Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5595] – [Kompas Productions]

21.0.0 wip.5595

• Expanded Debbie's route with 1 original, 3 reworked, and 6 upgraded quests.
• Created a new mall trip event with Debbie that evolves with her story.
• Moved over to using Debbie's new art when she appears in other routes.
• Updated Debbie's art in her button dialogue, including sleeping Debbie.
• Rebuilt peeking on Debbie in the shower event with more new art.
• Extended Debbie's schedule to rarely place her by the pool of an evening.
• Built new x-ray system and began adding it to existing scenes.
• Wrote up Frank and Bridget's background information for the phone.
• Improved dialogue hint when clicking on exterior garage door with key.
• Locked that lotion bottle in Debbie's drawer. For now.
• Restored correct hover effect to quick menu.
• Prevented quick load feature attempting to load incompatible saves.
• Removed non-functional options from quick menu when viewing a replay.
• Revisited animation system to improve stability, most notably during rollback.
• Retooled mimic system to be more reliable and prediction friendly.
• Fixed edge-case migration issue when loading some saves from Preview 1.
• Guarded against Judith being able to break a Miss Ross quest.
• Various small posing improvements to Debbie content from last preview.
• Ensured consistent view of hallway in Debbie's house during navigation.
• Adjusted timings of some ambient sounds to avoid hard cuts as they loop.
• Addressed issue where map music could linger into rails dialogue.
• Dealt with flip-flop continuity issues in Jenny's telescope scenes.
• Made sure the fake guitar is added to the wall properly in Melody's route.
• Cobbled together a new shader to support equirectangular projection.
• Optimised some hot code paths to keep navigation snappy.
• Resolved issue where using spot metadata would prevent asset prediction.
• Added a basic bloom visual effect to help distinguish daydreams.
• Helped rails to feel a little more natural when multiple paths may be taken.
• Enabled visible cues for choices that require unmet stat checks.
• Developed many new rig assets for both Jiang and Kassy.
• Upgraded Ren'Py to version 8.3.4.
• Touched up art of Anon using telescope in Jenny's route.
• Redrew telescope shot from Jenny's route to bring its quality up to par.
• Produced new assets for Jenny to reflect her pregnancy in Debbie's route.
• Revamped various cutscenes and created multiple new ones.
• Put together a new translatable module to help with expressing time periods.
• Tweaked layer management logic to prevent Jenny's laptop appearing twice.
• Integrated meeting Tammy outside Debbie's house with new mall trip event.
• Found and fixed a latent bug in how metadata scaling was being applied.
• Solved problem that would cause some sounds to play sooner than intended.
• Tackled various other continuity and posing issues in earlier Debbie quests.
• Stopped Jenny's first sex toy quest from interfering with the timeline.
• Remedied various issues when Jenny showered at night.
• Introduced small dialogue variations to account for when Deb is at the mall.
• Inserted variant for claiming glasses from Judith during art class.
• Many small asset changes to adjust expressions and smooth arm joints.
• Reduced the use of magic numbers throughout the priority system.
• Prepared and cleaned up the codebase for a future move to Python 3.12.
• Eliminated various other minor bugs in existing quests.