Fixed a major bug. Sorry for the notification.
Hotfix v2
All generic conversations at school wouldn't reset after the first time. This made story progression very slow as you could only discuss topics while taking them outside. This also locked out Nanami's story and most of Kari's. They now reset each day.
Crash when hair grows to stage 7 before sleepover event.
Story
- New cast of characters. These are secondary to the main cast and won't be as prevalent.
- Delinquents introduction. Triggered by walking through the courtyard after the Sleepover event.
- Chuuni first contact. Triggers when passing the adjacent classroom, after Dreaming with Rin event.(The one that enables CatCat Cafe).
- Assuming Sleepover and Dreaming with Rin are cleared, old saves should trigger them as well.
- At hair length 7 there's a story event that introduces the hair salon. Will need to sleep if hair is at 7 or 8 already.
- ~650 lines of dialogue
Gameplay
- Added a toggle shoes button. It still needs the outfit to actually have shoes, while in slot 2 or 3. Still wondering how to best handle that.
- Changed clothing dummy background to dither, in order to improve visibility of darker outfits.
- Added 5 new hairstyles. Available at the hair salon in the mall.
- Added 2 ponytails as hair lengths. Available at the hair salon in the mall, when hair length is 7 and 8.
- At the salon, you can cut hair down in length, change hairstyle, and recolor base and shadows.
- Any changes at the salon change dream hair too.
- Salon GUI has full mouse and keyboard support. You can drag the window around too.
- Hair now grows in length every 7 days.
- Dream hair now resets to real hair upon waking up. If dream hair is longer than real hair, real hair goes up 1 stage in length immediately.
- Some sprite adjustments to hair, eye and breast sizes. Don't panic if something looks different.
https://mega.nz/folder/43I13LzY#zDPbZEGe9YjbkDmb08TNDg
It's fairly obvious Coffee Story is inspired by Japanese fiction, so I've decided to drop the pretence. In this update I've added last names to Kari and Yuri, named a prefecture, started using common Japanese names for NPCs without any plausible deniability (i.e Kari was original supposed to be Akari, but I've pulled a Digimon and made her name sound more universal).
I do feel some kind of inherent dread about trying to use honorifics, so you're safe on that front at least. For now.
---Important Bug---
Only load old version save files from the title screen. The load system doesn't account for newly added variables(flags). These flags retains their value when you load a save that doesn't have them.
Example: You start freeplay mode, then load an old story mode save. The old story save will immediately give access to the hair salon, because that flag does not exist on the old save and it just copies the flag from freeplay. This makes the story event unavailable.
It's not that critical, but I'm sure some of you will do this. I have not figured out a solution to foolproof this without introducing a massive amount of save bloat. To clarify, if you load an old version save from the title screen, and then save the game, it's now a proper up-to-date save.
Reminder that the game has a Discord server
https://discord.gg/ndVcqgfhQZ
Use it to report a bug or if you need help.While I'm not always available, the community is helpful and I do read all the bug reports.