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Steam News11 March 20263mo ago

February Progress

Godfrey Norton has been kidnapped by the Phantom of the Opera. Irene Norton very much wants to rescue him, but also there is an extremely exciting secret passage.

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What changed

3 fixes1 addition1 change0 removals
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
  • Gameplay
addedShrunk UI and added more contrast to make text easier to read.
fixedFixed alerts so that UI adjustments don't make them look weird.
fixedFixed gray-flash loading error. It was silly.
changedPlaytested Phantom case and implemented a number of improvements.
fixedFixed error where Watson can have negative funds. No debtors prison for you, Watson.

Hearth & Holmes changes

addedShrunk UI and added more contrast to make text easier to read.
fixedFixed alerts so that UI adjustments don't make them look weird.
fixedFixed gray-flash loading error. It was silly.
changedPlaytested Phantom case and implemented a number of improvements.
fixedFixed error where Watson can have negative funds. No debtors prison for you, Watson.

Godfrey Norton has been kidnapped by the Phantom of the Opera. Irene Norton very much wants to rescue him, but also there is an extremely exciting secret passage.

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February Progress

  • Made case text adjust to the size of its container.

  • Shrunk UI and added more contrast to make text easier to read.

  • Fixed alerts so that UI adjustments don't make them look weird.

  • Found another error with stat updates interfering with each other and figured out that it's not going to be a problem in normal play because normal play doesn't involve the weird ass stuff I do in stress testing. Still. Now I know to watch for it.

  • Fixed gray-flash loading error. It was silly.

  • Finished writing and implementing Phantom case.

  • Playtested Phantom case and implemented a number of improvements.

  • Made it so that if you go to the title immediately after Holmes dies he isn't there and the music doesn't play.

  • Cut @pauseForInput into two steps so that savegame works smoothly.

  • Play tested Phantom mystery with Moriarty.

  • Play tested Phantom mystery with only Watson.

  • I am DONE with the phantom mystery.

  • Lol kidding. Wrote and implemented Watson publishing the story about the phantom mystery.

  • Fixed error where Watson can have negative funds. No debtors prison for you, Watson.

  • Implemented Mary Bennet.

  • Assembled good backgrounds for Bennet case.

Source

Steam News / 11 March 2026

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