Save games should be compatible! Just copy paste your old save game folder.

And another full cycle comes to an end. In this post, as usual, I will summarize the major changes of the 0.12.0 release. By the way, I only just now noticed because 1 month = 1 release, but this is also the 1 year anniversary release of Star Knightess Aura! In just a couple of weeks, it will have been 1 year when I opened up a text document and started writing down the game design doc for SKA. Yay!

So let's jump into the update. The big focus of this update was to build up the foundations for starting into the Chapter 2 content. In numbers, the update has 21k new words, 4 new learnable skills, 3 new lewd scenes, 3 new mental changes, 2 new common events, 2 new corruption events, and 1 new H-CG.

Getting Aura out of the Abandoned Shrine. The post-Festival game state has been updated to Aura can safely leave the shrine. Dead NPCs are removed, rescued NPCs added. A bunch of NPCs have minor dialogue variations to stay consistent with the plot, there are some remarks found by the adventrurers in the guild, and also a new member. If you cleared the pre-festival content exceptionally fast, try checking out a certain merchant in the Congregation and a certain maid in the refugee camp for some minor rewards. In general, there are a couple of rewards to be gotten since slew a Demon General after all. Try checking in with the priestesses in the church, as well as the rescued abductees that you can find in the Refugee Camp and in Trademond.

Building up new skills, items, formulas for Chapter 2. Following the game principles of Chapter 1, there will of course be new challenges to face. And there are a couple of tools introduced in this update that will help you overcome them. Of course, most of them fairly expensive, which will then serve as a another motivational boost for Aura to participate in the Chapter 2 lewd events. The White And Black Priestess have new spells to teach, there is a new Martial to be found that should be useful to those actively try to sneak attack, and a quest in Riverflow will unlock a Formula Peddler selling formulas to powerup the interactions with the Alchemist. Also try speaking to the Slime Summoner girl, as she can teach you how to make your slime gain a fire form.

Some of the content is locked until after the festival, some of it is available pre-Festival.

Increasing the lewd and vice count. A big goal of this update is also to catch up with the lewd side of things. The Festival now has 2 lewd events that can help you presever / gain Perika to make the fight against Mammon easier. There is another lewd event involving the aforementioned Formula Peddler. The event and the involving quest were written by a commissioned writer and then edited by me, so please check them out. We also have the first two Vice actions, one of them in the very same quest, another one available if you rescued a certain merchant in Arwin's cellar, who afterwards refuses to even say thanks.

Also on the lewd side, the demon worshipper handjob has been illustrated, so please give his lewd event a revisit! Currently in production is the slime H-CG.

Preparing the Chapter 2 corruption route and opening a new mental room.  On the corruption side, you can now find that the Values Room can be opened with a first two mental changes. These changes don't trigger any scenes yet, though, and are mostly added as tutorial actions and for me to test that all scripts work correctly. We do have a new mental change with effects, though, check out the beakers in the Interests Room. 

Though, I would recommend not destroying them on the very first day of 0.12.0 since that will block 1 of the new common scenes to play and instead directly play the associated corruption scene. Which brings me to the common scene prep work for Chapter 2. There are two new common scenes: One for the grades decline storyline and one for the George storyline.

Too bad that there will a Memory Room!

For more information on the invidiual update parts, please check out my devlog posts on the prereleases. Otherwise, you can find all changes bundled up below in the changelog.

Overall the update feels a bit strange. I keep thinking that not a lot of stuff has been added, but the changelog and increased word count tell me otherwise. So apparantly there is quite a bit of new stuff. There is just a bit of a lack of new dungeons.

That I will then tackle next month. I will focus on adding some new locations. You will be able to enter the eastern forest of runes and finally get access to an item that can teleport you to Abandoned Shrine. If the patreon poll on the first new main story location doesn't change, I will also add the first iteration of Nephlune next month. And of course, a new mental location will also be opened up.

Changelog 0.12.0 (29.10.2021)

• Added scene "Tests Are Out 3"
• Added scene "Attending Classes 1"
• Added scene "Attending Classes 2"
• Added scene "Dating George 1"
• Added values room in Main Chamber
• Added mental change "Breaking Science Beakers"
• Added mental changes for corrupting first selfishness orb
• Integrated "Demon Worshipper Handjob" CGs
• Added lewd scene "Feeding Slave Owner Mouth To Mouth"
• Added lewd scene "Lewd Dance For Formula Peddler"
• Added lewd scene "Asking For Ass Groping By Slave Owner"
• Added quest "Save The Crops!"
• Added quest stub "Eternal Day Of Sloth"
• Added skill "Shadowcloak I"
• Added skill "Bless Item I"
• Added skill "Light II"
• Added skill "Assassinate I"
• Added skill "Invest: AGI All" in Money Domain
• Added skills "Morph: Fire" and "Morph: Phys" for Slime
• Added item "Anti-Magic Coating"
• Added formula Peddler shop
• Added formula "Improved Vitality Potion Efficiency"
• Added formula "Improved Bomb Efficiency"
• Added formula "Energy Potion+"
• Added formula "Flash Bomb+"
• Added Stasis Bombs in expensive shop in Money Domain
• Integrated maps for "Formula Peddler"
• Integrated map "Southern Farmer House" in Riverflow
• Integrated 2 refugee camp shed maps
• Integrated map "Artist" in Riverflow
• Added option to learn Assassinate I from farmer grandma
• Added option to learn Morph: Fire from Slime Summoner
• Added option to learn Shadowcloak I from Black Priestess
• Added options to learn Light II and Bless Item I from White Priestess
• Added option Bless Item at White Priestess
• Scripted Aura spawn dialogue post-Festival
• Added Vice option for blackmailing rescued merchant
• Moved end of content points to White Priestess/Sardine/Nephlune
• Blocked entrance to Arwin mansion post-Festival
• Updated Charlotte Magic dialigue post-Festival
• Added quest stub "Fortress Of Wrath"
• Updated Desmond location and blocked entrance to boar hut cellar
• Removed Marten post-Festival
• Added rewards for quickly reaching second story arc at Bragging Merchant and Rescued Maid
• Disabled dialogue options to trigger Festival post-Festival
• Enabled periodic Blessed Water restock every 20 days post-Festival
• Failing "Price Of Freedom" main objective when triggering derby with more than 1 participant
• Added Modeling 1 event at Riverflow artist
• Added rescued abductees to Refugee Camp / Trademond
• Added Sick Workers and Edwin dialogue variants for post-Festival
• Added "Reading. Is. Boring." checks to some dialogues involving books
• Added post-Festival John dialogue
• Added post-Festival Paul dialogue
• Increased max mental changes to 46
• Increased Max Lewdness to 28
• Integrated vice into score calculations

Balancing

• Increased Perika gain from Liquidation spells to 2000 when Selfishness >= 1
• Story Mode: Reduced Perika cost of VIP Pass to 10k Perika

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos and editorial improvements
• Fixed missing Ugliness I constraint for Lunchbreak 4
• Fixed invisible choice options influence width of choice
• Fixed learning Light II reenabling learning Light I
• Fixed incorrect ENHANCED states and messages in double slime fight
• Added some missing map names
• Fixed minimum lewdness reduction not applying to second dialogue with slime summoner
• Fixed android version code not always increasing
• Fixed BGS not fading out when entering clear room
• Fixed visual glitch when starting NG+ while having party members