Welcome to a new update post to Jasper and the City of Lights! Things are continuing slowly for now, but don’t worry, progress is being made and a big update is coming soon! I will not make promises about the time for the next update, but if you’re especially eager to try it out as early as possible, you should read on:

The Weasel Club recruitment program has started!

• Get access to the beta branch of Jasper, where updates are coming more often and way before they are made public to everyone else.
  
• Meet and discuss with us in a friendly and supportive environment. The Weasel Club is a community of artists, gamers and devs with an interest in cozy little adventures like Jasper.
  
• We are preparing ourselves for many cute ideas to bring to the Weasel Club, and you can shape its future with us! Take a look around and get inspired <3
  
• Join the Weasel Club on discord: https://discord.gg/27Ruhh284v
  

What else did we work on in the last months:

While we are preparing the next content update, we have compiled some quality-of-life updates to ship right away! Thank you again for the valuable feedback, almost all these changes and additions are thanks to you!

Here we go:

• We added a small animation to the area overlay and a whimsical sound. Also the overlay stays visible a little longer and is much better readable than before.

• Similarly we added animations to the subtitles and increased readability as well.

• Collecting postcards or pebbles now shows a popup, confirming that you really picked something up.
  

• Any collectables you collect are now represented with a small stamp in the Narrator’s book.
  

• We also added an overview of all the collectables within the current chapter, where you can check if you missed something.
  

• A confirmation popup will prevent you from accidentally skipping voice over by interacting with other items. You can interact again to skip to the new dialogue.
  

More tweaks and fixes:

• The guided camera mode is now much more pleasant (for example at the start of the game during the walking tutorial). It should now feel more like a gentle guidance instead of forcing you to look into a certain direction.
  
• Various places where you could walk through bushes, get stuck or climb stuff that’s not supposed to be climbable.
  
• Correct button prompts at the latnern
  
• Moved trigger for star crashite further back so you don’t miss the action
  
• Tweaked some fonts
  
• Updated some texts in the main menu and added links to the Weasel Club discord server
  
• Our store page got a little upgrade, hopefully it’s a little easier to grasp what Jasper is about :) We still need better screenshots, but that’s for the next update…