http://www.macgames.biz/games/Nicole-0.8.1-all.zip (zip file containing version for all the supported OSes: Windows, Mac & Linux)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FINAL GAME IS NOT YET READY. THIS DEMO WILL ALWAYS END, IS JUST A SORT OF "PREVIEW"
A few notes:
1) You can play until the 24th October (in-game time of course) and see the first 3 scenes with each character. Other scenes are done but they will never show up for now in this preview.
2) Everything is still WIP, but if you find any typos or mistake, feel free to report it since will help. I wrote some descriptions myself, so probably those needs some work!
3) In this version you can't do any of the jobs. Even in the final game they'll be unlocked after some time, and based on some events. After you play Ted fourth scene for example you'll be given the store clerk job to greatly increase the Diligence stat.
4) You can still raise the stats doing other secondary activities, but the big boost is given by the real jobs. Anyway in my playthrough I was able to raise Zeal to 78 when the demo ended. Considering that's about 30% of the whole game time, I believe should be possible to reach the >900 values required to unlock the romance endings when the real jobs unlock. But probably more testing and tweaking will be needed!
5) the Clues stat is a special stat, separate from the others, that keeps track of Nicole's progresses in finding out more about the mystery. The idea is that every 100 points or so, you'll see a scene where she discovers something. Once you reach >900 in that stat, you can unlock the extra mystery endings (they're currently still missing).
That's it - writer said will finish Jeff by end of month, and I hope he can do also the mystery scenes/endings by end of September, because it's when I want to release the game. It was supposed to be out in June/July...
For the yuri version, I'm going to hire soon another writer so we can at least speed things up!
p.s. the version 0.8 had a crash bug after 3 days
