Please Be Happy 1.2
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Hello, everyone!
Please Be Happy 1.2 has just been released, which fixes a few issues and makes various user experience and performance improvements.
Not too much has changed on the surface, but the game has undergone significant technical changes internally in 1.2 for a better experience now and into the future.
As always, thank you for continuing to support Studio Élan!
〜 Karen/あけみ (akemin_dayo) and adirosa
Changelog for 1.2:
On PC, it targets Unity SDK version 2021.3.33f1.
- Improved ED video and audio quality.
- Made further improvements to general performance.
- Made improvements to the Episode Replay feature.
- The current version of the game is now shown at the top-left corner of the main menu.
- The main menu can now always be closed in every context (as opposed to only when ingame) using Escape, Right Click (MOUSE2), or the configured cancel button on a controller.
- The quick menu can now be shown and hidden using Backspace or R3 on a controller.
- The CG gallery viewer can now be controlled using a keyboard or controller.
- Escape (keyboard) or the configured cancel button (controller) closes the CG viewer.
- H (keyboard) or Triangle / Top Button (controller) hides the UI.
- [ ] (keyboard) or L1 and R1 (controller) flips between pages, if applicable.
- Fixed an issue where the Extras → Gallery screen would sometimes show the contents of the Credits screen instead, if a very specific set of steps were taken.
- Fixed some minor UI layout issues.
- Worked around a Unity bug that would cause the game to run locked at 30 FPS on certain system configurations.
- Worked around a Unity bug that causes VSync to sometimes become momentarily disabled under certain circumstances, resulting in a spike of elevated GPU utilisation as a result of drawing frames at over 5000(!) FPS for a brief period of time.
Very technical information for modders, dataminers, and anyone else who may be interested
- Scene scripts are currently still left in serialised binary format. This will change in a future update.
- A new preferences file was added: ${Unity persistent data path}/com.vnstudioelan.pleasebehappy.json
- PBH 1.2 is the largest update so far in terms of the number of non-external-user-facing internal changes — large portions of the code have been rewritten and/or refactored, and a whole lot of new code was written, too. Additionally, 1.2 also finished porting over everything that’s useful in Unity / C# from the shared Python codebase used by our Ren’Py games.
- Much like Ren’Py, you can now call arbitrary method selectors using the developer console command
@performSelector ExampleClass.exampleMethod withArgs:"optionalExample1","example2"
- Shorthand form is
@p a:
- (※ This is mostly only useful for testing purposes during development, and is also far less powerful than its Ren’Py counterpart. Any relevant output is written to
Player.log
.)
- Shorthand form is
- Some of you may have noticed that partial controller support was quietly added in 1.1.2. Please note that UI menus are still not yet navigable using a keyboard or controller.
- While support for controller prompts in the UI (including in the help screen) has been added, it is not yet exposed as a user-facing option, and currently requires a restart of the game to take effect if manually enabled either via editing the preference file mentioned above, or via the developer console.
- This also applies to the confirmation button preference, which is currently not functional beyond just affecting the controller prompts UI.
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Please Be Happy
A healing yuri visual novel about home and happiness.
Status | Released |
Author | Studio Élan |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Tags | Anime, Fantasy, Female Protagonist, Lesbian, LGBT, Relaxing, Romance, Slice Of Life, Story Rich, Yuri |
Languages | English |
Accessibility | Subtitles, One button |
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- Dec 5 Update - Build 1.1Dec 05, 2022
- Nov 23 Update - Build 1.03Nov 23, 2022
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Please, update to 1.2 the GOG version, is still on 1.1!
Thank you!