Daring Academy Alpha 0.0.4 is coming on July 1st, 2022!

Right when Alpha 0.0.3 was done and waiting to be released, we started working on this update, fixing stuff forgotten from Alpha 0.0.3 and such.

While mainly adding Day 4, Alpha 0.0.4 also adds the new character customization screen, new songs, partial controller support, a new insert song sung by Amelia Sweet, adds new characters, changes internal stuff, adds quality of life changes and many more.

Thanks to LemonadeMochi, Dark_Green, Carter Vandenberg and UnlishedTen8 for playtesting throughout Alpha 0.0.4's development phase.

• Desaturated the grocery store background, to resemble the one used in the day 3 divider

• Renamed the gallery screen to "In-Game Gallery"

• Moved the gallery to the Gallery Section screen

• Aligned the character name's text position in the character bio to be centered with itself

• Bolded the categories in the character bio to easily identify them

• Disabled all non-original sound effects, as to not create any stress on finding sound effects

• Limited the number of saves and load pages to 15 pages, with automatic saves and quick saves

Added:

• Added a option to choose your last name, with Lullena as the default last name

• Added Day 4

• Added a day divider to Day 1

• Added mentions of Fruits Basket, Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World, Minecraft, Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Sword Art Online in the credits

• Added a content warning screen upon first loading up the game

• Added hover icons to the extras screen

• Added the day dividers to the in-game gallery screen, unlocked when seeing the day divider

• Added 3 new achievements

• Added lines when a character is talking in the background of phone calls

• Added the "Birthday" category in the bio screen, thus adding birthdays to Minty and Delilah

• Added Severus, a new character, to the start of the game

• Added Loya, Kitt and Wisp Kitt (Actual name being "Kitt (In his wisp form)")

• Added Clementine to normal gameplay

• Added Discord Rich Presence to the main menu and credits

• Added a Continue Game button, to easily continue your latest save

• Added "About", "Options" and "Help" tabs to the option, about and help screen screens

• Added the inappropriate action (Bullying, blood, etc.) selector (Called "Violence/Blood" as of 0.0.4) before the main menu (Will be used later) (Forgot to prompt it in Alpha 0.0.2 to Alpha 0.0.4)

• Added the profanity and violence/blood selector to the options menu

• Added reminders, notifications inspired by The Walking Dead

• Added a content warning button in the options screen

• Added a toggle side images option

• Added a line in Day 3 mentioning Rose gave the main character and Amelia her phone number

• Added tooltips to all settings

• Added a textbox opacity slider

• Added a quick menu opacity slider

• Added custom pronouns support, with He/Him, She/Her, They/Them, It/Its and Ze/Zir as default available options

• Added notify to the bio screen when clicking a locked bio

• Added notify to the achievement screen when clicking a locked achievement

• Added a "Show Credits" button to the About screen

• Added a white selection to gallery images and bio icons

• Added partial controller support (Typing text inputs still needs keyboard to proceed)

• Added gallery introduction images for Minty and Delilah due to their important nature in Daring Academy

• Added voice sound effects when hovering over the hidden pat button, patting and hovering out the hidden pat button on Minty and Delilah (Thanks to TheAtomicMarshmallow and Lexinator for voicing them)

• Added a visual queue to the hidden pat button on Minty and Delilah when hovered

• Added pats in Day 1 when Minty and Delilah comes back from offscreen

• Added a transition when clicking the "New Game" button

• Added hover icons in the bio screen

Changed:

• Changed the section to name your character, choose your gender, etc. to a screen

• Changed the default male name from "Lee" to "Lenny" (Apparently, I switched them around in Alpha 0.0.2 lol)

• Changed the default male nickname from "Lee" to "Len" (Apparently, I switched them around in Alpha 0.0.2 lol)

• Changed all girl's name references to look for both the first name and last name to activate the name reference instead of the first name only

• Changed Kirito and Asuna's name references to look for the nickname "Kirito" for Kirito and "Asuna" for Asuna or the first name "Kazuto" for Kirito or "Asuna" for Asuna and the last name "Kirigaya" for Kirito and "Yuuki" for Asuna

• Changed Yui's name reference to look for the nickname "Yui" or the first name "Yui"

• Changed Subaru Natsuki's name reference to look for the first name "Subaru" and the last name "Natsuki"

• Changed the shattering wine bottle image's floor, to resemble the desaturated version of the grocery store background

• Changed the in-game gallery screen to use the full character names instead of the first name

• Changed the character bio to use the main character's full name in Amelia, Minty and Delilah's bio description

• Changed the in-game gallery image's description to mention the the main character's full name when mentioning the main character

• Changed the in-game gallery image's description to change "(male version, or dressed manly)" and "(female version, or dressed femininely)" to "as a guy, or dressed manly" and "as a girl, or dressed femininely" accordingly

• Changed Minty and Delilah's bio species from 'Neko (Nekomusume)' to 'Cat Girl'

• Changed the icon for Day Two - Bonding Time to use the new apartment image

• Changed the Pet Minty and Pet Delilah achievements to color Minty and Delilah's name in its description

• Changed all achievement pop-ups to mostly use full character names, and coloring them for consistency with other aspects of the game

• Changed the section when you choose your subject to mention automatic saves instead of quick saves

• Changed Elizabeth's bio's height from 165 cm to 162 cm

• Changed Minty's bio age from '2 years & 10 months old' to '18 cat years old'

• Changed Delilah's bio age from '2 years & 11 months old' to '25 cat years old'

• Changed Amelia's contact name when the phone is shown from "Amelia🥇♥" to "♥ Millie (Amelia) ♥"

• Changed the phone system to have more options (Thanks to nadia nova for providing a free template)

• Changed the daydream girl's flower field images from screens to image composites

• Changed mentions of "catgirl(s)" to "cat girl(s)"

• Changed the apartment images to better match up with the Sims inspiration (Thanks to Yuri Arts for it)

• Changed all tiny text from tiny characters to using "{size=15}", making use of the same font

• Changed the "Last Dance" and "Monster Orb, The Game We Play" option in Day to use quotations instead of an apostrophe in Amelia's texts, creating consistencies with the "Moody" option

• Changed choice menu options to italicize action options (Like "Ask her to delete the photo", etc)

• Changed the captions to color names and italicize text

• Changed the "Sound & Music Captions" to have two options: "Toggle Sound Captions" and "Toggle Music Captions"

• Changed the saves and load page number shown on screen from 9 to 15, with automatic saves and quick saves

• Changed the game's logo in the main menu to say "Alpha Version" instead of "Alpha Build"

• Changed Amelia's image when on the ground to have the apartment's new floor design, and remove the hair ribbon

• Changed the floor tiles background when the main character's phone is shown to have the apartment's new floor design

• Changed the description of ungranted achievements to "This achievement has not been unlocked yet." in italic instead of its description

• Changed "Day One - Moving Day"'s achievement icon to have the apartment's new floor design

• Changed the "Press Backspace to exit." text in the Extras screen, the achievement screen, the bio screen and the in-game gallery screen to a "Back" button (Backspace functionality still works however)

• Changed Lily's bio description to not include a 1:1 copy of Amelia's bio description (Thanks to GreasyPaint for pointing it out)

• Changed a line in Day 2 to fix the phrasing regarding the Always On Display line

• Changed the "Return" button in the history screen to be italicized

• Changed all gallery introduction images to include better descriptions and color names

• Changed the direction in Day 2 when Amelia goes in the kitchen from left to right

• Changed the text in the save and load screen from "empty slot" to "This slot is empty." in italics

Renamed:

• Renamed the gallery screen to "In-Game Gallery"

• Renamed the start button to "New Game"

• Renamed the save button to "Save Game"

• Renamed the load button to "Load Game"

• Renamed the preferences screen and button to "Options"

• Renamed the main menu button to "Return to Menu"

• Renamed the "No need." option to "No need, thank you!"

Fixed:

• Fixed Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3's spelling mistakes (Thanks to Jenivere)

• Fixed Day 2's day divider background to be 1280x720, not 1280x717, removing transparency from it at the top and bottom in the game itself

• Fixed Delilah's collar missing the bell's color during the phone call scenes.

• Fixed the text box showing in Day 3 when Amelia moves to the left and jumps

• Fixed an issue in Day 1 where Delilah would keep her mouth opened if you selected the "I know what you mean, Millie..." option

• Fixed an issue in Day 1 where Amelia would keep her mouth opened for longer than expected when her grandparents says they're home

• Fixed an issue in Day 1 where Amelia would sigh weirdly when in her their new apartment

• Fixed Amelia's sigh position to be more aligned with her mouth

• Fixed an issue where after patting Minty or Delilah, it would skip to the next dialogue

• Fixed an issue where Amelia would suddenly appear when going in the apartment, choosing the "Wake her up" option

• Fixed an issue where in some part of Day 2 and Day 3, Amelia's name wouldn't be colored

• Fixed an issue where in some part of Day 3, Delilah's name wouldn't be colored

• Fixed an issue where the blur when the Monster Orb card "Strike!" was hidden, it would hide it instantly

• Fixed an issue where when exiting the Extras Screen, it would go back to the game instead of the previously opened menu

• Fixed an issue where the notify when clicking a locked gallery image wouldn't show

• Fixed an issue where if the "Sound & Music Captions" setting option is on and a sound effect played at the same time as a bio or a gallery unlock notification, it would only show one of the notify

• Fixed an issue in Day 2 where the window wouldn't hide during Amelia's moveinleft transition

• Fixed an issue where when Day 3's day divider would hide, it would hide abruptly

• Fixed a spelling mistake in Bernard's description where `Helen` was all lowercased

• Fixed an issue in Day 1 where when the player clicked the option "Wake Her Up", Amelia would appear abruptly

• Fixed an issue where Delilah's name would unlock before her bio is unlocked

• Fixed an issue in Day 1 where when the player clicked the option "Hug her", Amelia and the main character would appear abruptly

• Fixed an issue in Day 1 where if the player clicked the option "Hug her" and the hug image hid, Amelia, Minty and Delilah would appear abruptly

• Fixed an issue where at one part in Day 1, Minty would talk, but not open her mouth

• Fixed an issue where in the save and load screens, the save image was getting over the white outline

Removed:

• Removed Undertale name references (Forgot to remove them in Alpha 3)

• Removed Hollow Knight name reference (Forgot to remove them in Alpha 3)

• Removed the help and about buttons from the main menu

• Removed the Ren'Py license from the about screen, due to an issue where the "here" wouldn't change color and go italic (Due to it being hard-coded into the Ren'Py engine itself)

• Removed the Rollback Side option