Public Release 0.1522.2 - Story Updates, Spanish Translation & General Polish

Hi, everyone!

This past month has had me making little improvements and additions to the game that didn't involve an awful lot of writing. Not that there isn't any new written content, but most of what we're looking at here is a lot more art (including a proper title screen at last!) and something I'm particularly happy about: The beginnings of a Spanish localization for Penlight!

It's in its early stages, and you need to go through the game's menus to get to it, but the first two in-game days are now available to play in a second language, and I'd be thrilled if it helps to open up the game to new readers. There'll be more to come, with the hope of making the game fully dual-language in the near future!

As for the rest of the new content, there are now four new CGs spread across the game, and if you check out Hiroko's and Nozomi's newest storylines again you'll find they've had some more work done to their script, with Hiroko's now written to a full conclusion and Nozomi's having her ending tweaked among other things. 

There's more little writing updates here and there (check the update notes), but like I said not an awful lot of new writing here. Just little incremental updates that hopefully make the overall game just a little bit better.

For next month I'm cracking on with a storyline I left hanging some time ago while the art upgrades continue. Plus we should see more progress with the Spanish localization. Stay tuned!

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What's New

• Fully written the scenes for Hiroko's newest storyline 
• Penlight is now partially playable in Spanish! Language select is available via the preferences menu, and Spanish text is present for the first two in-game days 
• Replaced the placeholder title and main menu screens with new art 
• Added a new CG scene for Nozomi's main (Trance path) ending
• Added a new CG scene for Hiroko's route
• Added a new CG to the start of Sayori's route 
• Added a new CG for the ending of the Villainous Devotion route 
• Made numerous edits throughout Nozomi's Trance path storyline, including some changes to the final scenes 
• Added a few new background musics. They play during Nozomi's Trance path 
• Replaced the outline for two of Nozomi's Trance route sub-paths with proper writing
• Numerous edits to previously-written scenes in Hiroko's new storyline
• Tweaked the Villainous Devotion route script slightly, and altered the ending a tad 
• Added a tiny bit more outlining for the Villainous Redemption path 
• Played with the menu colours a bit so they work with the new title screen better 
• Android Version: Added an option to the UI allowing players to hide the UI until the screen is touched again
• The legacy sprite option has now been removed as maintaining them in the game was causing too many issues
• Word count is now over 200,500! 
• Miscellaneous spelling and grammatical corrections

Known Issue

• Changing the language on a line of script where an animation occurs (like screen shake) will throw up an error