Changes:

• Reinstated the visual walkthrough
• Fixed two spelling errors

This update (by far the biggest so far) for Dagdrm contains 200+ quality of life improvements, some big, some small! The biggest news is probably a Linux build, but there are new animations, a new hint book, new menus and 75+ changed dialogue options for making the game more intuitive. I also made a new (and improved) walkthrough for the game which is available in the forums . Read below for a complete list of fixes and improvements.

Pictured above: New menu design & hint book General:

• Linux build!
• Hint book that you can toggle on or off added (replaced the visual walkthrough)
• Added missing highlights on mouse over some hotspots
• Set visible audio hints ON as default
• Improved 10+ speaker hints to make them less obtuse
• Complete redesign of pause, controls and options menus
• Performance improvements
• Moved Tarot deck to pause menu for simplification
• Interface adjustments (primarily for Steam Deck)
• Fixed bug causing player to some times walk out of playable area on load

• Added visual improvements to The Moon Flower Pot on The Roof Terrace, for clarification
• Clarified directions to The Travel Agent on new game
• Replaced arbirtrary quick travel to some locations with new quick travel map inventory item
• Added visual improvements to zone selector in The Common Area, for clarification
• Streamlined tutorial on new game
• The Robot Librarian now gives you clearer hints regarding The Third Book Slip
• Clarified the breakdown of The Ticket Machine further
• Replaced 75+ dialogue options on NPCs with clearer hints for progress
• Fixed faulty scene transition fade-out

• Clarified "The Bird Puzzle" with some visual improvements to The Zoologists Tower
• Rare camera bug fixed in The Plaza
• Added visual improvements to The Travel Guide instructions for making broth (salted water)
• Quick fix for weird bug some times causing a black screen (but still interactability) on The Lake location

• Simplified puzzles on floor V of The Trial Foors
• Fixed superficial loading bugs when backtracking on a specific floor of The Trial Floors

Act 2:

• Fixed bug where The Golem Guard would give wrong responses when replaying dialogues related to instructions from The Stone Golem, potentially prohibiting progress

General:

• Loading improvements (removed a number of visual only bugs when loading games)

• Added optional visual hints for audio puzzle in The Power Room
• Added optional visual hints for audio puzzles in The Trial Floors
• Black screen bug fix in floor IV of The Trial Floors
• Black screen bug fix in the ending cutscene
• Fixed potential game breaking bug where NPC does not give you an item in The Arrival Hall
• Loading bug in The Passageway between The Trial Floors fixed
• Tarot card bug in The Trial Floors fixed

• Fixed bug on load where the train disappears (Act 1)
• Fixed bug with tarot card visibility (Act 2)
• Smaller bug fixes (all acts)

General:

• Clearer hints for The Trials in The Travel Guide
• Revamped hints from The Speaker System to make them less cryptic
• Updated over 30 dialogues

• Clarified zone computer functionality in The Common Area

• Added hints from The Speaker System in The Desert Town

• Added option with visual text for audio puzzle in The Power Room
• Added visual numbers in all levels of The Trials
• Changed bird colors to clarify puzzle in The Trials floor VIII
• Clarified Visual Walkthrough for Act III
• Fix for black screen bug for The Trials floor IV
• Fix for rare bug with the final room of The Trials floor VIII
• Major revamp of visual hints in The Trial Rooms
• Simplification of key puzzles in The Trial Rooms

Act 1:

• Replaced some of the dialogue of The Travel Agent in The Control Room to clarify puzzle solution
• Shortened cutscene of The Train Station rotating
• Shortened wait time in the intro cutscene

• Replaced some of the dialogue of The Cook in The Kitchen to clarify puzzle solution

• Fixed visual bug with sleeping NPC in your apartment in final cutscene
• Updated walkthrough for The Trials floor VIII
• Corrected possible bug with the zone color in final cutscene
• Fixed bug in The Arrival Hall which in some instances led to NPC not giving you required item

General:

• Improved dialogue system!
• Fixed a visual bug with numbers displaying collected tarot cards (did not affect achievement progress)
• Fixed a bug where you could pick up tarot cards multiple times

• Fixed bug where the guard in The Courtyard gave a response at night, even though he isn't there
• Fixed missing animation when the guard drops his stick in The Courtyard

• Fixed bug when drinking sleep soup in The Butterfly Hut
• Fixed bug where screen temporarily freezes 2 seconds with The Stone Golem

• Fixed a visual bug where the hand net was duplicated visually
• Fixed an animation bug where the megaphone was duplicated visually
• Fixed black screen on load in The Trial Rooms
• Simplified puzzles in the second and third room on floor V of The Trial Rooms
• Clarified dialogue while speaking to NPC on floor VIII of The Trial Rooms
• Clarified dialogue hint from the speaker in the third room on floor VIII of The Trial Rooms
• Clarified walkthrough for floor VIII

- Fixed buggy loading in The Courtyard (Act I) - Fixed a bug where the game freezes in The Library (Act I) - Fixed a bug where the screen goes black in The Library (Act I) - Fixed a bug in your neighbors apartment (Act I) - Visual fix in walkthrough to clarify objectives

An official release date for Dagdrm is finally ready: If everything goes as planned the game will be released the 19th of May 2023 on Steam! Improvements at this points are mostly fixing bugs, implementing the soudntrack and correcting some bad filters (color grading). In other news: Over 100 testers has gotten their access to the beta version of the game, but I still need more feedback! If you have played it, but haven't submitted any feedback yet you can do it here.

Dagdrm, a new point-and-click adventure, coming later this year, is now ready for beta testing. The game is in a decent state, but with some key elements missing:

• Soundtrack (some sketches are in, but nothing final)
• Color grading (some coloring, especially in night scenes, is temporary)
• The ending is lacking in audio effects
• Credit scene (missing)
• Norwegian translation missing (bokml and nynorsk)