G’day mate,

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but a special feeling is in the air. People are more relaxed, the animals are more cheerful, and even John is sharing a funny joke or two, ha ha ha! The Holidays are coming to Dinkum Island, meaning the Festive season is upon us!


Everything’s ready for a Festive dinner. Benny, stay away from the presents!

Our old friend Nick who paid us a visit last year is back again. He says that he loves the beach a lot, as it’s really cold where he’s originally from. You’ll find him relaxing on the beach if it’s a sunny morning, so look for him. You never know what interesting things he might have with him this time. Also, there’s been some strange things falling out of the sky recently. If you want more details, please check the bulletin board. I wonder what they can be…


Our old good mate Nick is back in Dinkum too!

There have also been reports of some strange white Jackaroo’s running around. It’s almost as if they are lost. Maybe you could catch them and take them to an Animal Drop Off Point?

That’s it from me for today, but before I leave, I just want to wish you a happy holiday break, no matter where you are. Thank you so much for spending time with me and everyone else on the Dinkum Island this year. I hope we will spend even more time as the holiday season is upon us.


Have a happy and relaxing Holidays!

Take good care of yourself and Happy Holidays! And if you want to know all the Festive event-related additions, check the changelog below.

Fletch - Head of Island Exploration



Changelog

- Coconuts can now be placed in Billy Cans.
- Prawns can now be cooked.
- Added some new furniture.
- The Festive Visitor can craft some new items to decorate your island.
- The mysterious Present bags you can find on your bulletin board in December contain some new items.
- Fixed a bug that caused fallen satellites to “stick” to vehicles.
- Fixed a bug that would let satellites be pushed around preventing completion of investigation quests.
- The beach ball now floats in water.
- Other minor bug fixes and animation fixes.

Read more details about last year's Festive update right HERE.

PS. For all those who are busy during the Holiday season, don’t worry. You can access this seasonal event whenever you want. Just set your system clock to December and launch Dinkum.

So here's the cool thing: over the course of November (specifically, during Thanksgiving break; hooray for weeks off from work!), I finished writing Chapter 4! FINALLY.

Now that I've finally got that done, I'm going to go back and touch up everything I have thus far. I will also add visuals/music/sound to Chapters 3 and 4, because I didn't do that yet. :-/ Point being, I want to make sure what I have is cohesive and good before I start on the second half of the game.

I will be using all of December for revision purposes. Then, with the new year, I will start writing Chapter 5. We are just moving right along!

In fact, I might actually have new screenshots ready for the January hype update! Wow!

New update for supporters on Patreon or SubscribeStar! More info here:
https://the-last-sovereign.blogspot.com/2023/12/tls-0720-released.html



TLS 0.72.0

- New harem quest beginning in Ari-Yhilina: Merchant District.

- New harem quest beginning in Ari-Yhilina: Order of Thaumaturgy.

- New Orcent quest beginning in the Bloody Spire.

- Two new unique items can be created at the Nostalgic Home, if certain requirements are met.

- UI fixes from the previous new script.

- One new sex scene.

- Three new illustrated scenes: Special Surprise, Aka + Yarra, Megail + Qum


Updated roadmap:


Whew, super tired, so I don't have a ton to say about this one. I managed to finish every single harem quest this year, but not quite all the endgame content. Hope people have fun with it. ^-^

- New transitions and sounds for the stairs
- Fixed some detected bugs

Going from the first to the ADVANCED tutorial directly was broken. No hints were shown.

A minor update to v0.9.1.7, hopefully the last hotfix before v0.10. Note, if you've recently reported typos or minor issues, they may not be fixed in this build, as those changes were made in my internal working version.

- Fixed a rare crash caused by multi-hit enemy skills and Alexander's Riposte.
- Repositioned the turn timer on Ariadne's Burning effects to let the stack level numbers beneath be clearer.
- Reworded Ariadne's Ignite and Incinerate skills to make their effects clearer (Incinerate does damage based on the level of Burning on the enemy, 0-3, and Ignite adds a Lv 3 Burning effect).

🌟This all-new mode has a completely revamped user interface, and in this mode, players will be paired into teams of two in which any roles can be together—including the Spy and Detective. Whether your teammate is really an ally will be for you to decide...
🌟Explore this mode's all-new stage Mannequin Village and enjoy two all-new musical suites unique to it.
🌟With the new mode comes a New Tutorial Story: Get a first glimpse at an all-new character whose influence on the game has long been felt but only now is being revealed...


🩹 [Impair]: Once per match, select any target including yourself to Impair for the upcoming round. This target loses -40 from their AP Limit for the round and is announced to everyone.
🗡️ [Execute]: Remove any non-Spy player from the match if the Spy does not use Eliminate this round (if so, Execute is canceled). Once used successfully, Execute is no longer available for the rest of the match and you lose -60 from your AP Limit.

💬 [Dying Message]: Choose a target and a role you suspect for them. This will be shared with any players you have 100% Trust with should you be Eliminated or Executed this round.

🛡️ [Protect]: Once per match, attempt to Protect a target from being Eliminated or Executed at the cost of 60 from your AP Limit if successful. When successful, your identity is announced to the user of Eliminate or Execute.

🛍️While stationed with an allied garrison in the second World War, a young Sherring has a fateful encounter that decides much of his future...
🛍️From the Mirrosphere comes the emergence of "Raffles", a young curator at a leading museum with the aim of stopping the thieves stealing his father's legacy.
🛍️

It's a new day with a new patch. Thank you for your reports! ːCotcTorchː

ːCotcKeyː New & Updated

• Consumable items are now limited to 10 per type
  
• Missing Achievement icons added
  
• Game saving disabled in the bonus level
  
• Frozen enemies will shatter into ice gibs/cubes
  
• [Map Editor] You can now enter the First-person Edit Mode with F1 key as well

ːCotcMiningCartː Fixes

• In Mourning Grounds, we updated the room after the golden-key doors so the gates close faster in order to avoid the skeleton escaping
  
• Broken achievements fixed
  - Adventurer
  - No Stone Left Unturned
  - Mage Runner achievement won't be awarded in the bonus level anymore
  - Frost Mage achievement fixed
  - Treasure Hunter will count treasure items correctly now
  
• Key Rebinding Reset will save the reset state
  
• Bug fixed where you could loot dead bodies over and over
  
• Ogres appearing on the crates
  • Saving in the middle of the Boss fight won't break the save anymore

We would also like to address the "save game" issues some people experienced with the latest update. First, we weren't aware that any changes that we made could affect the save games, so we didn't pay extra attention to it. We tried to find the culprit and save the mess but without success.
Therefore, we added extra measures to prevent this from happening in the future. We will do additional "save game" compatibility tests to ensure a safe update before every update.
We're sorry for all the inconvenience!

Last but not least, if you're venturing into the level creation part of Wizordum, we put together a Quick Editing Guide so you can easily get started with the basics and shortcuts.

Thank you!

This update brings a new skin system to Fruit Salad which we plan to leverage for FREE skin updates in the future, and the first of these is available right now. The Christmas skin!

You can find this new feature under Settings, just click the Skins button!

Build 1.0.12012023

• Added a new skins system.
  
• Added the Christmas skin.

More Wheelie physics fixes.