Public Release 0.1540.2 - Miscellanious Story Updates


Hey, peoples!

This update is, as I teased last time, a mixed bag of stuff. I've poked around at multiple storylines and added bits of new script and outline to each of them as I tried to settle on one or another. All those greyed-out choices are finally starting to get some attention and maybe I'll be in with a chance of actually finishing writing Penlight one of these days xD

Artwise it's been another fantastic month. The Redemption storyline has its first illustrations now, and Sayori's Doll story gets a couple more, but the highlight is the new one for Nozomi's Trance story. It's so much fun, and I know a lot of people will appreciate that scene coming to life with the CG in place~

Hope you enjoy this one! Next month will see me trying to focus on one of these new story branches with a view to finishing it, and there'll be some more great illustrations to come so look forward to that~

What's New

  • Ticklish Hands: Added the option for Kyou to refuse help and then change his mind
  • Ticklish Hands: Added the option for Kyou to refuse help and take advantage of the situation, written up to about halfway through day 5, the "Trickster" path
  • Villainous Robot: Added the "I can't keep doing this" choice
  • The first part of the "Become my girlfriend" choice on Nozomi's Trance path has now been written
  • Two new CGs for Sayori's Doll storyline
  • Two new CGs for the Redemption storyline
  • New CG for Nozomi's Trance Storyline
  • Edited the bedroom scene of Nozomi's Trance storyline, expanding it slightly to make better use of the new CG
  • A couple of new scenes outlined for the Reversal storyline, and some edits made to existing script
  • Wrote a little more for the Villainous Robot storyline, along a previously unavailable path ("No, I need to chill out")
  • Word count is now around 262,000
  • Spanish localisation: Various edits and corrections to the existing script
  • Updated the end credits with the latest backers
  • Minor typo corrections

Known Issues

  • Changing the language on a line where an animation occurs (like screen shake) will throw up an error.

Files

Penlight Public Release 0.1540.2 (PC & Linux) 209 MB
Feb 12, 2021
Penlight Public Release 0.1540.2 (Mac) 191 MB
Feb 12, 2021
Penlight Public Release 0.1540.2 (Android) 214 MB
Feb 12, 2021
Penlight Flowchart Guide (Spoilers) (0.1540.2) 1.6 MB
Feb 12, 2021

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Comments

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I'm excited to see where this new Trickster path leads us, I'm really enjoying it so far, and I am positively ecstatic to see that we're getting to see the "I need to chill out" Villainous Robot path. I've been wondering what would lie behind that option ever since I first saw it. 

Just wanted to drop a comment expressing how much I'm enjoying the updates and the game in general. The game doesn't seem to get much discussion here on itch.io anymore, but that doesn't mean there aren't people watching/playing! Keep up the good work!

I'm happy folks are excited about the new stuff I'm trying to write! Most of the fans are on my discord server these days, but I'm happy it's still getting attention on itch and elsewhere. I appreciate your support ^^

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I'm really happy you enjoyed it! As for the skip issue, yeah that's going to happen a lot. Any time I change or add a line of text your game will treat it as unread text no matter how minor the change and stop the skipping so you can read it.  It's an issue that will persist until I actually finish writing the game I'm afraid ^^;

You can force the game to skip anyway by going to the preferences menu and selecting "Unseen Text" in the submenu, although you risk skipping past genuinely new writing if you do that.