🔧 Devlog Update April 20, 2025

• Implemented custom in-game phone UI with layered design (background, HUD bar, app icons, glass overlay)

• Integrated “Yet Another Phone for Ren’Py” and extended it with notification-based message flow

• Added contact list screen that only displays unlocked/active conversations

• Messenger app now shows blue dot for new messages and highlights contacts with unread content

• Clicking a contact launches NVL-style message flow using the existing system

• Created visual assets: messenger icons, contact frames with profile images, NULLwave HUD bar etc.

Lots of photoshop fun the last few days! But the results are pretty good I think, and functionally its pretty awesome. I was pretty far along writing my own solution for the messenger app, but the flow/look of "yet another phone for ren'py" was better/more simple than my implementation. So i've basically taken the best parts of that and put it into mine.

I'll be changing the phone 'skin' in the coming months as well as redoing the icons but here is a tease of the WIP phone stuff which is all currently implemented in game.
At this rate I think ill have 0.1.0 out sometime this week.

Thanks for being a part of the journey <3 More soon.

— redacted_null