October 31st, 2018

• Updated Renee’s sprite.
• Added four cutscene graphics for “The Garden of Angels”.
• Added two new tracks by Charlie Paul: “Past Innocence”, “Elliot’s Past”.

October 30th, 2018

• Added Elaine’s second (and final) batch of clips for “The Obsessive Valentine”. Role completed.
  • Corrected one of Renee’s clips for “The Garden of Angels”. Role completed.
  • Corrected one of Simon’s clips for “The Garden of Angels”.
  • Added Simon’s second batch of clips for “The Disappearing Act”.
• Malachy’s Letters now use large textboxes instead of scrolling text (and are also bound to common events so using the letters in the inventory will allow the player to hear/read them again).
• Used a smaller chair in DeGarmo’s office so Elliot doesn’t disappear behind it for the entire scene.
• Added four cutscene graphics for “The Garden of Angels”.
• Phone common event now determines whether the player is using the cellphone or a landline, and plays the according “pickup/hangup” sounds.

October 29th, 2018

• Cut Chinese translation, as over the course of three months, only one line was translated.
  • Cut Russian translation.
• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.
• “Nickname” slots are now used as shorthand names (ex. Elliot Mortensen = Elliot), to be used in written actions in place of the full variants. (Lines like “Elliot Mortensen grabs Simon Callahan” are now “Elliot grabs Simon”, which flows better imo.)
  • “Skills” are now used for NPC shorthand.
• Fixed some text formatting (English).
• The debug shop now uses script to include all (named) items without my manual addition.
  • Debug mode now offers Case Advancement so I don’t have to cry everytime something goes wrong quest-side.

October 28th, 2018

• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.
• Cast Aurore Gautheur as Heloise Callahan.

October 22nd, 2018

• Updated the French translation according to Aurore Gautheur’s translations.
• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.

October 21st, 2018

• Replaced the original “Waltz of the Flowers” track with a remaster by Charlie Paul.
• Added Luis Bouchard’s final batch of clips for “The Poisoned Diner”. Role completed.
  • Added Elliot’s first batch of clips for “The Garden of Angels”.
  • Added one Bellamy line for “The Royal Flush”.
  • Added Bellamy’s first batch of clips for “The Garden of Angels”.
• Updated some text fitting for German.
• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.

October 20th, 2018

• Started writing a new intro for Part Two.

October 19th, 2018

• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations.
• Added Renee Favreau’s fourth (and final) batch of clips for “The Garden of Angels”.
  • Added Lorette Bourdillon’s clips for “The Garden of Angels”. Role completed.
  • Added Stuart Shitbird’s clip for “The Royal Flush”. Role completed.
  • Added Alexandre Lestrange’s clips for “The Garden of Angels”. Role completed.
  • Added the Front Desk Clerk’s clips for “The Poisoned Diner” and “The Disappearing Act”. Role completed.
  • Added the Maitre D”s second (and final) batch of clips for “The Garden of Angels”. Role completed.
  • Added Simon’s fourth (and final) batch of clips for “The Garden of Angels”.

October 18th, 2018

• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.
• Outlined “The Prom Queen” (case concept by Melanie Teich) and “The Broken Family”.
• Added Elliot’s second (and final) batch of clips for “The Royal Flush”.
  • Added Elaine Bellerose’s first batch of clips for “The Obsessive Valentine”.
  • Added the Answering Machine clip for “The Garden of Angels”. Role completed.
  • Added the Cook’s two clips for “The Royal Flush”. Role completed.

October 16th, 2018

• Recruited Aurore Gautheur as a French translator.

October 15th, 2018

• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations.
• Recruited Brookie Morgan as a French translator.

October 14th, 2018

• Updated Oliver’s portraits.
  • Updated Terrence’s portraits.
  • Updated Flynn’s portraits.
  • Updated Bellamy’s portraits.
  • Updated Elliot’s portraits.
  • Updated Simon’s portraits.
  • Updated Malachy’s portraits.

October 13th, 2018

• Updated Cheshire’s portraits.
  • Updated Emilie’s portraits.

October 12th, 2018

• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.
• Updated IMDb page.
• Added a time-based outcome for the climax of “The Obsessive Valentine”.
• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations.

October 11th, 2018

• Changed the name of “Voicemail Message” to “Answering Machine”, because IMDb really dislikes the word “Voice”.
• Wrote more dialogue for “The Twins’ Bond”.
• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations.
• The hazzan in “The Watchful Shadows” now moves properly… What changed?
• Updated IMDb page.

October 10th, 2018

• Updated IMDb page.
• Wrote some more dialogue for “The Watchful Shadows”. Technically finished.
• Added four tracks by Hayden Graves: “Light of My Life”, “Flickering Candle”, “The Taste of Poison”, “A Game of Trust”.

October 9th, 2018

• Cast Aurore Gautheur as the Voicemail Message.
  • Cast Silvia Strambi as Lorette Bourdillon.
  • Cast Stanley Swanson as The Cook.
  • Cast Alex Kelley as Alexandre Lestrange.
• Wrote some more dialogue for “The Watchful Shadows”.
• Realized the game has an IMDb page now. Updating.

October 8th, 2018

• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations.
• Added the rest of the current case names to the translation list.

October 5th, 2018

• Added Marceline Bonhomme’s first (and only) batch of clips for The Garden of Angels. Role completed.
  • Added Joel Caron’s first (and only) batch of clips for The Garden of Angels. Role completed.
  • Added Renee’s third batch of clips for The Garden of Angels.
  • Added Charlotte’s clips for The Disappearing Act and The Obsessive Valentine.
  • Added most of Bellamy’s clips for The Royal Flush.
  • Added the Maitre D’s first batch of clips for The Garden of Angels.
  • Added Sam DeGarmo’s second and last batch of clips for The Royal Flush. Role completed.
  • Added Simon’s third batch of clips for The Garden of Angels.

October 4th, 2018

• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations. “The Royal Flush” completed!

October 2nd, 2018

• Updated the German translation according to Melanie Teich’s translations.
  • Recruited Andre Luiz as a Portuguese translator. You’re welcome, GameJolt users.
  • Updated the Russian translation according to Vladibear’s edits.

October 1st, 2018

• Cast Courtney Grace as Elaine Bellerose.
• Added some trophies.
  • Fixed a glitch in the “has_trophy?” method of the GameJolt API that would crash the game if checked with the first trophy achieved.
  • Once logged in to GameJolt, the game can now inform you what account you’re logged in as.
  • Might have fixed the GameJolt “has_trophy?” method not checking online… but can’t tell, because it always returns “false”, since I can’t seem to earn my own trophies anymore. Fair enough.
  • Found out that deleting the “trophies” key in the local data upon log out completely obliterates the entire gjdata file. But it resets itself. :)
  • Made trophy assignment a common event with some variables. Hopefully this won’t come back to bite me in the ass!