This Winter of Ours News

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[/p][p]This Winter of Ours is finally out! We’ve been working away at polishing and fleshing out the game while retaining its core essence from the original itch.io release back in January and we’re so excited to show you the results! For those of you who already played the itch.io version, we have a lot of patch notes and I'm sure I'm forgetting something:
[/p][h2]UI[/h2]

• [p]‘Devnotes’ moved into extras menu[/p]
• [p]Shrunk the cursor[/p]
• [p]Tweaks to history and help screen[/p]
• [p]Slightly revamped controller support[/p]

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[/p][h2]Extras[/h2]

• [p]Dev Notes[/p]
  • [p]Removed a line at the top[/p]
• [p]Added Music Room[/p]
• [p]Added Scene Replay[/p]
• [p]Added Gallery[/p]
• [p]Credits[/p]
  • [p]Moved to extras tab[/p]
  • [p]Reformatted [/p]
• [p]Added Bonus Scenes (See bonus scenes section)[/p]

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[/p][h2]Art[/h2]

• [p]Added variant for the creature cg[/p]
• [p]Added second creature cg[/p]
• [p]sprites[/p]
  • [p]1 new pose and some new expressions for Delia and Lux [/p]
• [p]New forest BG[/p]
• [p]Replaced forest clearing bg (having more than one background for the first half of the game makes it feel way more lifelike, who would’ve thought?)[/p]

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[/p][h2]Music [/h2]

• [p]2 new bonus tracks, ‘The Merchant of Slatebrook’ and ‘Meowing at the Moon(Alone but not lonely)’[/p]

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[/p][h2]Gameplay[/h2]

• [p]Added ‘zio’ and ‘agi’ effect[/p]
• [p]Adjusted lots of camera angles and effects to make the whole thing more dynamic[/p]
• [p]Added all the new assets in (as opposed to just doing nothing with them)[/p]

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[/p][h2]Misc[/h2]

• [p]Added Discord Rich Presence[/p]
• [p]New exe icon[/p]
• [p]Chinese translation (thanks to Sakura Origami and Ukiny)[/p]
• [p]Now runs on RenPy 8.5 instead of 8.3.7  (this should change absolutely nothing)[/p]

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[/p][p]Now, that isn’t quite everything. You’ll be seeing a couple small updates in the coming weeks:[/p]

• [p]Bug fixes I love bug fixes bug fixes are so cool![/p]
• [p]Spanish translation[/p]
• [p]Soundtrack (monday at the latest)[/p]
• [p]Extending a couple tracks on said soundtrack[/p]
• [p]Maybe a sequel someday. We haven’t decided yet. [/p]

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[/p][p]We really hope you have fun playing! Hopefully our next project is even more awesome.[/p][p]
[/p][p]varia[/p][p]
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[h3]Hey everyone,[/h3][p][/p][p]Happy late Halloween/very early Christmas! We’re back with another our first Steam progress update! This will likely be our last until we release in December of 2025! [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We have a steam page! (as you can probably tell from the fact that you're viewing this progress update on steam). Thanks for the whopping 1,100 wishlists so far. Wow that's a lot! They're really important for indie games like This Winter of Ours.
[/p][p]We also got an autogenerated Metacritic, Gamefaqs and Youtube Gaming page which is also super cool.[/p][p][/p][h3]A couple other notes about our release:[/h3][p][/p][p]This Winter of Ours will be completely free, though we will be releasing a soundtrack alongside it for those who want to support us. [/p][p]It will also be on itch.io and the google play store for free as well.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]All the new art has been done and added for a while now, actually. We might have a couple pieces of promo art on our socials, but all the ingame stuff is done already.
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All that's left is one final bonus scene!
[/p][p][/p][p]Progress continues. You'll see more of the soundtrack in some YouTube videos in the next couple weeks.[/p][p]However if you haven't been keeping tabs on our itch page, this preview will be new to you.[/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p][/p][p]Apart from implementing the bonus scenes and working on the bonus menus, we’ve recently taken another pass through the game to make things look nicer, primarily looking for sections that felt too static or didn’t feel very interesting and spiced them up a little bit.  Everything is shaping up really nice with the final touch of polish we couldn't attain with just the time from the original game jam.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We’ve been working with translators to get This Winter of Ours out to people in different languages. We’re hoping to have Spanish(Español) and Chinese(中文) translations upon release.[/p][p][/p][p]Huge thanks to our translators for grinding through everything.[/p][p][/p][p]Also, we’ve been working on some cool trailers and I think they’re turning out nicely. There will also be a bit of voice acting in the trailers too, which has been super cool as we’ve never worked with voice actors before. You'll be able to find them on our YouTube or right here on Steam once they're done![/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for sticking around, hope to see you next month![/p][p]
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