New Year's Day(e) v0.6.1 Release!

Hey, Everyone!

It’s been about a week since I released chapter 6 into the wild, and the response has been good overall.

Aside from different opinions, I received a bunch of help pointing out bugs and errors leftover from my own idiocy in combining the game folders from chapters 5 and 6.

I have now fixed those mistakes and blurry images, and I have added a gallery for your viewing pleasure.

I hope you enjoy v0.6.1. If I don’t hear back about a bunch of mistakes on this build, I will bump the rev to v1.0 and call it done.

There shouldn’t be any issue with saves breaking, but if there is let me know and I’ll post a new save game. 

**EDIT**

OLD SAVES WILL NOT WORK. 

Download the new 0.6.1 save game I posted. Drop it in your saves folder. It will drop you at the same place as before - just before the final dream sequence in chapter 5. The other option is to start a new game. Sorry for the trouble.

And if you want to rename "Randall" after you load the save, press shift+O to open the console. Then type the following to change the names:

mcname = "whatever first name you want" and press [Enter].  Example: mcname = "Chris" 

mclname = "whatever last name you want" 

If you want to rename Charlotte, do the same thing except her variables are: 

First name - char 

Nickname - charnn 

Last name - mcl

For those of you who are most of the way through the game, once you reach the absolute end (past the credits), all of the images will be unlocked.

TO ALL THE CHELSEA FANS!!! I’m sorry she didn’t get a scene in NYD. I know you’re disappointed. I am too. I started to try to bring her into the fold in chapter 4, but…it just seemed out of character for her to become a fully realized LI at that time. Plus, the story was already weighed down with a lot of plot lines (some of which may have been unnecessarily crazy in retrospect). I didn’t want Chelsea to seem like an afterthought. She’s too sweet for that. She’ll show up in the future. Her arc is in full swing; it just hasn’t crested yet.

One last thing: I have read a lot of comments over the past week, and it seems like some people may be confused by the relationships within the game. I can only deduce that this is because people have been playing with different mods installed. Any mod that alters the relationships will most likely cause confusion towards the end of the story. I strongly encourage you to not use mods in order to experience the story as it was originally intended.

Note: I love modding games and fully support the modding community. I've been modding games myself since the Escape Velocity Nova days (shout-out to my old-school Mac gamers!), and I run Skyrim and Fallout 4 with dozens of mods installed — I'm not a stranger to this, and I love what the modding community does. But sometimes the original experience really is the more balanced, more coherent one. In my opinion, this happens to be one of those cases.

Now. With these bug fixes behind me, I can really start to focus on Charlotte and Bobby. I’ve missed them!

Love y’all.

~ Jonesy

TL;DR Changelog:

• Fixed several blurry/pixelated images

• Fixed minor coding issues with Becky’s room

• Added Gallery 

• Corrected various typos

Downloads:

Windows/Linux

Mac

Android

Save Game (Drops you off just before the Heather Dream in Ch. 5)