Hiya! Build 0.12 is out! Six days earlier than planned, too.

This update adds the option to refuse to follow Ted into the cave, which gives one more ending for this route. All I can say is that it has a very different tone compared to the previous endings. With that, the Accept - Ted route is fully finished!

The VN part of this update is 15,000 words long, the longest update I've done so far. In addition, nine new side stories have been added which all total up to 14,000 words. So that means in total, this update is 29,000 words!

Three of the side stories are available as long as you have the Extras menu unlocked. Those are for Jeffrey, Caleb, and Parker. The other six are unlocked by both getting an ending from following Ted into the cave, as well as getting the ending from refusing to follow him. This set of six delves into Caijoru's past.

Other things that have been added are one new music track (I wanted to add more but wasn't able to unfortunately) and some new expression sprites. I've also made the in-game buttons easier to push on the Android version. I've reworked and tweaked a few things as well to hopefully make some of the development side of things easier moving forward.

Also, I want to give a shoutout to Rockspecht for figuring out a tricky piece of code that I was struggling with. The solution ended up being weird due to some of Ren'py's quirks.

On the bug side of things, I decided to change how I separate the different versions of the update. Ren'py, however, can be very finicky sometimes. The result was that for several of the versions, saves past a certain point in the story would either cause errors when loaded, or they would rewind to a specific earlier point for no apparent reason. It also had the effect that the VN would not save what text you had and hadn't seen, and it wouldn't save what side stories you did and didn't have unlocked. The solution that I found was to copy all of the text in the file I was working on, delete all of it, and then paste the exact same text back in there again. I have no clue why that worked, but it did. Ren'py is strange. I've spent the past five hours playtesting since then to try to make sure everything is working properly now, and at least on my end, it seems to be. If you have any issues with saves breaking or anything like that, let me know and I'll try to find a solution.

Oh yeah, I did end up noticing four minor typos while playtesting. Due to how many issues I was having when compiling these builds, I decided to just leave them in there for now rather than going through the headache of trying to get everything working again. Those typos will be fixed in the next update.

Next update will be for the Accept - Daren route. My goal is to finish off that route within the next update, though I have no idea how that will end up going. We shall see!

Anyways, I hope you all have a great day!