Moonlight In Garland News

Hey Neighbours!

Hope you're all doing well! It's getting quite chilly here in Melbourne which has been really lovely! I'm still going with the Petal Events but I'm blasting through them and I'm on schedule to have them completed by the next update. Then I can get back to taking care of all the stuff I've got waiting on my bugs list yay! In the mean time, enjoy getting romantic with Ziggy, Jake, Max and a little toxic with Chloe this update.

See you in Garland!



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Early Access 1.3.6I - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full only) - 20/06/24
General:
- Fixed Arcade door going to karaoke room.
- Added Justice Center Roof area and helicopter
- Upgraded recording studio interior.
- Upgraded doctor interior.
- Jake - Added skate and arm cast sprites.

Petal Events:
- Liv PE 3 - Fixed choice not registering.
- Finn PE 3- Minor dialogue changes.
- Oliver PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Kirin PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Hannah PE 1 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- George PE 1 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Avery PE 1 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Haruka PE 1, 2 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.

- Max PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Max PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Max PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.

- Chloe PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Chloe PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Chloe PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Chloe PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

- Jake PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Jake PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Jake PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Jake PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

- Ziggy PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Ziggy PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Ziggy PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Ziggy PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

Hey Neighbours!

Petal events, petal events, petal events! It's raining petals so hard it might as well be the Festival of Petals.

Today's update is mostly in adding events for April, Finn, Sage, Ryan, Quinn and Elle but there are a couple of other things as well including:

- A few updates and fixes for the Man Hunt Private Detective mini game
- Upgraded levels and heaps of art for minor npcs.
- The start of some major optimisations for animals, items and crops. These were required for the included petal events but there are a few bugs that I'm fixing around them so they might be a little bit funky (placement, depth, movement off) until the next update or two.

Chugging along, I'm aiming to complete the remaining petal events in the next 2 updates then I'll be fully onto bug fixing and ui fixes so I can get the controller/steam deck support 100%.

See you in Garland!



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Early Access 1.3.6H - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full only) - 07/06/24
General:
- Updated Finn’s apartment interior
- Private Detective - Man Hunt - Fixed unable to move bug and some small general fixes.
- Private Detective - Man Hunt - Fixed getting paid even if failing.
- Minor updates to weather for future optimisations.
- Upgraded karaoke room
- Added Birch Tower Basement level
- Updated boat design at docks.
- Started organising relationship scripts for future optimisation
- Added room 100 to prevent scheduling crash.
- Added ability and UI (scripted only) to be able to give NPCs items during cutscenes.
- Fixed issue with text boxes during phone conversations persisting as the wrong colour after a phone conversation.
- Added phone NPC for phone conversations.
- Fixed hover animation when moving items in inventory
- Updated in-world items to have correct offsets and use single sprite sheets.
- Updates in-world gardening items to have correct offsets and use single sprite sheets.
Note: plants that have been planted on top of plant stands may behave a bit weirdly right now, working on it!
- Started converting animals for future optimisation and pets. 
Note: animals may behave a bit weirdly right now until I convert the remaining ones to the new system.

Minor Characters Sprite update:
- Pizza delivery driver
- Wendy
- Gracie
- Skylar,
- Mr Tanaka
- Mrs Tanaka
- Marcus
- Nia (name changed from Alex to reflect new text)
- Patrick
- Security guard

Petal Events:
- April PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- April PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- April PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

- Finn PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Finn PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Finn PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

- Sage PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Sage PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Sage PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

- Ryan PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Ryan PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Ryan PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Ryan PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

- Quinn PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Quinn PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Quinn PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.

- Elle PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Elle PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Elle PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.

- Leon 1F - Fixed an issue with dialogue being called from the wrong lines, added requirement to come from outside to trigger. (previous room trigger requirements are still being a little funky, still investigating)

Hey Neighbours!

So this ended up being a bit smaller than planned because I've had to take care of some IRL stuff. I've completed all the events for April, Finn, Sage and Kirin but I'm missing a couple of items that need to be enabled for the associated quests before I put them live so this update I'm opting to just add the updated 1-3 events and I'll put the rest in a nice chunky update next time.

Hope you all have a great week and I'll see you next time with a bajillion more Petal Events!


Early Access 1.3.6G - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full Only) - 24/05/24

General:
- Adjusted cinema lighting effects to respect user settings.
- Added CatJake to Kirin’s apartment.
- Added Max’s office and removed the barrier in the Justice Center
- Optimisation: did a bunch of work around quest checking.
- Optimisation: started inventory optimisation and for the moment I've removed the hover animation when moving items, that will be reenabled next update.

Petal Events:
- Sophie 4F - Updated sprite for actor.
- April PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Finn PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Kirin PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits. - The kid is no longer an adult lol.
- Sage PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits. - Fixed all the issues with bunnies in 3.

Hey Neighbours!

Petal event time yo! Today we have the first two romancables: building manager Dan with that golden retriever energy and budding writer Sophie who might seem a little shy but who has once you get her going on her fandoms!

A few things to keep in mind if you're embarking on a romance journey:
- Currently there is not a way for you to break up with someone if you change your mind but that will be available shortly.
- You can date as many NPCs as you like with no consequences currently.
- There are 2 petal events per person that are only available via friendship or romance.
- There is a final married/committed event which is in there but you won't be able to access it yet because you need to be married/committed to do it and that option isn't enabled yet.
- I'm planning to add those functions after a couple more of the NPCs have all their events enabled so I can test properly.

In the meantime, enjoy romancing!

See you in Garland!



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Early Access 1.3.6F - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full and Demo) - 10/05/24

General:
- Added visual items to mall fashion shop (not open yet but coming soon)
- Added Sophie’s cats and a chicken.
- Fixed Pinewood Building Event 1 Dan follower getting stuck.
- Fixed getting stuck after refusing sleep.

Petal Events:
- Added functionality for events to occur in multiple apartment settings for apartment upgrades.
- Small fix with accepting dating choices which would default some characters to romance each time.
- Dan PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Dan PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Dan PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Dan PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event
- Sophie PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Sophie PE 4F, 5F - Platonic - Added and enabled.
- Sophie PE 4D, 5D - Romance - Added and enabled.
- Sophie PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event
- George PE 1 Polished, recoded, minor text edits. PE 2/3 temporarily deactivated for fixes next update.
- April PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.

Hey Neighbours!

We're getting deep in those petal events now baby! All of the platonic only route NPCS have now had their Petal Events added! Also in this update: bug fixes and bird seed! You can now purchase bird seed and feed the birds around town (though the animation is still a WIP). The art gallery has also had a make over to look a little more pretentious :D

Now that's out of the way, I'll be deep into the romance events over the next few weeks. We're currently having a Garland Sims Battle Royale to decide who's commitment events get added in first so some join us in the Discord if you want to join in!

Other than that I'm still chugging along behind the scenes with quality of life fixes including the layering issues with scroll areas when using controller.

See you in Garland!




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Early Access 1.3.6D - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full and Demo) - 26/04/24

General:
- Fixes scroll bars so don’t run off edges and adjust their spacing properly.
- Birds - Adjusted flight logic and collision (still a WIP).
- Tools - Added birdseed item which can be used to feed the birds (animation still a WIP lol)
- Shops - Removed items from pet rescue and added bird seed
- Fixed crash when entering multiple rooms with no NPC schedules in sequence.
- Added sparkle to item create in some circumstances.
- Updated art gallery level.
- Fixed crash when using keyboard during favourite food input.
- Temporarily removed Chloe’s headshot from the PD noticeboard.
- Changed Hannah’s first greeting to be less time sensitive.
- Changed ok to okay in a lot of built in text (still a WIP)

Petal events:
- Cecile PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits.
- Cecile PE 4F, 5F, 6F - Added and enabled.
- Liv PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits. (Added outfit choice art)
- Liv PE 4F, 5F, 6F - Added and enabled.
- Harper PE 1, 2, 3 - Polished, recoded, minor text edits. (Added quest for PE 2 and adjusted spawn conditions of second quest half)
- Harper PE 4F, 5F, 6F - Added and enabled.
- Fixed dating choice event script not registering choice (this will be fully fixed in the first romance event release but should be ok for now).
- Fixed timed petal events not triggering on room move.
- Added functionality for petal event related mail and added mail for Cecile, Leon, Liv, Harper events.
- Started adding recurring emotes to alert when NPCs are waiting for events to start

Back end and optimisations:
- Lots of general clean up on code.
- Added function to dialogue to create relevant NPC if not found for fewer crashes.
- Added import of scripts for spreadsheet functions.