgrounds.

I'll add the early access link for tier 3 patrons in a separate post tomorrow. The public release will be next Wednesday.