Hello everyone! 😊
Hope you had a fantastic week! 😄

Did you get a chance to play the new update yet? 😗
If you played the early access version:
What did you think of the new character? 👀
I had a lot of fun designing her and her reactions! 😄

If you didn't play the new update yet, no worries: it's not running away 😉

Post-release

The initial v0.6.0 version actually had a few bugs 🐞😱
Some images didn't load properly because of hardcoded paths 😐
This was fixed in the v0.6.1 update that was released on Friday!

Minor improvements in the game

In the release post earlier this week, I mentioned "fixes for some older CGs". One was about the footjob scene, and the other was about the scene where Takashi is masturbating and Yuma shows up behind him.

In this scene, Takashi's hands looked pretty awkward before, so I fixed that. Yuma's hand on Takashi's shoulder, as well as her eyes, were improved as well.
Of course, this CG (and many of the older CGs) still got a lot to improve: Yuma's horns aren't the right size, the flower on her head isn't a rose, her shoes should be more lady-like, and so on. But I wanted to focus on the most glaring issues first.
When the story of Orange Smash finishes releasing, I want to take the time to go back and improve all the older CGs properly. Until then, I'll sneak in some improvements for older CGs here and there 😉

Progress this week

After the release, I used the chance to work on some general improvements. One of them was actually already included in the v0.6.1 update, namely, the credits in the "About" page: they are now arranged more neatly than before. The goal here is to make Orange Smash look more like a proper game 😅

Another thing I'm currently working on is renaming the audio files in the game and replacing the corresponding code. The Ren'Py engine has a feature where audio files (and image files too) can be loaded as variables, so you can just call them by their filename instead of the full path.

So, instead of

play voice2 "sex_sounds/yuma-moaning-for-10-hours-6482023.mp3"

you can simply use

play voice2 yuma_moaning_for_10-hours_6482023

The catch is that the filename must be a valid Python variable name, meaning, it can't start with numbers, include spaces or dashes, and so on.
Even so, this feature is really helpful. Not having to type the quotation marks saves a lot of time, and not having hardcoded file paths means much greater flexibility with sorting the files into subfolders when the need arises.
That's why I'm going through all the audio files and renaming them, and while doing that, I'm also applying a new naming convention to make it easier to find the files and keep track of where they came from.

Plans for next week

Once I'm done with these general improvements, I wanna dive into the next update.

There's a small non-H animation I've planned. It's nothing that fancy, but I've never done something like this before, so I'm really excited to work on that one!

Well, that's all from me for this week!
Have a great week, and see you all next Sunday! 👋😊