I'm Back.

Happy Spring Festival!

I really want to thank all the friends who reached out with kind words during my mourning period. It truly meant a lot to me. I think I'm slowly starting to move past the grief, and that wouldn't have been possible without your support and encouragement.

I just got back from the airport to my messy little work studio and did a quick tidy-up.
Sixteen hours on a plane is no joke, right?
Wow... honestly, after more than a month away, it's gotten even messier—and no one's even been here?

Okay, let's get back on topic. I want to share some things with you about... some new content coming in the future!
(Forgive me—I can't just whip up a full new version of the game overnight, so for now I'll just share some progress that's already been made.)

First off—there's always visual iteration with every update.
As shown in the image:

With help from another game developer, I finally updated my ancient lighting plugin. It took me quite a while to get used to the new features and tweak my lighting settings.
Sure, technically it's just a plugin upgrade that skipped a few dozen versions, but everything felt completely different—I had to re-familiarize myself with lighting options I probably should've known by now.

It looks better now, doesn't it? I've been studying daytime lighting, which means our characters won't be stuck in indoor or nighttime scenes forever. After lots of tweaking, it's finally starting to look roughly how I imagined it.
So yeah, look forward to seeing it in action in 0.3? I always want to bring something new to the table, which means I spend a lot of time researching and learning instead of actually developing. I'm sorry about that.

Next up—I want to introduce you to our brand new terminal features!

Terminal feature showcase:

Wallpaper feature showcase:

Characters feature showcase:

New Gallery showcase:

Right now, it has four functions, and I'm planning to add more down the line. Why in the future? Because I'm running low on dev power—just building this with my developer nearly killed me.
For someone with zero coding knowledge like me, this has been the biggest experiment and breakthrough in this whole new version.
Sure, it might seem pretty simple right now, but I've got some bold ideas. Maybe I'll bring them to you in future updates.

Anyway, I'm Back.

JasonTon