-u4ia- Ep2.03p + scrappy Multi Mod

Ev2.03p

• CHANGED: re-inserted some images that went missing in 2.02p
• CHANGED: lowered requirement to stop Tuesday from stealing your phone

Ep2.02p

• CHANGED: removed the free-roam at the docks in episode 1
• CHANGED: removed all perks from the game
• CHANGED: removed ‘time’ from all free-roams
• CHANGED: simplified some free-roams with easy exits/skips
• CHANGED: perception stat replaces the old finesse stat to replace the perception perk
• ADDED: informative text to the beach-roam
• IMPROVEMENT: several touch-ups to the stats system
• IMPROVEMENT: made phone pop up if there’s something there that needs your attention
• IMPROVEMENT: changed the beach-roam arrows to the normal arrows to improve visibility
• VISUAL: fixed a series of renders where MC’s hand clipped into Jackie’s shoulder.
• VISUAL: fixed a lighting mistake on the more feisty Geneva lunch version.
• BUG: removed a phone variable that was displayed in the dialogue.
• BUG: fixed some episode 1 recap screen errors (Synne, Teagan).
• BUG: fixed several episode 2 recap screen errors (Celeste, Synne, Evangeline, Teagan, Sea).
• FIX: grammatical errors/typos
• Savegame compatibility with v2.01p should be good, as long as you’re fine with your MC having a stat build that’s not achievable in this version. In other words, your saves should be fine.

Ep2.01p

• 3,383 story renders
• 17,060 frames of animation
• 18,298 lines of script/dialogue
• 50 new songs
• 26 new SFX
• added Replay gallery
• updated to Ren’py 8.1.3, which should improve performance
• Unfortunately, a full replay is required due to rebuilding the perks system from Episode 1!

Ep1.01c

• 1,907 story renders
• 16,764 animated frames
• 18,770 lines of script/dialogue
• 33 songs (1 exclusive)
• More than 400 UI elements
• u4ia is running on Ren’Py 8.1.0 – Prerelease (which should fix lagging animations and CPU spikes issues on mid to low end computers)

Drifty
Creating Adult Games

u4ia is more like a game than Leap of Faith, and will consist of three types of ‘modes’. Each chapter will consist of all these three modes at different stages of the episode.

1. Path mode
In path mode, you choose your path through the current scene. Different events take place as you move forward through the scene. In short, moving from ‘A’ to ‘B’ (or ‘start’ to ‘finish’ depending on the scene), you choose your path along the way, and who to interact with. They play out like a normal visual novel but are designed to give you great choice in who to spend time with or what to do. Meaning, exiting a path mode will differ greatly depending on your choices. Due to this, it’s impossible to see all content in one or two playthroughs.

2. Free roam
In free roam, you can move around as much as you like until you’ve completed one or several required tasks, or the time runs out. Do note that “time runs out” doesn’t mean you have to be fast (in real-time), but there’s a certain amount of things you can do before something happens, giving you a chance to plan things out.

3. Story mode
In the story mode parts, you experience the story first and foremost. This is the same as you did in Leap of Faith with conversations, story reveals, cutscenes, etc. Story mode has fewer choices, but does differ depending on your earlier choices.
When finishing a path mode event, or a free roam, you can save it with the choices you just used to play through it. That means you can re-play the story at a later time in full story mode with your earlier choices intact. A ‘create your own story’ of sorts.There are 12 girls in the story. Four of them are important, four less important, and four of them, well, without revealing too much, you will have to choose at some point.

For u4ia I wanted to give you the freedom to choose perks that will customize your gameplay. These talent points (or perks) will allow you to tone down things you aren’t interested in, or bring more focus to the things you are interested in.

This way, if you play the game several times for different outcomes, the actual game will feel more different. And even if you only play it once, you can still shape the Main Character or game to your liking. It also gives me the freedom to design different variations of the scenes.

u4ia is still very much a story-based game, but I want to include elements that make it more of a game rather than a kinetic story.