Hey everyone! 🌟 It's been a hard month of deep dives into code refactoring, but I'm thrilled to roll out this update packed with fresh content, smoother gameplay, and a bunch of under-the-hood fixes. As a solo dev, your support keeps me going, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Let's dive in.

❤️ New Content

• 3 New Story Events: Spotlight on Siera with intimate scenes set in the Garage, Storage, and Siera & Zoe's Room. These events deepen her storyline and bring some steamy moments to life.
• 123 New Renders: High-quality visuals to immerse you even deeper into the world.
• 2 Fresh Animations: Each with 3 dynamic camera angles for varied perspectives and replay value.

🔄 Gameplay Changes

• Overhauled the character progression system for triggering story events. Removed the old mechanic of searching for characters on the map, guessing the day of the week, and matching the current time based on hints from the Relationships tab.
• Introduced a new Affection system: Girls now randomly appear in rooms with each hourly time change. Interact with them to start a simple clicker mini-game, reach 100 points to trigger a story event with that girl.

✨ UI/UX Improvements

• Revamped Relationships Window: Cleaner layout, faster navigation, and easier access to affection levels and progress tracking for ultimate usability.
• Enhanced Room Navigation: New top-screen buttons clearly label sub-rooms in the current area, jump around effortlessly without getting lost.
• Adaptive UI Design: The interface now scales beautifully to any screen size, from tiny mobiles to massive ultrawides. Play comfortably wherever you are!
• General Polish: Smoother transitions, intuitive menus, and refined visuals across the entire game for a more polished experience.

🔧 Technical Updates

• Time system revamped: Now includes hours and minutes. Fixed the bug where the time bar displayed as empty.
• Added a functional Inventory system (no current uses, but it will tie into future player stats and gifts to girls).
  
• Windows Optimization: Switched to DirectX11 for rock-solid compatibility, including support for Windows 7 and older devices.
• Android Enhancements: Full compatibility with 32-bit devices, plus a fix for the portrait mode glitch, game now enforces landscape for the best immersion.
• Linux Rendering Upgrade: Switched to OpenGLCore to squash display glitches. Animations now display perfectly, no more stuttering or black screens!
• Build Size: New compression for renders on Windows and Linux builds shrinks files from 6MB per art down to 2MB, with zero loss in quality.
• Web Version Stability: Patched the event launch bug by tweaking the trigger logic. 
• Core Script Overhaul: Rewrote and optimized most backend scripts for better performance and enhanced stability across all platforms.

Phew, hope I didn't miss anything, this was a tough month with tons of time spent refactoring code to clean up the mess. Still managed to squeeze in those 3 Siera events, and I'm really happy with how they turned out! 😊

Next up: Daisy gets her spotlight since she's the only one without events yet. After that, we'll vote on the next character. On the roadmap: Player stats, skills, end-of-day diary, and more. So much work ahead! Thank you very much for your support, I'm a solo developer, and this means a lot to me!