Version 0.3.0 of Star Knightess Aura is now online!

The update focuses mostly on main gameplay content. There are many new spells to learn, the Northern Mines gained a couple of levels and there are more quests and minibosses to beat. Side content is a bit sparse, which may make beating the current final miniboss a tad bit too difficult (assuming you aren't going to plummet him with the Star Knightess).

There are also a couple of new scenes in the real world that can be triggerd by Alicia's brainwashing. In particular, its possible to trigger the first standing image change for Aura, albeit it's just a minor one. Glasses lovers will feel sad, I'm afraid. Sadly there aren't any scenes afterwards to see much of it, but this should go ways to show the conceptual progress of Aura's corruption in real life. 

Taking all new scenes, dialogue of Roya citizens, and so on, together, the total the word count increased by roughly 14k words, putting the game at ~48k words. Besides main content, there are also quite some bugfixes and spelling- as well as grammar fixes.

I have also built a macOS version this time around. However, due to a bug in the export, its size somehow doubled...

The next month will focus on improving the standing images and adding expressions to the characters, so we can have some more fun cut-scenes.

For a more comprehensive changelog, please check the list below. Some bugs are sadly not listed, as I failed to be disciplined enough to log all my bugfixes...

Changelog v0.3.0 (30th January 2021)

• Added areas in the "Northern Mines" dungeon
• Added a very simple stub for the "Appearance Room"
• Added basic "Interests Room" 
• Added background story dialogues for remaining party members
• Added support for WASD movement
• Added quest "Spider Cleanup"
• Added quest "Lost Engagement Ring"
• Added quest "Honing My Skills"
• Added quest "Vaults of Old"
• Added world event "Demon Attack on Merchant"
• Added "Evening Chat With Rose 2" scene
• Added "Tutoring Alicia 3" scene
• Added "Commuting to School With George 2" scene
• Added suicide bad end when Corruption threshold is exceeded
• Added new spell "Tailwind"
• Added new spell "Water Skin"
• Added new spell "Thunderbolt"
• Added new spell "Brittle"
• Added new martial "Defensive Stance"
• Added new martial "Rampage"
• Added "Spell Shop" location to Trademond
• Added "Congregation of Merchants" location stub to Trademond
• Added 18+ warning screen on startup
• Added tutorial message for explaining ENHANCED state 
• Improved skill descriptions
• Improved UI by removing redundant Fight/Flee dialogue
• Improved UI by displaying WEAK/RESIST
• Improved UI by showing enemy damage in flash color
• Minor improvements to standing image of Aura

Balancing

• Prolonged durations of Star Knightess buffs and debuffs
• Slight debuff of Demon King ATK/DEF
• Reworked how "Protect" functions and made it match its skill description
• Reduced ATK gain from Goblin Teeth from 2 to 1
• Reduced duration of Heat Up ATK buff to 3 turns
• Reduced ATK gain from workshop from 3 to 2

Bugfixes

• Lots of minor glitches, editorial improvements, typo- and grammar fixes
• Fixed "Cursed Collar" accessory missing when skipping Intro
• Added missing open door animations
• Fixed getting infinite bombs from the chest at Goblin Shaman
• Fixed incorrect mapping of enablement when destroying rocks
• Removing "Bone Key" after Intro
• Fixed infinite battle loop on game over