v0.4.2 is here! (Patreon)

So I really wanted to start this post with a passage from Last Christmas, you know... with Stiffness instead of Christmas... but then I remembered that I didn't even like the song and... ah well.. I didn't really manage any other "good" wordplays... so here we are... great talk.

Anyways, that's not why you are here. You want to play the new version of BMO TV, right? Well, oh boy, do I have a hell of an update for you.

Get the links here: https://www.rel.pink

If you get an error message during unpacking, don't worry, it should still work. I'm just using a new way to pack the zips automatically because of the larger file sizes (a lot of new stuff). But so far nobody had problems with unzipping apart from the message popping up in 7zip.

Here are the main features of this new version:

Advent Calendar

Every day until Christmas Eve, you will be able to open up a package in the living room. Find the package with the number of the day, and inside you will find a new piece of clothing for you to keep forever. It will unlock on the store, even for your next playthrough. There are a few sparkling package only for Alpha testers, that will unlock on the beta tier on December 25th.

This whole thing is a big thanks from me to the community. I love advent calendars. They are great to get into that Christmas spirit. I have a whiskey tasting one on my table this year, and I have been making one for my wife every year since I can remember. So this year, since you've been so awesome to me, I wanted to do one for you all. It was very stressful to get it all done, but it's all worth it if you'll enjoy the experience and don't peek before it's time! Happy Holidays!

New Asylum Stories

The main new story content this patch are the Asylum stories. During Halloween last month we went on a lot of ghost trains in the Prater in Vienna and that inspired me to write a few weird stories. If you want to know how to trigger them, you can check the Walkthrough. These are dark twisted (non-sexual) bad endings, that'll haunt you in your sleep. I'm really happy with how they turned out audio-visually as well, so be sure to check them out. And yes, for all those people who are sensitive when it comes to stories about mental health, there is a warning in-game. Be sure to keep your eyes open. 

New TV Studio

Just a few days ago I got the awesome new graphics for the tv studio, and spend a whole morning animating all the little lights. I love the end result. Hopefully it'll make the end-of-week shows less of a pain for your characters. ;)

New Abigail Pool Graphics

So here's a bit of new information. Last month I had planned on getting our main character artist Awn a full occupation position, but it turns out that either he doesn't understand what that means, or he just doesn't have the time for it. So, I reached out to a friend of mine, who is an awesome illustrator, and got her into a contract for the in-world NPC characters and scenes. There is no language barrier there, and she does an awesome job. She is of course a little bit more expensive, but she's also way faster. So this month, she did a few tests and finished the Abigail pool graphics. She's still finding the rhythm with the art style so please be a little bit patient for now, but I think starting around january, the NPC art pipeline should become a lot better.

Unlockables

Last but not least, because I had already implemented the concept of "Unlockable Clothes" for the Advent calendar, I took it one step further and implemented clothes for a lot of the bad endings of the game. Now, when reaching certain bad endings, you will see a popup notification, that'll tell you that certain clothes have been unlocked. You'll be able to buy these in the shop for all future playthroughs on the same device.

One more quick explanation on the WebGL version. For the longest time of the Alpha stage it looked like I wasn't even able to produce any working WebGL build anymore, but luckily today I found a solution in reducing the graphics quality of the player character on that platform. It's not loading anything when it has to handle large amounts of graphics, so it's either that or no version at all. Thing is though, it also means that building takes an hour now, because Unity has to import different graphics for everything for both platforms so I'm probably not going to do WebGL Alpha versions in the future, but hey... at least it works again, yay.

Wow... this month was a pain in the ass. I'll be honest, it was a lot more work than I should do, but I really enjoy giving presents more than anything, so this is a special version for me.

Hope you enjoy the patch. Let me know what you think. I hope you understand that I'll have to take a few days off after the crunch of the last days. It's the FFXIV Endwalker release anyways. ;)

Best,
Rel

Changelog:
- WebGL Savegame Download
- Added Tasks to Questlist (incl. Erica Tasks)
- All Eight Lab Explosion Outcomes, including four new bad endings
- Lab Quest Notebook will now only be visible for x seconds every day, depending on Player IQ
- Lab Quest Available Days reduced to 5
- Unlockable Content: Reaching Bad Endings Now Can Unlock Clothes for future playthroughs
- New TV Studio Graphics
- Abigail now correctly stops you when tinkering with the paint bottles at night
- Himari/Abigail will no longer interfere with Attacks when they have become your ally
- Himari/Abigail will no longer take away the ladder when they have become your ally
- Himari/Abigail will now loose Ally status when you attack them or they catch you manipulating their stuff
- Gynoid Branch: Disabled Ability to Disqualify Abigail
- reworked a lot of old clothes
- removed ability to gain relationship with Katelyn for content in v0.4.4
- Added content unlocks to all branches:
fluffy jacket, schoolgirl outfit, robotic high heels, fluffy babydoll, asylum crop top, long pink home dress
- Christmas Special: Advent Calendar (only available until next patch, won't be available on free version)
- Reworked Abigail's Pool graphics
- added shoes and underwear to asian paths
- removed mouse click from reaction minigame
- Several smaller and bigger changes that I forgot to write down
- Reduced main character graphics quality on WebGL to reduce size