Happy Gu Year!!! We are so excited to ring in 2024 with an [cue airhorn] UPDATED DEMO for ‘Love & Country”!!!

So what can you expect with this new version?

• Updated artwork!  We’ve replaced some of the character plates and CGs. Hopefully you’ll like the changes we’ve made. (Note from Katie: I think Jules has made Anton and Émile even more handsome! Not sure how she did it. Let us know what you think!)
• New effects! We’ve been hard at work learning about all of the bells and whistles we can add using Ren’Py, like camera pans and light animations. 
• More accessibility! Did you know that Ren’Py has a really cool self-voicing feature? We’ve added some visual description for game elements not described in text. We also  programmed Ren’Py’s self-voicing feature to indicate when a character is speaking French or German (reading out only the translation rather than botching the pronunciation of the spoken language). We hope this will allow visually impaired folks to enjoy L&C, too!  

Of course, we didn’t get to fit in everything that we wanted to add. (If you ask any developer, there’s always something!) In terms of accessibility, we’d still like to add audio description to the menus. You will also likely see some more adjustments to the UI. But all in all, it was really important to us to give you guys something since we A) had to push back the full game release and B) have had our demo out for almost a full year. 

On the subject of forward momentum, our beloved composer Zach is on the mend and returning to his music. We’ll try to pace ourselves so we don’t accidentally break him again! We are continuing to piece together the full game and Katie has, in between coding, begun the writing process for L&C stuff you all don’t even know about yet! 🤫 

Well, that’s our little update! We are so grateful to you all for your support and kind words of encouragement. Thank you for sticking with us through this journey! We promise to deliver you something worth the wait.

(Be on the lookout for the new demo release announcement THIS WEEK!)

 Alles Liebe,

Team Guhuhu