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Hello everyone!
As you probably know if you've followed my release posts, the next release for Julia YAD will be a QOL update. I've spent a lot of work over the last few months working on the game engine, fixing the slow and sluggish gameplay, especially in the earlier parts of the game.
Engine work is often slow and grueling, it requires sifting through tons of old code and rewriting a lot of it to bring it up to standard. But, I think you will all be very happy with the results, despite the long drought with no releases.
The new gameplay is quick and responsive, and playing through the first few days is a breeze compared.
This was an important update for the game, not only to help new players who might have felt discouraged to continue in the past but also for current fans who wish to replay the game to try different choices.
I am also adding a new much-needed "rewind" feature where you can go back to the start of the current scene, in case you made a choice you're unhappy with or accidentally clicked through a chat. You will also be able to hold down the spacebar to rapidly skip past chats, scenes, and transitions. Useful if you want to skip past certain parts without playing them.
There are a few more small features such as making you click less (it now takes one click to perform many actions that used to take 4 or 5), removing the horrendous brush-teeth animation, new title screens that you can unlock, and a few other small fixes, fixing a bug that was causing images to load fuzzy (they should all be high-res) replacing the Dara teen character with the new model, added new sounds, and a few other small fixes. I will probably be removing the 'skip intro' feature as it's no longer needed since you can now skip through the intro very quickly.
Now, here is the bad news... There will not be much in the line of 'new' content or scenes. I have pretty much exclusively been working on the engine. Once this update is out of the way, I will return to expanding the game and making new scenes. Hopefully, the scenes will bring you even more enjoyment with the new gameplay updates.
The engine is getting closer and closer to be ready and I should have a release date very soon.
As always, thanks for your support and patience! Renovating the Julia engine has been a slow but necessary task and brings the game closer to the vision I imagined when I started building the game