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Stories You Might Not Know About the New Version: RPG Maker’s default button for returning to the main menu is F12, and Steam’s screenshot key is also F12. This causes many people to return to the main menu when they try to take a screenshot, which is really frustrating. However, this cannot be changed—it’s hard-coded into RPG Maker’s underlying code. I designed it so that when players hold down X or ESC, an exit option pops up. If they continue to hold down the exit key, the game returns to the main menu—it seems the vast majority of RPGs are designed this way. Going to great lengths to make it difficult for players to exit the game seems to be something most games are doing these days. store.steampowered.com/app/8… patreon.com/c/DragonSnow

Stories You Might Not Know About the New Version: During gameplay, you can press the W key at any time to activate slow motion, which will make everything except you move super—slow— This is the ultimate, ultimate solution designed to lower the game’s difficulty. This feature went through countless iterations before finally taking the form you see here. You probably can’t imagine how prone to bugs this feature is—oh my gosh, Thank goodness I didn’t develop this myself—thanks to our programming helper, “Guan Guan.” You can use this feature 20 times in the game. If you exceed 20 uses, you’ll face a penalty. Currently, the penalty is that you can no longer earn Steam achievements. I think that’s a pretty reasonable penalty, but it seems it could be a bit harsher… You can check your remaining uses in the manual accessed by pressing Shift+A. store.steampowered.com/app/8… patreon.com/c/DragonSnow

Stories You Might Not Know About the New Version: The D key is a cheat key. If you press D in the “right place,” you’ll break the game. For example, you can change Puro’s affection level to unlock all the bad endings, switch Dr. K’s gender (I’m not kidding), decide whether the protagonist really has pallor disease (oh, did I just spoil some ultimate secret?), and even skip the gameplay sections to watch all the TF animations right away… Pressing D on the mini-game console screen can even unlock a hidden game (A Closed Case). To use the D key’s features, you still need to know where the “right place” are… These secrets are usually hidden in the game’s end credits. You’ll have to ask the developer (that’s me) to find out, so you’ll still have to play through the game at least once! (Unless someone tells you.) store.steampowered.com/app/8… patreon.com/c/DragonSnow

Stories You Might Not Know About the New Version: As more and more (unnecessary) features have been added in the new version, this game now has over a dozen controls, so I had to include a control guide to help players navigate the game. In addition to the one at the beginning, you can also press Shift+A during gameplay to open a manual-style control guide, saving you the trouble of having to go back to the start to review the controls. This manual also provides access to some mysterious additional game statistics (such as the number of save slots and steps taken). If you’re lucky enough, you might even unlock a hidden version of the manual… I did this just for fun; I really enjoy the feeling of something ordinary suddenly becoming different on a particular occasion. Both manuals have strange names—that’s because I intentionally made their titles contain all the letters from “Changed Special.” You may have also noticed the controller guide. Yes, games developed with RPG Maker support controller input, but not “fully”—some shortcuts still require the keyboard, and the in-game controls (such as QTE sections) are all based on keyboard keys without controller prompts (since I don’t know how to detect whether a player is using a keyboard or a controller in RPG Maker). Therefore, I don’t recommend using a controller… However, a friend of mine said he can only play games with a controller. What if there really are a lot of people who only play with controllers? So I went ahead and added a controller button mapping chart anyway. store.steampowered.com/app/8… patreon.com/c/DragonSnow