Hey everybody! My two month break is over so now it's time for me to work on By Your Hands again. Well, more specifically Owen's route. I've been doing some quality-of-life improvements to the game for the past two months which aren't a lot on their own but add up to a considerable update. I'm almost done with quality of life improvements, I only have a few more things to work on before I'm done with all that. Here is the changelog:

• Modified the last cut in you see in Kamil's route currently to make the colors more accurate.
• Added cum to Kamil's sprite and a hard-to-get CG if you did a certain action on Day 6 of Kamil's route.
• Liam now has messy fur and sweat stains on his football uniform when appropriate.
• Changed the background of one of the possible flashbacks in Day 5.
• Adjusted the positions of Brendan on Day 4 and Day 6.
• Added an animation of Brendan moving up to indicate that he's moved up from the couch on Day 6 of his route.
• Went through the entire game to greatly reduce the issues that using the skip function may have.
• Added a cut-in during Day 3 of Kamil's route.
• Made it so that new players of the VN will have to answer a question regarding if they are okay with the game's content before they can continue.
• Adjusted the sprites so that they change the direction they face when appropriate.
• Added page titles back into the game. I made sure to bring back the function the ability to rename them.
• Added credit displays at the beginning of Day 1.
• Added options to skip to the middle of Day 1 (where you select your route) and the middle of Day 2 (after the common route for Day 2 ends).
• Changed the thumbnail for the Brendan Driving CG in the gallery to include the orange background from Day 1 and Day 2.
• Added the ability to view backgrounds for the Brendan Driving CG in the gallery. Be sure to view Day 1 of Brendan's route one more time before viewing the CG or else it will crash.
• Changed the arrows in the Brendan Driving CG in the gallery specifically for the android version.
• Changed the visual for the piss imagination scene in Day 4.
• Added back the feature to load quick saves and auto saves. Currently, if you want to make a quick save, right click on the save menu at the section you want to quick save.
• Slightly changed the GUI of the saves slots.
• Made it so that if you made a save on Kamil's or Brendan's routes from Day 2 onwards, that save slot will now render a silhouette of the love interest onto the slot.
• Any save made on this update onwards will now show the title of the section of the game (the thing that appears on the top left) as the name of the save with a few exceptions (Namely regarding any route that isn't Brendan's or Kamil's and saves made from old saves of Day 1).
• Updated renpy to version 8.2.1. This shouldn't cause any noticeable changes, other than the start up icon having a transparent background, but it's good to keep in mind regardless.
• Changed the GUI of the game.
• Changed the positions of some characters for certain scenes, specifically for Kamil's route.
• Fixed a visual bug where the outline of one of the CGs in Day 2 of Brendan's route would change color for no reason.
• Split a line from Brendan's Day 2 into two.
• Added a music room to the game. It should be fully functional, but I might have to change some stuff later on.
• Added a couple more image description lines.
• Changed the expressions Kamil gives in the first five days of his route as well as in the common route. Please note that I'm not finished with this process.
• Modified a few lines in the prologue.

During testing, all the save files I had got corrupted so you might not be able to load a previous save. Hopefully, the chapter select will help alleviate that, but I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I don't know what's with my 0.x.2 builds and having these errors. The 0.6.2 inconvenienced new players while this build is now inconveniencing old players. Also, the zips for the new builds have 20 mb more than the previous builds which I have no idea how that happened. I'm being blunt, I'm not confident that these builds are 100% stable. Hopefully, all of this jank will be fixed in the next build in time for Owen's Day 2 update which will be released next month... for patrons. For everyone else, it will be released in July. Until then, I hope you guys enjoy the new build.

Oh, and I know this is plastered all over the front page of itch.io, but I wanted to mention, if you haven't bought the Palestinian Relief Bundle yet, I urge you to do so. Lots of good games including titles like A Short Walk and Coffee Talk for $8 and you get to support a good cause.