A new way in

No new chapters this time. Instead I rebuilt the whole way you move through the game.

The menus used to be plain lists and tabs. They worked, but they never quite felt like they belonged to the same world as the writing. So I took everything apart and put it back together as one piece of clockwork. The title screen is an orrery now, a little arrangement of rings you turn to reach the stories, the codex, the rest. Choosing a story is a slow drift through a deck of cast portraits rather than a menu. And the Codex, which had grown into a pile of separate tabs, is a single instrument again: a map of the quiet connections between things, with reading plates for the lore and the people.

Most of the real work, though, was on phones, since that is where most of you actually read. The connections map pinches and zooms the way a map should. Long entries scroll instead of running off the edge. A handful of small layout traps that had been swallowing buttons on narrow screens are gone. None of it is flashy, but it is the difference between a thing that works and a thing that works without you noticing it.

There is also a quiet new convenience: you can sign in with Google from the title screen, and your progress will follow you between devices. Entirely optional. Your saves still live happily on your own device if you would rather keep them there.

The stories themselves are untouched. Hyunjae and Reine read exactly as they did, just inside a frame that finally feels like it was made for them. Liuyan is still on her way.

Thank you, as always, for being here.