Ruin Me 0.55.0: A Public Display

Hi, perverts! There's a new release of Ruin Me, adding a new graduation sequence and other improvements. The new public version has a new horror expedition and is now available to play on the web!

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EDIT: Version 0.54.2 fixes an exception when serving Theresa at breakfast.

Version 0.55.0-p is for $2+ patrons and adds:

• A new graduation option for Theresa, "A Public Display", which unlocks when Theresa's stats are all at 4 and begins by talking to Theresa in her chambers. This option is available instead of the orgy or the private gathering, and is the final graduation option. This involves spending a day touring the town with Theresa and has various options:
  • You select a dynamic for the day: you and Theresa show off together, you have group sex with Theresa, you watch Theresa have sex, or you and Theresa submit to the townsfolk.
  • You select an approach for the day: you are performing a strange mystical festival, you are staging an elaborate contest, or you are getting drunk all day. Each approach has additional choices associated with it.
  • You choose the sequence of stops for your tour through town. Each approach has one exclusive stop that you can choose.
• Three new, very revealing outfits for Theresa, each one matching one of the types of festival you can run. These become available to purchase from the Tailor for Ken after any graduation is complete.
• An overhaul of the mobile quick buttons (Back, Hide, Menu, Skip). They should now be much easier to tap, especially on phones with rounded edges. I welcome feedback on the new style!
• Updates to many of Theresa's poses, including better shading and an adjustment for the boob window on the cheongsam outfit to show off her chest freckles.
• Another revision to Cathy's art. Her shirt is no longer held closed by magic, but by normal buttons (and a lot of confidence).
• Many minor enhancements and fixes.

Version 0.54.1 is out for everyone for free and adds:

• "The Nostalgic Conjugation" horror expedition, featuring unreliable memories, nightmares of strange words, and a petrifying well. It's available in Act II after a series of new nightmares; if you already have a save, you will begin dreaming of your true past the next time you would have a nightmare. It will take a few dreams for the expedition to get added to your journal.
• A web release of the game, available at: https://phanes.itch.io/ruin-me Patrons have access via a private link on my website.
• The new option to choose the order in which Theresa can be trained in penetrative sex. If you wish, you can teach her anal sex at Permissivity 3 and save vaginal sex for Experience 4, reversing their positions in the curriculum.
• Adjustments to several requirements to account for doing Theresa's training in either order. This involved rearranging the Play menu, possibly changing what scenes you have access to.
•  A new-style interaction menu for Cathy at the docks, including new casual chat options.
• An improvement so that picking up a package from Cathy no longer makes time pass.
• Nightmares for expeditions are now acquired differently. In general, nightmares play in the order in which they were "gained." Previously, you would gain one "prophecy" nightmare when an expedition started and one "echo" when it ended. Now, you will gain all "prophecy" nightmares for an Act when that Act starts, to make it more likely that you see them before the expedition. No other nightmares have been changed, and players with saves in progress shouldn't notice any differences until they reach a new Act.
• An improvement to how nomenclature is tracked and stored. This should have no visible consequences. If you notice any errors or words in [brackets], please let me know!
• A flag so that you are only asked once if you want to skip nighttime check-ins. This occurs at some point when you haven't checked on Theresa in at least five nights in a row. You can still turn this prompt on and off by talking to Theresa about night-time liberties during the day in her chambers.
• An enhancement to the first step of Theresa's training in exhibitionism: if you have her squat, her art will now change.
• Sound effects for updating your journal.
• Improved formatting for the changelog accessible from the main menu.
• Assorted minor fixes and enhancements.

If you sign up to be my patron at the $2/month level or higher, you get access to new builds as soon as they're done, plus the Reminisce feature that lets you replay old sex scenes without the trouble of rollback or save games. $5/month patrons also get access to a special cheat menu and the ability to submit requests! The current latest version will be available to everyone once the next patron-only build is up. If you want to contribute to the game's development, please become a supporter on Patreon!