A Neon Fallacy v0.02 Alpha

This is the first public alpha and is focused on testing the opening hour.

The most useful feedback is about blockers and clarity:

• Did you know what to do in the first 10 minutes?
• Did the DexPhone make sense?
• Did any mission get stuck?
• Did save/load work properly?
• Did any location or scene show missing art?
• Did money, energy, or rent create an unfair softlock?

Alpha saves are not guaranteed to work across future builds.

v0.02 Alpha : First Foothold

• Major expansion to early-game content and pacing.
• Added new housemate mission chains for Naomi, Melinda, Christian, and Uncle Jay.
• Added introductory missions for Caroline Moretti, Anita Velvet, and Shannon Valen.
• Added Mara Vale as a new real-estate contact for future apartment/business content.
• Expanded bodega ownership and business systems.
• Added early buy-in hooks for other Central Slums businesses.
• Reworked bodega management with clearer day-to-day business metrics and feedback.
• Added repeatable early-game events with cooldown balancing.
• Added deeper NPC social systems, including NPC conversations, relationship movement, attraction, rivalry, dating, and room invite behavior.
• Added apartment privacy interactions: knock, peek, leave note, and room visit handling.
• Added new phone systems, including improved phone visuals, contacts/messages/feed/pulse style features, and cleaner relationship/social summaries.
• Added collectibles and art finds that can appear in Dex’s room or art folder.
• Added/updated 100 images and 14 runtime videos this build.
• Current runtime media totals: 682 images and 18 runtime videos.
• Added new intro video flow, developer splash/logo, and adult content age warning.
• Reworked the Central Slums district map using the new asset-built map system.
• Improved map pins, map centering, and location readability.
• Improved many UI layouts to reduce overlap, overflow, and scrollbar reliance.
• Fixed multiple NPC presence issues where characters were listed at locations but not visible/interactable.
• Fixed several mission flow, button result, stat tracking, and relationship reporting issues.
• Added Web and macOS export support alongside Windows.
• Release builds now exclude dev tools and the city builder.
• Reduced build size by removing legacy unused map assets from active exports.

v0.01 Alpha

• Opening story sequence.
• Apartment introduction.
• DexPhone with Missions and Bag apps.
• First Week Route guide.
• Save, load, and continue from the main menu.
• Starter missions:
• Sal's first-shift chain.
• Naomi: Lost Notebook.
• Melinda: Old Jacket.
• Christian: Secret Tournament.
• Apartment Inspection.
• First-visit intro scenes for current city locations.
• Early city exploration.
• Early cash, energy, and rent pressure systems.
• Starter inventory support.
• Mission start/end interlude images.
• Private scene media coverage for current alpha relationship content.
• Adult-content age confirmation screen.

UNTESTED ON MAC