Butthole Tattoo Artist Simulator

v0.2.2

• Become a test subject at the re-education clinic downtown. You'll formally meet Farrah, a semi-burned out educator who happens to be one of your protesters. You can access this scene by selecting the flyer on the bench once the protest starts. (Or use the New Scenes Only Mode! More on that below)
• Farrah visits the shop.
• Revised Ice Cream scene with Rosa.
• Restructured game logic: Before, characters showed up to the parlor on specific days. Now, most of them are triggered by specific choices of actions. For example, to get Rosa to show up, in the revised ice cream scene, Leo has to order an ice cream sandwich from her, which will...peak her interest. And Cass will not show unless you attend her rally and make a particular choice.
• Stats! Leo's stats now include Brand Awareness, money, and Strength! This should help make things a little clearer. When you trigger a character's arrival for example, Leo receives a brand awareness token. When a character comes into the parlor for a tattoo, a brand awareness token is spent. (Maybe it should have a different name instead of brand awareness now, hmm.) You might be able to guess how to build the strength stat (the weights in the shop). At the moment there is not use for strength, but there will be!
• 5 new stencils including such timeless masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Scream!
• New Scenes Only mode: Building this was a helpful step toward having a proper gallery of scenes. It'll jump you to new stuff so you don't have to replay everything.

Fixed:

• The election day countdown wasn't working before. For any fellow RenPy users, I'll have you know sometimes changing game states within a screen just doesn't work. I simply had to move some code into a label. If only all debugging was so easy.

Known Issues:

• In the process of revamping the tattoo system, it got temporarily worse! It seems to be okay as long as you drag a tattoo stencil before picking up the tool., meaning don't make rotation or scale your last action before tatting. Multiple tats with rotation might not work. Ah! It's embarrassing, but it should be all good and much better by the next update
• I haven't fixed the Mac version bug during tattoo sessions.
• Adding custom tattoos using PNGs still doesn't work.
• v.0.2.1
• The second act of the fantasy arc is here. After visiting the mysterious structure on the hill, and attempting to go there a second time even though it's just ruins, Pat will give a visit to the tattoo parlor and reveal a secret or two. Plus she patronizes the shop.
• Allison's second camgirl webshow. In case you aren't aware, you access her show from the selfservice app on Leo's tablet. This marks the first animation in the game that I've used Moho to animate. Moho is a professional animation software that has been used to make a bunch of Oscar-nominated films. It's been a bit of work getting the hang of it, but I'm liking it so far.
• The take a photo button has had a glow up.
• Las Nalgas' cobblestone road! I'm probably more excited about this one than anybody else. The old cobblstone road was just a perspective warped image. Now it's actually 3D modeled.

Fixed:

• Not exactly a fix but a change is that I made the default brush size much bigger for working on the stencils. I imagine most players want to do that part quickly and aren't trying to be precise. You can still choose a smaller nib size if you do need precision, however.
• v.0.2.0
• First Fantasy genre scene - after selecting Fantasy at the library, the hyper palace becomes available to select as an afternoon activity. Setting this up took awhile because the hyper palace (plus ruins) were 3D modeled in Blender and I'm not much of an architect but hey I think it turned out pretty well.
• RPG Elements - Brand awareness and money are now tracked, making it more clear when you are paid and how much you need to make rent.
• 5 new tattoo stencils (53 in total)
• NOTE: The save directory has been changed to "BTAS". I realized it needed to be a name that works for both the NSFW and the SFW versions of the game, so that if someone who has started the SFW version wants to upgrade, they can continue their playthrough. Unfortunately, that means that this version won't play your old saves. Sorry about that.