Moonlight In Garland News

Hey Neighbours!

This is a fun little update that will unlock the wedding shop in the Garland mall so you can buy a ring and propose to your partner if you're dating/lovers! Everyone has a unique reaction so I hope you have fun with them all. This update also has bug fixes and back end changes that will help me streamline updates coming soon. Next update will be wedding planning (customise evvvverything for your perfect day!) and break ups (you wanna break someone's heart? because there are some fun ways to do it!).

Then I'll be moving on to some major fixes, birthday events and quest updates.

See you in Garland!



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General:
- Fixed mail not importing the final letter in the grid.
- Updated shop front collisions.
- Added Tobias NPC to Surface Studios and Bailey NPC to Hidden Gem shops.
- Fixed crash on viewing credits in the library.
- Fixed problems with NPCs giving incorrect dialogue during phone calls.
- Fixed input issue that caused mouse to no longer work after taking screenshots or using operating system level overlays.

Weddings/Commitments:
- Wedding shop now opens on the 15th of Spring once you read the welcome letter.
- 3 engagement rings are available to purchase.
- Adjusted relationship level tracking to include engagement stages and reflected it in UI.
- Added proposal dialogue.
- Added ability to propose with engagement ring once you’re dating an NPC.
Note - The achievement directs you to but you can’t currently plan the wedding at the wedding shop yet, that will be next update.

Optimisations:
- Updates to back end handling of items to prevent crashes.
- Updates to back end handling of relationship tracking to prevent crashes.
- Updates to back end handling of loan tracking to prevent crashes.
- Cleaned up some unused files.
- Cleaned up and optimised a lot of back end scripts.
- Added further debugging for input.
- Added schedule import and sort via NPC.

Hey Neighbours!

PETAL EVENTS ARE FINISHEDDDD!! 168 EVENTS DONE, LET'S GOOOO!!

Thank you for sticking with me for this long, it's been a fricking marathon! Next update will be chock full of bug fixes as well as marriage/commitment ceremonies then after that: get ready to break up in some extremely fun, evil and creative ways >:D

I'm going to be streaming some of my favorite petal events later today so make sure you come join me on twitch so we can celebrate reaching this milestone! (I'm violetlebeaux there too).

See you in Garland!



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Early Access 1.3.6I - Patch (PC and Mac) (Full only) - 20/06/24
General:
- Fixed crash on entering Garland Central after unlocking market stalls.
- Fixed areas still showing Nia’s old name.
- Art gallery - Added statues
- Added George’s plant to apartment in line with events.
- Added farmer NPCs to market stalls
- Removed Kirin's dad from popping up in Birch Tower Apartments like a creep.

Petal Events:
- Sophie PE2 - Fixed not being able to leave after event completed.
- Fixed Harper PE2_pt2 not triggering.
- Added additional checking to prevent first event of multi stage quest petal events from retriggering.
- Fixed a few event triggers including Dan 6M

- Max PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event
- Elle PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event
- Quinn PE 6M - Added but not currently enabled due to required marriage event

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.