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v0.7.5 - Smells and Roundabouts

23 Mar 01:06
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Life of the Party promotional art, showing the shadows of two cats, a hyena, and two horses

This is a minor update, which doesn't yet carry with it any new story content, but a lot of minor tweaks to the story engine itself.

🕹️ UI Updates

Typography

  • Backgrounds use a subtle gradient
    • In vore passages, this gradient rotates and undulates!
  • Made the body text a little bigger
  • Commands use a right triangle arrow as a bullet
  • The Help sceen keys use fancy key graphics, inspired by Keyboard CSS
  • Passages now animate left and right as they fade in
  • Update to Twemoji v14.0 😀, so Male!Ren can use the 🫃 pregnant man emoji

The title screen

New achievements UI

  • The Achievements list now uses a emoji-rich table
  • Locked achievements tell you a slight hint about where to look.

A screenshot showing the Achievements table. 9 locked achievements are visible

⛔ Content Warnings

It's important that readers can make an informed decision about the content they choose to read. Out of ignorance, I've made mistakes on this in the past. I've made an effort to improve and standarize the use of Content Warnings within the story text.

  • Reinstated a lot of messages I removed previously
  • As a convention:
    • Content warnings below or inside the commands list refer to upcoming content.
    • Content warnings at the top of a passage refer to the current passage.

Content warning: Accidental digestion. Casual vore. Girl with penis. Masturbation. Revoked consent. Unwilling digestion. Willing prey.

Hints

  • Some commands give hints about where a path will lead.

Go outside. (Smells like… hyena?) Go to the bathroom. (Smells like… bear.) Go to the garage. (Smells like… fox.)

Behind the scenes

  • The order of passages in "Dance a little" (the living room scene) is now completely deterministic, which should hopefully be a little less confusing.
  • Minor stability tweaks to the engine
  • Twemoji graphics now get loaded behind the scenes when you're not looking, which should make the reading experience much smoother.

Full Changelog: v0.7.0c...v0.7.5d

v0.7.0 – The Sauce Route, ft. Nikki and Nox

11 Sep 04:15
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Minimalist artwork of two cats in formal attire, each holding a mouse. One is smiling and dangles the mouse from his paw, the other appears neutral.

The Sauce Route, ft. Nikki and Nox 🍹🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐁🐁

  • New story route – 9,000 more words! 70 more passages!
  • Againstt your beptter judgement, you drink five solo cups of vodka-spiked fruit punchc, and get suuuper blackout drunsk.
  • You wake up in the kitchen with a wicked hangover and temporary amnesia.
    • Thankfully, some good samaritans looked after you: meet Nikki the Cat, and her voyeuristic twin sibling, Nox.
    • Nox produces a mouse, and they urge you to swallow her.
  • CW: Alcohol abuse. Threats of violence. Sadism. Player as pred (optional).

Other story updates 📖

Zen ending

  • Rewrote the Zen ending, to hopefully be less pretentious and nonsensical (5768604).

Byron route

  • Rewrote Byron's epilogue to be even more pretentious and nonsensical (e152845).
  • Byron's dialogue is now rendered in Times New Roman, instead of loading Tinos externally (590b88d).
    • This should hopefully speed up loading a little.

Ren route

  • Ren's cellmate Xander ¢hanged to u$e a new $peaking quirk (176b8bd).
  • Ren describes Hollis as being agender, and uses a custom emoji (agender pride flag) for this. (5c59e5d, ab14301)

Misc changes

Hotfix v0.7.0b

Because my testing/proofing department consists only of a bored hyena mashing keys rabidly, a couple bugs slipped into the build. This version fixes them, although there may be more. Special thanks to Trebortron3, author of An Angel Next Door, for bringing both of these to my attention.

  • Fixed two instances where Nikki and Kaia's dialogue wasn't styled properly (1b55275, 692e9a8)
  • Fix a paragraph in the "Oww! Getoutgetout!"/"Nikki: Gulp." passage where the paths are accidentally swapped, to confusing results (4c9ef39)

Hotfix v0.7.0c

  • Fixed a bug where iOS devices would play music regardless of whether sound is disabled. (c1513b2)
  • Removed several Content Warnings were only jokes or spoilers. (b4c702d)
    • I still think "CW: A dude's butt in your face" and "CW: Peer pressure" are pretty funny, but they strike me as slightly out of place?
  • Resolved an issue where following some "Restart" links didn't reset the story state. (dc25ac1)
  • Some minor typo fixes in Byron's route. (1b07558)
    • Fixed a silly continuity error. At the very end he would mutter about how he hopes nobody stole his guitar, which is nonsense because he's had it with him the entire time.
  • Fixed some other typos. (c9a4d3f, 252b590)

v0.6.6 - The Fix is In (Hotfix)

27 Jul 00:16
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This revision only serves to fix an embarrassing typo in the Byron route that I definitely should have noticed while proofreading.

Minor fixes

  • Fixed an instance where Male!Byron's pronouns weren't adjusted, leading to "He pats her gut." (commit 348d590).

v0.6.5 – Bear With Me 🐻

08 Jul 23:23
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Minor story changes 📖

Hazel Gently (boy version) 🐻

  • If desired, Hazel's gender can now be swapped to male.
  • As usual, this choice only affects pronouns, and nothing else.
  • Minor style tweaks to her epilogue.

Other minor fixes

  • Fixed a typo in Ren's route where his font quirk did not apply.
  • The unfinished "Grab some punch" option no longer links to a non-existent passage.

Interface update 🕹

  • Achievements have been renamed and restyled.
  • Updated "Enable Sound" text.
  • Fixed a bug where sounds would never stop after restarting.

v0.6.0 - Anyway, here's Wonderwolf. 🐺

01 Jul 03:36
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Story changes 📖

The Byron Route 🐺

At every party, there's someone who brings a guitar and proceeds to dazzle the room with four chord progressions. Meet Emmet/Emily Byron, a narcissistic jerk 𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟 with facile, pretentious ideas 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 and mediocre 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 guitar skills.

  • Hang around the living room for a bit, and strike up a conversation. Just don't get too close.
  • CW: Negging. Threats and violent coercion. Unwilling vore. Minor blood. Rapey subtext.

Other changes

  • The Zen Ending is now 120% more Zen.

Stomach sounds 🔊

  • The game now includes a (highly experimental) engine for playing background sounds such as:
    • Stomach grumbles.
    • Ambient noises.
    • Zen sounds.
  • It's muted by default, to avoid surprising you.
  • So far, this applies to vore scenes, and some of the epilogue scenes.
  • This also might not work. Let me know if it doesn't.

Interface update 🕹

  • Passage links now use nice big buttons.
  • Several tweaks for improving use on mobile devices:
    • Buttons are bigger and easier to press.
    • The Broom Closet Ending now requires less tapping.
    • Adjusted font size on smaller screens.

Misc/stability tweaks:

  • Twemoji loading is faster and more reliable.

v0.5.0 - The Garage Route

09 Jun 01:10
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Changelog

The Garage Route 🛻

  • Meet Ren Davis, a 🦊 with an 😃 upbeat attitude and a knack for 💰💎 "borrowing".
  • Assist in 🦹 crimes! Flee the 🚔 cops! Get 🥱 eaten!

Script changes 📖

  • Updates to Ana's epilogue.
    • Now with 50% more poops!
  • New look for text conversation in Lacey's epilogue
  • Fixed several bugs and typos.
    • Probably created some new ones.

Interface updates 🕹

  • New title screen
    • Updated Help menu, including credits.
    • Download HTML to play offline.
  • Keyboard controls no longer use arrow keys, because it broke some stuff.
  • Emojis are now displayed using the Twemoji character set.
  • This ensures consistency across devices.

Life of the Party v0.4.2

09 Jun 01:10
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Changelog:

  • Fixed bug which caused passage fade transitions to break when activated too quickly
  • Corrected some minor bugs and typos in the script
    • Ana no longer calls Hollis "Holly", as she doesn't know them.
    • Fixed a broken passage link when backing out of interactions with Basil.

Life of the Party v0.4.1

25 Jan 00:02
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The first version-controlled release of LotP in a new repository.

  • Migrated Twine 2 game to a version-controlled Tweego project