v0.4.3 Alpha 1

Hey everyone,
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a nice Holiday, and are ready for more BMO TV.
It's time for v0.4.3 to hit the Alpha stage. I promised to finish it today, and here it is. The main feature, as the poster art suggests, is the finished Gynoid Branch Story. Yes, it is finally done, well... there's still a few small bits missing... I'll be sure to deliver those in the coming days. But let's start with the positive.

If you are on Alpha access ($10 and up), you can now get the Windows standalone version of the game at:

https://www.rel.pink (Download Links)

UPDATE: Some quickfixes have been applies today Jan 4th. Also, Mac and Linux versions have now been added as well.

These past few days were, again, way to stressful for me. I really need to somehow learn how to get a better work-life-balance, but I just feel a pressure to always release a new version every month. Now.. here's what's currently in the branch:

Here's the changelog for v0.4.3:

- new story: Gynoid Branch - Full  Long Story Chapter (around 10k words over several branched story archs)

- new streaming room graphics

- new Himari graphics in hobby room and living room

- opened way in right hallway to tv studio

- tv studio daily wheel of unfortune spin to gain 10 votes

- lo fi background music

- music volume slider setting (new master)

- remove advent calendar (all items freely available, except miss clause -> seasonal reward)

- new himari stamp help

- added contestant help lines to quest list

- tell where the stamp at the end of the schoolgirl branch

- made stamp a bit more visible

- Arrows showing the navigation objects in each room on first enter and on pressing the question button

- reworks for heel mechanics

- added a minimum amount of movements after your last time tripping before which you can't trip

- added a maximum amount of movements after your last time tripping after which you will always trip

- upon tripping and only if there's no other contestant in the room, there's a chance that no attack will be triggered

- reworked the explanation of the show rules

- added explanation on unbalanced nature between the player and the contestants

- added vote highscore in tv studio

- you can now escape the Himari branches by only transforming Himari once with a Dum+

- other contestants now gain daily votes depending on their ingame actions (times transformed player + transformation state sexappeal) (needs heavy balancing)

- you now gain permanent popularity from attacking contestants -> needs balance testing

- you no longer gain 5 votes every day for disqualifying a contestant (contestants will attack each other in the future, and will never be disqualified)

Here's what's currently on the Known Issues and To-Do-Lists, and will be added/fixed to the Alpha in the coming days:

- Bugfixes. Yes this is a looot of new content, and with it come a lot of already known bugs, that I wasn't able to fix. I still wanted to release it as an Alpha.

- Escaping the Branch is not possible, yet.

- Two of the new bad ends are not reachable. There's a bug that hides a bit of content behind it.

- A few of the graphics that were supposed to be displayed during certain events in the branch, are not yet added.

I promise to be adding those things as soon as possible, but right now, I need a day off from working through the last five days. There's already plenty of content in the new Alpha though, so I hope you enjoy it, and report any problems to me in the #alpha-bugreport channel on Discord as always.


Oh and one more thing: The Monthly Clothing Competition on Discord is now going on, and will run until Friday. In this monthly event, all $10 and up subscribers can propose one piece of clothing to be added to the clothes shop next month. Everybody on the server is allowed to vote. So make sure, you put in the outfit of your dreams, and vote for your favourites.

That's it for today! See you soon. I'm off to bed.
Best,
Rel