Hello everyone! I am super excited to announce that after all this time, a new update for "The best Master" is finally here.~
I hope you'll have fun with it! Here are the update notes: 

-You can now hold the "tab" key on the keyboard to skip dialogue MUCH quicker!

-Added Gift dialogue for nearly all items for every desire!

-Upon gifting a character an item, there will now be a graphic which shows you exactly how many points this item adds to your relationship with them. Every giftable item has a unique reaction too!

-Added Low HP and defeated menu sprites for every desire!

-Adjusted the controls slightly to avoid conflicting inputs

-From now on, you'll have to have visited every town at least once to be able to port to them!

-Added a cheat code to manipulate relationships with desires.

-The bar in Oleho's rich neighborhood now sells a few items! You need to talk to the bartender twice to be able to access the shop.

-A few recipes have been scattered everywhere! Those recipes are: Butter, Painted Egg

You can find recipes at ovens in people's houses. Not all of the recipes are included yet!

-Made world/room events more rare so that they don't pop up every few seconds

-Reworked the Happiness and Affection system to hopefully be less tedious, from now on every desire's mood should lower by 2 every 20 minutes; as soon as their mood reaches -20, their affection will lower by 2 every 10 minutes.

-Reworked graphics for the damage numbers to fit more into the game's theme + the HP gauges are now pink instead of orange/yellow

-From now on, if you have every desire that is available for the time and approach the gate, the gate will tell you that it's out of desires and you will get your exp back. This does NOT work on an already existing save file - you will have to stay away from the gate if you have all of them to avoid your game crashing! Let me know if there are any problems with it!

-Added Hitomi's and Vickey's dialogue to the "Lost daughter" quest during the final scene if you have either of them as your first desire.

-Milk can now be dropped from Cow desires

-The chances for Bull desires to drop horns have been upped from 1/10 to 1/3

-Added a Diary; The diary will be automatically added to your important inventory upon download/update. With the diary, you can check now where you will find your next main story quest.

-The quest letters can be tapped from now on to view information about your next objective. If you're stuck or haven't played for a while, check the letter!

-From now on Maya will ask you at the start of the game if you want only males, only females or both. This preference is always changeable when talking to Anna at the gate!

-Added all the current desires to be able to be set as favorite in your mansion room.

-Attempted to make the walking sprites of the characters look a lot more like their expression sprite counterparts. Unfortunately I have no talent for pixel art, so they aren't perfect, but I believe they look a lot better now, ha ha!

-Switched around the entrances to Shawn's house and the rich lady's house. It's always been a little mistake on my part since Shawn was originally going to live in the southern house in puzzle and the rich lady in the northern house. I kept forgetting to switch it and now it's finally right, ha ha.

-A 4th floor has been added to the mansion!

-Added a new desire! There is no real quest to this one, it's more of a secret desire, but for the ones who want to know, here's how you get to them: You NEED to have finished at least the 6th quest ("Mysterious Virus", the quest to recruit Xora) to trigger this event. Go to the 4th floor of the mansion and enter one of the rooms. It has to be a specific room to trigger the event! And it has to be evening for it to work!

-Added a few new world/room events. 

New world events: 

     -the Kraken and the pirate

New room events: 

     -An objective

     -Innocent pranks

-Upgraded Succula's sprite cause it had been bothering me for a while. I'd like to upgrade many of the others as well, but I feel like it would be pointless if my art style improves in the next few months again, so I'd like to wait with that a little, ha ha.

-Made the stairs in the mansion a little less easy to run into. ...Not easy to explain what exactly I mean with that, but I think you'll see when you use them.

-4 outfits for the male character are now available for the female character and 2 outfits from the female character are now available for the male character!

-Every desire now has reactions to all your outfits. The outfit reactions are triggered when using the "chat" option with your desire in the mansion. 

-Most of the desires have a favorite outfit, which will give you slightly more affection points with them when you interact with them, wearing the outfit. So far, Vickey and Haori are the only ones without a favorite.

-Added some of the google drive ideas for dialogue! So special thanks to the community for providing those! If you'd also like to contribute to the characters' chat dialogues, here's the link to the google drive document:
TBM Suggestions – Google Drive

Otherwise, you can also just join our discord server and go to the "player participation" channel in the "game participation" section!

-I've also added a few new dialogues myself! Plus, every desire should now have enough dialogues that a dialogue will now always show up whenever you chat with them. No more instant conversation end after choosing that option!

-The "favorite desire" ID has been updated. What this means for you is that, if you had set a favorite desire in your room in the mansion on the table, you should set it again, so that the new ID can read that desire as your favorite! I highly recommend setting a favorite, as it opens a few additional dialogues that you wouldn't get otherwise! 

-Added a small overlay in the top right corner that shows up when someone comments on your outfit. This is to make it more clear what the desires are commenting on right now.

-Some interactable objects now sparkle, to show that you can interact with them! It is still recommended to always check around though, since not all of them sparkle!

-When selling a desire to the slave market, your morals will now take a hit.

-Areen, Hitomi, Vickey, Nik and the new desire now change menu sprites when you equip them the "bunny outfit"!

-From now on you can check the exact state of your morals at the church in Camico.

-There are new ways for you to change your morals now, including some hidden ways! Can you find all of them?

-There is one character in the game that you should be familiar with, which now has a relationship variable. Their interaction has been entirely reworked and you are able to gift them now, talk to them, etc. Their dialogue will also change depending on your relationship status with them. Can you tell who it is?~

-When a desire is now affected by a status, they will have a unique reaction when you talk to them in their room! The same goes for if you are affected by a state!

-Two new enemies have been added onto the worldmap as a possible encounter: Nekomata and Rats! You can find the nekomata near Nodrya and the rats near the trials cave.

-Several items that haven't been obtainable before are now obtainable in several ways! I advise you to check some of the shops again! (including Eeliyah's shop in mundae!)

Other items are also available in other ways. Here are some examples:

     -Once per day, you can now get a banana from the fridge in the dining room of Areen's kingdom.

     -Similar to that, there is a house in Oleho's rich neighborhood in which you can steal one out of 6 food items per day. (Be aware that it              will lower your morals though!)

     -There is now a low chance that you can obtain a Diamond Pearl or a Mother Oyster when fishing.

-The furniture shop in Pallymore now has another buy section which is for giftable items! It doesn't have many items yet, but there are some available already, maybe you'd like to try giving these to someone?...

-Added a brand new location - Dangoyan! 

-A few recipes available from Pallymore's restaurant have now been switched over to Dangoyan's café since it made more sense.

-Added a few reactions to the orders in Pallymore's restaurant and Dangoyan's café! If you order something that a desire of yours likes, you'll get double the points! This only works for 4 desires so far though, since they are the only ones who have liked dishes there yet.

-Added a workaround for the dreamscape scenes for players who these scenes keep crashing for. It's definitely not the best workaround, I am aware of that, but for now it is unfortunately all I can give you. I will continue to figure out a fix for this problem and until I have, I will not be adding any more dreamscape scenes to the game to keep it playable.

-Fang and Wooly now have a reaction if their brother is being sold to the slavery market.

-In this update, there are many "unrecruitable characters". Some of them you will be able to recruit in the future, some not. What's special about them though is that you can still heavily interact with them! They also have a relationship variable and are absolutely as much dateable as your desires are. However, I've tested a new system with them that I really like. Every 200 relationship points with them, their greeting, goodbye message, flirting dialogue and reaction to sex will change! Two new chat dialogues are also added at 1000 (for some at 1500!) points and one new dialogue at 2000 points for most characters. This is a system I am planning to add as well to all of the desires in the next update. I felt it would take too long to still add it in this one. I hope you'll enjoy this new way of interacting with characters! I find it adds a lot more meaning to relationship levels and I hope you feel so as well! 

-Added a brand new feature: The phone! Let me explain. So far, it is not fully implemented yet, you are not able to send messages, call someone or send pictures yourself. But you are already able to receive messages from characters! Messages always come with a photo! To be able to receive messages, you need the number of that character. Your desires as well as the "unrecruitable characters" have numbers - yet it is on you to find out how to receive someone's number!~ This feature will definitely be expanded upon in the future and more and more  messages, calls and other secret features will be added! Here is a list of how many messages there are in the game so far, so that you don't have to spend too long to find them all if you plan to!

     1 Rascal message (Available above 1600 points)

     3 Ray messages (One of them only available above 400 points, another only available above 600 points)

     1 Rexton message

     1 Ganabi message

     2 Tyler messages (One of them only available at above 600 points)

     2 Chalice messages (One of them only available above 1500 points)

     1 Solemn message

     1 Shawn message

     1 Nik message (Only available at night time)

     1 Haori message

     1 Alex message

-Added some new title screens to the game! Upon starting the game, a random title screen will now pop up! I'll be adding more to that in the future! So far, there are 6 new possible images that can pop up. Thanks to Satan from the discord server for recommending the plugin to me!~ 

-A new kind of shop has been added to Pallymore!

-When going into the menu, you might now notice a section called "achievements"!~

-The mansion now has a new room which is right next to the elevator! Check it out and see what it's for!

-Attempted to make the world more "lively" by doing more with the day/night system. There will definitely be more to this in the future!

-Sometimes when having a certain weather condition, you cannot encounter any enemies. I am not quite sure yet what causes this bug, but until I've figured it out, there is now an option in the cheats menu under "reset & settings" that's called "turn on enemy encounters". If you ever find that you are unable to encounter enemies, please switch this option on again! It should fix it.

-You can now adjust the speed of the world events and room events in the settings menu under "adjust events"!

-Plus a few more surprises that I'd like you to discover yourselves!~ <3

BUG FIXES:

-fixed bug that would let you start the middle of Xora's quest when you have the bullhorn.

-fixed bug that would make happiness of desires decay that you haven't gotten yet.

-fixed bug that would make the low hp menu sprites not show up/show up too often! It should finally work as intended now.

-Fixed bug that would immediately give a gameover to Areen's dreamscape.

-Fixed bug that would let you enter the throne room before the 5th trial.

Special thanks to Satan from our discord server! She's been very helpful and has given me great advice more than once~

And also special thanks to the community! I'm really touched by how wonderful and supportive you all are, ha ha. I couldn't be more proud of you than I am! The love for the game was really overwhelming in the past few months and it made me really happy which also has boosted my motivation yet again to work hard on this update. 

I hope you have a lot of fun with the new update and enjoy the content that is waiting for you.~ 

I will continue to work on the game, however please keep in mind that I am not fully healthy yet and the hiatus is still ongoing, so a proper schedule or update deadline is not possible to determine at the moment. Updates are very likely to be coming out a lot slower than they've been before the hiatus.

And for the end - I just wanted to inform you that I now have a patreon! It took a while for me to set it up and I didn't want to make it public before new content was coming out.

Supporting me on patreon is not a must by any means, please keep that in mind! 

On the patreon I will post as many TBM related artworks (or other TBM related content) as I am able to, but I will also upload these to a later point to the discord server's "official art" channel.

The only things that will stay exclusive to the patreon will be teasers for upcoming content and patreon exclusive polls.

Here is the link! https://www.patreon.com/Yokubo

If you feel more comfortable on Ko-fi, I also have a page there now! https://ko-fi.com/yokubogames 

I will be working on the next update right away to provide even more content! Thank you for being the wonderful community that you are and I hope you'll continue enjoying "The best Master".~
Love, Yokubo