A Neon Fallacy

New Gameplay / Systems - Expanded Central Slums side-business systems with buy-ins, setup routes, daily ledgers, weekly pressure events, managers, and business dashboard summaries. - Added clearer bodega ownership progression, partner actions, business previews, and heat/stock pressure. - Added Uncle Jay property-route content, including first favor and safe-room progression. - Added Mara/real-estate hooks for future property and district expansion. - Added numeric stat requirement feedback across missions, jobs, repeatable events, business actions, and blockers. - Added hygiene as a short-term condition stat capped at 100, with decay and low-hygiene social blocking.Story / Missions - Added second-wave and third-wave housemate missions for Naomi, Melinda, and Christian. - Added support story intros/content for Melody, Lucia, Caroline, Anita, and Shannon. - Improved mission log readability with clearer current steps, location guidance, blocker hints, and save/load reliability. - Rewrote and tightened early intro/opening text for clearer character motivation and flow.Apartment / Relationship / Privacy - Upgraded keyhole/peek presentation away from the old placeholder look. - Added apartment privacy interactions, including Dex reacting while watching valid peek media. - Added bathroom entry behavior, including safer relationship/intimacy paths and risky barge-in paths. - Improved relationship guardrails so Dex no longer gains hidden intimacy stats from automatic/off-screen relationship events. - Reduced runaway jealousy/rivalry pressure, especially cases where high romance and high rivalry could block intimacy progression. - Expanded Naomi/Melinda room-visit and peek media routing.Adult / NTR / NTS Content - Added three new Naomi/Melinda NTS/NTR room-visit video variants. - Expanded encouraged/rival room visits so outcomes can escalate from private time to kissing, oral, or sex depending on relationship pressure. - Isolated NPC room-visit media from ordinary bedroom peeks so private/NTR/NTS content only appears in the correct context. - Added/queued adult media support for room visits, peep show, motel, Naomi, Melinda, and Dex private-time loops.Repeatable Events / Daily Play - Expanded repeatable event density across apartment, bodega, street, motel, laundromat, peep show, and other everyday locations. - Added proactive NPC pursuit/event beats so the city feels less static. - Improved repeatable-event UI handling for still images and supported video fallbacks. - Added business media pools for Cheap Motel, Peep Show, and motel cleanup loops. - Improved hustle/minigame presentation and readability.Art / Media - Added or updated 584 runtime images and 8 runtime videos since v0.0.2. - Current v0.0.3 candidate contains 1,038 images and 29 videos. - Expanded public-facing support cast art and visitor coverage. - Added/updated assets for laundromat, dive bar, alley/street, neighborhood support cast, and premium-story characters. - Added Melody and Lucia intro support and full-body cutout slots. - Continued OGV/video runtime support for in-game media.UI / Fixes / Polish - Fixed apartment/room social panel text overlap. - Fixed bodega regulars feedback layout collisions. - Fixed laundromat sort text overlap. - Fixed room preview caption overflow. - Fixed alley and bodega repeat-click/action delay issues. - Fixed room-visit peek/knock feedback readability. - Fixed apartment exterior phone HUD visibility. - Fixed missing/mismatched portrait/resource paths found during the release sweep. - Improved UI overflow handling across menus, ledgers, mission details, location panels, and repeatable event cards. - Improved player-facing blocker messages for money, energy, items, relationship progress, hygiene, and stat requirements.Build Notes - Windows build now ships as EXE + PCK. Extract both files into the same folder before launching. - Keeping the PCK separate reduced the Windows archive size to about 284 MB, over 50% smaller than the previous Windows archive despite the larger media library. - macOS build is also available as a complete app bundle. - macOS build is unsigned/unnotarized, so Mac users may need to right-click the app and choose Open on first launch.Known Notes - District map overhaul is planned for later and is not part of v0.0.3. - Some future direct private-scene and business-loop media is already queued but not fully built out yet. - Caroline Moretti premium-story cutout still needs additional polish.