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Public Service - v1.1


Hello, and happy new year! Let's hope it goes a bit better than that previous one, eh?

Here's the first update for public service, adding a few new encounters, making the game playable up to day 2 and most importantly... TEXT THAT DOESN'T TAKE A MILLION YEARS TO SHOW UP!

Now, here's the full list of changes:


Changes/Additions:

- Greatly improved pacing (paragraphs now take no more than two seconds to appear, and overall there are more clickable links)
- 4 new random encounters, including 2 raffle encounters (featuring characters belonging to teddy-the-yeti and Toomay)
- "Force encounter" system (still needs some work, for now your selection will disappear on passage load and passage update, so if you want a specific encounter make sure you make your selection right before it's about to load one)
- Game now playable up to Day 2
- Reduced base sentence to 8 days, 12 hours
- Tried to improve the time display, so the pacing is a bit more realistic. Which it still isn't IMO, so I'll probably have to add encounters to avoid having several hours long gaps
- New playable species: "avian"


Bugfixes:

- UI box to the left would fail to display player's species <br>
- "Oral 1": removed "tiger" from the list of references to the cheetah <br>


Known Issues:

- "Oral 3": choosing an answer doesn't hide the other one, so just don't click on both (it shouldn't break if you do, it just won't make a lot of sense anymore...)
- Same goes for "Oral Toomay"
- The "force encounter" button is sure to be buggy, I'll have to work something out. If you come across a bug and are on the discord, let me know what happened, it could be helpful!
- There might still be a few places where I forgot to change the words "mouth" and "feet" to "beak" & "talons" for avian players (and who knows other species may have incorrect words too lmao)


As always, let me know in the comments or on the Discord server if there are any bugs or issues with the game. Thank you for checking this out, and enjoy!

Files

Public Service 1.1 release build.html 604 kB
Jan 20, 2021

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Awesome! I was hoping this would be updated.  Can't wait to see what's changed!