I really appreciate all of you out there who likes what I'm doing. Unfortunately there are not many of you. Some people just don't understand that we got here a gradually developing (more authentic) story, written for 30 playable days and we are just at the end of playable day 4 now! Next vers. 0.035/0.04 will be playable day 5. So there will still happen a lot. But all in good time.
It's just obvious now that I tried to bring an unique quality and effort to the absolutely wrong game genre where only the very minority is interested in a realistic story development, extremely detailed elaborate renders (huge varying settings) and really read and especially understand all the dialogues and notice all the fine hints everywhere. While the very majority are just looking for a quick fap. For me it's very important to get to know all the characters first before it comes to lewd scenes with them.
What concerns the blackouts, I'll try to edit this for the next version completely and make them even shorter. But I absolutely don't understand why so many people got problems with some 0.5 - 2 second blackouts between scene changes. This is an aesthetic method which is used in every movie! It shows that many people just want to click themselves as fast as possible through the game.
But anyway. I'll try to fasten up the next days by reducing the amount of renders even more. But the problem will still be, that if I create different paths, then it takes more time of course. So people who are playing a special path will get the feeling that there is not much content like it's the case with this update 0.03. That's why I also thought about to start creating short erotic stories, where you won't have many paths but they will be very short, lucid and lewd stuff will happen much faster.
Thats why I said - creating multiple paths in your style of showing the story is suicidal.
Best Advice I have for you is keep the branching to absolute minimum. Just 2 paths of good and bad wife if you want it.
Moreover - instead of betraying your own ideals and adding in shallow empty sexy scenes that werent planned there from before, just so simpleminded perverts have something to fap to - try a diffrent aproach.
Instead of making all the diffrent paths at the same time, focus on one branch of the story for now, and do the other one later.
Or make one branch for like 3 updates and then switch to the other one.
Otherwise you will find yourself drowning in ever smaller updates that have only more and more branches, but less and less content for 1 playthrough ...
Your game is more of a interactive story anyway rather than game - and it is ok to be like that !
Take a look at the Daughter for Desert "game" - it is basicly a visual novel wihtout any branching.
That is what will work best with your style IMHO.
Just dont betray your ideals to please a general crowd.
No need to lessent he number of renders per scene too if you just follow my advise to making the story more linnear and focusing on 1 side of the story each update.
