Penlight - New Public Release 0.1501 (The Best Friends Update)

New public release day is upon us again. Yaaaay \o/

Been really excited about showing this one off to folks as it's another BIG expansion, increasing the game's total written content by about a third from last month and pushing Penlight's word count above 100,000 for the first time. It's even bigger than the villainous update I was crowing about the other month, and that was pretty big!

And in contrast to the villainous update, this one's a lot more wholesome, with both of Nozomi's friends getting to star in their own routes and enjoy/suffer Kyou's involvement in their lives~

The art upgrades this month have appropriately focused on the friends as well, with both girls getting sprite makeovers. There's more work needing to be done, but it's really nice to be able to see them all line up together in their new looks for the first time ^.^

So yeah, I hope you folks enjoy this one! November's update will see some fixes regarding the consistency of the game as a whole, another new story path and some new CGs. Bye for now~

What's New

• Sayori Consensual Route - Work in progress, playable route from start to finish, with one alternate, partly-written path
• Hiroko Consensual Route - Work in progress, playable linear route from start to finish 
• Sayori's sprite has been significantly upgraded with a full range of outfits, expressions and an additional pose
• New Hiroko sprite with one pose and a complete range of outfits
• Hiroko's nametag colour has been tweaked to a different shade of pink, matching her hair in line with the other leading ladies
• Added more CG assets, allowing for many scenes along Nozomi's consensual route to be depicted in this style 
• A few new sound effects added to accommodate the new Hiroko route 
• You can now switch the game sprites between the new and old versions at any time by visiting the game menu, preferences and choosing "New" or "Old" under Sprite Style
• Word count is now over 106,000!
• As usual, made some more little script tweaks and spelling/grammar corrections here and there on the existing text