Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5605] [Kompas Productions]

Overview:
Set in a small suburban town, a young man just entering college is struck by the death of his father. Mysterious circumstances surrounding the death are only the beginning of his adventures as he learns that his father was in debt to a group of shady criminals. Adding to the list of problems, our young hero needs to save enough money for his college semester and find a date for prom night!

Thread Updated: 2025-02-03
Release Date: 2025-02-03
Developer: Kompas Productions Patreon – Website – Wiki – Discord – Picarto
Censored: No
Version: 21.0.0 wip.5605
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac, Android
Language: English

Overview:Set in a small suburban town, a young man just entering college is struck by the death of his father. Mysterious circumstances surrounding the death are only the beginning of his adventures as he learns that his father was in debt to a group of shady criminals. Adding to the list of problems, our young hero needs to save enough money for his college semester and find a date for prom night!

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Changelog

Increased resolution of assets used in Anon’s nightmare. Fixed Jenny not always rendering correctly during Anon’s nightmare. Restored translation support in choice menus. Hid duplicate Debbie that could appear in background of a few scenes.

Expanded Debbie’s route with 1 original, 3 reworked, and 6 upgraded quests.
Created a new mall trip event with Debbie that evolves with her story.
Moved over to using Debbie’s new art when she appears in other routes.
Updated Debbie’s art in her button dialogue, including sleeping Debbie.
Rebuilt peeking on Debbie in the shower event with more new art.
Extended Debbie’s schedule to rarely place her by the pool of an evening.
Built new x-ray system and began adding it to existing scenes.
Wrote up Frank and Bridget’s background information for the phone.
Improved dialogue hint when clicking on exterior garage door with key.
Locked that lotion bottle in Debbie’s drawer. For now.
Restored correct hover effect to quick menu.
Prevented quick load feature attempting to load incompatible saves.
Removed non-functional options from quick menu when viewing a replay.
Revisited animation system to improve stability, most notably during rollback.
Retooled mimic system to be more reliable and prediction friendly.
Fixed edge-case migration issue when loading some saves from Preview 1.
Guarded against Judith being able to break a Miss Ross quest.
Various small posing improvements to Debbie content from last preview.
Ensured consistent view of hallway in Debbie’s house during navigation.
Adjusted timings of some ambient sounds to avoid hard cuts as they loop.
Addressed issue where map music could linger into rails dialogue.
Dealt with flip-flop continuity issues in Jenny’s telescope scenes.
Made sure the fake guitar is added to the wall properly in Melody’s route.
Cobbled together a new shader to support equirectangular projection.
Optimised some hot code paths to keep navigation snappy.
Resolved issue where using spot metadata would prevent asset prediction.
Added a basic bloom visual effect to help distinguish daydreams.
Helped rails to feel a little more natural when multiple paths may be taken.
Enabled visible cues for choices that require unmet stat checks.
Developed many new rig assets for both Jiang and Kassy.
Upgraded Ren’Py to version 8.3.4.
Touched up art of Anon using telescope in Jenny’s route.
Redrew telescope shot from Jenny’s route to bring its quality up to par.
Produced new assets for Jenny to reflect her pregnancy in Debbie’s route.
Revamped various cutscenes and created multiple new ones.
Put together a new translatable module to help with expressing time periods.
Tweaked layer management logic to prevent Jenny’s laptop appearing twice.
Integrated meeting Tammy outside Debbie’s house with new mall trip event.
Found and fixed a latent bug in how metadata scaling was being applied.
Solved problem that would cause some sounds to play sooner than intended.
Tackled various other continuity and posing issues in earlier Debbie quests.
Stopped Jenny’s first sex toy quest from interfering with the timeline.
Remedied various issues when Jenny showered at night.
Introduced small dialogue variations to account for when Deb is at the mall.
Inserted variant for claiming glasses from Judith during art class.
Many small asset changes to adjust expressions and smooth arm joints.
Reduced the use of magic numbers throughout the priority system.
Prepared and cleaned up the codebase for a future move to Python 3.12.
Eliminated various other minor bugs in existing quests.

Resolved Debbie’s route failing to re-activate correctly in some migrated saves.
Fixed soft-lock in Judith’s locker when reclaiming library book from Camila.

Added all new event early in Debbie’s story.
Upgraded four of Debbie’s existing quests with new art and dialogue.
Improved existing cutscenes and added new ones.
Updated home location backgrounds and closeups.
Added multiple new bodies, arms and facial assets for Debbie and Anon.
Changed Debbie’s default buttons to use new art.
Expanded and improved the Cupid store to allow more space, rooms and variety.
Upgraded Ren’Py to version 8.3.3.
Wrote a save migration to fully reset Debbie progress in preparation for her rework.
Added support for multi-asset cutscenes to easier include dynamic details such as pregnancy.
Revisited attribute management to allow for more flexibility in when displaying backgrounds.
Tweaked focus management on initial name screen to be more mobile friendly.
Flipped the hallway between the entrance and living room.
Fixed soft-lock with Annie outside Mrs. Smith’s office.
Resolved a problem with older saves causing problems accessing the phone.
Various art metadata additions and typo corrections.
Addressed minor posing issues relating to mouth movement in teacher routes.
Stopped the sink breaking prematurely in Debbie’s route when sleeping in the beach house.