Santa Lucia
"Santa Lucia" Build 10 Now Available!
Hello everyone!
It's the beginning of August, so that means the July build is now available to all on itch.io!
https://stormsingerstudios.itch.io/santa-lucia
We're finally live with hands down our most ambitious build to date! Three major areas were focused on for this build: Progressing the story into day 4, completely revamping the game's user interface, and allowing things to get a little...spicier.
If any of you know how Ren'py works, then you're likely aware of just how difficult it is to customize the UI in the engine. After spending most of my free time this month on getting everything to work and looking pretty, I think we've managed to get a result we can be proud of. We're particularly happy with how the main menu screen turned out!
On the writing front, because most of my time was dedicated to coding UI this build we only managed to write a "half" update, meaning with all the branches taken together the amount of content is a little more than half of what we usually put out per month. That isn't to discount what has been written this month, though. We're sure quite a few of you will be surprised at where we decided to go, and the seeds for important plot developments have finally been sown. We hope you enjoy what we've got for you this build!
For those on mobile (and PC for that matter), the password to unlock all chapters remains the same: "Vanguard"
Phew, this update took a lot out of us. We ended up biting a lot more than we were able to chew this build, but we persevered because we wanted to really take what we have to offer in SL to the next level. In fact, I consider this to be the most important update we've put out for the game so far. I really hope the final result was worth it!
See you all next month!
~Dzahn
Build 10 notes:
+ Brand new in-game UI! Huzzah!
+ Brand new main menu screen! Double huzzah!
+ First half of day 4
+ Title screen added
+ Updated History Log screen
+ Song name captions
+ Backgrounds added to differentiate in-game menus (save, load, options, etc,.)
+ New CTC icon
+ Updated the day 2 nightmare with visuals
+ Added music calls to parts of the game that were previously silent
+ Changed a music call in the Russell sequence of day 2
+ Changed a music call in the Bryan sequence of day 2
+ 7 new songs added
+ Simplified censorship settings (make sure to set it again if you had the earlier options on!)
Bug fixes!
+ Hide UI function now properly hides screen effects like sunset and low lighting
+ Editing pass to fix inconsistencies (Carlos's voice, Nate's voice, certain brand names, text box overflow, etc,.)
+ Fixed day 3 vision to make it clearer who the protagonist is
+ Chapter Select now correctly skips the opening video
If you're interested in checking out the exclusive August build, please consider supporting us! Every little bit helps!
https://www.patreon.com/stormsingerstudios
If you'd like a more direct line to us, we're usually active on our public Discord server:
We hope you enjoy the build!
~ Dzahn & Dev
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Santa Lucia 10
Curious that my Android tablet want update to 10.
I have android 9 in my tablet and it work fine. I am worried about if this will work in Android 10.
Maybe I could test it in my old one with Android 4.03.
. . . And it down work in my Acer A200.
I noticed typing the game name do not show it in the search list.
I added novel and later furry. Still nothing.
So I noticed... it isn't the webpage name and the name of the game isn't in the list of tags.
Maybe it is because I didn't login in my old tablet. But I had to type Stormsinger to find your account and the game page.
Ohhh..., that panda dream is kind like the one I had today. But in different pose. Weird I just played it today after.
To be true, I couldn't see who embraced me while laid. So after roll up over him I could see his face that later changed to one that had the left eye shooted with a white towel/tissue covering the bleeding, so it changed to a blond guy with short long hair after blinked and ended with someone I know, who I had a platonic passion for..
I Just played the last demo and as before, I just loved it, and the menu was beautiful, and that dream OMG >w<
But I have some questions if you don't mind.
1- The sprites are beautiful but, will there be more expressions? Like sad, angry and etc?
2- How will the routes be done? You're going to focus on one to some point or a little bit of the three route in a demo
3- And the CG's, will there be how many for the game?
Thanks forall your attention and stay safe and well ^^
Thank you!!!!!!