The latest chapter* (27th Dec) is AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW for ko-fi supporters! <I am so sorry for the delay!! Also not an April's Fools' Joke haha I would never do that to you guys!>
Features:
The lead-up to the Nat surprise (!)
Visit a columbarium with your family (to commemorate your grandparents 👴👵 and relive some childhood memories!) <Flesh out your MC's family life>
OR: Skip the columbarium family trip and have lunch with Qiu (at their workplace 💼; or lunch with Shay (includes an optional boxing 🥊 session and the potential to meet someone dear to them🍲).
Meet Qiu or Shay at a 'winter'-themed funfair/carnival in the evening (or save it for a future Nat date)🧸🎄🍻 <win stuffed animals, drink mulled wine, sit on the lawn and... experience... snow(?)>
Bonus scenes at night if you choose not to go to the funfair (e.g. board games with Joony, write a song if you're a musician etc.)
Wordcount: 54k + 12/13k words (for the winter fair, should you choose to go with Shay/Qiu)
Can't wait to share it with you guys!
(P.S. if you helped to beta-test, a big thank you <3 I'm about 60% done with everyone's feedback, and I'll continue to tweak and edit over the course of the week! Once I'm done with everyone, I'll send each of you a thank you + confirmation email!)
*It's Chapter Three now, but only because I re-named the chapters, essentially what would've been called Chapter Four previously.
CT:OS Update #6 is fully available for early-release folks!
Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 of the update (Early Release) are out for ko-fi supporters (link)
Thank you so much for supporting the game and playing :) I am so excited to share this with you guys!
Summary
Pt. 1 (released a week ago)
Attend your first photography club meeting and potentially… have a moment with G in the dark room [smooching may be involved!😘] (achievement up for grabs)
Hang out with D and G at a café, ☕️ and have a run-in with Felix! [it can be as tame as you want, or a little hostile.]
Play an additional (mini) challenge match—against Deepal, Jacks, Max, or Akimi.
Find out if you’re officially in the Top 6 🥇(meaning you’ll play in the singles matches during the season)!
Short Sam POV scene, after they move into college!
Pt. 2 (released 17 Apr 2023)
Chat with Max and Blake about who you want your partner to be.
Play two doubles matches—One with Tobin as your partner, against Rayyan and Jacks [Yes, you can beat Rayyan, at last!] 🎾 and another one with Rayyan as your partner against Tobin and Jacks!
Find out who your doubles partner for the season is! Rayyan, Tobin, and Emerson are all possibilities, and they will all have their cliff-hanger-y reactions to the news. No points for guessing who is… not happy 👀. [This could involve a confrontation with Rayyan, or a quiet walk with Tobin.]
Public release dates (Pt. 1 will be out 22 Apr, and Pt. 2 will be out 29 Apr—to give me some time to edit!)
Extras
Chapter banners are up! (Let me know what you think—whether you love it or hate it, as I'm still toying around with the design!)
In-game cheats have finally been coded (Do let me know if you have trouble with either of these.)
Skip matches (with a password once you’ve played the match once)
Beast mode (where every choice you make will be automatically successful!)
Earlier chapters have also been edited based on beta tester comments, and to streamline the content a little. [E.g. the mini weekend ‘dates’ with Tobin and Rayyan (to the library & on a run) have been shifted—but it’s simply a rearrangement of content so that it works better.]
Future patches
I am still working through beta-tester feedback and other edits, but wanted to get the update out to supporters first, as promised! You will see improvements to the chapter over the next week / two weeks or so.
For e.g., password functionality will be edited such that you can skip matches and pick if you won/lost (rather than have two separate passwords).
As always, feedback, messages, bug catches etc. are greatly greatly appreciated. You can send 'em here, to my Tumblr, or to the COG forum thread :) This chapter (because it's early release) is not yet beta-tested, so I will be going in to edit it further :) It'll only get better!
P.S. So sorry for the delay, I had a last-minute change of heart with some of the final scenes, but I did add some content I hadn't intended to (for this update), so I hope that makes up for it!
