[VN] [Ren’Py] [kmalloc] Student Transfer [v8.0]

• MagicAllie – As Allison’s friendship with the other popular girls takes a turn for the worse, John must decide how to help her, or if he even should.
• Sitcom – John summons the all-powerful Circe and wishes to be a famous TV star! Little does he know: demons can be quite overbearing when swayed by creative muse!
• KyokoMistake – Trying to take a peek inside the device might have been a mistake. Kyoko and John now have to get settled into their new lives and find a way to get everything back to normal.
• CharlotteSwap – John and Charlotte keep swapping, and their shifting memories are making romance more difficult than it ever needed to be!
• TheBet- A simple wager on who has it harder gets out of hand. The only thing worse than going through with it is what awaits the loser!
• MichelleSwap – Michelle’s machinations march onwards, but if it’s war she wants it is war she will get.
• MagicDelinquents – Did you think Tori and Vanessa were just going to stop once they knew magic was real? No. No they were not.
• KiyoshiWish – A simple wish for a friend to share the gift of magic with goes off the rails. Then keeps going. And going and going and going.
• Mystery – The long awaited revamp of Murder, all the Jane goodness you know and love with a dash of actual mystery this time.

Fixes

• Improved Emoji support (especially in the phone messaging system) to enable accurate portrayal of Gen-Z speech patterns.
• Several dynamically-created images in the game were updated to obey the screen filters correctly.
• Auto-forward mode for text messages has been fixed and now functions correctly for the first time since the messaging system was created.
• A whole bunch of typos in old content.
• Preemptively resolve a bunch of issues that Ren’Py has graciously introduced to keep us on our toes.

Improvements

• The game’s version number was updated from 7.1 to 8.0.
• The CG viewer has received a full overhaul and will no longer make a roundtrip to the moon and back before responding to inputs on CG’s with a large number of permutations.
• All of our internal variables were rearrange and organized, which should somewhat help with save compatibility.
• The swap command now doesn’t instantly switch expressions at the end.
• Character name boxes have been moved above the dialogue/narration instead of remaining beside it, to avoid UI overlap.
• CG names will now only show the first part of their name when not unlocked, to avoid spoilers.
• A bespoke selection of ‘Paths under Construction’ have been pruned from the game to keep you lot from complaining. Path Work Ahead? I sure hope it does!

Additions

• A whole bunch of new typos in new content.
• The ‘possess’ command now takes an optional zorder number that is applied to the target if desired
• New expressions for several characters, including Katrina, Michelle, John, Holly, Allison, and Kiyoshi. Even Emily, too!
• Several new and exciting sound effects that do not contain any subliminal messages whatsoever.
• The legacy ‘Murder’ route is back as a scenario. Gotta throw ’em a bone every once in a while.
• New backgrounds: The Hano household now has a bathroom and another bedroom. Katrina’s bedroom can finally be darkened and the mall has been expanded with several more locations and variants.
• Lots of new outfits! Sandra, Yuuna, Katrina, Charlotte, Kyoko, Rita, and KiyoshiGB all have new duds. Circe has a hat.
• Oh, Kiyoshi’s naked cock exists now, too! Hip hip hooray!
• The matriarch of the Morgan household, Laura, has been replaced. She’s better than ever, with 2 poses, 7 outfits, and a smile to die for. Old Laura has been mercilessly yeeted into the shadow realm.

Breaking Changes

• The background ‘bg mall restaurant’ has been renamed to ‘bg mall restaurant day’, as we added a ‘dusk’ variant and needed to clean up the namespace.