Hello everybody. I'm RJ Rhodes, the creator of this game. I had no idea that it had been posted here, and just found out today. I read through all of the feedback - man I wish I knew about all of this a long time ago. I barely get any feedback on my Patreon, but over here all you guys be talking. I just wanted to make an account and respond to some of the more common comments on here.
1. "I hate sandbox games" - Unfortunately, this game is just not for you. Sorry about that. I'm big on player choice in this one, which is probably not too smart for my first game, but I'm determined to keep it that way.
2. "There's not enough to do" - You're right. I'm adding more stuff every month. Right now, there's not a ton, but I'm working on it.
3. "I don't know what to do" - I get ya. I have a walkthrough on my Patreon. Some people commented that the walkthrough was behind a paywall. That's true for newly posted chapters, but chapters that have been made public I make the walkthrough public as well. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for me to post the walkthrough before I post the chapter. The first two chapters are public and the walkthroughs are available on my Patreon for free. I can't posts links, as this is a new account, but if you google my name + patreon, you can find the walkthroughs pretty easily.
In addition to the text walkthroughs though, I've been working on implementing systems in the game that make it more obvious where to go. I did the face icons that notify when there is a new scene available, but I'm also working on a help screen (that's the question marks when you open the hearts screen) and it should be implemented in Chapter 4. I'm still looking into ways to make it more obvious how you can spend your time.
4. "This bitch don't know what she's doing" - Correct. I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't have any background in programming or computer art. I'm a writer and that's about it. I learned how to use both Ren'Py and Daz in April and put out the first chapter in June. I definitely could have waited until I had a more polished product to release, but I wanted feedback. That's why I released the first chapter for free immediately and have a dollar patron tier. That's the only patron tier I had for a long time until I was asked to make another.
If I came across defensive in any way in this post, please know that I didn't mean it that way. I'm actually extremely happy that somebody pointed me towards this site and these forums. Reading through the thread has been very helpful and I'll take all of this and go in and fix stuff in the game. I'm very grateful that you all gave the game a try and even cared enough to make a post about it. That's pretty awesome.
I'll try to check in here as much as I can and answer any questions that you all have.