Hi guys! IT has been a hot minute but I'm back with actual good news this time. Thanks to the help of Kal (I owe them my life at this point), the full LyteLove script is finally done being edited with a fine toothed comb and the main script and dialogue is all implemented into the code as of midnight last night! 

Today I'll be making sure all the background calls are correct, but by the end of today, I'll be handing the code over to our QA and Beta testers for our first round of testing! That's where you guys come in. If you want to beta test/QA Please please please reach out to me! You can comment on here, you can PM me on Twitter, you can email xenubin@gmail.com or you can send me a friend request on Discord (@xenubin) if you're interested! We have a full team right now for QA, but I really want extra eyes on this one :) So the more the merrier.  Now for some actual Dev Updates, it wouldn't be a devlog without one right? A lot of you probably noticed the game page and things look different, those were updated as well as the in game UI to match! I'm not totally happy with the UI but for time sake, I can't justify redesigning and fixing it up a 4th time at this point in development. I won't share the whole thing BUt I will share the current call screen for the chats with the LIs!

The full version also has some extra songs, thanks to Chaz! We've added Kissaten and chat w u to the mp3 player and I think they're the cutest lil pieces ever IMO. Chaz really nailed it.  Some other mini things that I'm excited about: 

• The profile photo is now changeable through a dialogue interaction
• Way more pronoun usage added in-game
• Partial voice implementation! 
  • Instead of fully voiced, mostly due to how long this project has been going on, we're instead doing some choice lines voiced and using bark lines for other areas within the call scenes. I'd love fully voiced, but ultimately it was scope cut. 
• THE LI QUIZ
  • IM GONNA GUSH BUT, at some point during my writing of the second half of the game Autumn made the genius suggestion of making the LI selection be done through one of those "Who's your husbando/waifu" style quizzes and nothing could have prepared me for how well it works out. It feels really nostalgic to me and its feels like such a nice touch of interactivity that I wanted with this project. 
  • If you get a character you didn't want to play the story for on the quiz, don't fret. We set it up so that you get an additional option to choose if you want to proceed with them or not. If you do not, you get a simple menu that lets you select who you do want to play. No tricks, no extra quiz taking. 

When will you see these updates in the game? 

    I would love to give you guys a set date for the release and build up hype and advertise for this project, but at this point, it all just depends on how long the QA process takes. This should FINALLLY be out before summer at the absolute latest. Ideally, I'm hoping for a release around the end of March. 

Trivia:

• In the Demo, Leilani was going to be a love interest as well but was scrapped due to scope as well as the fact that I wasn't enjoying her character as much.
• Before the Demo, Robin was also a character but she did not get cut due to scope, she got cut because she had no personality yet other than being human clippy and being Austins brother
• In the Sprite art on the game page, we see from Soup, that Austin is wearing a trans pride flag. button Not because he's trans, but because I mixed up my references when talking to Soup and my sister when I was talking about the characters. Jaiden was the one supposed to have
• the user profile photos you can select have actually had sketches for a WHILE, it just took me longer than I'm happy to admit to get them implemented at that state before I let soup make the full versions. 

PFPs:

I think that's all I have for this update, but I did want to say genuinely thank you guys for so many downloads on LyteLove. Even though right now it's still the same demo I released 2 years ago, I wouldn't have anticipated it to get this much traction. There's been a huge uptick in downloads and views since yesterday, which was when we finished the script. It's a bit terrifying to be honest, especially seeing my game so high underneath the popular games on itch, with it not being finished yet. But I have so much newfound excitement for this project because of you guys, and I'm determined to see it through now thank u all!!! xxx