I tried console command ( or setting variables ) onto Olivia and it worked for her ( olivia.affection and so on). Chloe and Olivia have their own event scenes, so I suppose they are specified-in-code characters, and "name.variable" works.
There is a lot of heavy competition out there, just going by the number of posts on this forum. It really is a huge number.
Alvin?..he disappeared from my game two updates ago
dont have to deal with that derp anymore 
I've played .5 and not .6, but I can say that there's a pretty close to a fully playable game with a decently fleshed out mechanic, but the story is kind of barebones, and there aren't a lot of events to keep things from getting repetitive. It's still fairly early, though, and Amaraine has a solid track record of developing games that feel rounded-out upon completion. If you don't mind seeing the form of the game before the details get fleshed out, give it a try, but if you want a really robust game experience, just wait until you see a [Complete] tag, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 469, in script
if active_char == mia and current_location == beach:
File "game/script.rpy", line 469, in <module>
if active_char == mia and current_location == beach:
NameError: name 'mia' is not defined
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "game/script.rpy", line 469, in script
if active_char == mia and current_location == beach:
File "C:\Users\morga\Downloads\StrangeGift-0.7-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1681, in execute
if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
File "C:\Users\morga\Downloads\StrangeGift-0.7-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1794, in py_eval
return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
File "C:\Users\morga\Downloads\StrangeGift-0.7-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1788, in py_eval_bytecode
return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/script.rpy", line 469, in <module>
if active_char == mia and current_location == beach:
NameError: name 'mia' is not defined
Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.13.2919
A Strange Gift 0.7