VN Ren'Py Matrix Hearts [v0.3.4] [Blue Otter Games]

[Blue Otter Games]

There are two ways you can look at my review and notes. Either you take it as me trying to pulverize you, or, as me trying to relay bugs and concerns. Mind you, I never attacked you personally, I only made observations. My review contains points I liked and disliked.

Also, I bought your game on Steam, I didn't refund it, even if I was unhappy with it. I see potential, and would've considered buying season 2. This reaction, however, is giving me second thoughts. Feel free to discard any criticism as hate, and see how far that gets you. Or, you can take part in a constructive conversation with your audience, and see if there are more people that are confused or frustrated. If I just wanted to rag on your game, I could've done that with a single line of text. I wouldn't have spent hours taking notes and writing a comprehensive review.

Whatever you take away from this, at least fix those 4 bugged scenes. Please?

A constructive conversation is talking to the dev, asking them to do better, not going in every single store page they have to thrash them.

Had you simply messaged me, posted a single thread on here, or even left a review on one of the sites, I would have gladly taken your criticism, but when I get a personal message in Discord that there is someone posting negativity on every page there is available for my game... how does that make a dev feel?

I'm not saying I'm not going to take your suggestions into consideration. I can gladly fix those bugged scenes, and think about making sure all my routes are more cohesive. I've taken many-a-critique from fans. I've taken their critiques on my shotty lighting in renders, my pacing for the MC, many people complaining about the MC calling the women dude or bro... many things have been implemented that you don't know about.

All I'm asking is to talk to the dev. We are people. Hard working people. Think about that next time before posting a review on every single site. You're well within your right to ask for better, and I plan to make the best game possible. You obviously played the game, and I thank you very much for playing.

I am quite busy working on Chapter 4, so I don't go on here but once a week to answer questions and take stock of things. In the future, if you play my game, please try to reach out to me since you obviously paid attention to the game. While criticism in reviews is helpful, I get 90% of my feedback from players who reach out to me, because it doesn't do well for the mind to dwell in the review section. I have an entire section on Discord for saying however you feel about the game and what you want improved.

Again, thank you for playing my game. Cheers to all Otters!

 

[Blue Otter Games]

Btw ... the itch.io version is still at Ch 3 v3.2.3. Is it intentional that v 3.4 from July is not available there yet?
(Seriouy question, I really don't know if that's supposed to be exclusive for Patreons or whatever.)

The Itchio version is getting the wave to the current public version this month! The entire site is going to be getting a lot, including the Android version of Season One.

The in-game phone feature is almost complete as well, and that's going to be implemented into the paid version of the game, while the public version is everything except the in-game phone and the Point and Click spheres. I had to implement something extra for those who buy the game but want to make sure that public players can experience the story too!

I am ottering to make the most awesome game! Splish-splash!

 

[_doodle_]

havent played in a long time. Last time I played it ended when that one girl saw you in the bathroom after the storm. in the safehouse i think. There was a glitch that made it so that was the last render i saw. Anthing past that?

anyone? lol

 

[Quetzzz]

All I'm asking is to talk to the dev. We are people. Hard working people. Think about that next time before posting a review on every single site. You're well within your right to ask for better, and I plan to make the best game possible. You obviously played the game, and I thank you very much for playing.

I reviewed the game on Steam, because I bought it on Steam, and I reviewed it here. I added a link in my review to my notes, to invite discussion. Because, mostly where the story is concerned, it's always possible I missed something. Any "review bombing" is merely in the head of the person who messaged you. Though, a part of me was also curious how you'd react, because I noticed you've only been liking good reviews of your own game. It gave me an impression.

I'm not on Discord or any social media, and haven't posted anything on Itch or whatever other sites you're using. And even if I had done that, I don't necessarily think it would've been wrong. I just don't think my opinion is important enough to do that.

It's my impression that you're young, and stressed out, possibly even a bit too concerned with how you're perceived by others. In business, people don't care how much effort you put in, they only care about the results. Spending 10 hours in the kitchen won't get you compliments if the food is burned. Luckily, when you have a fan base, you can leverage them.
What I'm proposing, is that you put the .rpy files on GitHub (or alternatives) and allow people to do pull requests. You keep ownership and creative control of your creation. People could propose changes, which you can review before accepting or refusing. If you're having trouble writing in different voices, ask someone to rewrite a character's lines in their way of speaking. You can crowdsource translations this way as well.

And, dude, though love is love too. Learning to down the medicine without the spoonful of sugar will improve your mental state. The only person who needs to be proud of your achievements, is you.

 

[Maviarab]

Ypour way too full of yourself dude. Reviewing AVN's like your a pulitzer critic lol.

 

[Blue Otter Games]

Your impressions are wrong, however. Nor am I ever going to need anyone to do character work for me. But thank you for the suggestion, I'll definitely keep it in mind for other things like translations.

I don't give a flipping flying f about reviews, nor am I stressed about it. Otherwise, I would comment on every single heated review I get. I haven't commented on a single one. Many developers won't because it spawns things like this, which i want to swim from. You appear apt at this subject though and keen on details, you outta make your own project. If you would like to have a discussion about it, you're more than welcome to send me a private message. Otherwise, thanks for playing and your insight.

Now, no more of this talk, let's return to talking about the game and not the Otters around it! You can use Otter memes though. Otter memes are awesome and so are otters!

 

[battali0n]

A lot of players are asking but none of the main females are lesbians. There are going to be threesome scenes (who or what we won't tell you yet), and a few side females are bi, but there is no fully lesbian woman in those characters. There might be some as tertiary characters later, but the lesbian scenes are so far secluded to the photo scene in the first Chapter with Xia and more coming in Chapter 3.

That's all we're going to tell you for now!

I've been waiting for more information about the lesbian fetish before I play your game.
Will all lesbian(including sexual contact between girls in a threesome) be optional, as in I decide if it happens or not?
If that is not optional then will the threesomes be optional?
I get that some guys are into lesbian but many of us are not and want to check before we play a harem game these days.

 

[motseer]

I reviewed the game on Steam, because I bought it on Steam, and I reviewed it here. I added a link in my review to my notes, to invite discussion. Because, mostly where the story is concerned, it's always possible I missed something. Any "review bombing" is merely in the head of the person who messaged you. Though, a part of me was also curious how you'd react, because I noticed you've only been liking good reviews of your own game. It gave me an impression.

I'm not on Discord or any social media, and haven't posted anything on Itch or whatever other sites you're using. And even if I had done that, I don't necessarily think it would've been wrong. I just don't think my opinion is important enough to do that.

It's my impression that you're young, and stressed out, possibly even a bit too concerned with how you're perceived by others. In business, people don't care how much effort you put in, they only care about the results. Spending 10 hours in the kitchen won't get you compliments if the food is burned. Luckily, when you have a fan base, you can leverage them.
What I'm proposing, is that you put the .rpy files on GitHub (or alternatives) and allow people to do pull requests. You keep ownership and creative control of your creation. People could propose changes, which you can review before accepting or refusing. If you're having trouble writing in different voices, ask someone to rewrite a character's lines in their way of speaking. You can crowdsource translations this way as well.

And, dude, though love is love too. Learning to down the medicine without the spoonful of sugar will improve your mental state. The only person who needs to be proud of your achievements, is you.

 

[katabasi]

news?

 

[Slick Bean]

Xia gets a new hairstyle while devs be drowning their patrons in oceans of lewds ... bikini clad hotties running around them creepy forests.
MC is improoving his resistance to snark and hopefully learning how to stick a GF, as we all know what he did to his last.
Now that Chapter 4 is fully written and programmed (well, as programmed as it can be without all the renders),
hopefully whoever is left after the deluge of lewds will start rendering next update scenes.

 

[katabasi]

news?

up

 

[fifo5310]

news?

 

[jhonatanw]

It's Otter Christmas and Season One Update!

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[Duke4515]

Would love to play the new update but I don't ever use steam for porn. It would be nice if there was another way to dl.

 

[BTWZ1]

Would love to play the new update but I don't ever use steam for porn. It would be nice if there was another way to dl.

Steam recently released an update that allows you to hide games. so no one will know that you play adult novels

 

[breckinva]

Steam recently released an update that allows you to hide games. so no one will know that you play adult novels

And how does one accomplish this feat of skullduggery?

EDIT: Searched for an answer to my own question:


How do I mark a game as private?
There are three places where a game can be marked as private:

• From the Steam Client
  - You can mark a game as private from the "Manage" submenu on the game itself. This menu is available from right-clicking on a game or clicking the gear icon on the game details page. Additionally, it can be found under the "Privacy" settings in the game properties dialog. This option is only available when the Steam Client is online and connected to Steam.
• From your web browser
  - You can mark a game as private on your Steam Community Profile games list.
• From your shopping cart
  - Before you complete the purchase of a game, you can mark it private on the cart page.

EDIT AFTER MY EDIT: Yeah, none of those options show for me in my steam client. I didn't get the option to mark the game private when I checked out. Scoured both pages with a magnifying glass. Just wasn't there. I'm in the US so you'd think it would be if it was available anywhere. Also can't mark it private from the Manage submenu of the game itself. Now all my friends know what a pervy perv I truly am...

EVEN LATER EDIT AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH: Though the tip I copied above doesn't seem to mention it, this feature is still part of the beta branch. You must be enrolled in the beta to access it.

 

[shankzcz]

Hey, either i'm comletely dumb or i don't know, but i can't find the one Otter for the full code for the computer in the library can someone help me and tell me where specifically it is ? Thank you. (And if this question was already answered here, sorry).

 

[ReaperGD]

so uhh... any updates?

 

[breckinva]

I swear, I love every character in this game so far, even Chrysta - but Rylee... I love her all the way down to her tiny freckled hands! I just got through the scene where she shares her 'Ninja plan' and I just can't even...

 

[Nemo56]

Would love to play the new update but I don't ever use steam for porn. It would be nice if there was another way to dl.

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(currently there's an outdated version of this game on itch.io however, but I got several other games there as well)

Steam is not the only store selling games, but people only seem to think about that.
Always also take a look on itch or GOG, where GOG sadly only has a few prerendered games (but good ones) and tons of Kagura anime games.