A quick game update but no new story in this patch. Just thought I would go ahead and get all those art changes out.

There's a couple more quality of life features and bugfixes as well. Read on to find out more.

Optimizations

• Optimized the world map some more. (Getting roughly 100 more fps on my machine, which is gross overkill, but it should help older phones that had framerate problems here.)
• All noticed typos and glitches were fixed.
• It was a bit of a pain but backer NPCs now properly preload with the loading bar instead of after it has finished getting full. (I am pretty sure I got rid of all crashes related to this but some incorrect gender calls or other misc. errors that I failed to notice may exist due to these changes. Let me know if you see anything unusual.)
  

Audio

• Virtually every character should now have their own chatter sound instead of using the same one. (Let me know if I missed updating them in any spots or if you feel a particular sound doesn't fit a particular character.)

Visual

• The background for Dandroid's room now has a sprite that was hand made by me. It is extra wide and has code to randomize the chatting location within the background. The idea was to mix the scene up a little since it is used so frequently.
• Cleaned up parts of DIBS' sprite.
• Remade all of Angelo's sprites from the ground up.
• Remade all of Dandroid's sprites from the ground up.
• Made improvements to Inspector Ratchet's sprite.
• Dandroid was given a rainbow flag for his first appearance every time you enter the main menu. No hidden agenda, no wokeness, no dei cat people, I'm just a petty and vengeful person and know how to get under your skin.

Quaility of Life

• Added the ability to hide control display by pushing F1, as well as the ability to enable auto progressing to the next text message by pushing F2 for those who don't want to wear their keyboard or fingers down. (The choice will be remembered between play sessions.)
• A "View the next patch's progress" button has been added to the extras section of the main menu. Clicking it will open up a webpage on itch.io that has a fancy little bar that shows where I feel I stand on the next major patch.
  
• Removed the required wins from all map nodes that had them. (Except the ones unlocked from beating the tutorial.)
  

Backers

• When playing free play mode, a random name will now be pulled from the backer NPC name list and be displayed above patient state.
• Backers who have thrown money at the wall now get a special effect played onto their custom silhouette for each 20 dollars they have spent. (Up to 100 dollars for the grand galaxy effect pictured above.)