Phone Menu Feature Post (Patreon)

Hello.

This very late post is a continuation of Friday's Sequel News, and will go in-depth into some new additions to the phone menu.

After much testing and tweaking, here's the (mostly)final look of what will be added to the phone menu in 0.55 release:

The one thing missing from this is the "outfit" button, but that's because I'm making a separate CG set for it, and it isn't ready yet.

Now, let's go in depth on some of these things.

Contacts

In the contacts menu there's a list of people to contact, and a short list of actions you can do. So far it's not too much, but the "ask the whereabouts" button is very useful, because characters all have different schedules now, and their interactions have been expanded.
So you don't need to remember where to find Ms. Stone on Friday night - you can just text her instead :)

Camera + Wallpaper

As I've mentioned before - the way selfies and wallpapers work has been changed. Now, instead of looking for specific spots to take a selfie, you can use the camera from the menu directly, no matter the location.
There's also another CG set for selfies that includes all Serena's clothes made for this feature.
Old wallpapers won't all be removed, some will stay unlocked by default - and some have turned into event bonuses. After completion of some events Serena will have a new selfie in her collection(there are a few events like that in the game already, but they've been rare so far).

I'm also experimenting with the feature of "Spots of interest only revealed by the camera"

Small example above: The shiny spot is revealed for a few seconds after using the "camera" button to explore Serena's surroundings.

Originally I wanted to use it to search for discreet selfie spots, but I'm not sure how good of an idea that is. It might have other uses too, like having a quest where Serena has to find some quest item in a room or something.

This feature will most likely not be included in the 0.55 release, but maybe it will be developed into something useful in the future.

That's about it for this long technical post.
On Wednesday there will be a Character Roster Update with new bio details, outfits and possibly more, so that will be a more interesting post than this :P
Until then.
Cheers!