OK, finished whatever there is available right now.
First things first - issues: the gym segment is probably the most ridiculously annoying pieces of "gameplay" I have ever encountered. There's a very small group of players, who might actually know what the equipment on the screen does, so they might have an easier time with that part. For the 99% of people playing the game, the whole thing will be just swiping the mouse around the screen until some random element gets highlighted.
What's worse is that it doesn't serve any purpose gameplay-wise. What's the point of it? Is it supposed to be an erotic VN or "Find Waldo" type of thing? If the latter, please get the mods to add an appropriate tag.
There's also the issue of "stutters" throughout the game. Every now and then, seemingly at random, left clicking won't advance the text or won't switch to the next screen. It's annoying. I also don't get why the constant ".." and "..." and why a single text-box needs to be clicked three-four times for us to get the whole text out. Punctuation definitely needs improvement and getting rid of the unnecessary clicking will also make the whole experience less tedious.
I mean, I get what you're probably trying to achieve here, but these things are NOT how you extend gameplay. Same goes to animations or "important scenes", if you ever want to include those - don't block people from skipping content if they want to, let people play at their own pace and just make the story compelling enough to read so that they won't want to.
As for the story itself - it's a bit rough around the edges. The whole meeting of "flatmate" and the MC is super awkward. I mean... They haven't seen each-other for five years and he goes "here's your room, gotta lift, kthxbye". The suspense at the end also makes Vicky look a little bit slow on the brain. "Do you really want to know"? Well, yes, she asked exactly that, so she does want to know.
I also just noticed that you're forcing the music volume to 50% on every restart of the game. Please stop. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who wants his erotic games just shut up and sit quiet.
Now, the good bits - I really like the intro, where you explain things and let us name some characters. Even though it's Ren'Py and probably everybody playing the game will know about how the engine behaves, it's a nice touch. The naming part, however, could do a little bit more tweaking, some more background about the character we're naming would be nice.
The renders are really, really good. Could use a bit more light, but otherwise the models, textures and overall quality is spot on.
I'll keep an eye out on this project, but so far it's a solid 2/5.
First things first - issues: the gym segment is probably the most ridiculously annoying pieces of "gameplay" I have ever encountered. There's a very small group of players, who might actually know what the equipment on the screen does, so they might have an easier time with that part. For the 99% of people playing the game, the whole thing will be just swiping the mouse around the screen until some random element gets highlighted.
What's worse is that it doesn't serve any purpose gameplay-wise. What's the point of it? Is it supposed to be an erotic VN or "Find Waldo" type of thing? If the latter, please get the mods to add an appropriate tag.
There's also the issue of "stutters" throughout the game. Every now and then, seemingly at random, left clicking won't advance the text or won't switch to the next screen. It's annoying. I also don't get why the constant ".." and "..." and why a single text-box needs to be clicked three-four times for us to get the whole text out. Punctuation definitely needs improvement and getting rid of the unnecessary clicking will also make the whole experience less tedious.
I mean, I get what you're probably trying to achieve here, but these things are NOT how you extend gameplay. Same goes to animations or "important scenes", if you ever want to include those - don't block people from skipping content if they want to, let people play at their own pace and just make the story compelling enough to read so that they won't want to.
As for the story itself - it's a bit rough around the edges. The whole meeting of "flatmate" and the MC is super awkward. I mean... They haven't seen each-other for five years and he goes "here's your room, gotta lift, kthxbye". The suspense at the end also makes Vicky look a little bit slow on the brain. "Do you really want to know"? Well, yes, she asked exactly that, so she does want to know.
I also just noticed that you're forcing the music volume to 50% on every restart of the game. Please stop. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who wants his erotic games just shut up and sit quiet.
Now, the good bits - I really like the intro, where you explain things and let us name some characters. Even though it's Ren'Py and probably everybody playing the game will know about how the engine behaves, it's a nice touch. The naming part, however, could do a little bit more tweaking, some more background about the character we're naming would be nice.
The renders are really, really good. Could use a bit more light, but otherwise the models, textures and overall quality is spot on.
I'll keep an eye out on this project, but so far it's a solid 2/5.
