Hey there, Game Directors! We’ve made some big changes to the demo since our last update, and are excited for you to try them out.


You’ll now notice a functional options screen with difficulty settings, and a new tooltip system to provide a greater depth of information on status bars and icons. We’ve also introduced Victor, an entirely new character and another face of the publisher that was concepted live during our LudoNarraCon stream. We hope you enjoy the new changes, and as always, let us know what you think!


Onward with the details of this update:

• Functional options screen allowing you to change video, audio and game difficulty settings
  
• Game difficulty settings includes 3 difficulty presets (Easy, Default, Hard)
  
• Game difficulty settings allows for customizing individual elements in presets - including whether to show (or hide) stakeholder preview & impact, character impact, and conversation patience
  
• Show/Hide difficulty settings includes whether this is reflected in the animation (such as stakeholder icon animation showing if the choice will impact this stakeholder positively or negatively), as well as the tooltip data (where relevant, such as showing or hiding the numerical impact to a stakeholder)

• Most game icons and Options screen difficulty settings now have tooltips providing more information on what they do
  
• Where relevant, game icons also include numerical values (such as the value of a stakeholder bar, or the impact a conversation choice will have), unless this was turned off in the Options settings

• Victor, the character concepted on a live stream has been added to the game, including his emotes.
  Thanks to everyone that participated in that stream & created this character. If you'd like to see more events like that let us know.

• Victor's conversation has been updated to suit his personality better & take advantage of his emotes
  
• Fixed an issue where a conversation with Phil could sneak into day 15 and not end up selectable
  
• Fixed an issue where hitting game over as the day was ending would only trigger the game over at start of new day, after the checkpoint save, which meant players could not continue from the start of the day as usual (they'd hit the game over at start of day), and needed to restart completely
  
• With tooltips being a thing, we've removed the stakeholder icon titles text from the UI
  
• Clock advancing rapidly (such as when passing time) now has a subtle clock tick sound to draw attention to it
  
• Fixed a few issues that crept up as part of adding Options/Tooltips, but were promptly squashed

• The survey link has been updated, allowing players that previously sent feedback to send more feedback again.

Thanks again for playing our demo. Send us your feedback via the survey, or reach out to us on Twitter or the Forums here on Steam. We’d love to hear from you!

- The GDS team

Happy pride month everyone!

As the team continues working on the full game, it's time to bring some of those improvements & bug
fixes over to the demo. We were hoping to have this update out earlier this month, but have been wrestling with a few tricky bugs.

In our last update we talked about moving from a static sequence of conversations to our new Systemic Story System. This system is intended to introduce more variability in the types of conversations that the player encounters in each playthrough. It has been huge for us in terms of unlocking narrative flexibility for the full game.

In addition, GDS was part of Wholesome Games Direct this month, as well as in the Wholesome section of the Guerrilla Collective event here on Steam! We hope you had a chance to check out some of the other amazing games. As a reminder, be sure to give them all a Follow & Wishlist - it's a huge help for upcoming games, and a great way to support those devs.

Onward with the changes in this update:

• Characters now include their pronouns
  
• Fixed an elusive bug with the player choice buttons (see bug fixes below for more info)

• More recent images
  
• Reflects the character impact change from previous update
  
• Based on feedback, removes the fake vertical scrollbar that was confusing some players

• Fixed some issues related to the system story system
  
• Fixed a bug where quickly clicking on a choice would make that button not show text on subsequent choices
  
• Fixed a logic issue on Tala's conversation on day 14, where some choices would repeat
  
• Fixed a few typos and minor text tweaks

Thanks again for playing our demo. Please send us your feedback, either through the survey link you can find in the game menus, or reach out to us on Twitter or the Forums here on Steam.

- The GDS team