AoC v0.40.0 - The Garden Update

The Garden Update

There are plenty of visual and quality of life upgrades but this time the main focus of the update was definitely content.

4 new cases have been added concluding the first proper storyline in the town of Windermere!

There will be fallout from this storyline and all of the factions are in the end interconnected, but still, the Garden storyline stands on its own feet in its current state.

Will the Garden be wiped out or revolt against the Compromise? 

Or will everything settle down back into the awkward status quo?

That will be decided by your Adjudications.

Cases:

Ominous Orchard

Ravaged Remnants 

Ironroot Insurrection 

Jagged Judgement

I won't go more into the contents of the cases as it would very much spoil everything.

One unfortunate consequence of there not being other long storylines yet, is that after the player finishes the Garden arc, there might not be any more cases left, so the player will not get to read the aftermath of his choices in the papers of the next day as the game ends prematurely...

The event tree with redacted names:

Other Updates:

The Case file can now be seen on the table and can be clicked to go back to the case file from the interrogation menu.
Images on the evidence pages have been resized to match the pixel density of other objects.
Some sprites have been redrawn.
Some dialogue has been rewritten.
Some Adjudication options have been reworked.
Some articles have been rewritten
Some glossary entries have been expanded.

More to come:

I will eventually dive into the next storyline.
But first, my plan is to do a lot of fleshing out the existing content.
-Glossary needs more entries. Example: There's plenty of lore in my head about the Tomte and the Holy Knights but neither even have an entry in the lore book.
-Much more articles are needed. Currently the Newspapers run out of content on almost every playthrough. There should be enough articles to last even the edge case playthroughs.
-Need to make more petitions. I want it to be that someone would have to play the game 10 times to finally see a duplicate petition.
-More items and curses/blessings. There are only a few of these at the moment. I should also think hard on whether or not I should make it more clear to the player what these things actually do or if I should leave it as an obscure mystery.

In any case.

Thanks for playing! Thanks for giving feedback! And much more to come.