The free roam system is in place to allow the player to do things in whatever order they want. As its content light right now that might seem like a pointless mechanic to some people but in a couple of updates the benefits will become more apparent.
The -1 value on trust is intentional. In future updates the player will be able to earn multiple trust points with each character so a -1 wont have much impact. I will take a look at it and see if it's worth removing that until more points can be earned.
Characters are indeed invisible in certain locations. That will be resolved in the next update. It's not a bug per-se its just renders I haven't had time to do yet.
The remarkable hate from a couple of people is quite amusing. I don't really understand why. I'm a hobbyist developer who writes games and videos in the few hours of free time I have each week because it makes me happy. I haven't asked you for anything, and I'm not beholden to you. I just share my games because I like people to play them. I have a subscribestar page which if people choose to donate on I am always grateful but it's not required to play. If you want to waste energy getting angry about it that's entirely your prerogative of course.
You said this before:
I just don't understand, when support for your previous "HUGE undertaking" free-roam game, has been lacking, and you don't have much time to work on your game(s), why you would take on another "HUGE undertaking".
What is going to happen, is exactly what happened with Deeper, we'll be waiting months between updates. When they come, because of the workload required by free-roam games, they will be lacking any meaningful content. And a year from now, we still won't be seeing a product that any of us would want to support.
Free-roam games can be good. But too many devs take them on thinking they can make it a success. But as you have seen, it is not as easy as it looks, which boggles my mind why you're doing it again.
Create a VN, something with a much lighter workload, you'll be able to spend your time on quality content, instead of struggling with a complex system. People will see more content more frequently and will be more inclined to support you.
With your amazing render skills, and ability to tell a story, I'm pretty positive that I would support a VN of yours. But I will never support a project like this, where it's future is so uncertain, just as it was, with Deeper.
