Update 10/8/22

Hey y'all. I hope you're all doing well. First of all, I would like to thank all of my patrons from the bottom of my heart. The response I've gotten is absolutely insane to me. Never in a million years did I think this little project of mine will be so well-received. Thank you!

This is my first progress update here. Its not so much of a report but rather an update regarding the direction of the game as a whole, and what I'm working on right now before the next update.

I've listened to all of the criticisms about the game, all of the critiques, on all different platforms where I posted about it. I've extracted certain things that I want to change (and hopefully improve) before moving on. So right now I plan on sort of re-working the v0.1, remove some of the things, add some new things, and modify other existing stuff. So here it goes:

1) Modifiable MC Name:

A lot of people to my surprise were requesting this. So it seems putting your own name into the game actually helps people self insert better. So I plan on making this change.

2) Too many black screens:

So this is another one. I've posted in the dev thread of my game on f95 before, but the "PC" that I'm using to make this game, lets just say is not cut out for it lol. So renders are a resource. Anywhere I didn't have a scene I would use descriptive text and a black screen. Also black screens for transitions. What I've gotten is that it seems jarring/disruptive. I'll therefore remove all of the black screens, and just show the previous render, with the descriptive text. I'll also cut back on the black screen transitions, sticking to the default "dissolve" transition.

3) MC is an asshole/too little dialogue choices:

Oh boy do people not like Alex. I sort of deliberately made him an entitled NEET asshole. But as I've learned, people like to self-insert, and most do not want to be assholes. So I'll change it up a bit and change all of the "asshole" things about him into dialogue options, either say something nice or mean. They will NOT have any effect on how the game plays out though. I'll make it easier, by making these ineffectual dialogue choices white in color, and the actual effectual choices as yellow.

4) Pacing is all over the place:

Yeah I struggled with the pacing of the story. Especially things with Hannah moved way too fast. I've rendered a few scenes to sort of make it more smoother. Hopefully that helps. I ain't no writer though, so...

5) Repeating text:

A Patron brought this up, and I'm surprised no one else did. In some dialogues, instead of the whole line getting replaced, gets additional text added at the end of it. In my playthrough I noticed that it can be a bit confusing. I tried to do something new but it seems didn't work out. So that has to go away.

6) No quick-menu:

So the quick-menu is the little small menu right underneath the dialogue box. It allows you to skip, go back and forward, save etc. You can still do all of these things with keyboard and mouse shortcuts. But it seems most people don't know about this, and I got a lot of comments asking to put it back in. I removed it because it was covering the dialogue box a bit. I'll try to work around it and put it back in :)

7) Other bugs and errors:

Some folk pointed out places where certain dialogues were being said by the wrong person, some spelling mistakes, or wrong words being used. I'll try my best to go through and fix all of these. But I just know that I'll still miss some. So I encourage all of you guys that are on discord to mention any of these things that you notice in the #bugs channel. It'll make it easier for me to fix them.

That about covers it. So moving forward, the first thing I'll do is what I've mentioned above, rework the current version a bit. And then after that we'll progress with the next content. Let me know you guys' thoughts.

 I have my mind settled on more Evelyn stuff right now. But this might change and I might end up doing a little bit of everyone. I'll keep you guys posted. And keep an eye out for some sneak peeks for silver members and up ;)

Thanks.