Book 2 Chapter 25 v0.25

• Two hour-long update
• Offscreen chapters integrated
• Added a small scene in Chapter 21, that was initially planned; it’s part of the FMC-MC-Takato plotline.
• Skip Button at the upper right-hand side of the screen to the unskippable scene near the end of the chapter
• New look for the choices UI
• Gallery for Offscreen and Chapter 25
• Fixed gallery for chapter 24(I broke it accidentally)
• Better Englando, SFX, and music altogether
• Edited the end version and close screens (We had to)

Book 2: Chapter 24

Technical Update
-1055 Renders, 15 animations
-Removed the input name at the start of Book 2 to lessen the immersion break since I’m sure the “None None” name error won’t appear anymore, and if it does, we have the name changer feature.
-New choices and exit screen UI; still WIP.

Chapter Update
I have deeply mixed feelings about this chapter. On the one hand, I like it, on the other, I dread the time when the monkeys are all together in one scene. Still, the group scene in this chapter isn’t the most difficult to pull off.

This is probably the most I’ve worked on a chapter script-wise. I kept reading it over and over, but only now, as I woke up and started posting this, did I realize there is one small scene to be added; it’s really small and will only add a little, so this chapter is still good to go. Edit: I have added it now, as mentioned above.

There are a few choices to make in this chapter that will affect future scenes. The walkthrough is attached below.

Dev comments

Where do I begin? Excited to proceed forward, I have everything ready after all.

I have completed the story to tell, the only question that I keep asking is: how do I tell it?

Then I tell myself, it’s an ongoing story, I’ll figure it out. As long as I follow my continuity rule, that nothing published/released storywise will ever be revised, I hate when that crap gets pulled; from anyone. It shows the lack of integrity and dedication in the writing, IMO. Making up as I go along is not my style, that’s why even at multiple requests from various people I have not entertained the idea of supporters having any hold on the reins to the plot at all, except for the minor details with little-to-no plot relevance. So please stop asking and wait for Book 4, I’ll be happy to collaborate with people and take suggestions then.

Anyway, Chapter 25 will be a breeze, aside from a scene or two that will be quite difficult to pull off.

Book 2: Chapter 23
Technical update
-1,400+ renders, 11 animations
-New textbox for the choice, still a WIP
-Fixed the broken saves issue; more details in Discord.

Chapter update
The last chapter was tedious, due to it having mostly scenes with 3 or more cast members, this one is difficult because aside from it having almost the same thing, they have to be more active. I tailored this chapter to showcase more of the cast’s dynamic with each other, so we took a break from the last 2 chapter’s more serious themes and made this one whimsical.
Originally, that wasn’t the plan; as you may have heard/read somewhere, book 2 ends on the 25th chapter and I mentioned Rion playing a bigger part in this chapter. So here’s how it was done: The approach to the last 3 remaining chapters of book 2 is crafting it as a whole, Like with what I did with chapters 10 and 11 of book 1 yet finishing each chapter strongly and with more than enough progression in each, which contributed to this chapter taking longer once again. So what I did is I swapped out events from each chapter to produce a more cohesive flow on the storytelling. As always, I like this chapter more than the previous but of course, I’d love to hear what you think.

With that in mind, I swear the next two chapters will be way faster than the last few updates. Sorry ’bout that!

Dev comments
I had a lot of fun with the scenes in this chapter, but it was difficult; the entirety of the pool scene and sequencing alone took two days to write and four days to render, mostly because it was meant to be in disarray. Oh, and please save on the “Chapter – END” not on Miho presenting our pages on the screen.

Book 2: Chapter 22

A few changes between this and the previous version:
-Added gallery.
-Added a screen at the end with Miho to redirect users to our pages.
-Added Manic_umbra to the wall of fame. Thank you.
-A few edits here and there on the dialogue
That’s about it, there’s not much to address in this post towards the exclusive supporters since I just did that a couple of days ago.

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About this chapter: I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I hate working with skirts. The rest of the summary of what is in the chapter can be viewed below in the Chapter Update Section.

Technical Updates
-Added a rename feature on the settings menu, this is mostly added for users whose in-game name in MTWY gets turned into none.
-Removed the Franklin Gothic Font from the fonts used in MTWY and added the Din Font.
-Added a new Akemi main menu slide as per poll suggestion.

Chapter Update
Around 1560 Renders and 31 animations
5k+ lines of cod

Book 2: Chapter 21
-Chapter 21 Storyline
Edited several scenes:
-Ch14, Transition from Kanehana’s pool scene to Yukine’s night office scene.
-Ch16, How Iroha and Hikari met, after MC and Kanehana’s talk at the beach during sunset
-Ch17, The car trip back home, small scene.
-Ch19, Akiro telling MC how he wooed Kyouko during their fishing time
-Ch20, Akemi tells MC how their father taught them how to swim.

Book 1 – Rerendered
– 95% of book 1 was re-rendered, new visuals, with only Chapter 11 halfway touched (removed clippings, horrible shadings, unbalanced textures).
– Changed the transition effects, the fade and dissolve transition effects between renders were extremely inconsistent.
– Rewrote Miho’s intro a little, since Post-Ch9 fans won’t get the first few lines.
– Rewrote dialogues; no changes to the story; but I did close a plothole. It’s *not* even slightly important to the essence of the story, but it’s annoying once you notice it.
– Adjusted UIs
– Adjusted the code so the “Can’t play Book 2” doesn’t happen anymore

Book 2: Chapter 20
Okay, to clarify so there won’t be any confusion: when Chapter 21 is out to the paid supporters, it’s the re-rendered version of Book 1 that would be released to the public supporters.

Once the Re-rendered version of Book 1 is out publicly, all download mirrors to the old versions will be removed, so if for some reason you want to keep the old ones. Do it before then.

So chapter 20, it’s 1100+ Renders and 72 Animations(Excluding hundreds of renders and 20+ scrapped animations), so quantity-wise, it’s not lacking at all; as for the quality, you judge..

Book 2: Chapter 18
– Chapter 18 Storyline
– 1300 renders and 11 animations

Book 2: Chapter 17
-Chapter 17 Storyline
-Gallery update(Variations between scenes can now be viewed)
-Mouse pointer(Changeable via options)
-Messaging presentation(to be implemented to the rest of book 2)
-Official walkthrough

Book 2: Chapter 16
-Chapter 16 Storyline

Book 2: Chapter 15
-Chapter 15 Storyline

Book 2: Chapter 14
-Chapter 14 Storyline

Book 2: Chapter 13
-Chapter 13 Storyline
-51 animations, from small to big ones!
-All about Hikari
-An Exciting Reveal

Book 2: Chapter 12
-Chapter 12 Storyline
-Revised main menu background

Book 1: Chapter 11 BUGFIX
-Optimized file size, we managed to cut down the game’s size by half without affecting the quality of the visuals.
-Punctuation, grammatical and minor errors fixed.
-Fixed the infinite loop for ch1, for those stuck in the infinite loop in ch1, please make a new save(only them).

Book 1: Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Storyline