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DD #61 The Ghost of Kyiv

Hi everyone, welcome to another week's developer's diary.
The war continues in Ukraine in both realities.
Even with the inspiring speech from Zelesky addressing the world.
Even with the bravery of Ukrainian soldiers giving their lives to defend their nation.
Even with the unity, I see from Ukrainian people as I witnessed a Ukrainian lady selling cookies in Shanghai to gather donations for her nation.
The tragedy of a Mariupol theater still happened.
Alas, is there nothing more we can do to stop such tragedy from happening again?
I am hoping a no-fly zone can be established as soon as possible.
Many may consider it's too risky to do so.
However, in the face of a war against all humanity with all the atrocities committed, the people of the free world chose to back down just because they are afraid of WW3, leaving millions of Ukrainian people to die alone from air raids. Is this what we want in a history book?
No matter what those so-called leaders and politicians think.
I shall give Ukraine jets to close the sky. (Even that's just in the game.)
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Have you heard the story about the Ghost of Kyiv before?
An ace pilot of the Ukrainian air force shoots down countless enemy aircraft to protect the sky.
Some call it an Urban legend. Yet, an Urban legend is just what you can find in our secret world.
There may not be just one, but many for we live in a world with legions of heroes.
Even the RPG Maker engine is not meant for such content, I will it to happen.
Thus, we now have this mini-game in our game, integrated into our story.
If you wear the hero's medal to the bar, the bartender shall treat everyone in your group a Hero's Glory. Just as I said, this round is on me.
There is also a Steam achievement there for anyone who can win the game in the highest difficulty.
It may not be much compared to our friends raising 6.3 million dollars on Itch.io with their Bundle for Ukraine, we are all doing our part in this war and hope for the best outcome.

Meanwhile, in Shanghai, the city is facing the biggest COVID-19 outbreak it ever had in all history. The situation is bad. I am in quarantine. Nobody can get in or out of the neighborhood. Everyone is locked within. Thus, N95 masks are deployed in Liu's hospital in the game. Those are quite mundane items that provide very little protection. However, sometimes, even mundane items can have magical prefixes and achieve great things. We are all special.

Don't worry. Shanghai is an international city that once hosted the Korean government-in-exile. This is the city that provided shelter to Jewish people during WW2. We now also have some of our Ukrainian friends in this city. This is a great city that shall withstand this outbreak.

We also have more food diversity, a new cooking device, and a recipe added to the game today, just in case anyone gets hungry during the quarantine. :)

That's for this week. Stay safe. We all have a war to win.

Today's changelog:
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Updated the store page regarding the "Bundle for Ukraine", as the bundle on Itch is concluded with 6.3 million dollars raised to support Ukraine.
But our support for Ukraine continues.
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Added cola, fries, popcorn, and a new food vendor in Liu's restaurant. (It still needs more content here.)
New food and recipe: Cooked Apple Slices.
New furniture: "EasyTime" Mini-Range. (It's also a new cooking device. It can be purchased from the manager of No.181 River Road)
Added to mini-range in the kitchen of "This is a bar." (That basically means, you can have access to free mini-ranges after defeating Zhao.)

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New Steam Achievement: Ghost of Kyiv. (Win the mini-game on the highest difficulty. Not fully tested, let me know if it fails to trigger.)
Changed all Steam achievements to be hidden achievements. (To avoid spoilers and I don't really need them to tell common people what kind of crazy things are in this game. :P )
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Fixed a bug that the reset achievement cheat code does not reset new achievements.
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新的STEAM成就:基辅的幽灵。(在最高难度下获得这个小游戏的胜利。因为无法完全测试,所以如果发现出现无法触发的情况,请告知。)
将所有STEAM成就改为隐藏成就。(避免剧透,并且实际上我并不需要用这些东西来告诉没玩游戏的人员,这个游戏里到底有多少奇怪的东西。 :P )
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修复了重置成就的作弊码未能重置新的成就的BUG。

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[Ths is a bar]Added a small event that if you wear the Hero's Medal or any of its variations with prefixes when talking to the bartender, she will recognize it and give every team member a round of Hero's Glory for free.
Changed the banner that is designed to support the Ukrainian people to a more clear one. (I'm also not 100% sure if the previous one has any copyright claims on it. Although that's very unlikely, it's better to just use a new one made by me.)
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[Ghost of Kyiv]Fixed a bug that sometimes missiles may not spawn correctly in higher difficulties.
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【这是间酒吧】加入了一个简短的小剧情,当你带着英雄的徽章(或任何它的带有前缀的变种)与酒保对话的时候,酒保会给队伍里的每个成员免费来一杯英雄的荣耀。
重新制作了支持乌克兰的海报。(同时,因为我还无法100%确定之前那个海报完全没有版权问题。尽管非常不像是会存在这种问题,但是保险起见还是替换成了一张我制造的版本。)
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【基辅的幽灵】修复了在高难度下导弹有时不会正常生成的BUG。

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[Ghost of Kyiv] Added difficulty setting with 4 difficulties.
[Ghost of Kyiv] The difficulties affect the player HP and enemy jet spawn rate. On the lowest difficulty (Baby Hero), the player is almost invincible while on the highest difficulty (the True Ghost of Kyiv), the player only has 1 hp.
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【基辅的幽灵】加入了4种不同的难度。
【基辅的幽灵】难度影响玩家的生命值和地方战机的出现速度。最低难度(宝宝英雄),玩家基本无敌。最高难度(真·基辅的幽灵),玩家只有1点的生命值。

Update, Version 20220314

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[Ghost of Kyiv] Enemy fighters will appear after you shoot down a few of their missiles.
[Ghost of Kyiv] Enemy fighters are equipped with AA weapons and they are not very dumb.
[Ghost of Kyiv] Increased player HP and maneuver speed.
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Added a point-sprite collision check function.
[Ghost of Kyiv] Bullets vs Character collision now uses point-sprite collision calculation instead of previous box-box collision. The performance shall be optimized.
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[Ghost of Kyiv] Fixed a bug that causes the game never ends.
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【基辅的幽灵】敌机会在一些导弹被击毁后出现。
【基辅的幽灵】敌机装备有防空武器并且AI不是很呆。
【基辅的幽灵】增加了主角战机的生命值和敏捷度。
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加入了点对精灵的碰撞检测函数
【基辅的幽灵】子弹对角色的碰撞现在使用点对精灵检测,而非此前的盒子对盒子检测。从而可以优化效率。
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【基辅的幽灵】修复了一个可能导致游戏无法结束的BUG