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Update Notes for March 24, 2025. Join our Mailing List!

1:38pm

There's a link to sign up to our mailing list[buttondown.com] on the main menu. We've started working on something new, and if you're interested in finding out when we have something to announce, the easiest way is to join our email list. We promise not to email you very often!
Fixes an issue where the game could crash while using OBS/Streaming under some circumstances.
Fixed text on a magazine that didn't make sense, given its date.
Fixed some invalid punctuation.
Changed some text that indicated someone was born with an alias, which they weren't.

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Update Notes for Mar 21, 2025

21 Mar

- Fixed a bug where "Search All Periodicals" would miss some Periodicals sometimes in Roottreemania.
- Fixed an incorrect date for a magazine
- Updated the newspaper image to fix a mistake
- Updated a lot of text to clean up punctuation and other mistakes.
- Other typos on evidence and search results

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Patch Notes for March 11, 2025

11 Mar

This patch only contains fixes for typos and other text that was incorrect or misleading.

Thanks to our eagle-eyed investigators for pointing these out!

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Patch Notes for Mar 3, 2025

5 Mar

New Rain effects! In Roottreemania, the intro now has a soothing rain visual/audio effect. It will also rain at random times throughout your mystery.
A new music track added! This one is an easter egg.
Fixes an issue where you could lock in an invalid portrait for the final person in The Roottrees are Dead.
Fixed bad cropping of one of the newly updated portraits.
Fixes several more typos. Thanks to our eagle eyed players for hunting them down.

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Update for Febrary 26, 2025

26 Feb

This update changes the look of The Roottree Sisters (and our logos and key art, etc. - Trailer will be updated soon) The original piece was the first one illustrated for the game, and over the development we learned more about what we wanted the style to look like and got more comfortable working with our artist. Hopefully it's not too weird to swap it out, but I think most people will prefer the new art!
We've added some extra clues and minor artwork changes to differentiate between two siblings that people had trouble with.
There's a new visual clue in a couple pieces of art to help identify a family member who appears in a group photo.
Also, some other minor visual touch ups to a few other pieces of art.
Fixes a typo in a series of adventure novels
More tweaks to allow for game translations.

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Update Notes for February 24, 2025

24 Feb

- FIX: Uses a new approach to temporary files to hopefully make save files more robust when using aggressive virus scanners
- FIX: Uses more complete Godot builds which might help compatibility for some people.
- FIX: Cursor keys moved between evidence when in the notebook and editing text.
- FIX: Pressing a button on the main menu in 16:10 had a black box behind it
- UX: More tweaks for non-English language support
- Fixes one "occurence" of a typo. Get it? It should have been "occurrence."

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Update Notes for February 20, 2025

20 Feb

- This build adds some safety to game threading code, to try and help out with an issue that some players are having where their saves are corrupted.
- It also contains some basic scaffolding for other language support (coming soon!)
- Finally, fixes exactly 1 typo.

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Update Notes for February 17, 2025

17 Feb

Just a small update today with some small fixes.

Removed some background details from a couple illustrations in Roottreemania that brought dates into question.
Improved the game's Danish by adding a ø - if this didn't count as a typo there would be none!
Fixed a bug where the mouse cursor would turn to the hourglass while changing settings
Fixed a bug where you could swap extra portraits for prefilled family tree entries in Roottreemania, and end up with a locked in ? icon. Now you can't do that anymore (it was the easiest fix.)

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Update Notes for February 13, 2025

13 Feb

FEATURE: You can now add up to 20 pages in your notebook. It turns out some of our players are absolutely sickos for note taking and I wanted to enable that behavior.
FEATURE: You can choose the locked in portrait for a person. Click on an extra portrait and it'll swap.
FEATURE: You can now search Periodicals from the pop-up menu in the browser, evidence, or notebook. By default, this will pre-fill the "Keywords" box with what you highlighted and allow you to choose the periodical from the dropdown to search it. If you have "Search All" Periodicals enabled, though, it will automatically do that.
UX: Copy was missing from the notebook popup menu. It's in there now.
UX: Slightly nicer formatting for checkboxes that have descriptions in settings.
FIX: On a 16:10 screen, with the notebook open, the PC screen was cut off somewhat.
And, of course...

There once was a writer so keen,
Whose fingers were quick and lean,
But try as he might,
Many words weren't right,
Typos danced all over the screen!

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Update Notes for February 11, 2025

11 Feb

- New setting to enable searching "All Periodicals": This is a much requested feature but also makes some puzzles easier, so it is defaulted to off. Players who find it frustrating to search every periodical for the same thing can turn it on and search much faster.
- New setting to disable intuition: This is a for hardcore detectives who want no leads at all. It's default off.
- Settings has now been split into several screens. It was too much to fit on one screen!
- Fixed a bug where the Newspaper on the title screen looked bad on a 16:10 screen.
- Fixed a bug where the Zoom +/- buttons were visible during cutscenes.
- Would this even be an update without any typo fixes?

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