Build 09.11.24 (v0.5.4) release notes

Hello dear players!

A new update has been released which again brings a bunch of quality of live improvements.

This release also features a new interior location for the fishing store (Bait-N-Tackle), no more buying outside the store heh. We will eventually expand the fishing system and with that, the items you can purchase.

Among the QOL improvements, we now have the ability to play music soundtracks per location, so we've added a few just to showcase this feature.

Also there is now support for playing alternate versions of a soundtrack depending of time of day (day vs night).

Lastly, we turned the little notice widget in the main menu into a news feed, so we can display any other notes of interest for you there. Starting with our roadmap board which is now public, you can find it in the game's news feed, or for you readers, can find it right here.

Alright, those are the highlights, here are the full release notes:

GAMEPLAY

+Added new interior location for the fishing store and its new original BG.

+Fishing Rod item is no longer a quest item so it can be sold.

+Added some missing facial expressions for Neruko's cat form.

+Made the sewers manhole entrance more visible by adding a VFX on it so players can easily spot the entrance (hopefully).

+Minor fixes on intro dialogue

ENGINE

+Improved engine initialization, properly catching any errors during load time and displaying the errors instead of being stuck in "Loading..."

+Added support for music soundtracks per location.

+Added support for alternate versions of a soundtrack per daytime (ie. day vs night).

+Engine now triggers a music check when the daytime changes (ie. transition from day to night), in case the current location has an alternate music track for that particular daytime.

+Music checks will now verify first if the current location has a specific music track before playing the default city roaming soundtrack.

MUSIC & SFX

+Added new night theme for the city roaming music soundtrack.

+Added new soundtrack for the grocery store. (Thanks to Timmy for finding this one)

+Added new soundtrack for the hotel. (Thanks to Timmy for finding this one)

+Added new soundtrack for the nightclub. (Thanks to Timmy for finding this one)

+Added new soundtrack for the sex shop. (Thanks to Timmy for finding this one)

+Added a phone vibration SFX when you receive a phone notification.

UI

+Added news feed to the main menu.

+Added link to our roadmap on the news feed.

EBIKO

+Minor improvements on some of Ebiko's event dialogues. (Thanks to Timmy for making these changes in the game by himself)

BACKEND

+Added support for news feed that can be configured and reflected in the game.

Thanks for reading, cheers!

-Hayashi