changelog

3rd chapter
- few new events
- redecorating rooms
- new stores in the town
- sorting clothes & books
sewing
- creation of own clothes
- related events & draper
- see the Walkthrough for details
redecorating rooms
cooking reworked
- more user-friendly menus
- few more recipes and ingredients
- some recipes explained in the Walkthrough
more events with Robert Edwine and Adriane Almagdery
minigames
- Match Three and Batslaying improved
- quirks of minigames explained in the Walkthorugh
- all (unlocked) minigames accessible in Minigames
avatars slightly improved
- Dynamic Avatar Drawer library migrated from Webpack and Node to Vite and Bun. It was seriously complicated and relatively massively improved the performance (although the absolute change is not at all noticeable while playing the game ☹️ )
- slightly improved some DAD assets; shortgown
- the inventory shows more details about the outfit when mouseover on the status (e.g. + underdressed +)
- the appearance of the Witch could be edited during the intro
- the mirror allows to change style (if you buy a hairbrush, scissors and/or razor)
developer mode (Patreon version)
- developer mode is advertized in the Walkthrough
- some testing menus & variable viewer reorganized
- the 1st and the 2nd chapter could be skipped (Maid's room => # Test => # Skip...) (the buglessness cannot be guaranteed)

alchemy & books (see the Walkthrough for details)
reworked alchemy shop (in the Devmode, all the alchemical supplies are available in Maid's room => # Test => # Test Buying Alchemical Substances)
grease renamed tallow; tallow and beeswax changed into consumable alchemic substances
few minor events related to alchemy and magic
the mirror allows to change style (if you buy a hairbrush, scissors and/or razor)
Bat Slaying minigame fully implemented
all minigames accessible in Minigames
the 1st and the 2nd chapter could be skipped (Maid's room => # Test => # Skip...) (the buglessness cannot be guaranteed)

more events with Robert Edwine
more events with Adriane Almagdery (see the Walkthrough for details)
sorting clothes & Match Three minigame should work properly
sewing - creation of own clothes (see the Walkthrough for details)
cooking reworked
new GUI for selecting ingredients
more recipes
slightly less buggy
redecoration slightly improved
introspection (Maid's Room > Introspect) improved
I migrated Dynamic Avatar Drawer from Webpack and Node to Vite and Bun. It was seriously complicated and massively improved the performance (although the change is not noticeable while playing the game ☹️ )
slightly improved some DAD clothes, shortgown, second (failed) attempt to create gown
the inventory shows more details about the outfit when mouseover on the status (e.g. + underdressed +)
the appearance of the Witch could be edited during the intro

farm (meadows)
mill (via farm)
cooking system
the town is technically accessible but empty
denars are too valuable (somewhere between $4 and $100 depending how you calculate it) so I introduced smaller coins based on English farthings. Four farthings are one denar. I thought it would be cool to depict values as 6 ¾ or 3 ¼ but the smaller numbers are too difficult to read. 6.75 or 3.25 looks kinda terrible but still better than something like 6 d 3 q or 3 d 1 q which would be madness.
I checked some historical price list (tl;dr they are useless for my purposes, I will just wing it) and prices like £1 10s 6d make my head hurt!
- £ is pound, the symbol is L because libra. 1 pound used to be 240 silver pennies that originally weighted - you would not guess it - 1 pound
- s are shillings, solidus, 20 shillings are one pound
- d are pennies denar, 12 pennies are one shilling.
- (1 crown is 5 shillings. 1 guinea is 21 shillings - it was originally 20 but the coin was made of gold and value of gold to silver shifted. Even long after the coin stopped being minted it was still posh to calculate the amount of money in guineas. ))
minor improvements to Dynamic Avatar Drawer
added tie-on pockets. There is no particular reason but recently I found out women of all ranks used to wear pockets big enough to carry a live chicken and people should know

secondary colours adjustable in Settings; good colour was changed into blue
minor fixes to bugs, typos and pacing

reworked intro and the first chapter
the story was expanded and restructured
alternative start with a female character
more interactions with the Evil Witch
weather system
almost historically accurate clothes
system to autowear clothes based on preferences
clothes are getting dirty and have to be washed
button to disable clothes getting dirty so they do not have to be washed
every NPC has an avatar
fast travel system (fully enabled in the second chapter)
countless improvements all over the place
powerful devmode allowing to change almost any game variable and constant (atm Patreon-only)

devmode could be disabled
improvements to avatars of npcs
dirtier clothes are prefered (to not have whole inventory fully of half-dirty ones); could be changed in Preferences (Maid's Room)
sorting books and clothes removed; lot of work & not properly rewarded in this version
exploration in rooms (cellar, bedroom) disabled when there is nothing to find
ballance of the game adjusted
many bugs and typos fixed

laundry chore
clothes slightly reworked
clothes are getting dirty (could be disabled in Settings for easier game)
facial expressions
avatars of npcs
gui slightly reworked
in inventory removed column slot; it seemed simpler to give each slot separate category
batiste renamed to *sheer linen
added several minor evening events
the first chapter is basically finished (except for cooking) but it is horribly slow

weekends, the witch stays at home and the maid can chat with her, present demands or bring her beverages
the mood of the witch is tracked
minigame tester
refactored Crates minigames; alternative stages on the second try; pathfinding algorithm reworked from scratch because I was not able to figure out how the original version works
dynamic avatar is working
new system of clothes tracking their material, quality and dirtiness (and does not work because there is no inventory screen and shops :( )
neat variable tracker (Settings > Cheats > Display variable changes)

everything reworked from scrach using the latest technology (Svelte 5, Vite, Bun, my custom libraries)
staircase for easier and quicker navigation and movement through the tower
morning screen showing what day it is and the most pressing chores
story restructured; some chores and activities initiated earlier other later
weather system
in debugging mode, all game constant and variables are accessible and alterable