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October changed how play feels on HoloArcade. One message can now reach up to five characters, a move can last a night, three days or for good, and characters overhear what is said around them. Here is the tour.

Several characters at once

Select up to five characters in a scene and your message goes to all of them. Each one answers in turn, in their own words.

The character view shows the group side by side under "All". The arrows beside the name step through each character alone.
A moment still belongs to one character: "Whose moment?" lets you choose whose picture, voice or video to make.
The model picker shows what the message costs: the price of one reply times the number of characters selected.

Characters who travel with you

A move can now last: overnight, for three days, or for good. Say it in your message, or set it in the form that comes with a character's suggestion.
"Ask to move" in the message box lets you pick the place and how long yourself. The character answers in character, and may say no.
Skip time: move your save's date forward by days, weeks, months or years.

Characters who know what they were told

Every character now keeps track of the relationships they know about, and acts on those alone. What is said in a scene is learned by everyone who was there: announce an engagement at dinner and the whole table knows, while the character in the next room has no idea yet.

Two people can share several relationships at once: a coworker with a crush, a sibling who is a rival at work.
A new Met Before step says which characters already know the player when the story starts.
Characters roleplay gender identity, pronouns and attraction more truthfully. Who they are drawn to is a preference, so not every flirt lands. Nobody knows someone's pronouns until they are told, and a character may mind being called by the wrong ones.

Several characters at once

Select up to five characters in a scene and your message goes to all of them. Each one answers in turn, in their own words.

The character view shows the group side by side under "All". The arrows beside the name step through each character alone.

A moment still belongs to one character: "Whose moment?" lets you choose whose picture, voice or video to make.

The model picker shows what the message costs: the price of one reply times the number of characters selected.

Characters who travel with you

A move can now last: overnight, for three days, or for good. Say it in your message, or set it in the form that comes with a character's suggestion.

"Ask to move" in the message box lets you pick the place and how long yourself. The character answers in character, and may say no.

Skip time: move your save's date forward by days, weeks, months or years.

Characters who know what they were told

Two people can share several relationships at once: a coworker with a crush, a sibling who is a rival at work.

A new Met Before step says which characters already know the player when the story starts.

Characters roleplay gender identity, pronouns and attraction more truthfully. Who they are drawn to is a preference, so not every flirt lands. Nobody knows someone's pronouns until they are told, and a character may mind being called by the wrong ones.