Cozy Atmosphere

Hello! Since November should bring a bit of chill everywhere, I hope all of you will get to enjoy a warm cup of hot chocolate or tea in preparation of the holidays.

Since Friday I've been brainstorming how I can get past Unity's limitations and I've figured out a way that should make cutscenes more stable, the only challenge left is to make sure they will work fine even when we're in skip mode in the conversations.

Here are the other tasks:

• Prepare the challenger event in the bar by adding the scenes in and making sure the dialogue flows smoothly. Added this to the game, but might need to draw an extra sprite for it. By the end of the week it should be "playable".

• Prepare an... not sure how to call it without spoiling, but basically there's another animation that I need to add into the bar this month. Likewise, by the end of the week this should be in.

• Fix any bugs that come up and release a hotfix with all of them by Friday. I'm aware of one critical bug so far I've not managed to reproduce even with the save file from the reporter, which is, Amani gets stuck in the classroom in Day2 at the ISA. It might be a race condition causing this and hopefully with any potential assistance from the reporter I'll find the root cause and make sure it won't happen again, strange thing is that it happens specifically in that cutscene which makes me think maybe a previous cutscene didn't end successfully causing an overlap.

Those are the main ones, but I'm also working on the post-village ISA content. I want to start writing dialogues soon for the inside ISA content, and I need to do a render for the scene for the quest "Water Contamination", which once finished will be our signal that we can move on towards the Hub/the City.

I'd also like to make a public release this week, but we'll see how it goes. Have a nice week!