Poll result (Does Laura resemble herself?), and goals for the page

I’m really glad that you feel that way. And if I do add moaning sounds and such, I’ll probably also try to find someone who can make better sound effects for the sex scenes. I know what I have is not the best right now. Anyway, thank you! Reading this makes me happy.

hangovercat

Sorry, should have sent some of this in form of a private message, will do so in the future.

Kaycee

Hey, I just subbed like some Minutes ago with this being the second ever Project I'm actually contributing to financially (the other being a Developer of a Game thats kinda similar in the sense of "Mystery NTR"). I just wanted to let you know, that I really enjoy your work even though the End of "The Edge Of" really broke my heart a litte bit hehe. As far as I'm concerned, the number of Sprites and the quality of the Backgrounds is really everything needed because the Story you tell excels through your Writing in Combination with some good quality CGs that give the Situations a Foundation. And both of them are already on the top everything I have experienced so far. I know this might not be helpful because I'm not really letting you know what could be an interesting Goal but I just wanted to let you know my opinion on those things. Regarding Voice Acting...I honestly think everything it needs is moans and sounds of movement and so on of which you already have some. The only thing I didn't like too much was the sound of biting (the nipple) or the sound of ejaculation. So Voice Acting for me really is not important at all because the story, situational cgs and spirtes as well as the sound effects already make this game an emmersive experience to me. Thanks and kind Regards

Kaycee

It would be in a grey zone at best. If I do add moaning sounds, I would probably prefer to hire voice actresses for it. I don’t think it would cost that much and it would at least be personalized. I just never realized that so many people wanted something like that.

hangovercat

Re: sound effects for the hentai scenes - couldn't you just use samples from porn videos? Pretty sure that would constitute fair use.

Jill Nadin

I love you

Amir Yordi

Well, this isn't really a goal since it doesn't cost anything. Also, I just finished implementing one a few days ago, so it should be there for the next release ;).

hangovercat

Off the top of my head, we have no scene gallery. Sure, we can look at the images, but we can't go back and watch the whole scene. We'd have to reload a save or skip through the game to get back to a specific moment.

I still haven't written that part yet, so it might end up being bad, but yes, I do plan to have some threesome action in one of the endings.

hangovercat

Those are great goals. Thanks! Though, one thing I can’t do is let anyone help me with the programming. It’s more like directing than programming, in a sense, and I just can’t trust anyone with it. The directing should be left to the writer, in my opinion. But yes, everything else makes sense.

hangovercat

Damn you are right, you would have to translate dialogs so the voice actor can do them in japanese, sounds like a pain in the ass!! but i think you and your project is growing and i hope there comes a time when you make enough money that this task can be just done by some bilingual actres who can grasp what the character is saying in english and licalize it to Japanese voice.

Amir Yordi

yeah hips are a bit too wide for my taste as well. Also her belly is a bit too muscular imo... also isn't she supposed to have smaller breasts then Laura? Sure still big, but isn't that a bit too much as well?

Pete

I think its the right decision to stay with the new artist and I like your addition that you will only use the new artist for semi-sexual/bonus CGs and that you have an eye on the consistency. Very good to hear and IMO absolutely the right decisions. Concerning the CG with Aya and the bikini I dont like too muscular booties. And there is a little bit too much of abs IMO. Also the hips are a bit too wide. But meh, thats critique on a very high level... Concerning your patreon goals I absolutely agree with what Abgazil wrote. Concerning voice acting and or sound effects; I would recommend you to start with adding sound effects and when you can go full-time or when you are finished with the game you could add Voice actresses. I definitely think good voice acting would really be the icing on the cake and could be awesome. And there definitely are some good english Voice Actresses out there, I can name you some. But voice acting takes a lot of time and I would make it so that its independet from the general production process/update release schedule and would rather implement it either at the end or with two-three special updates... sound effects could be a good compromise for the beginning, but please if you are going to add sound-effects make it right and not something half-baked from the internet that sounds like a broken record. ; ) Thanks for the update and good luck!!

Pete

Thats exactly how I would like it!

Pete

I also agree with the sound effects. Especially in the H-Scenes (copulation sounds) it would increase the enjoyment alot. I dont know what else is planned for the story and the events past the first trial and the route diagram, but if this isnt already confirmend for the game, than i hope there is a route where both girls gets taken by Luca at the same time. Basically like the cover of this game. And then hopefully with some 3p scenes. That would be awesome. Wishfull thinking since i first saw the cover of this game. And thanks for the hard work up until know.

I love what you're doing so I think the goals should be in service of doing more of it / making it even better. My ideas would be: 1) sound effects 2) going full time (if you're not already) 3) getting help with programming 4) more CGs I think all of those would be great with the order depending on what's most interesting / feasible for you.

Abgazil

It fits Aya, so I'm absolutely okay with it. Maybe her hips could be little bit less wide to fit the general character design in the game better, but that's me nitpicking. I'm gonna agree with other patreons - add kissing/moaning/sex noises to make scenes even better. Voice acting could be a fantastic addition, even in english - if you could find fitting actors for their roles, but that's something you only do at the end of production - when literally everything is written and approved. That way you can easier predict the overall cost of it and see if it's worth it. Also, you can always change the writing, but changing voicelines is always an additional cost, so don't worry about it too much right now.

I like the Aya's design of this artist much more than the Laura's one. It could work for every scene of Aya

Adolfo

I like that picture. Probably the best the artist has done for you so far. It was definitely the right decision to use him.

I'm honestly pretty meh on voice acting. Like you said I think a lot of amateur English VAs who would do work on this sort of thing are a bit sub-par, which kind of takes me out of the experience. Most of the time I end up turning off voices when VNs have them in English. That said, I agree with the first guy that good sound design (i.e. moaning, thrusting, general ungodly sex noises) can add a lot to a sex scene, and there are tons of resources for general moaning/cumming noises, lol. ETA: didnt mean to post that yet, was also gonna suggest one more thing. Since writing is your main strength, you could try setting a goal to post separate, unrelated (or related I guess, doesn't really matter) short stories on Patreon or elsewhere for a certain tier of patron (probably fairly low since it wouldn't be directly related to your games). That would give you another outlet for your creativity, and provide extra content to your patrons without having to wait on an artist to finish assets for you. The dev Pyorgara (Soldier's Life, News Desk, etc.) who similarly has writing as their primary strength does something like this.

realname_tba

Perhaps some more sound effects and music? I’m not much of a sound guys so I have no idea what the logistics of that may be but having different/original music/sound effects could give the game a little more character, similarly give the different scenes more character. For example add the woman moaning or other generic noise or something? I’ve seen a few other games do that and it does add a lot to the scenes.

AhegaoLover