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Update for Febrary 26, 2025

  • This update changes the look of The Roottree Sisters (and our logos and key art, etc. - Trailer will be updated soon) The original piece was the first one illustrated for the game, and over the development we learned more about what we wanted the style to look like and got more comfortable working with our artist. Hopefully it's not too weird to swap it out, but I think most people will prefer the new art!
  • We've added some extra clues and minor artwork changes to differentiate between two siblings that people had trouble with.
  • There's a new visual clue in a couple pieces of art to help identify a family member who appears in a group photo.
  • Also, some other minor visual touch ups to a few other pieces of art.
  • Fixes a typo in a series of adventure novels
  • More tweaks to allow for game translations.

Update Notes for February 24, 2025

- FIX: Uses a new approach to temporary files to hopefully make save files more robust when using aggressive virus scanners
- FIX: Uses more complete Godot builds which might help compatibility for some people.
- FIX: Cursor keys moved between evidence when in the notebook and editing text.
- FIX: Pressing a button on the main menu in 16:10 had a black box behind it
- UX: More tweaks for non-English language support
- Fixes one "occurence" of a typo. Get it? It should have been "occurrence."

Update Notes for February 20, 2025

- This build adds some safety to game threading code, to try and help out with an issue that some players are having where their saves are corrupted.
- It also contains some basic scaffolding for other language support (coming soon!)
- Finally, fixes exactly 1 typo.

Update Notes for February 17, 2025

Just a small update today with some small fixes.

  • Removed some background details from a couple illustrations in Roottreemania that brought dates into question.
  • Improved the game's Danish by adding a ø - if this didn't count as a typo there would be none!
  • Fixed a bug where the mouse cursor would turn to the hourglass while changing settings
  • Fixed a bug where you could swap extra portraits for prefilled family tree entries in Roottreemania, and end up with a locked in ? icon. Now you can't do that anymore (it was the easiest fix.)

Update Notes for February 13, 2025

  • FEATURE: You can now add up to 20 pages in your notebook. It turns out some of our players are absolutely sickos for note taking and I wanted to enable that behavior.
  • FEATURE: You can choose the locked in portrait for a person. Click on an extra portrait and it'll swap.
  • FEATURE: You can now search Periodicals from the pop-up menu in the browser, evidence, or notebook. By default, this will pre-fill the "Keywords" box with what you highlighted and allow you to choose the periodical from the dropdown to search it. If you have "Search All" Periodicals enabled, though, it will automatically do that.
  • UX: Copy was missing from the notebook popup menu. It's in there now.
  • UX: Slightly nicer formatting for checkboxes that have descriptions in settings.
  • FIX: On a 16:10 screen, with the notebook open, the PC screen was cut off somewhat.
  • And, of course...
There once was a writer so keen,
Whose fingers were quick and lean,
But try as he might,
Many words weren't right,
Typos danced all over the screen!