Hello, dragonrollers! Expect some more news in the near future but, for now, here's a quick patch based on our latest advances in the full game:

Added

• Preference options to disable quick flash visual effects
• Support for translating phone chat title and clock display
• Compatibility between focus and sepia effects
• Character chibis in phone chats after meeting them once
• English dialogue and Japanese lyrics proofreader to credits

Changed

• English proofreading
• Dialogue beep SFX so it no longer ducks
• Sigurd's birth name is no longer undesired, only a lesser preference

Fixed

• Focus effect resetting sprite expression
• Crash when using focus effect on sprites not shown
• Title menu options being clickable while showing sub-menus
• Suit icons being misaligned in some resolutions
• Undesired dissolve effect when showing or hiding card panel
• A few sprites with minor issues
• All text formatting
• Assorted typos

Back already! This is just a very minor hotfix for the latest demo update. Here are the changes:

Fixed

• Typo in the pt-BR translation of Luna's preview
• Award suit animation not playing when gossiping about newcomer at work
• Title menu BGM not keeping up to Luna's intro

It has been a while but... This is probably the last major update before the full release of the Pivot of Hearts this year! IMPORTANT: Pivot of Hearts is still under heavy development and this updates includes several dialogue changes. As such, expect your saves from the previous demo version (0.11.4) to not be compatible anymore. Saves will become reliably stable only once the full game is released. The highlights for this update are:

• A new special scene at the end with a preview of content from the full game
• Scene animations 100% complete
• Music and sound 100% complete
• Card choices fully balanced
• Several UX improvements

Detailed CHANGELOG

Added

• Shadow to all cards in the UI
• Smooth entering animation to phone messages
• Call out to play full game in credits
• Government support in credits
• New contributions in credits
• Luna preview of full game in final scene
• Side image support for Luna
• Three new speech SFX variations, which some characters now use
• Lipflapping in all scenes
• Missing suit hints
• Several SFXs and ambiences to scenes throughout the game
• Quadrilha BGM
• "Cul Convidativo" BGM
• Real chapter title shown in save slots

Changed

• Choice rephrased in Cau's tour to showcase Wen's irony
• First flashback tweaked to better differentiate suit choices
• First flashback tweaked to clarify player's choices cannot be changed
• Luna's intro BGM set to pick up from title menu GBM
• Credits scenes remade with a typical "rolling" animation
• Copyright notice updated in title screen to include 2025
• Luna's intro updated to reflect current state of the game
• Subway logos replaced
• Support logos in splash screen adjusted to conform to new LPG grant
• Shiryuu phone strap replaced by a full remake
• Present card in 1st dream replaced by king of clubs
• Work colleague names with short version inside speeches
• Suit scores and love points balance for an appropriate level of challenge
• Suit award animation extended to allow gaining multiple points
• Different text emphasis formats in the game more consistently applied
• Audio dynamics implemented throughout several scenes
• Sprite animations adjusted to be more stable

Fixed

• Save slots not being translated
• Build sometimes including scenes from the full game
• Copyright notice so it starts based on the first commit
• Minor inconsistencies in character sprites
• Formatting in all scenes
• Card panel being in wrong state in some scenes
• Missing lipflapping animation for some character expressions
• "Indcios" BGM looping in karaoke scene
• Several typos

Progress on Pivot of Hearts is slow but steady, we are on our way to finish three out of four chapters. However, we also did several improvements to the game as a whole and we think the demo deserves some love as well. As such, this patch backports these improvements for all of you to enjoy while playing our free demo ;) Here are the main changes:

• Added
  • Experimental lip-flapping support (only in one place for now - can you find it?)
  • More Wn sprite expressions
  • Brbara's sillouette when she send voice messages in first scene (see gif above!)
  • Expression variations to Artist Ana's sprites
  • Cool SFX now play when characters speak
• Changed
  • Assets and scene scripts are now packaged for reduced build size
  • Make most text pauses in Chapter 1 end automatically after a delay
  • Brbara's tarot tutorial options become hidden after you choose them
  • Tutorial order can be chosen by player
  • Transition animations changed to real dates instead of "Week X"
  • Frames for card animations replaced with smaller resolution to load faster
• Fixed
  • Some sprites with graphical issues
  • Dozens of typos and other minor mistakes
  • "Indcios" BGM not looping as it should
  • All clocks and time references
  • Crashes on flashback scene
  • Going back from drop-down menu wrongly taking you to pause menu
  • Missing translations for suit tooltips

Pivot of Hearts will be participating in Next Fest! Join us in a livestream of our demo on June 15th, at 4pm Pacific Time!

We are testing the livestream feature!

This is the much awaited Brazilian-Portuguese patch for the Pivot of Hearts demo! You can now play the entire demo in the same language the characters of the story speak ;) There are also some internal improvements that shouldn't change the usual gameplay experience, but that make our lives much easier! XD

Here's the first patch for the demo of Pivot of Hearts, version 0.7.0!! The highlights among the changes are:

• New cursor
• New animations when characters win or lose love points!
• Fixes to keyboard and gamepad UI navigation
• Fix crash when seeing a phone chat during auto mode
• And a few other minor corrections here and there =)

PIVOT OF HEARTS DEMO IS LIVE TODAY!!! Dragonroll Studio's Valentine's Day gift to you is a demo of our first game! Check out this non-monogamous Visual Novel that's overflowing with love Also, tomorrow (2/15) we'll be streaming (in Portuguese) with our wonderful mentor Flvia Gasi, at 9:30 PM BRT (GMT-3)! Follow us on social media to stay tuned. We'll play Pivot of Hearts, draw some chibis, have some cake (?!); Join us, it's gonna be awesome!