hello hello and happy sunday,

Chop Shop - Episode Three is now available! (+ 86,000)

• Get your first taste of the underground car scene.
• Meet some other players in the game.
• Be made an offer.
• 5 achievements up for grabs!
• And more!

This update comes with a patch and UI refresh (Version 1.1.2) Notes are below. If preferred, you can access them in game in the start menu.

STORY

EPISODE 01:

• MC should now be able to smoke! Buying cigarettes at the shop was not triggering correctly. If playing with an old save, you DO NOT have to restart as code at the beginning of EP 03 has resolved the error. Player will need to restart if they wish to read smoking related scenes in previous episodes.
• Updated MC Name selection. Player can now choose from a list of names instead of having to input one to proceed.
• Player can now give Taha their chocolate bar if it's in their inventory.
• When asking Maz about their scars, the second choice 'You want to ask about it but you're going to keep your mouth shut.' should now take you to the correct response.
• Extended and updated 'End Game' scene.

EPISODE 02:

• If MC is faint after exiting the car, but also drunk, they should now get the fainting scene, followed by Dilani helping the MC in the bathroom.

UI + TECHNICAL

SETTINGS:

• Autoname Save is now defaulted to ON. This is to add ease and flow to gameplay, especially for mobile, tablet, and app users, instead of calling for an inputted saved name. If player wants to input save names, toggle Autoname Saves to OFF.
• Autoname Save previously only used the forename of the MC but now includes the surname as well.
• Removed the Fullscreen toggle as it is only intended for desktop use. Player can still toggle fullscreen via the UI bar on the desktop interface.
  
• Added a choice indicator toggle. (This probably won't come into effect until EP 04 or 05)
  
• Changed serif font from Vollkron to EB Garamond.

OTHER:

• Changing the MC's pronouns via the Dashboard has been updated. Additionally, after confirmation will take player back to the Dashboard and not close the dialog boxes entirely.
• Hovering over 'Personality', 'Motives', and 'Skills' titles in the Dashboard will now display an information box with a definition. Mobile and tablet users will need to tap on the title.
• 'Resume Game' now only appears on the main menu when there is an autosave in the saves log.
• Choices styling changes.
• General UI and button style changes.
• Fixed errors with the text message styling.
• Added styling for reading text off of a page in game.
• Darkened blue in light theme 'Skyline' to reduce eye strain.
• Changed serif font from Vollkron to EB Garamond.

CREATE A SAVE

• Introducing Create a Save! This feature allows players to quickly manufacture a save file and start at a later point in the game.
• Set your identity, appearance, history, and statistics; including personality, motives, and skills. Continue to set key decisions made in previous episodes.
• Randomise options available for creating a PC and key decisions.

OTHER

• Fixed gaps and spacing issues.
• Minor phrasing and sentence structure changes.
• Grammar and typo fixes.

whew -- that's a lot of patch notes! apologies for so much that needed to be fixed.

this update shouldn't break/ mess with saves but as a disclaimer i will say, if you spot anything funky, broken, or you don't think things are triggering correctly, try starting a new save. the new create a save feature is incredibly code heavy, and it's been tested relentlessly, but i wouldn't be surprised if something crops up.

if starting a new save doesn't resolve your issue - please submit to bug report or just send me an ask/message.

some things have been meaning to get fixed for Some Time - thank you to everyone that is using the bug report form!

apologies if there are typos and/or bugs - this was a long one to edit and my lovely betas did an OUTSTANDING job reading so much for ep 3 - thank you so much again!!! this time i am going to give it a bit more time before i put together a patch so i can grab more error responses haha.

create a save has also added a wee chunk to the word count, somewhere around 6k, but i'm not including it in the episode 03 word count as it's purely code. so, if you think the total wc is off, that's why!

if you've read this far, happy reading and thank you so much for the continued support!! :) - becky <3