New Music and Interactive Music Improvements

New music by John Wright has been integrated into The Void quest and it sounds amazing! With BPM-precise transitions that match the gameplay.

Also:

The music transition of the first quest "ink combat 3" has been improved too.
Music now fades out when switching to a scene without background music.

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Time of Day

You can see time passing now in Fray's End. This is a cosmetic change and doesn't affect gameplay at all. Check the wiki to know more about it and how to apply these effects in your own StoryQuest.

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New Debug Settings

As we move towards gameplay progress, it becomes important to have in-game debugging tools. This is a new page available from the Pause menu. We expect that it will grow with more settings in the future. You may find a new area too in this release!

Cultural Considerations

We got feedback that certain cultures found the Ink Drinkers’ action inappropriate. So we changed the sound effect and the action terminology to "they spray ink".

Other Changes

We added characters created by random parts picked from a set. See #1801
StoryQuest "Evan and the Search for Champ" continues development!
StoryQuest "Stella and the Missing Star" has an improved starfish collision shape that spins.
Placeholder quest: The ink combat round 6 has a new mechanic in which barrels have to be completed in sequence.
Placeholder quest: The stealth + sequence combo now has a musician with hints to guide the player.
Wildlife characters have been added here and there. A fence tileset too, to contain the sheeps.
AreaFiller works with more shapes now: rectangle, circle, and capsule.
InteractArea and Teleporter are now consistently being used as nodes.
An odd bug which prevented players to continue after finishing quest when quitting from Fray's End, has been fixed.
The Void tileset now has an scale-independent starfield so it will look the same in all display devices.

Full list of changes

Remove now-unused mega-tileset by @wjt in #1964
Random townies exploration by @manuq in #1801
Champ standardize hint by @Fauche-r in #1952
MouseManager: Set process_mode to ALWAYS by @wjt in #1965
NO_EDIT sequence puzzle: Add foam by @wjt in #1968
NO_EDIT combat & stealth: Use new cliffs & add shadows by @wjt in #1967
Fray's End: Lock editing the clouds shadow overlay by @manuq in #1971
Elder NPCs: Vary their animation randomly by @manuq in #1969
Ink combat dialogue: Use "spray" term for the enemy action by @manuq in #1972
Replace throwing enemy action sound effect by @manuq in #1973
Altering champ combat game to make changing sprites more important by @izzykriz in #1950
Champ stealth : Exported the TileMapLayer by @Fauche-r in #1977
Champ outro: revising script of champ animation by @felixwalberg in #1978
Champ delayed defeat sequence puzzle by @felixwalberg in #1979
Video settings: Use text property of CheckButton by @wjt in #1976
Toggleable: Use @abstract by @wjt in #1981
Add Fabric Rock scene by @wjt in #1982
StoryQuestProgress: Don't warn if GameState.current_quest is unset by @wjt in #1983
stella: Improve starfish collision shape & let it spin by @wjt in #1988
TalkBehavior: Allow passing extra context to dialogue by @wjt in #1990
Add time of day to Fray's End by @manuq in #1991
InkCombatRound6: Implement Sequential Filling Mechanic by @russell-cj in #1865
Add a debug menu to toggle quest completion state by @wjt in #1997
Add a new area of Fray's End unlocked by completing the Void quest by @wjt in #1984
mothsache: Don't make player fall when defeated by @wjt in #2001
Reset per-scene lights-on state by @manuq in #2004
Integrate Void quest music by @wjt in #2003
Rename “A Void” to “The Void” by @wjt in #2006
grappling_hook_powerup: Fix shadowing warning by @wjt in #2007
Add wildlife characters by @manuq in #2008
Void closing_transition: Use random characters for townies by @manuq in #2009
Add rain overlay effect by @manuq in #1989
add cliff shadows to Quest 003 ink drinker levels by @russell-cj in #2010
Overlay effects: Rename randomize function by @manuq in #2011
Update Still BPM and transitions by @wjt in #2012
Retitle credits for John Wright/Infinity Composition by @wjt in #2013
FollowWalkBehavior: Stop when target is reached by @manuq in #2014
Add fence tileset by @manuq in #2015
Fray's End West: Add fences, sheep and bushes by @wjt in #2017
Fray's End West: Give placeholder names and dialogue to townies by @wjt in #2019
Ink combat 3: Improve music transition by @wjt in #2018
fog, clouds_shadow: Ignore mouse events by @wjt in #2020
Void music: Tweak Bloom -> Still transition again by @wjt in #2027
Fray's End: Fix Y-sorting by @manuq in #2022
Player: Move and slide in physics process by @manuq in #2030
El Abrigo: Remove unused player_abrigo.gd script by @wjt in #2034
AreaFiller: support CollisionShape2D with rectangle, circle, and capsule by @wjt in #2036
Wizzy: Remove unused player script by @wjt in #2035
Grappling Hook: Use Line2D.set_point_position() for changing the points by @manuq in #2037
ci: Don't double-compress Linux metadata tarball by @dependabot[bot] in #2023
ci: Unbreak building Flatpak locally by @wjt in #2038
Remove teleporter scene by @wjt in #2040
Fade out when switching to a scene without BackgroundMusic by @wjt in #2039
stealth_sequence_combo: Add musician to guide the player by @wjt in #2026
shjourney: Remove unused scenes by @wjt in #2041
GameState: Reduce initial lives to 2 ** 53 by @wjt in #2044
GameState: Persist current scene in global, not scene, state by @wjt in #2045
Remove interact_area.tscn by @wjt in #2042
teleporter: Use ResourceUID.ensure_path by @wjt in #2043
void_chromakey: Make the starfield scale-independent by @wjt in #2050
Improvements for Cinematic and SpawnPoint nodes by @manuq in #2051
CODEOWNERS: Add 5 more quests by @wjt in #2053
storybook: Refactor building list of authors by @wjt in #2054
Dialogue Manager: Update to v3.10.2 by @wjt in #2052
el ojo revelador: Recompress music at ~128kbps bitrate by @wjt in #2055

Full Changelog: v0.1.9...v0.1.10