Greetings, Homecoming fans!

Sorry it's been a while, but we're finally back with another update!

This is more of a feature and "quality of life" update for the game rather than a content one, but there should still be some interesting things to see storywise, especially if you're interested in Kyouji and Soutarou!

Dzahn put together a ton of interesting features for the game that should help tailor the experience to your liking, such as adding a "click to continue" indicator in the text box and an option to turn of the text box faces if you so choose.

Speaking of the text box faces, we made huge progress in the art department over the past couple months! We're proud to unveil the new Homecoming Kouya sprite in this update, the final member of the main cast who needed a sprite change. To accompany the new sprite, we've also added several new text box faces (Kyouji, Soutarou, Shun) and updated the rest. In particular, Hiroyuki received a big update in response to the criticism the first version received.

One last thing before I close this blurb! A large amount of the time spent on this update has been to change the sprite call logic to a new format under the hood. I won't bore you with the coding mumbo jumbo, but in short what this change allowed us to do is to dynamically change character outfits without requiring completely new image files for each combination. Included in the image above is an example of this in action with Kounosuke's sprite. We're extremely proud of how this system turned out and can't wait to use it to its full potential!

Unfortunately, it comes at a cost to the players...

With Release 3 of Homecoming, all old saves for the game are no longer compatible. If you try to continue with an old save, the game will crash anytime it tries to call a sprite because the file you have doesn't have the updated sprite logic. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes!

Thanks for being patient, everyone! We hope you enjoy May's update to Homecoming!
~Dzahn

+++++ Downloads +++++

https://stormsingerstudios.itch.io/homecoming-morenatsu-revisited

+++++ Change Log +++++

+ File size has been drastically reduced (Frostclaw)

+ New content:    

     + Torahiko and Shun's Test of Courage events (Day 6)

      + Kyouji and Soutarou's Welcoming Party event (Day 1)

+ Several of DzahnDragon's songs have been updated with better instruments

+ Tons of Quality of Life updates!     

     + Click to Continue indicator

     + Option to turn off text box faces

     + Default version differences between mobile and non-mobile variants (text box faces automatically turned off on mobile)

+ New sprites: Kouya

+ Updated text box faces for: Hiroyuki, Torahiko (NEW), Soutarou (NEW), Kyouji (NEW), Shun (NEW), Kounosuke, Shin

+ Updated sprites: Kounosuke, Shin, Kyouji, Shun

+ New expressions: Torahiko, Kounosuke, Kyouji, Shin, Shun, Soutarou

+ Under-the-hood changes to sprite call logic intended to make additional poses and expressions easier to add

         + NOTE: As a consequence of this action, old saves are no longer usable.    

         (Please report any weird, unexpected sprite behavior! It's hard to catch them all through playtesting, hehe)

+++++ Cool Links +++++

Homecoming ~Morenatsu Revisited~ Discord Server:
https://discord.gg/WTjM3S5

Homecoming Soundtrack Playlist (assorted):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLjQbwdUtaxNekKAPzMx3Aw/videos

+++++ Our Pages +++++

DzahnDragon (Studio Director):
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/zanderwolfie/
https://twitter.com/ZanderWolfie
https://www.twitch.tv/dzahndragon
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHwk40OW_bVzPqP6GBTU1qQ

Devilizer (Art Director):
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/devilizer/

Lesli-Chu!? (Composer):
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/leslichu/
https://soundcloud.com/user-141917326
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLjQbwdUtaxNekKAPzMx3Aw

Frostclaw (Homecoming Director):
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/grompyryokin/
https://www.the-gcn.com/

HypoNova (Staff Artist and Musician):
https://twitter.com/HyperSketch_Boi