Hey  everyone! 

At long last, the update to the public demo is here! The purpose of this update is mainly to add in content for Jori and Sebastien, who were originally side characters and treated as such in the  previous demo, but since they've become full-fledged love interests with their own routes thanks to Kickstarter stretch goals being met, they deserve a lot more attention in the demo.  Other improvements have been made to the demo to add polish to the overall thing.

Warning: Please do not use old saves you had from the original demo! Due to all the changes, if you try to load an old save, it might result in a game error.

Some sneak peeks of the new stuff in the demo:

Whether you've played the original demo, consider downloading and trying the new version!  

Anyway, for those who are interested, the following will be a detailed-ish changelog of what's new in the new demo: 

• New choices and scenes: Jori and Sebastien both get new branched choice scenes to account for their new status as love interests, so a lot more screen time for Jori and Sebastien overall.   The total word count of the demo is now 50k, compared to 35k previously.
• Heavy rewrites and improvements to the script:  Lots of changes made, particularly to Chapter 1 and first half of Chapter 3.
• New character art: More sprites everywhere!  A few silhouette side characters have proper sprites now, and some are brand new side characters  being introduced in the new demo, including the 3 Kickstarter backer custom side characters!
• New CG in Chapter 1: A fancy CG added to the opening scene in Chapter 1 to really drive Rae's near-death experience home.
• New background art: A couple of new locations have been introduced in the demo  with corresponding background art.
• New music: A few of the new batch of background music have been included in the new demo.
• Quality of life addition to the UI: Due to some previous comments about confusion on how to close the book menu after saving / changing settings, a pop-up box will now show the first time you open the book menu, which tells you how to close the book.  Some other minor changes to the UI to fix some weird interactions.

The only part of the demo that wasn't really added to is the voice acting. This is because the voice actors will be recording in studio at the end of the script finalization, so until then, I won't have any new voice lines to play with. Please forgive any repetitiveness of voice lines in the updated demo! As these voice lines would all be replaced anyway by the studio recording session, I only asked the voice actors to record a handful of lines for demo purposes from their home setup. I promise that in the full game, there'll be a much larger variety of words, phrases and sounds for each main character.

Please feel free to contact me if there are any bugs you've noticed or if you have any questions. I would really appreciate if you leave any feedback you have in the Itch.io page comments after playing! 

Thank you!