Why is 0.15 different?

Okay, like I announced in the latest progress update I wanted to inform you guys what happens with 0.15 and why it is different.

Since My New Family is now over one year old the game has become very very big. I know that 3 gigabyte for some people is not that big, but for others it's a huge file that they can't easily download all the time. This was the main reason to use 0.15 as a new season.

What this means is pretty simple: 0.15 will only contain content from that update ( chapter 10 ). So if you want to play Chapter 1 to 9 you have to download and play 0.14 ( I will keep links for 0.14 up all the time ). You can't start a new game with 0.15, you will get a error message and you can only play 0.15 if you made a savegame at the correct point at the end of 0.14 ( during the endscreen ).

So if you want to watch old gallery scenes or just replay Chapter 1 to 9 then you have to play 0.14. But don't worry, I won't do this for every update from now on. Every update after 0.15 will contain chapter 10 and all following chapters again. Just if the game gets too big again I have to do this again. But that is stuff for the future.

Now let me answer some of the more common questions I got lately:

Q: What happens with all the decisions I made from Chapter 1 to 10?
A: Every decision you made will carry over as long as you load the correct savegame. This means that you don't have to ask any questions in the beginning, you will just continue right away where you left off.

Q: I have several savegames with different paths ( Tanja for example ). What about those savegames?
A: The same thing that I explained above. If you want to continue this path just load the savegame that you made at the end of 0.14 that contained these decisions. It works the same way with all decisions you made. Everything will carry over just as you left it in 0.14.

Q: I'm playing the game on Android. Will my savegames also work? And can I have 0.14 and 0.15 installed at the same time?
A: I still have to test this but it should work the same way. Your savegames should be secure as long as you uninstall 0.14 before you install 0.15. Don't try to install it while 0.14 is still on your phone.
Regarding the other question: No, that is sadly not possible. If you want to play Chapter 1 to 9 you have to remove 0.15 and install 0.14 again. As long as you don't overwrite your old savefile you should be good. I will test this further once the first beta for 0.15 is ready for patrons. I might have to disable the "autoreload function for that though. We'll see.

If you have any more questions post them in the comments and I'll make sure to answer them as soon as possible. I hope this post explained it a bit better. Once I have the first beta ready for Sandra patrons they will test this with me. If everything works, good, if it doesn't then I will just drop the second season thing and continue like usual. I still have everything secured that needs to be secured. This is just a test, more or less. I will keep you guys posted. Keep an eye out on the patreon feed for the next progress update!