August 3rd Bug-Fixing Build

Note: By making this blog post, I am pushing the previous one downwards and out of sight. That’s kind of sad, since the previous blog post was important, and I was hoping that a lot of people would get to see it. Please give it a look!

There was a bug in the previous build that had a pretty significant impact on the game’s framerate. I felt really bad about this, so I’ve decided to upload a new build where the bug is fixed.

(In addition to that, I also made a ton of script optimizations that might result in this build giving you a higher FPS than any previous build of the game! I’d be interested in learning if you notice vastly improved performance in this build!)

To read a list of everything that was changed or fixed in the latest build, please scroll down past this chilling artwork of Ayano by Denzel Adobas!

Improvements

• During the “choose your response to the guidance counselor” sequence, it is now possible for the player to use the arrow keys to control the target icon instead of being limited to the WASD keys.
• Replaced the protagonist’s laughing animations with new ones, since the old ones (originally created in 2014!) were extremely low-effort and low-quality.

Fixed

• If the player used a manhole cover tool or a crowbar to open a manhole cover, and the weapon had been used for murder earlier in the day, the weapon would immediately be disposed of the moment that it was used to open the manhole cover. This was unintentional. This bug has been fixed.
• If the player got an Achievement while in the street scene (such as the “collected all panties” achievement) the “Achievement Unlocked” camera would conflict with the other cameras, leading to bizarre visual effects. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed bug that was causing the game to perform a gamepad check on every frame (except only the frame where the player plugged in a gamepad) which was drastically harming the FPS.
• If the player used the manhole cover to dispose of a weapon, the player would become unable to conceal any weapon for the rest of the day. Oops! This bug has been fixed.
• Because the gardening club’s props were re-arranged, the Gardening Club members’ animations stopped being properly aligned with the environment. This has been corrected.
• Due to a bug, the “Evil Photographer” in the insane asylum stealth mission was not moving or saying his voice lines. This bug has been fixed.
• Made numerous of improvements and optimizations to a variety of different scripts that should help to improve game performance.
• The Light Music Club girls were wearing the wrong hair accessories. Whoops! This has been corrected.