V0.86 News || Gallery/Flowchart poll || endings || some stuff

Hi folks ! I am officially back from my job stuff.

I'm back now, and I've got the rest of the month free from my job to work on those exciting updates! But there's also some things we need to discuss and a decision to make :)

V0.86

This update will continue moving the main story forward and includes another juicy POV event :) Right now, I'm planning to release it on the 15th of July.

Main Story/Endings

Story-wise, we're pretty much at the end before diving into endings (V0.9XX). There are only a couple of updates left. I plan to do them just like the Iris/General story divergence, one after another. Ending events will be accessible from the flow chart for a while, and later on, I'll stitch them into the game.

Before I start creating those endings, here are a few things I plan to do before that happens:
- include all intended POV scenes
- improve first events of the game
- rework main menu UI
- add proper changelog to main menu
- add save rename feature
- add announcements during gameplay ("new pov scene available in gallery")
- add double click for android version in Flow Chart gallery events (so that people can check conditions of events easily instead of holding and swiping events)
- add some tutorial messages like swipe up on the phone to see CGI without text, or how to use flow chart etc.

I didn't plan on adding POV scenes when I first started the project, but I think they're a fantastic addition. They let people enjoy the voyeuristic aspect of the story while also giving those who prefer a direct perspective the chance to experience events from another character's viewpoint.

POV wise there are still around 5-6 events left to do, some longer some shorter.

Gallery / Flow chart

Since I added Flow Chart I noticed that a lot of people don't even know what it is and still a lot of people are asking for unlocked saves or they have issues unlocking gallery scenes (despite walkthrough being integrated into flow chart and unlock all cheat being there).

I think the reason is that 'Flow Chart' is not a popular feature in VN's and people simply don't know what it is, so they just use 'Gallery' to check their progress.

So to fix this, I think I should rename 'Flow Chart' to 'Gallery' and remove the old 'Gallery' button in the main menu. This way, people looking for their progress will be taken directly to the Flow Chart rather than to the Gallery. It should reduce confusion and show people that the game has integrated both a walkthrough and cheat to unlock everything for those who don't want to replay the game every update.

So for this I want to ask you guys how you see it and thus poll.

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That's all from me today. That's for reading that wall of text :)