@RomanHume
I may not post alot in general here, but I really love the game. Most of all, I respect you lots about how active you are at replaying to questions/conserns etc. I'm already a 15$ patreon so that alone tells alot
My only complaint is that the character selection is getting a tad oversized and cluttered. Especially since some scenes are dependent on having done previous scenes, it might be a good idea to hide those until you finish that scene in particular.
On the topic of Dominance part of the story. Since I love playing games that let me dominate the girls I want to fuck, either forced or conceptual, my wishes are only to have the option to dominate as many of them as possible (Building a Harem is cream on top of the ice for me and adding pregnancy is the cherry on top).
Other than that, all I wanted to say was just, keep up the work you are doing and I can't wait for more from you guys.
First off, thank you for your investment! It means a lot to us.
Second, I don't think we ever considered we would have this much direct dialogue with players of the game. I think any developer who isn't taking advantage of this kind of interaction with their players is missing a golden opportunity for improvement and feedback.
So on to the discussion of the character menu, all I can say is YES, I completely agree. But for the alpha it's an ugliness we are kind of tolerating. We previously played with some coding that removed characters who either didn't have scenes, or whose scenes needed to be played in a specific order. The problem we quickly discovered is that updating those menus between releases was a bear, and it led to one particularly embarrassing release where Jane's scenes were locked out if you played Monica first.
But rest assured, this is something we are going to clean up in the beta. The reason we are waiting until then is because at that point the story will be 80% fleshed out and we'll have final version of the scene sequences available that will allow us to go through and program the menu once without the need for painstaking continual updates.
Our final vision of the menu is very much what you've suggested. A menu that will continually change to show which stories you can continue. And if one story relies on a previous character's scene to occur first, that option won't even appear until all prior conditions are met. This makes navigation easier and clearly shows you which scenes must occur first. It is just hard to do right now because it opens up too many opportunities for buggy releases in the alpha (as we have embarrassingly encountered already).
And finally, to touch on the dominance part of the story, we get what you're saying, we really do. But we want to be careful that first, we stay true to the character concepts that we've drawn up for the love interests. For some of the characters, if we are believing in their personalities, just wouldn't go for it. For instance, based on what we've written about Monica, it's more likely she'd choke hold a dude before she lets him dominate her. BUT...we also know that is a popular fetish (among ourselves as well, I love the stuff DataDog is doing with Nanami), so we are absolutely going to make sure we include it in certain situations.
But harem building is absolutely on the table. It's just more strategic where the main character is adjusting his tactic to align with his sexual targets. We don't want any love interest to deny access to any other until the very end. At which point this house of cards could come crashing down, or if handled delicately, kept aloft indefinitely. But we're saving all of that for the climax. So until then, harem on!
