Broken & Loved 0.9.9.7 - Slice of life update part 3

Three months of no updates after declaring that we were really close to release... the thing about life is how inpredictible can be and how this has affect us lately, specially for Sack... first allow us to tell what really happened during this time, and why this update was delayed so much.

Sack's issues...

Hello, Sack here! I know that it has been a very problematic update, mainly for us as developers because it had to be delayed quite a lot for reasons beyond our control, unfortunately I am still a person with a very weak immune system and from time to time I need to stop due to illness, however the reason why this time it was more "problematic" was because due to some body pains that prevented me from even sitting for long periods of time, I ended up Having some medical tests where there was the possibility of a variety of autoimmune diseases, I don't want to go into much detail but I want to be transparent, I have been adapting my routine for 4 months due to my medical problem that has been very complicated for my entire family, we had to change my habits and even the place where I sleep to be able to settle in better, I have been weaker and sometimes my body only slept 14 hours straight because of this, the doctor insists that it is still my duty to rest until december. In the good news of the whole matter it turned out to not be something very difficult to treat and although I still have to maintain exams and medication, at the time I wrote this message I am in stable health and I was finally able to finish the update, I hope everyone can enjoy the new Sprites and the GUI additions, we both put a lot of effort into it despite our personal difficulties and we greatly appreciate the support and patience that you have always given us ^-^

As for Jac

I have been somewhat okay, dealing with depression as usual but functional, however, we had floodings on the region were I live, red alerts and evacuations, I didn't leave my house to keep an eye on my PC and protect the house, gladly the flooding didn't affect us directly, I can't celebrate because the region was really affected by this, a lot of people have their houses flooded. I didn't lost so much work time on these alerts but it really threatened the project, I made tons of backups due to this.

That being said, due to Sack's condition I had a lot of time to work on the programming side of the game, I made overhauls, I clean the code and made some visual improvements for the GUI, more on that down below.

New character sprites

Sack has redraw all the sprites for the game, now Evangeline and have better quality sprites and their design has change (We think for better).

Evangeline (Shown previously as a teaser) now has bigger breasts and a new face, she is less sleepy but more motive, from showing ho happy she is to show up her anxiety, her emotions are now stronger with the reworked expressions. The erotic scene will be also changed for the last beta, matching her new breast size, face and body.

Female-Rei (MC) now shows both of her eyes, although her left eye is still somewhat cover, her face has become less softer and more playful, matching her personality.

Male-Rei is now more "cute" (On Sack's words), having a sharper face that matches his female counterpart. As for his naked body, well, he is now way more toned and bigger.

Inter/Futa-Rei is the one that strays farther away from Male-Rei and Female-Rei, with a more rounded face and more gentle expressions, this matches her personality better because she is naturally the most shy of the main characters variations.

For both of the girls she has a more toned body when naked and her jacket is less stiff to show better their curves. When it comes to their design on underwear, Female-Rei has thick thighs while Futa-Rei has a bigger hip gap and of course, a buldge.

All characters have expressions match their old designs expressions, almost one to one.

For those who feel nostalgic or just prefer their previous designs, you can change the designs with one click on the main menu.

GUI overhaul

A lot of improvements that I had planned for the last beta are now done. I made a lot of coding which remove chunks of unnecessary coding and assets, specially colored images that now are colored by coding.

Now there is an animated background that changes depending on the theme.

A new font added that fits the game better (+ minor change: the textbox has been re-shape).

There is a character selection screen for new playthroughs.

Now I feel better about the visuals when it comes to the GUI, the game now looks more legit, stepping out of the default Ren'Py GUI visuals. There are some improvements planned for the last beta but after these months, I completed most of the GUI improvements for the game.

New set of events at Rei's apartment

The new events consist on sleepovers at Rei's apartment, depending in which date it is there will be some groping or even sex, with some unique dialogues for the location. This event also defines the movie genre that Rei likes, a base for the cinema events planned for the plus expansion of the game. But so far, this is the last writed content, future content will be artwork.

There are some new interactions sprites planned for this event, mini-CGs part of a set that will be made for the dating events. We were unable to make it in time, it will be made for the Last Beta... speaking of which.

The Last Beta

This beta is not going to be available for Patrons, only for buyers at Itch.io because this beta will be almost identical to the retail version minus some bugs, so, the version almost completed of the game before the release.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Anyone who give us +$10.00 in their life time is going to receive a copy of the game on Itch.io, which will grant a copy of the game on Steam, so, before buying the game wait for us to send you the code. We are planning to send all the remaining codes just before the last beta, so, stay tuned.

I'm tired, sleepy and my body hurts, the same for Sack although she has better reasons for it, it has been rough months for both of us (She has it worse tho), we are deeply sorry for taking so long to finish this update, we are going to set up the Steam page, hope we don't get rejected and work in the last beta, after almost five years the game will be completed, thank you so much for your support~ <3

Changelog:

• New set of sprites for Rei and Evan.
• - New event: Sleep over at Rei's apartment.
• - Rei can established which movie genre they like the most.
• - Sex scenes at Rei's apartment with their respective dialogues.
• Overhaul for the GUI;
• - Fully animated game-menu backgrounds, one for each theme.
• - Changed the color of the GUI for each theme, now it matches the new sprites.
• - New font that match the aesthetic of the game.
• - New textbox.
• - The information screen now is animated in a better way.
• - New splash-screen showing the software used to develop the game.
• - - Patrons are now credited in the "About" section on the main menu.
• Two new songs from Purrple Cat for Evangeline's events, also now music cycles.
• Added an information window showing stats of each sexual encounter (Appearing after finishing said encounter).
• Multiple fixes and code optimization, multiple files were removed and change by code-generated displayables.

Version 0.9.9.7.1:

• Multiple fixes for the translation files of the new events, from missgendering Evan to crashing related to misspelled variables. Most of these fixes made by [ŦŘỮŦĦ_ĆƗŘĆŁ€] at Discord.
• Fixed the background of the sex scene when it takes place at Rei's apartment.
• Fixed one of the expressions for Evangeline.
• Fixed duplicated text message when Rei and Evan are chatting.
• Added missing translation lines.

Known issues:

• Some quick menu-buttons have wrong colors.
• Some misspelling dialogues.
• The information screen jitters slightly sometimes.