Hello Friends,

Here is the free development update 3.22.2025.  Ran into some issues while I was updating my engine that kind of set me back but actually helped the game afterwards.  A lot of the features I wanted are now in the game. 

There is another name change unfortunely the other name "HeatWave" was taken.  I did my research and came up with this name so no other game titles has this name.

There is a Patreon authentication now in place when you first enter the game it will check if you are a member of Patreon now.

There is a new Global Illumination setup and improvements to the game.  I've noticed the night always seems better at visuals than the day.  With the new Global Illumination in place, daytime never looks so good.

Old Global Illumination : 

New Global Illumination :

Major changes in the dialogue system.  There is a Text-to-speech AI generation along with LLM.  So now the NPC will talk or vocalize what is presented in the Dialogue Box.  They will have a variety of voices too for both male and female genders.

Now the adult system works with the Female gender as well.  Depending on your preference for your partner, the system will change accordingly.  In the future, I plan on providing more options for this.

I've added a throwing system.  You can throw objects at anything you want, it's pretty basic at the moment but the NPC ragdoll reacts to it.

Now when there is an action displayed in the dialogue manager or you want to perform a action during dialogue.  Like usually LLM chat system if you say *You give this person a hug.* An animation will play performing that action and this system will see more improvements by giving the NPC a choice on how they will react to it.

This is it for now, I'm giving myself one more month before I send out a test release before the official version of Build 8.  I want to get everything in from previous updates except for the step sis and step mom which was in previous version.  They going to be in the next build with a new section to the map.

Currently, I'm working on implementing the touch system which is a pretty big feature.  There is still a lot to do, thank you for reading.

Blast