Thank you for supporting the game! Because of the feedback, I updated the demo with new scenes and more choices up to the cliffhanger where we last left off in the morning of the second day in the story, or May 2^nd. I have yet to add scenes past that point in the demo, but I am pleased with completing the first draft of all the second day, thus bringing the total word count of the story so far to 43,000+ words in the document and 27,000+ words in the game. The next major update will be adding all scenes up to the end of the second day. The next minor update may be updating and adding new sprites, especially for Cecil and Joseph, who deserve to have more expressions.

What’s new?

• An additional 11,000 words over the nanoreno version, totaling 27,000+ words
• Trial scene in Day 1 or May 1^st discussing Professor Leon’s Kaufmann’s murder
• More scenes involving between Cecil and Anastasia
• The alternative scene after choosing the tarot card on the right
• A scene where the protagonist gives his opinion on Leon’s murder
• A lunch scene in Day 1 focusing on Joseph
• The snow-shoveling scene where the protagonist confronts Doctor Adenauer and asks him about the murder
• A dinner scene in Day 1 focusing on Cecil and Anastasia
• A branching route after the protagonist tells Emilia an important clue in Day 2 which ends on a cliffhanger in this demo, and which eventually may or may not lead to a dead end

Fixes

• Corrected grammar and misspellings
• Rewrote scenes with pacing issues
• Cut back on needless prose
• Corrected passages where dialogue was displayed as prose
• Added and redid animations and transitions for the characters and backgrounds
• Increased font size for all fonts
• Changed color of the character name title from red to blue to make it more distinct
• Replaced the music salon background due to the colors meshing poorly with the character sprites
• Created a map menu which shows where the current scene takes place. Used a renpy framework by KigyoDev which can be found here

• Added scrollbar for character profile descriptions to allow player to read the text in any font and to accommodate the new font size
• Added new sprites to the character profile descriptions which changes depending on if the character is alive or dead
• Added placeholder sprites for Joseph to show anger
• Expanded notes section to include murder descriptions which are added after certain scenes
• Replaced several songs which felt unsuitable and added more royalty free music and sound effects

Detailed citations can be found in the readme.txt or credits.txt file.

Thank you so much for playing and thank you so much for the overwhelming feedback!

-Improb