Byte - Desktop Pet

v0.6.0

NEW Furniture Items:

• These items are items that stick around on your desktop, even between runnings of the game!
• When Byte is placed in these, she might stay here till you pull her off. Some even let her change clothing!
• In Passive Play, Byte will use furniture as normal and stand up on her own to continue her routines.
• Furniture & Companions are now saved between sessions
• Furniture requests a confirmation prompt to be deleted
• NEW Phone (Opened by pressing Tab)
• This new menu provides the player a way to curb RNG and spawn in items, characters and games at the cost of tickets
• Wallpapers that represent YOU (And Byte)
• APP: Phone Call
• Spend tickets to call in your favorite companions to accompany Byte
• APP: Game Store
• Play minigames directly from the phone instead of setting up the game cabinet!
• Games can be unlocked by beating the game itself or buying it outright with tickets
• APP: Item Store
• Buy Items or Furniture here!
• You can now buy basic items you've discovered! You'll still need to combine them
• Buy new Wallpapers to customize your phone
• Upload your own wallpaper by dropping it in the Wallpapers folder!
• APP: Terminal
• Easy Access to the Terminal UI
• APP: Settings
• Easy Access to the Pause Menu

Ticket Changes:

• Players now passively gain tickets; 1 ticket every 2 seconds
• Closing Popup’s now grants Players tickets; 5 for each normal popup
• Completing Everlust Glade endings will reward a greater number of tickets when you close the corresponding popup art depending on the rarity of the ending!

Override Support:

• Clothing is now able to persist between animations, but is only planned to be used for innocuous animations like furniture-use.
• Overrides may now chain backwards leading to longer animations or branches leading to more natural feeling scenes.

New Content:

• ENDER PEARL!!!!
• A virtual steak for a hungry virtual dinosaur
• A new monster capture ball! This one is very luxurious...
• A mushroom??
• A gold coin, for a greedy dragon!

Supporters Page:

• Within the Pause Menu, there is now a supporters page. If you are subbed to Cindesh’s substar at the time of an update, you will find your name located there!

Guide Book:

• Controls and Guide are now separated to cover more information!

Passive Mode Changes:

• You may now pick up items during Passive Play
• Companions will naturally leave after a large amount of time (Around 3 to 5 minutes)

Settings:

• Added the ability to change and edit the Limit of Items, Popups and Companion Limits

Modding:

• Modded Characters can now commit to Conversations with pre-existing Actors and Byte
• Modders can now add additional dialogue for Byte and Companions
• Modders can now add additional outfits for Byte
• Items, Characters, and Attachment Overrides now have new settings (EX: Items can be flagged for isn’t buyable or only buyable once found)
• Overrides can now be chained backwards or branching.

Bug Fixes:

• Companion Limit and Companion Duplicate dialogue is now different
• Items being able to be combined when not visible/in use is now disallowed to prevent soft-locking
• Byte’s animation state machine is more stable and should no longer walk around without animations sometimes
• Disable Popup and Disable Convo’s settings now properly function and save.
• Minigame UI Scaling has been fixed
• Startup Text will no longer Deadname if your deadname is set as your system name. (Please rename your computers)