As part of Melbourne International Games Week we join the developers of The Beat in a rare play-through and/or post-mortem of the classic Noir indie game, The Beat.

The Beat v1.1.1 - TheVoice edition

• add: Voice over narration (for day one only -- we're trying it out)
• add: disable interactive on some characters when they are not part of the script to reduce player confusion when script starts to play

• change: tutorial now occurs in stages
• change: you can no longer cancel an appointment when it is about to happen next

• fix: the warning about outstanding events is now separate from caption system, solves intermittent issue with interactives getting stuck
• fix: don't warn when Ash is revealed that Leo is not revealed
• fix: Ash won't send an empty message to Leo when they first meet

v1.1.0 - "Daniel's Birthday" edition

• add: warn player when there is no internet connection
• add: new script "Out In The Open": Jackson can be present when Dylan tries to kiss you (thanks Joe Yun)
• add: new script "Sharing Spit". Anthony can be present and paranoid when Dylan tries to kiss you

• change: update engine (Godot 3.5 to 3.5.2)
• change: add link to oscarwildecard to title screen
• change: boost contrast and brightness 10% by default
• change: script clash info is presented in a more human readable way

• fix: "Protest Too Much": Jackson goes to the beat afterwards instead of Dylan

The Beat, our game about a closeted detective investigating a murder in the gay community, is now available on Mac OS X, including M1 and M2 machines. If you own the game on Steam, the Mac version should be automatically available for free. Enjoy!

Fix

• resolve clash between work solo and work default scripts (20)
• resolve clash between bar solo and bar default scripts (9)
• resolve clash between beach solo and beach default scripts (8)
• replace broken tooltip on settings menu
• replace broken tooltip on title screen (will go live in v1.0.3)

Change

• updated from godot 3.4.5 to 3.5.0

Add

• new script when coworker and wife are both at beach at same time (4)
• new script when coworker and wife are both at laundrette at same time (4)
• add tooltip to clothing editor app
• add mini-tutorial to opening scene

• fix: follow up issue where light bulb csv was not included with build and causing an error on windows. Now the missing files have been added.

• fix: on Friday evening a similar issue can occur with the video texture as the previous update.

• fix: video texture was trying to load before scene loads in At First Sight scene and this caused a crash in the windows build. Now the texture waits for the scene to load.

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