1.8.1 aka FULL STEAM DECK, CONTROLLER AND KEYBOARD COMPATIBILITY!

Hey everyone!

How have you been this last month? After a fairly nice start, summer is getting hot as hell in Spain. Instead of resting as one ought to, I've been working hard on this update, and I hope it'll be one that helps a lot of people get to experience the story comfortably!

Introducing 1.8.1 aka FULL STEAM DECK, CONTROLLER AND KEYBOARD COMPATIBILITY!

I had to ditch the original plan of upgrading to Ren'py 8 as my game depends on a whole lot of stuff that is specific to the version 7.5.3 and doesn't play nice with python 3, so I rolled up my sleeves and started scouring the internet for fixes that could make this version steam deck and generally controller compatible! (Thanks to Ashley of Gods of the Twilight for helping me out and testing, and to Kam aka Elbar's voice actor for testing as well!)

I've added a lot of custom functionality to buttons so that you can navigate comfortably, play through every minigame, and get from start to finish of the story without needing to use a mouse! In fact I kinda enjoy navigating with a controller much better now, woops.

I also added a handful of new encyclopaedia entries, improved encyclopaedia and diary navigation (made the entries a little prettier too), fixed a few visual bugs and generally just made stuff nicer all around.

I believe this should be the last important update for a while until the localizations for each chapter are ready. After that, my plans include:

- adding a descriptive mode accessibility function for visually impaired people

- implementing a function to hover over a word to see a small encyclopaedia preview (which I managed to fully implement but sadly had to remove as it didn't play nice with localizations)
- continuing to work on the next THK project sshhhhh

As a last personal note, I'm currently unemployed and could use some help gathering funds for the next project if you enjoyed the game. I have a Patreon page if you'd like to leave a tip, and if you have any leads on writing gigs (English, Spanish), voice direction (English, Spanish, Japanese) or generally overseeing a project, I'd really appreciate if you could tell me about it.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for taking the time to read!