HalOPE has been out for about two months now! The response is larger than I could have anticipated-- The game had reached 1k downloads a month into its lifetime. A thousand downloads is a milestone I had never reached before, despite releasing games for almost four years now, so it was really surprising to reach that in such a short amount of time!! This isn't even to mention the various videos, streams, and pieces of fanart that have cropped up. I look at all of it at least once a day to be honest, it makes me very happy. Thank you so much!

I'd also like to announce the arrival of version 1.5. It doesn't change anything very grand but I think the bugs I've been so annoyed by will finally be gone...? Hopefully...? I actually originally wanted this update to be a bit bigger but I think I'm still too burnt out from the original release to add anything new. In any case, i'll attach the patch notes to the end of this post.

One more tiny announcement; the game's OST is uploaded on soundcloud! This is a low quality upload, I just took the files directly from the game for this, so some of them are very loud or quiet in comparison to each other. I have plans to do a fancier release with better mixing and some unused tracks thrown in as an extra treat, but that's gonna have to wait a bit longer.

And now, here are the changes in this version:

• Fixed bug in Chapter 2 where you could speak to the piano player during his sliding animation and still be counted as interrupting him. (EDIT: I've been told this is still an ongoing issue, apparently) 
• Fixed bug in Chapter 2 where the item menu would not properly be re-enabled if you had been caught during the Landlord chase segment. 
• Fixed a small typo in Chapter 3. 
• Once again tried to make Chapter 3 a bit more consistent in regards to "passing time". There may be some bugs with this if you bring in a save that was in the middle of the chapter in Version 1.4 or earlier. Saves from the very beginning of Ch3 should be okay, i think. 
• Fixed bug in Chapter 5 where, in Mother's introductory cutscene, her "getting up" sprite wouldn't play & some dialogue was skipped if the requirements for the fourth ending were met. Originally the endings were going to split off within this cutscene & i forgot to fix the dialogue tree to account for this being cut.
• Fixed bug where the Compass would erroneously point downwards in an area relating to the fourth ending. No secrets there, just bad code.
• Enabled ability to fast forward through the credits of the main two endings (the third one does not have a credits sequence to skip through). The fourth ending credits have stayed the same for now.