Hey everyone! Sorry it took me so long to get this update out-- It's mostly just adding a few finishing touches to the first demo, in the form of fixing a couple bugs and adding some difficulty options for added replayability.

Here's what's new:

• Difficulty Options (Customized Game)
  • You can now change the following settings when starting a customized game:
    • Enemy Health
    • Enemy Damage
    • Digestion Damage
    • Struggle Power
• Hardcore Modes (Customized Game)
  • There are now two "hardcore" Perma mode options when starting a customized game:
    • Choice 
      • (Default, works how the current game does with giving you a choice whether to accept a permavore scenario or to load a save)
    • Forced Perma
      • (Forces you to accept any permavore scenario when your character is digested. You will be teleported to a nearby save room, and the game will force a save-- No getting away from the consequences!)
    • True Perma
      • (Upon digestion, the game effectively ends. Whenever you load that save file from now on, you'll be greeted with an image of what became of you. You can also open the pause menu to read about your demise~)
      • NOTE: Only PERMA-CAPABLE preds will end your run. Slimes and the Mimic will behave as they do in normal games.

• Dialogue Updates
  • A couple new options have been added for the scenes with Vesper and Tanza, featuring new outcomes for Luna. These will be expanded upon to include other characters in the future.

Here's what bugs have been addressed:

• Budgie girls will no longer always spawn in with the blue color.
• Selecting "Tease Prey" as Lunalyn (with no permavores in the perma log) now correctly does nothing-- Before, it would crash the game because I'm a dumbass and forgot to properly disable it oops!

Hope you all enjoy the new difficulty options! I've been hard at work on the next area, the Palace Cistern. Supporters on Ko-Fi will be getting a taste of the area soon. I'll be releasing test builds exclusively for supporters and tippers, but once the area is all done, I will be releasing another free demo including it!