About 0.2.3 Alpha and work on it, PREVIEWS and update on UPDATER features

Yo, guys!

I must say I'm happy to finally be able to release the Alpha. During the last week, a lot of good things for its progress happened, and it's all done. I must say I was quite stressed at the start of the last week - I got stuck between a rock and a hard place. There were 2 versions of the renpy engine available - stable (saves from 0.2.2 couldn't load), and unstable (64-bit windows didn't launch). It was a shitty choice that I didn't want to make, but I got lucky with contacting PyTom, renpy creator, and we (well, he, I was mostly talking) managed to solve the problems in the unstable branch. And here comes the Alpha. 

Well, the new problem was that on 'small' devices like phones the game will be unplayable due to the interface being off-screen. But we've also got this fixed already yesterday, but without a test, I won't release a new version on the untested renpy version. I did once, and I regret it. Denker did a full playthrough on the current renpy version, for beta, we'll test the next version. Since I'm now in contact with PyTom it's gonna be easy and fast fixing renpy bugs.

As said before, the new release system includes updates to the content with each branch. That means that Beta will come with more events and content! It will have events for Lexi and Mina. The rest? Surprise~
Did you ever consider how would Alice look in a sexy nun outfit?

I've also been researching web updater. There was an unexpected issue, games over 2GB will download all files when updating.... Well, I found a workaround, PyTom also said that renpy will support games over 2GB soon. But my workaround works too! I managed to run the updater, and it did its thing. I also managed to get JSON and TXT files from my server, so it means I can make new cheat codes without new releases! Don't worry, the game doesn't require and will never require an internet connection to function. If it can't download new codes, it'll use the ones from when it last connected the server or the ones from when this release came up, as all releases will come with up-to-date codes.

Talking about server, I decided to move on from the hosting I got, into a server I rented from my friend with a 1 Gb connection. The previous one had a limit per single user when downloading files, and I couldn't change server settings. Now there are no limits, yay! I'll also be moving docs over there, so the previous changelog site won't be updated, as I'll be moving it before 0.2.3 is public. For now, all changelogs will be in release posts. I'll also add 0.2.3 - alpha changelog to the bottom of this post.

I've got so 'high' on success with web code I even considered if I could make PvP online mode in AL, an arena. And I decide that it's possible but very time-consuming. And I would probably need another server for this to ensure fluid gaming. Anyway, I better stop myself from flowing too far into the future and stay more on the ground. 

Thanks for reaching so far :P 

Here's a changelog:

• added: Grace 11th story event
• added: Grace 12th story event
• added: Merged story event - 13th Grace, 15th Alice, 5th Little Fox
• added: Grace night prank event
• added: Grace sleep footjob event
• added: Grace night footjob event (yeah, two footjobs)
• added: Grace revenge secret event
• added: talking with Grace about her revenge
• added: Grace can be angry at the player
• added: option to apologize to Grace with a rose or by being charismatic
• added: Footjob, Dildo and Masturbation to Grace statistics
• added: Rubbing and dildo to Alice statistics
• added: Rhainda 3rd event
• added: Rhainda 4th event
• added: Rachel 9th event
• added: cunnilingus to Rachel stats
• added: eating dinner with Grace in her 6th event heals and gives a buff
• added: Lesbian to Rhainda stats
• added: Masturbation and Lesbian to Little Fox stats
• added: Little Fox x Rhainda event now raises their lesbian stat
• added: Alice's 8th event raises dildo and masturbation stats
• added: new, much better prologue
• added: action sounds to the manticore, werewolves, spiders
• added: 3 new cosmos renders, they'll appear at random
• added: Sugar Frenzy buff
• added: outros to the last main girl events
• added: (2) consumable items
• added: (3) pouches, (3) chests & (2) keys used to open them
• added: optimized tooltips
• added: updated translations, Spanish fully translated
• added: option to test sample sound
• added: some spacing to the buffs in character menu
• added: background to stats tooltips
• added: new intro
• added: killing human enemies now raises corruption again, up to 20%

• changed: What's new won't show for first time players anymore
• changed: Beginner Guide will show for first time players again
• changed: removed talking with Lexi about boxes
• changed: optimized image loading in many events
• changed: left & right character placements are now not on the edges
• changed: notifications are centered now
• changed: removed Lexi and Grace first story events, the new prologue takes their place
• changed: replaced mysterious coin drops from enemies with chests & pouches
• changed: buffs icons
• changed: removed rng from triggering two Mina's events
• changed: Millionaire dream now triggers only after meting Aharon

• fixed: Alice shower dildo blowjob didn't raise stats
• fixed: PC wallpaper showing after defeating dragon summoned with Discord veteran's code
• fixed: no transition between two Grace images
• fixed: some things not translating, despite having translation files
• fixed: continuity errors at Rachel and Little Fox outfit events
• fixed: double transition in Lexi's 2nd event
• fixed: getting Life with Alice dream before progressing with Alice
• fixed: error at Lexi's 9th event when using Vietnamese translation
• fixed: many dreams playing at once
• fixed: Lexi could go out again after bringing food
• fixed: Lexi or Alice appearing in weird places after their events that didn't advance the time
• fixed: Savenia could go out often before healing her leg
• fixed: pc icons not disappearing after inserting wallpapers code
• fixed: Tooltips having wrong background size on Android and in translations
• fixed: Grace's ninth event showing on map before its requirements were attained
• fixed: not being able to use all options in Grace bath replay
• fixed: sound volume settings not working for some sounds
• fixed: Lexi appearing in two places at once on map
• fixed: tooltip staying behind from interaction menu when using it or closing it with a key
• fixed: tooltip staying after closing inventory with a key
• fixed: on kill effects not triggering if it's the last enemy