The Story, Drawn: release 2026.10.15 of IMPACT FRAME
2026.10.15

The Story, Drawn

The whole story as a comic on its own page, a Story log popup that never covers the screen, and fight music that stops repeating itself.

The notes

The story has a page of its own, drawn as a comic, and the fight music is a little different every time round.

Added

  • The story, start to end, as a comic. A new page at /story/ tells it in manga pages: one fight in 1998, then the four acts and the table, with the speech, the sound effects and Nina’s texts. The other ways of telling the night sit behind a spoiler, closed until you open it. You can reach it from the Home page and from the footer.

Changed

  • The Story log is a popup in the middle of the screen. It opens over the lobby and never grows taller than the stage, so a long list can’t cover the top of the screen any more: the list scrolls inside it, and Back closes it and returns you to the chip.
  • The fight music plans every round. Each time a section comes round, the drums, the bass, the arpeggio, the fills and sometimes the last chord are played a little differently, always in the piece’s own key and with its tune kept. Now and then the band drops out for two bars and comes back with a crash, or builds into the next round, and after a few rounds at the same pitch of fight the music eases down a step for a round. No round repeats the one before it, and the notes you hit still play on top. Menu music is unchanged.