Moonlight Castle
MCastle 2.07 - Patrice 4
Hello everyone, it's been a while, huh? Maybe not but writing a devlog feels like it's been ages to me. I was meant to post Patrice tomorrow buttttt it's been 45 days since the last public release, who cares if we do it one day earlier and there are things I want to discuss.
I'm officially back on the grind and, while making this devlog, I already got 40% of Dylan 4 in? It's a really good pace so I'm expecting things to work out fine and have an Itch release by the end of this month.
Patrice 4 is... damn, I don't remember how long it is. You knoow what? We'll just copy what I wrote on Patreon months ago, looks accurate enough. Oh, I was in Spain at that point. I do remember editing on my laptop in a hotel room lmao.
Patrice 4 contains 17k words worth of content, most of it is unique, barely anything for you to skim through. One new CG, new BGs, and a small QoL update. We increased the maximum number of save slots from 11 pages to 49 pages. I don't think you'll need more, but hey if someone comes asking I won't mind adding more lmao.
Patrice 4 reading guide for second\third timers
---------- the only repeated scenes are the full group gathering at night and Ryan driving Joel home. Barely a 10%.
But there is something new here that wasn't available in the Patreon version and it was something we discussed in the Q&A, that I would've loved to make but without a coder there was no chance for me to do that. Well, good news is we did get help and we got it done pretty fast. So fast I couldn't even discuss it in the next month's devlog lmao.
Anyway---- Liam's notebook from N3 is now an actual in game item you can use.
Read this part because it's important for both new and old players. The game can't recognize if you reached any N3 before this update so, when you boot up the game, you'll see "???" instead of the handbook section. You'll have to quickly skip to the moment Liam hands it to you. Ofc you unlock it once and it's over, it'll stay there. You can find bonus info, reminders and all the keywords I thought were important to remember. If you want more words added do let me know. Thank you MysticExile for working on this small feature on such a short notice!
There is more to this handbook, but why would I spoil you everything? Go open it yourself.
See you guys next month for Dylan 4 public version!
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(I don't know why we're talking in emoji, but the other 2 comments are, and I'm trying to blend in. Loved the update, loved the moments between Patrice and she who will not be named. Loved the new soul type, had been wondering about it, definitely wasn't what I had guessed, but is more interesting anyways. Ryan was a bit different, but I suppose that's down to what happened in the gym, and Patrice and Ryan's friendship. The book was a great addition, although the 1 entry is missing, I think it was talents. The little doodles were hilarious, mostly Ryan's. I forgot to check if white and black souls were added to the book afterwards, guess I'm redownloading the game now.)
I'll need to doublecheck for talents but I can confirm Black/White are available in the notebook.
Alright, I double checked, and I had saved and quit on the "this is worse than being a medium" text, which is why I didn't unlock the black soul entry. My bad. The talents entry exists and is added to the book at the beginning of day 4, but the link to talents is still in the Mediums page, thus my initial confusion. Sorry for the misunderstanding lol.
(One small thing, the text for the black soul is, well, black, which doesn't show until you hover over it. Except on android, you can't easily hover like that. Would changing the base color of the text to the dark gray that is used when hovering over it instead be possible/desired? Then changing the hover color to a slightly lighter color?)
Hmm, yeah that makes sense. I'll bring it up to the coder and have the color changed next update. Thank you!
Can confirm, white souls get added, as does the section on talents, but black souls do not. I bring up talents because when you get the book, the 'medium' entry is unlocked, but it has a link to the 'talents' page, which isn't unlocked.
Another thing, atleast on mobile, you cant access the book from in game, only the main menu, which feels a bit off, but other than that, I enjoyed it. Maybe a notification in the corner telling you when you've unlocked a new entry, or one has been updated, would be nice, as I honestly didn't think to check again, but that could just be me.
I was thinking about having Joel himself tell the reader that he updates the notebook himself at the end of the day if there are new keywords available. Right now you have three unlocks. The default one in N3, a second one at the beginning of D4 and a Patrice unique unlock for Black ghost on his day. I'll keep that in mind for next patches.
That actually sounds great, and less immersion breaking.
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