Act 2 Scene 2: Closed System

WAHOO!!! A brand new shiny chunk of content!! Act 2 takes its first big step forward with some huge plot revelations, some tender conversations, and a complex, strategical free-for-all board game. But what is the gang fighting for?? Do they stand to win the key to victory… or to lose one of their fellow passengers forever?

The interludes are much more fleshed out and fancy this time around, so be sure to check them all out!! Thanks for playing!!

New mode for the next Third Rule Game

• With extensive sprites and animations and sfx to show the moves being made!!

New Chat dialogue mode

• Unique Animal Crossing style voice blips for all characters!!
• Shake animation for IMPACTFUL chat messages

Audio

• 5 new sfx
• Hail (ambience track) (1 variant)
• Transitive Thought (5 variants)
• I Know Your Name (2 variants)
• False Conductor (3 variants)
• Dead Anthem (2 variants)
• Pre-boarding (2 variants)

Items

• Added particle effect when flowers grow a stage
• Added watering flowers particle effect
• Three new flowers for da Garden!
• Added 15 badge items! More information on the classes of the characters, what they’re best at, and which archetype they fall under!!
• New Badges item category
• Colored text for inventory item descriptions (used for badges)
• Story-based item drops at key moments (used for badges)
• Extanded the Inventory height a bit for more vertical juice

Art

• 7 sprites for the debut of a very often-mentioned side character
• Pet + ??? textbox sprite (Pet + ???) (9 variants)
• New violet/blue glow background
• Aeronaut textbox sprite
• The Slope <–> Daemort textbox sprite
• Dark Cabin background edit
• Dining Cabin background edit
• Train Station background edit
• Cupboard background edit
• Class Archetypes textbox image
• Chef edit
• Healer edit
• Imp edit
• 2 Pet edits
• 4 Derebella edits
• Seer edit
• Ficcie + Pet combo edit
• Deadghost + Pet combo edit
• Three new CGs (two by Jason Dowers, one by Suki! Epic art guys!!)

Polish

• Enabled Scene Select from anywhere in the game, even during a new scene
• Added the ability to view the update messages for all previous updates! You can find them in the Scene Select
• Added 5 new animations for character sprites: Fall, Land, Rise, Twitch, and Rocketship
• Shortened Veil labyrinth minigame (when you move the ball through the maze) by about 30% so it doesn’t destroy the pacing of the scene quite as badly
• Slightly lowered Veil timer to compensate for the shorter map lengths
• Added fullscreen mode in settings

Secrets

• Added Japanese font and license :3
• Added a secret to the main menu
• Added two special secret codes you can type in on the main menu
• Added a rare 1% chance secret during the fishing minigame (also can be enabled permanently with a main-menu secret keyphrase) (+click particles)
• Enabled secret cheat code menu we’ve been using for dev

Bugs/Cleanup

• Fixed typos, missing colors on character names, missing Deadghost X’s, and tons of tiny malignments from A2S1: The Ball Scene and other scenes too!
• Fixed missing pixel on sad Pet sprite
• Removed font size option :( It was causing things like textbox sprites to be misaligned for some players!!
• Fixed a plothole in Scene 4 (Tank mentions the axe trap, but during the trial everyone says he never mentioned it)
• Prevented earsplitting chaos noise when starting a game after flooding the main menu with badges
• Fixed Counter/Concur trial sfx being set to Music volume
• Fixed music player issue where the first stage of Godstepper was assigned to stage 2 as well

THANKS FOR PLAYING EVERYONE~!!! <33