A Heart of Butterblue
Update and Queer Games Bundle!
Hello all!
I just uploaded a new version of Butterblue. (It's still labeled 1.02 bc I forgot to update the product version OOPS...)
This version includes:
- A resolution fix. Now when you click the full screen button it forces you into the correct resolution
- A change to how the key items in Fannys shop are checked. Very rarely the key items would be listed as out of stock when they weren't. I couldn't find the source of this, but I threw in a function in the update function to correct for it.
The still extant bugs are as follows:
- Peytons flower? Sometimes the flower Peyton gives Phebe just doesn't show up in her inventory. I can't figure out where this is coming from but I threw in a piece of code to automatically add the flower to your inventory again once you access the [final room in the game].
- Deleting an item in your inventory sometimes will delete any other copies of the item that you are holding. To be frank, the way I coded the inventory is jank, lol. This isn't a game breaking bug but it's there and I'll keep thinking about how to have an easy fix.
- Also inventory related- trying to harvest a crop while your inventory is full just has the item dissapear. I've reviewed the (jank) code for this bit and it's supposed to refuse to let you harvest it but idk what's going on. Still TBD.
- Peyton hangs around the mountain after you've activated his quest. There's some spaghetti logic happening at the end so I'll see where I can add a few more checks to stop this from happening.
I probably won't have any more recent patches for this game, just bc I want to move onto my next title. But please let me know if you hit these or any other bugs! I'm adding them to my list to fix, eventually.
And onto happier news:
A Heart of Butterblue as well as Tomorrow for Mar are in this year's Queer Games Bundle! Go support a great cause and get a ton of other games! :D
https://itch.io/b/1812/queer-games-bundle-2023
And thats it for now. Thank you so much for playing my game and giving me all the feedback! It's been invaluable!
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The game has queer characters ?
Hi!
Not outwardly, no. I'm planning on making additional afterstory content that would give Fanny a girlfriend, but the base game as it exists today doesn't have any out queer characters.
But the game is completely made by a single person who is queer, me! And Phebe's journey has a lot of themes of identity and self acceptance that reflect that feeling of "how do I relate to my own body" when ur Trans. (hi)
I submitted the game because I knew I had submitted Tomorrow for Mar last year and felt bad about that, so threw in Butterblue as a "I swear I'm working on new stuff Im just horribly slow;;!" but awkwardly between the two, Butterblue was the one that caught people's attention! (oops)
So TLDR: Not in a way that I would reccomend the game for people looking for queer content in one of my games. For that I would reccomend:
- Tomorrow for Mar (NB protag)
- A Heart of Muscle (MLM protag, Lesbian side characters)
- Kill the Prince?! (MLM protag)
- Helena's Flowers (Entire cast is WLW)
- A New Don (Trans Male LI)
- The Bog's Heart (Aroace Protagonist)
- Dr. Frank's Build-a-Boyfriend (Disaster Gay Dad as a Protag)
I see. Thank you for the detailed answer !