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Final Chapter of the Prologue: The Danger Beyond the Forest
A new main story quest has been added. "The Danger Beyond the Forest" becomes available at Katarina Guild after the player has seen the "Night Before the Storm" event.
This is the final chapter of the prologue and serves as the bridge into the game's main storyline. After completing this quest, the story will begin moving beyond Katarina as the player starts exploring more of Willberg.
The quest introduces a new boss encounter designed to be the first "real" challenge boss in the game. Players may need to prepare properly and spend resources wisely in order to defeat it. (I mean A LOT OF POTION) if you want to beat him.
The quest also includes several optional sub-routes. These choices currently affect only the events within this quest and do not have any long-term consequences (for now).
During the final portion of the quest, players can choose to spend time with a specific NPC.
Estimated content: approximately 45,000 words across all choices.
Gameplay
Main Quest Log has been streamlined.
The quest log will now display only your current active Main Story Quest.
Completed main quests will automatically disappear from the log once finished.
Updated faction affiliations.
Rowan, Gavin, Laslo, Reed, and Varessa have been added to the Rosevale faction.
Their dialogue boxes of following character have been updated accordingly.
New Sprite Art
Tom (Nude)
Rowan (Nude) with some adjust to his face look to better match how I want him to look like. (He will get update a little more because I not feel satisfying yet.)
Laslo (Nude)
Gavin (Nude)
Expert Exclusive CG
Tom CG
Available by choosing Tom during the final stage of "The Danger Beyond the Forest" quest.
New Enemy
BOSS of Prologue.
New Story boss enemy added.
Artwork is still a work in progress and may be updated in a future patch.
Developer Log
Hi everyone,
First of all, thank you for your patience, and sorry for the slightly delayed update this month.
Update 0.9.0 concludes the Prologue storyline and finally brings the player closer to the source of the chaos surrounding Katarina Forest. This update contains more than 45,000 words of content and serves as a major transition point before the story moves into the main plot of the game.
During development, my original plan was to create a quest that would heavily react to the player's affinity and previous interactions with various NPCs. Unfortunately, the system became much more complicated than I expected and introduced several major bugs that in the end I need to remove them. While the final result is not exactly what I initially envisioned, I learned a great deal from the process and will be better prepared for similar systems in the future.
The writing process also took longer than expected. After finishing the first draft, I realized that several scenes did not work well from a narrative and logic. Because of this, I ended up rewriting a significant portion of the quest to better fit the story I has plan.
This update also introduces the first female NSFW content in the game. (without sprite yet) This is a most challenging for a guy who only look at men boobs. 😂 but it need for the lore.
For Android players, I have some good news. In the next update, I will be adjusting the text size of the Android build to improve readability and make longer story sections more comfortable to read. (it need some major adjsutment)
I also plan to fix the remaining issues with Tom's Affinity Quest, which some players have reported.
As for the art side of development, I unfortunately had to redesign the boss character fairly late into the update. Because of this change, I wasn't able to finish the boss artwork in time for this release. The current placeholder will be replaced with proper artwork in a future update.
Despite the challenges, I'm very happy with how this update turned out. It represents another major milestone for the project and marks the end of a chapter that has been in development for quite some time.
For the next update, my focus will shift toward expanding the Rosevale region with more activities, exploration opportunities, and random events that players can encounter throughout the territory so I could look forward and work on the new sytem and ui at the same time.
I hope you enjoy this update, and I look forward to sharing more with you in the future.
Thank you all for your continued support. Every comment, download, and bit of encouragement helps keep this project moving forward. I never imagined that a game created during my free time as a passion project would grow to this point, and I am genuinely grateful for everyone who has joined me on this journey.
Thank you once again, and I'll see you in the next update.