HELL QUEEN, RECEIVE ME patreon build 0.55

Hey Everyone! It's Build Time! This month we have a new boss monster, the Duchess!!!

The Duchess is a powerful spirit bound to the realm of the living by her utter devotion to the Hell Queen. She's been around for lifetimes and she's experienced much. Because of this, (and in no small part due to her being a ghost encased in armor,) it's difficult to make her cum. After dealing a certain amount of heat to the Duchess, she transforms into The Duchess Bare. She sheds her armor and increases her ferocity. She craves an encounter with a champion that can make her feel like fire of life again and she hopes Kat can fill this role. While in the form of The Duchess Bare, she creates one "armor" at the beginning of each turn if she doesn't have any. Armor, you say? Yeah, so I sorta fixed that system, too.

You might have noticed the little shields that orbit the Knights in the Lounge level. Those bits of armor were meant to block heat of a certain type before expiring. Well, it was kinda confusing, and not really working correctly, so I ditched the type. Now they block a single instance of heat, then disappear (with a new little vfx and sfx to make it clear what happened.) New mechanic! Yay!

The new boss is the biggest change, but I also got a system I'd been working on for a while to finally be functional! I can now queue dialogue events! Previously, I could do things like "If total_runs = 3, start a dialogue." I can still do this, but now on top of that, I have two dialogue event queues, each with a different priority, that can store auto-start dialogue as well as room layouts and stuff. Dialogue can now run in-line functions. It's fancy as hell. I've added a bunch of new dialogue events which use this system, including the introduction of Ravenna the Ichor Witch, and an event for when you first defeat the Drey Mare. If you've already passed the points in the game when these events would be available, you can reset your save data. But! Resetting you save data sucks! Cause you lose your unlocked cards and resources! Well guess what? I added a thing that allows you to reset Only the Dialogue parts of your save! You can keep your cards and still get to check out the new content!

That's the update! This was a big one. Got rid of a few of the more resilient bugs :D I'm really hype to see how the new boss plays. I cannot wait to animate her :3 Lemme know what you all think! And thank you for your support!

New Art:

the boss monster "Duchess" and her alternative form "Duchess Bare" have been illustrated

the card "Messy Kiss" has finished art

Ravenna now has a dialogue portrait

armor-break vfx

new world-art for Rose

an animated goose has been added

New Monsters:

The Duchess and the Duchess Bare

Misc Changes:

an option to reset dialogue data has been added

a bunch of new dialogue has been added

scented oils cost has been increased to 5

Bug Fixes:

the card Hicky Smack duplication bug fixed

the card Hicky Smack wasn't dealing heat correctly, fixed

the card Pain Training cost was inconsistent

all cards which used a specific heat-dealing function were broken; they didn't pause the ability to play other cards while monsters were being targeted which could lead to crashes. fixed