Public Release 0.1574.2: New Doll Storyline Ending


Please note: Because of all the changes I made to how CGs are unlocked, returning players will find that many of their previously unlocked CGs will now be locked again. The new cheat function described below can be used to get everything back.

Hello again!

This month's release sees Sayori's alternate Doll storyline written to a conclusion, and includes all the planned CGs! As a counterpart to the original story path, I think it does the job quite well but I'm looking forward to getting stuck in to something else now.

But Doll wasn't the only content I've been working on this month. Nozomi's Zombie storyline gets a new CG, plus the Reversal storyline sees a few little tweaks to the presentation. No new written content there to excited about though, sorry!

And there's one more thing I've been working on: The addition of a gallery cheat! People have been wanting something like this for a good while, as long time players have occasionally lost their save data or had problems unlocking certain CGs thanks to various little bugs in the gallery code. I've since spent a lot of time completely reworking how CGs are unlocked, which should not only eliminate the bugs but also allowed the creation of this cheat~ To activate it, simply tap/click the lens of Kyou's penlight on the title screen four times to get a prompt to unlock all the CGs.

Anyway, that's all for another month! Enjoy the new release, and for next time I'm hoping to finally make some progress on that Reversal storyline that's been hanging for... um, close to two years? ^^;  We'll see...

What's New

  • WRITING: Sayori's Doll storyline alternate path ("Prove to her that she wants this") now written to a conclusion
  • WRITING: Minor tweaks made to the existing Reversal storyline script
  • ART: Four new CGs for Sayori's Doll storyline, on the new path
  • ART: New CG for Nozomi's Zombie storyline
  • Word count is now around 348,000
  • OTHER: Cheat function to unlock all CGs in the gallery has been added
  • LOCALIZATION: Various edits and corrections to the existing Spanish script
  • Minor typo corrections

Files

Penlight Public Release 0.1574.2 (PC & Linux) 308 MB
Jul 09, 2022
Penlight Public Release 0.1574.2 (Mac) 295 MB
Jul 09, 2022
Penlight Public Release 0.1574.2 (Android) 322 MB
Jul 09, 2022
Penlight Flowchart Guide (Spoilers) (0.1574.2) 1 MB
Jul 09, 2022

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How does one activate the cheat? Just for curiosity, might need it down the line

Simply tap/click the lens of Kyou's penlight on the title screen four times to get a prompt to unlock all the CGs.

Wondeful and very useful! Found paths i've never been on before! What paths are the maid cafe, what appears to be a hypnosis show at school and what appears to be a hypnosis show on a sofa? I've never found those before

Sounds like you need to explore Nozomi's storylines some more~

sounds fun