0.5.0

Alien Attorney Adventure - Version 0.5.0

🎉 Major Features & Gameplay Additions

High-Stakes Pro Bono Docket

• Introduced"Civil Rights Violation"and"Capital Murder"class archetypes.

• These cases offer massive reputation rewards and game-changing narrative shifts, but they are completely Pro Bono (Expected Revenue: $0).

• Taking on a High-Stakes case now drains your firm for -$250/day in operational expenses (expert retainers, private investigators, etc.), forcing you to balance your docket with paying clients to stay afloat.

• A highly visible amber Warning Alert has been added to the Intake UI to make sure you know what you are getting into before accepting the case.

Jury Selection (Voir Dire)

• Impartial Juries are a Myth: The game now generates a pool of 15 fully-realized [c]JurorProfiles[/c] possessing hidden biases, traits, and social desirability scores.

• Players intercept the trial flow before Opening Statements to engage in Voir Dire. You must question the jury pool—spending limited Peremptory Challenges and Challenges for Cause—to strike severely biased jurors.

• The Jury Sympathy momentum meter's starting position is now actively determined by the aggregate biases of the surviving seated jury and the Opening Theme you establish!

Document Dump Discovery System

• The Prosecution has stopped handing over clean evidence files. They will now frequently drop mountains of unreviewed [c]DiscoveryDocuments[/c] onto your lap containing police reports, financial ledgers, and witness statements.

• Spend Action Points (Planner Hours) inside the new Discovery Panel to manually scrub these documents to uncover hidden [c]EvidenceItems[/c] and case-breaking logical flaws before trial.

Expanded Law School Curriculum

• Transitioned the basic Law School placeholder into a fully functional Litigation Clinic.

• Integrated the new Deposition Logical Flaws mechanic into the simulation engine. (Find the contradictions before you step into the courtroom!)

🛠 Polish & Infrastructure

• Steam Cloud & Achievement Tracking: Decoupled campaign instances from the meta-progression root. [c]progressSlice[/c] now safely tracks [c]totalCasesWon[/c], [c]totalPlayTimeSeconds[/c], and [c]totalMoneyEarned[/c], continuously pushing updates linearly via the Steamworks IPC middleware.

• Refactored JuryPool logic to natively support Alternate Juror replacements for future updates.

• Updated version strings to Build 0.5.0 alongside internal engine type stabilizations.