I'm enjoying reading through the update logs, and I still love the premise of the game. I would like to offer these comments:
- The auto-showing actions (and pins) sounds like a massive improvement
- Please could you include an option to skip minigames? Even if you think they are easy it can still gate people out of content in what is otherwise a visual novel / puzzle game. (And I have yet to enjoy a minigame in ren'py)
- In the last build I played it wasn't clear that there was a timer on the hint system. Firstly: Why limit hints? Secondly: Accessing the same hint again costs a "hint token", which seems harsh given that it's hard to remember which hints you have already asked for. Thirdly: Please make your system clear inside the game.
- The tone of the game seems to be getting darker and darker. I have no problems with you making a dark game, but it might be a good idea to start including content warnings about things people will encounter (and at this rate I will stop playing soon.) Since you need to access every scene in order to get through the game, any content that exists in the game is unavoidable and warnings are appreciated.
Thanks for the comments,
the auto showing actions and pins came from players sugestions.
So what I wanted was to make players play the game rather than read a walkthrough and skip everything. of course this a porn game and most people don't really care, and the game is hard. So i make a hint system but to encourage playing the game I limited to 3 hints every 5 minutes. Since them i became more flexible and now is 10 hints and wait 2 minutes becasue i still want taht people experience the choices. I don't know maybe in a few release I remove the limits completly.
The same goes for the minigames, but I think I will add an option to skip them. A shame since I put a lot of effort specially in the Persuation Minigame.
Everything is explained in the ingame tutorial. I even add a general guidance of the game in the last version so you can grasp what the hell I was thinking to make the gameplay easier.
The tone is a hard grasp when porn is involve since what's offensive to some people is excited to other people. Patron has really extrict rules of what you can publish or not so warnings there is delicate.
it's a game that the protagonist has no consequences of his action because he can relive the same events, it's too tempting to not go wild. I have some people complaining also why not go more wild....
I can maybe tone down some part as an option or offer different ways of solving it (I was thinking of doing this in the begining, but i decide to make "simple"). The game is changing constantly so you never know.
Hope you keep playing and enjoying it.
I love some feedback, this is how I shape the game outside of my twisted mind for the rest of normal people
Cheers!
