It's time!

First of all, a huge thanks to the patrons who played this update early and took the time to let me know about issues they encountered. You helped make this build that much better and I really appreciate it!

I've spent the last week squashing bugs and making new small feature additions, so these release notes have expanded a bit.

0.3.1 release notes

Major features:

• The streaming career: The game's first new job since release. Streaming is a unique activity that you can do right in your dorm room, interacting with chat, earning tips, and upgrading your equipment to reach your full potential.
• Be a camgirl/boy: If streaming video games to a bunch of backseating nerds isn't adventurous or lucrative enough for you, you can eventually venture into the adult world and show your fans what they really want to see.
• Social media: Introduced in the form of Elkbook, social media will now play a part in your story. Post updates or selfies daily to remind people you're alive, gaining Attention and doing a little free socializing.

Mechanics:

• Revamped phone: Your phone's functionality has expanded, with texting now being just one part of it. Important reminders can now be found in the Calendar app, and you can access the internet from anywhere here.
• Encounters 2.0: The encounter system has been refactored and expanded, and should now feel more reactive. Most NPCs will now stand down and let you direct the action if you start to take the lead.
• Toys: Expand your sex life and spice up your adult cam career by buying sex toys at the weird little shop near the industrial park in town. For some real fun, use a remote control egg or ring during a cam session and give control over to your viewers.
• You can purchase a computer from JT Ult in town to make studying a little bit easier. Desktops have to stay in your dorm room, but laptops can be used in the library or before class.
• Makeup: You can now purchase a range of cosmetics from JT Ult and apply them in your residence hall restroom.
• View memories: See what you've done with other people when you view them, or see a summary under your own Character display.
• Traits: You can now discover personality traits as friendship or romance increase, and discover sexual traits as lust increases (if they're also a sex partner).

Bugfixing and polishing:

• Added a direct path between the university mall and the Thoreau building (where most classes are).
• Tight pants now figure into certain events, giving penis-bearers in particular more opportunity to be subtly exhibitionist. You also now have occasional morning wood to contend with! Will continue to work on this.
• Clothes now show which styles they're associated with.
• Smoothed the rough edges off hot tub streams and fixed some streaming events that didn't display chat correctly.
• Fixed some instances of stream chat messages failing to generate correctly.
• Dominant NPCs will no longer protest when you assume a bottom position that's compatible with what they want to do.
• Fixed an issue where the striptease stream event could be available when it shouldn't be, and would corrupt your current outfit if selected. Fixed the event prereqs and also added a failsafe to prevent the corruption issue. Affected saves will be automatically repaired.
• Fixed an edge case that led to no valid streaming events being found, causing errors.
• Certain toys are now available only online and must be picked up at the campus mail center.
• Added a visual indicator of skills that have hit the daily increase cap.
• Various other fixes and small additions.

What's next?

More eyes on this new code means more issues are likely to be found, because that's just how development works, so we're officially in Polish Week. That means I'll be making small additions only, keeping the project agile so I can deploy bugfix updates promptly if necessary.

In particular I'll be working on more PC customization. Makeup is a new addition, I'm partway through adding piercings, and tattoos will be coming as well.

Keep in mind that I don't post here for just minor updates, since I don't want to spam you. You can join the Discord for instant notification of minor updates (it's totally fine if you just lurk), or just check the Downloads page on the website to see when the last update was... or just refresh the page here, since itch.io is pretty good at keeping itself updated.

Otherwise, next Friday's dev diary will sum up whatever updates happened through the week. It'll also be time to narrow down the roadmap to two or three priority items and, probably, narrow it down even further with a patron poll.

See you then!