Public Alpha 2

Here it is, at long last: ALPHA Release 2! This build isn't as complete or bug-free as I'd have liked (and for an alpha release, my standards were quite low), but as I'm going away for a few days and will be unable to work on the game until at least Monday anyway, I thought it better to put what exists out there before I left rather than make everyone wait the duration of my absence plus however long it actually takes to finish this section of the game when I return.

Alpha Release 2

Many, but not all, of the bugs reported in the playability alpha have been corrected. While I don't have a separate release for readers of the blog this time, I do still have a treat: testing commands! These are commands that will not be present in the final game, but which I've added at one point or another for testing purposes. They are blunt and highly specific, written into the game when I was feeling lazy and writing a new action was faster than playing through the game manually to get the effect I wanted.

• SKIPINTRO - Teleports the player to the Dingy Apartment. Does not apply transformation effects, so doing this as a male will probably break things.
• SHOW RED BOX - Intuitively, displays a red box of the proper dimensions in the main illustration window. Is used primarily for testing images and UI layout.
• BUFF DIGNITY - Adds +100 to the player's dignity score. Will probably break some things, and not others. I was very inconsistent in the way I check dignity and other stats.
• MAKE COP COSTUME - gives the player a police costume, sized to fit the Brunette with 1 bust modifier.
• TFTEST - Runs the witch's transformation immediately. Used for testing the mansion without going upstairs, manually taking the key and running the witch conversation.
• ERICATEST - Runs the witch's transformation after setting the player's variables to 1 bust item (and nothing else).
• VERONIKATEST - Runs the witch's transformation after setting the player's variables to 2 bust items (and nothing else.)
• JANATEST - Runs the witch's transformation after setting the player's variables to 3 bust items (and nothing else.)
• FAITHTEST - Runs the witch's transformation after setting the player's variables to 3 bust items and the golden hairbrush.
• YURIZANTEST - Runs the witch's transformation after setting the player's variables to 3 bust items and the Chili pepper.

There are also two new non-testing commands: INVENTORY OFF and MISSIONS OFF. (and, of course, their counterparts INVENTORY ON and MISSIONS ON). These commands disable the inventory and missions windows, which can function poorly when players have an extreme number of items or missions or for users playing at an unusually small resolution. This should help avoid an experience-ruining bug where the player is forced to hit space for "more" every single turn when the inventory or missions window is full.