Daring Academy Alpha 0.0.5 is coming on October 7th, 2022!

If you were paying attention during Alpha 0.0.5's development, you know there was supposed to have an Alpha 0.0.4.1. Well, due to an issue concerning the new "Catching Moments" and TuneCore, a music distribution service which both "Monster Orb, The Game We Play" and "Lily's Sorrow" were uploaded on to be distributed on YouTube Music, Spotify and such, it got merged with Alpha 0.0.5.

This update mainly changes the phone system to a better looking one, adding the stat system back, and enhancing it by adding the Relationship Status screen, and changing "Catching Moments" to have it sung by Zoemaria44 (The original version is in the Additional Soundtrack, don't worry), this massive update solves as a polishing update to be ready for a demo on Itch.io and Steam.

The next update should hopefully be an Alpha 0.0.5.1 update, probably adding Voice Sound Effects, or be in the Alpha 0.1 update, which closes sole development on Chapter 1 and focusing on Chapter 2.

Note: As with any alphas, there are a ton of internal code changes, so saves might not be compatible between the old versions, so beware.

Thanks to everyone who playtested throughout Alpha 0.0.5's development phase.

• Updated to Ren'Py version 8.0.1.22070801

• Normalized all music

Added:

• Added chapters and moved Day 1 to 4 in "Chapter One - A New Beginning"

• Added a citizenship card color screen, which picks between 16 different colors, or choose a random one for yourself

• Added a CTC Toggle button

• Added a CTC arrow to all textbox texts

• Added a toggle colored chat bubble option in the settings

• Added new lines to Day 4 when Delilah says bye to MC and Amelia via text

• Added new lines to Day 3

• Added a new part in Day 2

• Added 2 new gallery images

• Added a Discord RPC to Day 4 when going back to the grocery store

• Added space in the about screen between the version number and the description

• Added pop-ups during the start of the game to learn about the bio, achievement and in-game gallery screens

• Added the relationship status screen

• Added the Love Level stat back into the game

• Added a Toggle Hair Lines option

• Added moving clouds to backgrounds, including the main menu, game menu, apartment, school, etc

• Added a text speed preview text showing the speed of the text

Changed:

• Changed the phone system from nadia nova's system to Kia Azad's system

• Changed "Day 4 - Cooking Time!" to "Cooking Time!", allowing it to be given later on if the player refuses to help Amelia in Day 4

• Changed the Side Image category to a Customization category

• Changed Day 4 to say that Amelia took the spaghetti picture

• Changed the Character Customization Screen so it randomly chooses a random citizenship card color when first opeining it

• Changed Catching Moments' audio to use the official original soundtrack version

• Changed Classical Restauration's song name to "Stirling Classical" due to Restauration not being proper english

• Changed the mixed sauce image to include a white border on each side, following the top sauce image

• Changed the texts in the character customization screen

• Changed so nicknames are limited to 10 characters instead of 16

• Changed Amelia's voice actor in the credits to Zoemaria44

• Changed so I_Am_Boredom and Lezalith are referred as coding helpers in the credits instead of coders

• Changed the Discord RPC to say the full day instead of "Day 1" and such

• Changed all days to feature stats indicators in some choice menus

• Changed the image when the main character and Amelia shows their schedule to reflect the schedule in Chapter 2

• Changed Bernard's sprite to have a better beard art style, inspired by anime beards/mustaches

• Changed all character arts (Other than gallery images) to include and/or not include lines in the hairs/beards and mustaches

• Changed so sprites no longer include lines in the hairs/beards and mustaches by default

Fixed:

• Fixed an issue where the game would freeze during the credits if "Music Captions" were on

• Fixed spelling mistakes

• Fixed an issue where during evenings, the Discord RPC would show the apartment's day image instead of the sunset image

• Fixed an issue where the textbox would still show when MC diminished the light in Amelia's room in Day 4

• Fixed an issue where Minty and Delilah's voice actors were switched in the credits

• Fixed an issue where viewing the credits upon clicking on the "Show Credits" button in the About screen wouldn't jump to the about screen after viewing it or clicking the "Click here to skip the credits." button

• Fixed an issue where the version number was not aligned to the center of the Discord button on the main menu

• Fixed an issue where Amelia wouldn't close her mouth after snapping the main character out of the daydream

• Fixed an issue where in Day 4, if the "Forget the oregano and cook the recipe" option was chosen, the textbox wouldn't hide during the transition to the cooking part

• Fixed an issue where in Day 4, if the "Play the song." option was chosen, the textbox wouldn't hide during the transition to Amelia's room

• Fixed an issue in Day 3 where when switching to Stirling, Rose's mouth would be opened during the transition

• Fixed an issue where in Day 2, when choosing the "Go Gentle" button, the background changed to the day version rather than the raining day version

Renamed:

• Renamed "Day One - Moving Day" to "Moving Day"

• Renamed "A New Beginning" to "Chapter 1 - A New Beginning"

Removed:

• Removed days mentions (Day 1, Day 2, etc)

• Removed achievements: "Day Two - Bonding Time", "Day Three - Progressing Life"

• Removed the Violence/Blood option

• Removed the "Auto" option in the quick menu

• Removed the "Voice" volume slider