Act 2 Scene 2: Closed System

New mode for the next Third Rule Game

• With extensive sprites and animations and sfx to show the moves being made!!

New Chat dialogue mode

• Unique Animal Crossing style voice blips for all characters!!
• Shake animation for IMPACTFUL chat messages

Audio

• 5 new sfx
• Hail (ambience track) (1 variant)
• Transitive Thought (5 variants)
• I Know Your Name (2 variants)
• False Conductor (3 variants)
• Dead Anthem (2 variants)
• Pre-boarding (2 variants)

Items

• Added particle effect when flowers grow a stage
• Added watering flowers particle effect
• Three new flowers for da Garden!
• Added 15 badge items! More information on the classes of the characters, what theyre best at, and which archetype they fall under!!
• New Badges item category
• Colored text for inventory item descriptions (used for badges)
• Story-based item drops at key moments (used for badges)
• Extanded the Inventory height a bit for more vertical juice

Art

• 7 sprites for the debut of a very often-mentioned side character
• Pet + ??? textbox sprite (Pet + ???) (9 variants)
• New violet/blue glow background
• Aeronaut textbox sprite
• The Slope <> Daemort textbox sprite
• Dark Cabin background edit
• Dining Cabin background edit
• Train Station background edit
• Cupboard background edit
• Class Archetypes textbox image
• Chef edit
• Healer edit
• Imp edit
• 2 Pet edits
• 4 Derebella edits
• Seer edit
• Ficcie + Pet combo edit
• Deadghost + Pet combo edit
• Three new CGs (two by Jason Dowers, one by Suki! Epic art guys!!)

Polish

• Enabled Scene Select from anywhere in the game, even during a new scene
• Added the ability to view the update messages for all previous updates! You can find them in the Scene Select
• Added 5 new animations for character sprites: Fall, Land, Rise, Twitch, and Rocketship
• Shortened Veil labyrinth minigame (when you move the ball through the maze) by about 30% so it doesnt destroy the pacing of the scene quite as badly
• Slightly lowered Veil timer to compensate for the shorter map lengths
• Added fullscreen mode in settings

Secrets

• Added Japanese font and license :3
• Added a secret to the main menu
• Added two special secret codes you can type in on the main menu
• Added a rare 1% chance secret during the fishing minigame (also can be enabled permanently with a main-menu secret keyphrase) (+click particles)
• Enabled secret cheat code menu weve been using for dev

Bugs/Cleanup

• Fixed typos, missing colors on character names, missing Deadghost Xs, and tons of tiny malignments from A2S1: The Ball Scene and other scenes too!
• Fixed missing pixel on sad Pet sprite
• Removed font size option :( It was causing things like textbox sprites to be misaligned for some players!!
• Fixed a plothole in Scene 4 (Tank mentions the axe trap, but during the trial everyone says he never mentioned it)
• Prevented earsplitting chaos noise when starting a game after flooding the main menu with badges
• Fixed Counter/Concur trial sfx being set to Music volume
• Fixed music player issue where the first stage of Godstepper was assigned to stage 2 as well

THANKS FOR PLAYING EVERYONE~!!! <33