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Just a little suggestion if you have time, for everyone's icon when they are chatting/in the person menu their image should be different from uncharmed/charmed, I see you did it with some characters and I love it
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1tomadeira

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I see this game is highly rated, but I can't get used to the interface. Always says "find the book" but I have no idea what I should do. Anyone has any tip please? I want to try the game more to see why is so high rated, but I dunno what to do.

edit: nevermind I finally got it. But holy, is this interface confusing...
 
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cmacleod42

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I see this game is highly rated, but I can't get used to the interface. Always says "find the book" but I have no idea what I should do. Anyone has any tip please? I want to try the game more to see why is so high rated, but I dunno what to do.

edit: nevermind I finally got it. But holy, is this interface confusing...
Can you give me some more information on what you find confusing?
 

1tomadeira

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Can you give me some more information on what you find confusing?
Mainly giving directions, at least for me. If I don't search deep I'm not entirely aware of what I should do. At least I don't usually struggle on html games, but it can be a matter of getting used to it. Although I understand that a game starting in 2016 usually has a different style than I usually play.

And yes I understand the game shouldn't be "a piece of cake", but as an example I only got it after checking every single location I could go. After playing a bit the game gets easier to understand, but personally specially the first impact to the player than discourage people to play it. At some points there is quite big walls of text, at others the interface isn't easy to understand, only if you dive deep into it.

Don't get me wrong, and sorry if I sounded rude above, it isn't my goal. I'm just pretty vocal on game that I think that they can be fun and/or have nice concepts. I wouldn't even bother to comment on a game I wouldn't think I could like. But my first experience felt like the learning curve decreased instead of increasing due to those struggles. And I'm still struggling quite a bit when and where you should use/give some items. While I like challenge, I don't like being forced to use the walkthough to simply play it.

One thing I can say about the interface though, is the map movement. That actually works pretty fine. And the phone in some way. Oh, and thanks for the answer.

edit: some reviews share this struggle. If you want to test try to do an walkthough quest at start. It should help. It doesn't need to be that serious but helps to learn the concept of the game besides reading an wall of text.
 
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cmacleod42

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Some characters have post-charm eyes without being charmed
Who and where?

If you mean in the cheat menu, I was lazy in manu cases as the images there in most cases only are used after they are charmed so I only added a charmed version of the image
 

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Just reposting from the Hypnopics Collective to get opinions here

I have been working on some bug fixes and small content.

Once change I was working on was improving the game layout for mobile devices and also just in general. Currently the main view has 3 columns
- the image of the person in the room
- the text and questions
- images of other people and/or items
This can sometimes have odd issues with overlapped buttons and wastes some space for text. I have been doing changes to use a flex box and it lays out better.
EXCEPT
the buttons for options/navigation can flow around the images now and some are not aligned. I cannot at the moment work out a solution here that does not move all buttons to the left. Please see the image while in Kate's room after I added some new Lilith content. Also another visiting Tracy.

Can I get opinions if people mind one way or the other?

Thanks

PS
Also attached an image for Lilith and Kate I think came out quite good. Used when you first bring Lilith into her room, charmed or uncharmed.
 
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Just reposting from the Hypnopics Collective to get opinions here
A nice cleanup of some of the odder UI elements would be great. Htere are several instances of subwindows popping in front of the main game that can cause weird things to happen in the UI. It would be better if everything happened inside the same main window. For example see attached.
 

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A nice cleanup of some of the odder UI elements would be great. Here are several instances of subwindows popping in front of the main game that can cause weird things to happen in the UI. It would be better if everything happened inside the same main window. For example see attached.
Those popup windows are quite deliberate, I have not seen any weird issues with them? I commonly use these for cases
- where I want to restrict player actions, say casting spells, or moving etc for the scene
- where I want to point out something important. For instance the screenshot you gave was where I was pointing out to new players the Notes option in your phone

Changing these to events as say used for a sex scene would be quite a lot of effort, and I am not convinced the point of doing any such change
 

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Is there a mom gabby vacation scene or is that just unavailability
If Mom and Gabby run off, so you take too long to stop Gabby. Then if you use Hydromancy you see a scene, and that is it, you never see them again
 

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Might have found a bug, while playing the murder playthrough I can't access the crypt to charm the vampire and get the skull?
 

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how to use the cheat for moving to locations. i see some binary codes(no idea how to use that flag things), but not a list of loc names and relevant numbers .
i can only rely on other menu which shows item and its location. / k graveyad i was looking for is now in hotel area,still failed that task with good sister i think,cannot find, but got the necklace
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museum-vase-cops quest. 'and ask her to take out DA White. She will kill DA White,' no such options. ah i can call her and charm
 
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how to use the cheat for moving to locations. i see some binary codes(no idea how to use that flag things), but not a list of loc names and relevant numbers .
i can only rely on other menu which shows item and its location. / k graveyad i was looking for is now in hotel area,still failed that task with good sister i think,cannot find, but got the necklace
...
museum-vase-cops quest. 'and ask her to take out DA White. She will kill DA White,' no such options. ah i can call her and charm
Place numbers can be checked in
Development/places.html
but preferably do not do this, you can break the game if you are not careful. Use teleport or walk
Areas become available once you are told about them or visit. For instance for the graveyard talk to Bambi and/or Janet

Are you playing on the murder page, did you (or Davy) kill Sir Ronald. ONLY in ths case can other people be killed, and there is no advantage to doing so, you just losee slaves
 
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