Hot Dating [Ongoing] - Version: 0.4.0

What's New in Hot Dating Version - 0.4.0?

New Content:
• Added a new God Mode feature. Stories will now include character’s thoughts when God Mode is activated. For those playing with God Mode off, you’ll still be able to read your own character’s thoughts.
• Added the App Store. The game now starts with only some apps on the home screen. As part of the game play experience, you may open the App Store and install additional apps, including the Hot Dating app.
• Added the Stories app. This is where you’ll find stories (including interactive ones) that get added to the game, linking to your favorite characters, as well as possibly other miscellaneous stories.
• Added the game’s first story: Rebecca (Prologue).
• Added another story: Meeting Isabel at the Cafe (Friendly Route).
• Added exclusive story (for Peach Emoji Tier and up): She’s got it going on!
• Added the Images app. This is a very basic app that will keep track of images you have/haven’t seen yet, to give you some indication of how much more images there are to unlock. Currently this functions across all apps and isn’t organised in any particular order – in a future release, I will aim to improve this app.
• Added the Internet app – however this is only a placeholder for now.
• Added Awards and the Awards app. When received, a notification is given and you can view them in the Awards app. The “Rebecca (Prologue)” story will demonstrate awards in this version, however in the next release I plan to add automated “ending awards” which will mostly take their place (and appear under “Endings” section of the Awards app).
• Added the PicChat app. This is similar to a “Snapchat” type app, except that this is a basic version of the app (for now). I’d like to add more features but this will be done later on, such as viewing images immediately after they’ve been received rather than needing to tap on the image-message in the app to view it (the first time), as well as possibly a count-down for how long the image gets displayed.
• Added Katy to PicChat app. You will need to unlock it first, but note that it only consists of a few renders for now, and I will be improving this section of the game in future releases.
• Added the Credits app. This is to display those who earn the name in credits reward on Patreon.

New Features:
• Apps on the home screen can now be dragged/moved around.
• Characters can now be assigned a color – this is used only for Stories currently.

Improvements & Fixes:
• Fixed a few bugs with the way lines were read into the program for apps.
• Improved some large code segments, they needed some love.
• When an app or story is locked, it will now appear half transparent.
• Some slight changes to the story. Rebecca mentions she “will be” moving home, but this doesn’t make sense in one of the routes I had written – so now she instead says that she “has” moved home.
• Re-organized the public folder and it’s sub-directories to better suit third-party development.
• Resolved an issue with character names and variables not being replaced in correctly in some instances.