I like how the dev made the game,
he solved issues of person being stuck at stupid tasks to progress because its right there, maybe they could be toggle-able or something but thats details
people are complaining about grind, but idk you can skip days, you can skip also dialogue if you don't care that much (in settings turn on "unseen text" and just press tab, its renpy)
the story was good, it was funny enough some stuff was good some was yikes
there were also choices, I'm not sure how I like choices when it comes to content like this, because you then skip a ton of stuff - this is basically fixed by the gallery (but I guess if the gallery would be more user friendly it would be nicer)
overall very good game, if you don't mind stuff mentioned as tags, the dev deserves the money, the game shows he cares/cared about it
I never heard about this game and only found it when released, but the end product seems to be finished which is like 1 for each 100 developing games on this site
Hopefully he is not burned out and has some ideas for next game, my advices would be (as a dev, but not game dev):
- as a solo dev keep games reasonably short (I guess this game length-wise is the max imo), you not necessarily have to make single plot game from start to finish you can do stuff like the simpsons that each game is just an adventure not the whole life story; shorter finished game is much better than long neverending misery, it frees you up to basically "start from scratch" without redoing existing content/story
- keep the UI organized, this game was fine, one thing I had to look up was slutiness of maya and somebody said its when you play as esther, but I bet there was more stuff which could be improved but I just don't remember, if dev wants me to write more stuff, no problem I would play the game again to provide better feedback from my POV
- try to make it fun for yourself if possible, developing shit solo is often a hassle and a lot of people burn out quick
- keep being you, you rock
Thanks for this gem, good luck in your future endeavors
PS: why is there no discord server
he solved issues of person being stuck at stupid tasks to progress because its right there, maybe they could be toggle-able or something but thats details
people are complaining about grind, but idk you can skip days, you can skip also dialogue if you don't care that much (in settings turn on "unseen text" and just press tab, its renpy)
the story was good, it was funny enough some stuff was good some was yikes
there were also choices, I'm not sure how I like choices when it comes to content like this, because you then skip a ton of stuff - this is basically fixed by the gallery (but I guess if the gallery would be more user friendly it would be nicer)
overall very good game, if you don't mind stuff mentioned as tags, the dev deserves the money, the game shows he cares/cared about it
I never heard about this game and only found it when released, but the end product seems to be finished which is like 1 for each 100 developing games on this site
Hopefully he is not burned out and has some ideas for next game, my advices would be (as a dev, but not game dev):
- as a solo dev keep games reasonably short (I guess this game length-wise is the max imo), you not necessarily have to make single plot game from start to finish you can do stuff like the simpsons that each game is just an adventure not the whole life story; shorter finished game is much better than long neverending misery, it frees you up to basically "start from scratch" without redoing existing content/story
- keep the UI organized, this game was fine, one thing I had to look up was slutiness of maya and somebody said its when you play as esther, but I bet there was more stuff which could be improved but I just don't remember, if dev wants me to write more stuff, no problem I would play the game again to provide better feedback from my POV
- try to make it fun for yourself if possible, developing shit solo is often a hassle and a lot of people burn out quick
- keep being you, you rock
Thanks for this gem, good luck in your future endeavors
PS: why is there no discord server