Welcome
Hey! It's that time again, another Dreadwinter development update! There's quite a lot of small changes added to the game, alongside working on filling out the rest of the game's content, so let's go through it all.
Demo Updates
I recently released another update to the Dreadwinter demo, it's mostly bugfixes, but there's a few little things I added as well! Here's some mini patch notes:
Gameplay updates:
Move speed increased by around 25%
Added sprinting (hold Shift)
This is mouse and keyboard only right now, but the next update will add it for controllers
You can buy a special coffee bean from the merchant on Wednesday evenings
This was already in the game, but the shop option was bugged (sorry!)
You can now read books in the library
There's only one right now, but I'll be adding more over time
The library is located inside the observatory
On November 18, there was a brief period where the player's combat animations were broken in the demo, which was due to the sprinting animations messing with the sprite. This has been fixed, but if you were unlucky enough to be playing during that time and saw it, that's why!
From November 18-19 combat was broken altogether, so you probably wouldn't have noticed any issues with the player sprite in combat (what a day!ːsteamsadː)
There's a lot of bugfixes as well, I'll leave them at the end of the post if you want to check what's been fixed. If there's anything missing, let me know and I'll do my best to fix it!
I tend to push updates once there's a lot of things done, since it's a bit of a long process to update the demo, but they should happen regularly enough.
Gifting
I've added a gifting system into the game! In line with the spooky theme of the game, I made the gifting process slightly unusual. There's a gift box you can buy and place in the café, which is really a mimic.
Once per day, you can feed it a drink you make during your shift, and it will deliver it to a person of your choice. Each character has their own set of tastes, with drinks ranging from neutral, liked, loved, disliked and hated. You'll have to do a bit of sleuthing to find out what they like!
I'll also add some other ways to gift items to characters, it's just a matter of fitting it into the game.
Mail System
You can now receive mail! It's a pretty minor feature, but it should be useful from time to time.
New Locations
I'm currently working on filling out the rest of the town, hopefully by the end of the month all of Lunara will be explorable. There isn't too much to do, but it's still quite time consuming.
Here's some screenshots of the new places:
Kazuho's Home
Nought's Apartment
The Mayor's Manor
The Mayor's Manor is also the location of one of the seasonal events that happens in the game, which is what I'll be working on next!
Seasonal Events & Festivals
Each season has a few events and festivals going on, some are just for fun, and others will have practical value, such as things you can buy for the café and your other business ventures.
One example is The Murder of Mayor Moon, a fun little event during the spooky season. It's a murder mystery event, where the Mayor is killed during a dinner party, and you have to figure out who the culprit was.
There's also the Coffee Guild Conference during the rainy season, a festival that lasts a few days, and will have special coffee beans and machines available for purchase!
That's it for now, thanks for reading, the grind continues!
-Alex
Demo Bugfixes
Bugfixes:
Doors can now be interacted with more than once
They previously disabled themselves after interacting with them
The stuck button in the menu should no longer block out tooltips
Regular customers should only appear once per week
Demo should end once Monday, day 8 is reached
Auto brewer no longer replaced with manual brewer when loading saves
Menus can be opened and closed with their hotkey
Settings menu can no longer be opened multiple times
The barriers at the train station now have collision boxes
Visual (Y-sorting) bugs now fixed (I hope)
The coffee bean merchant no longer crashes the game when chatting
Opening the relationship page no longer crashes the game
Regular customer pages should open properly
Equipping hats no longer crashes the game
Interacting with certain objects should no longer cause the interaction sound to loop
Defense cards should no longer be stackable
Ghost customers no longer have super fat interaction hitboxes
Dread and Winter should no longer walk off screen
Added a cooldown after opening and closing the cafe
Lilis and Plumpkin dialogue updated when meeting them for the first time
Previously assumed you would meet them in their home/business
Dread no longer disappears after the first day
You should no longer be able to grind/brew coffee when your hotbar is full
Autobrewer should now take coffee grounds from the player
Customers can't be served multiple drinks
You can switch tabs when looking at skill trees
Special quests should not be available to see
This will be available in the full game
19/11 - Fixed crash at start of combat
Gave Tofuu animations
20/11 - Updated trouser sprites for clothes obtained during the intro
21/11 - Fixed a bug during combat that disabled player inputs when using a defense/player card and immediately passing turn
Bugs I am aware of:
It is possible that customers can sit on the same seat
Some objects are positioned in a way that you can get stuck between them
Assorted crashes
Leave details of these if you can!
It is possible for the camera to not follow when moving to another location
This will make it seem like you are stuck
In character creation, hat should be called accessory