"Santa Lucia" Build 10 Now Available! (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

It's the beginning of August, so that means the July build is now available to all on itch.io! 

https://stormsingerstudios.itch.io/santa-lucia


 

We're finally live with hands down our most ambitious build to date! Three major areas were focused on for this build: Progressing the story into day 4, completely revamping the game's user interface, and allowing things to get a little...spicier.

If any of you know how Ren'py works, then you're likely aware of just how difficult it is to customize the UI in the engine. After spending most of my free time this month on getting everything to work and looking pretty, I think we've managed to get a result we can be proud of. We're particularly happy with how the main menu screen turned out!

On the writing front, because most of my time was dedicated to coding UI this build we only managed to write a "half" update, meaning with all the branches taken together the amount of content is a little more than half of what we usually put out per month. That isn't to discount what has been written this month, though. We're sure quite a few of you will be surprised at where we decided to go, and the seeds for important plot developments have finally been sown. We hope you enjoy what we've got for you this build!

For those on mobile (and PC for that matter), the password to unlock all chapters remains the same: "Vanguard"

Phew, this update took a lot out of us. We ended up biting a lot more than we were able to chew this build, but we persevered because we wanted to really take what we have to offer in SL to the next level. In fact, I consider this to be the most important update we've put out for the game so far. I really hope the final result was worth it!

See you all next month!
~Dzahn

Build 10 notes:

+ Brand new in-game UI! Huzzah!

+ Brand new main menu screen! Double huzzah!

+ First half of day 4

+ Title screen added

+ Updated History Log screen

+ Song name captions

+ Backgrounds added to differentiate in-game menus (save, load, options, etc,.)

+ New CTC icon

+ Updated the day 2 nightmare with visuals

+ Added music calls to parts of the game that were previously silent

+ Changed a music call in the Russell sequence of day 2

+ Changed a music call in the Bryan sequence of day 2

+ 7 new songs added

+ Simplified censorship settings (make sure to set it again if you had the earlier options on!)

Bug fixes!

+ Hide UI function now properly hides screen effects like sunset and low lighting

+ Editing pass to fix inconsistencies (Carlos's voice, Nate's voice, certain brand names, text box overflow, etc,.)

+ Fixed day 3 vision to make it clearer who the protagonist is

+ Chapter Select now correctly skips the opening video

If you're interested in checking out the exclusive August build, please consider supporting us! Every little bit helps! 

If you'd like a more direct line to us, we're usually active on our public Discord server:
https://discord.gg/WTjM3S5 

We hope you enjoy the build!
~ Dzahn & Dev