MindWare 0.3.10 (Public Release)

MindWare 0.3.10 is out for everyone. This update brings two new storylines. It also includes the biggest bug-fixing pass the game has had so far, and a handful of new settings.

Xavier’s Cyber Dreams quest. Xavier has noticed that Drake pays Cyber Dreams far more commission than anyone else, and he wants to know what BrainFry is getting in return. That means staying late at BrainFry after everyone has gone home, sneaking into the server room, going through Drake’s desk and his computer, and finding out what BrainFry actually does with all that customer data. Xavier also has his own way of making sure you stay motivated. Xavier’s message arrives a few days after the Aegis Stage 2 brain scan, once Trix is out of jail, and the quest ends when you tell him what HEATMAP is.

Nurse Amy. If you completed the hidden camera job (“Find the Creep in the Women’s Toilets”), you may remember how Amy promised you a free health checkup to say thanks. Now you can take her up on it: tell the Panacea receptionist that Amy sent you, and Amy takes care of you personally in exam room four. Be warned that she is very thorough, and some samples can’t be collected with a swab.

Also new: Yuki’s second Stage 2 chat message.

For supporters, I have finally added a bunch of new avatar sets, a new avatar picker with a preview of all five body stages, and the ability to more conveniently provide your own pictures to use as a Custom avatar set.

After being impressed by its capabilities, I let Opus 5.5 go through the whole game, area by area, looking for bugs. It found and fixed a lot of issues nobody had reported before, such as scenes that could be lost by leaving them partway, rewards and costs that applied twice after loading a save, buttons that could trigger twice, Go Back buttons that took you to the wrong place, and sounds that kept playing after you left a scene. Supporters have been testing these fixes across the last two betas, so I hope this is the most stable public release so far. If something is broken, please use the in-game bug report button so I get your save.

Other changes in this update:

Minigame difficulty: choose it when you create your character and change it at any time in Settings.
Text Speed: a slider in Settings makes fading and typed text appear up to four times faster.
Stop interface animations: a Settings option stops the pulsing Synapse Steady VX brain, its blinking warnings and the glitching title logo.
City map: places that are closed today are greyed out and show their opening days.
Images: click a scene image to view it larger.
Small conveniences: task notifications name the task, a popup next to your money shows what you just earned or spent, and you name your saves in the Saves dialog.

Download:

Play online: playmindware.com is already updated
Downloads page: playmindware.com/downloads for the full offline archive (about 4.03 GB), the HTML-only update, and a 177 MB incremental update for players who have an unmodified 0.3.9 Public Hotfix 1 folder

Extra Options / Supporter Access: No password needed. Use the Patreon or SubscribeStar sign-in in Extra Options.

What’s New (everything since 0.3.9 Public Hotfix 1)

New Content:

Added: Xavier’s Cyber Dreams quest, where you find out what BrainFry does with Cyber Dreams customer data
Added: Xavier blowjob scene in the Cyber Dreams quest
Added: A look inside Ray’s hidden files on the BrainFry server
Added: Search Drake’s desk for his password and go through his computer again
Added: Jessica and Drake’s night in his office, if you stay to watch
Added: Report your HEATMAP findings to Xavier in the Cyber Dreams quest
Added: Extendo’s Valkyrie Harness page, which you can bookmark in your home browser
Added: Nurse Amy’s free checkup at the Panacea Clinic, after the hidden camera job
Added: Pick up your test results from Nurse Amy at the Panacea Clinic, three days after her checkup. She has a treatment for you, and a favor to ask
Added: Visit Amy again before her husband comes home. She isn’t alone: meet Nina, the nurse who hired you to find the camera
Added: Yuki’s second Stage 2 chat message
Added: You can turn down Trix’s request to get into Ray’s computer

Changes & Improvements:

Added: Choose the minigame difficulty when you create your character, and change it at any time in Settings
Added: A Text Speed slider in Settings makes fading and typed text appear up to four times faster
Added: A Settings option stops the interface animations: the pulsing Synapse Steady VX brain, its blinking LOW and EMPTY warnings, and the glitching title logo
Added: Click a scene image to view it larger
Added: A small popup next to your money shows how much you just earned or spent
Added: Ten new avatars for supporters, available in character creation and Settings
Added: A new avatar picker with named thumbnails and a preview of all five body stages
Added: Supporters can give the Custom avatar their own picture for each body stage: choose a file, drop one on the stage, or enter a web address (or a file path in the downloaded game). Pictures are kept by your browser, not in your saves
Improved: New and completed task notifications now name the task
Improved: Places that are closed today are greyed out on the city map and show their opening days
Improved: Name your save in a box in the Saves dialog instead of a browser prompt
Improved: New wallpaper on Drake’s computer
Changed: The in-game update notice now also announces release candidates

Bug Fixes:

Fixed: Loading a save now shows the saved scene once, so its rewards, costs and stat changes are no longer applied twice, and pressing Back right after loading no longer sends you home
Fixed: Returning to a scene from the Char, Jobs, Email, Chat or Notes screen, or confirming Settings or Extra Options, no longer repeats its rewards, costs or stat changes
Fixed: The DevDroid purchase, the Morrison refund, sleeping at The Hole and the SUCKER plasma extraction can no longer charge, pay or skip a day twice
Fixed: Leaving Delacroix’s office, The Hole’s crime scene or the Department of Records scenes partway no longer stalls the main story, and saves that skipped to Chapter 2 can sleep again
Fixed: Starting a new game or skipping a chapter no longer builds on top of an old playthrough, double-clicking Start no longer restarts the game, and Back on the chapter title card no longer opens old scenes
Fixed: Trix’s check-in, band night, jail pickup, morning after, first apartment visit and weekend shift can no longer be lost by leaving partway or by owing rent
Fixed: Ray’s and Trix’s BrainFry scenes come back if you leave them early, Trix no longer leaves you stuck at the office, and two scenes due at once no longer cut each other off
Fixed: The end of Chapter 0, Yuki’s check-up after the GitGud incident, Xavier’s check-up before neuroimaging, Trix’s missed-gig chat and Lena’s card are no longer lost if you leave early
Fixed: GitGud buttons no longer trigger twice, so Xavier’s special visit and his reaction to the truth work as intended
Fixed: Go Back on the city map, job pages, job chats and several apps now returns to where you were, and streaming, the boyfriend’s phone and waiting for the maid no longer pull you home from other places
Fixed: Looping sounds and dream music stop when you leave a scene or load a save, and club music keeps playing after loading or reloading inside EroSphere
Fixed: The phone’s photo viewer closes when you leave or load a save, and the chat icon on your computer’s desktop opens a conversation you still have to finish
Fixed: Ray’s reactions to his exploit collection and to the taxi video now count, and going back and forth over the lipstick in AVA’s pre-extraction dream no longer keeps changing your relationship with her
Fixed: Trix at The Hole only brings up you walking her home if you did
Fixed: Trix no longer shows up at the office between the night at The Hole and the news of her arrest
Fixed: Trix’s request to get into Ray’s computer can no longer get stuck unfinished
Fixed: Trix no longer asks about confronting Ray over her phone camera weeks later in Chapter 2
Fixed: Spying on Ray’s computer in Chapter 2 no longer mentions his password if you never got it for Trix
Fixed: The affair job now gives its promised five days in Chapter 2, failed early ByteBunker jobs close their tasks, and a finished prank job always pays
Fixed: Loading a save made on the morning of Cipher’s urgent request now starts it right away
Fixed: The SUCKER workers now arrive after you wake up instead of cutting off that night’s dream, and saves where they never came get the installation on the next normal morning
Fixed: Waking from the alley dream or the first transformation dream now starts your normal morning, including the SUCKER extraction, and no longer sends you to the BrainFry office on a weekend
Fixed: Sending Ray the taxi video and visiting Trix in jail before the same night no longer skips the second transformation dream and Jessica’s first day at BrainFry, and saves from before 0.3.6 no longer lose Ray’s taxi video chat
Fixed: The latex maid scene now remembers when you let go at the hospital
Fixed: When Chapter 1 starts late, Trix’s weekend shift is no longer lost to Xavier’s break-in request, and her band invitations, her lines about that weekend and the alley dream now come in the right order
Fixed: Double-clicking a button that ends the day no longer skips an extra day or plays the night twice
Fixed: A save stuck on an error page now loads at home
Fixed: Loading a save made away from home no longer lets the PC button open your home computer
Fixed: Closing Settings without pressing Save Settings now discards your changes instead of applying them on the next screen
Fixed: Hard minigame difficulty is now harder than Normal instead of giving the most time of all, and Easy no longer turns back into Normal when you load a save
Fixed: In the supporter conversation managers, each row’s buttons now act on their own conversation, the status filters work, and viewing a conversation no longer replays its effects
Fixed: Passage History in Extra Options now lists the places you visited, its Set buttons apply the value you type and refuse an empty box, and pressing Enter in its boxes no longer opens an error page
Fixed: Clicking an image thumbnail now always opens the image you clicked
Fixed: The saves dialog no longer shrinks after creating a save
Fixed: Entries in the Notes app no longer start and end with a stray backslash
Fixed: Smaller issues with save names, task hints, a missing background image, the Skip button setting, the Chapter 2 skip’s taxi choice and a typo in a job listing

What’s Next

Making the next physical body change stage available is still my main priority, and the cleanup and prep work it needs is moving along. In the meantime, I will keep expanding whichever questline interests me most at the moment, with Trix high on the list. You can find my broad, occasionally updated to-do list here.

Thank you for playing, and thank you to my supporters for making it possible. Enjoy the update!