Cokane0 Excellent game! Just rushed the two first chapters, starting the 3rd. The amount of animations is, AFAIK, the biggest I've seen in a Ren'Py game. S
If you don't mind, I wish to make you some suggestions...
As you know it perfectly, each chapter is HUGE. I don't mind about bandwidth, but since there is some copy/paste between each chapters... Why don't you provide a separate pack (i.e. one or more RPA, to be clear) with
repeatable content, so:
- You can significantly reduce each chapter size,
- You can fix chapters and/or repeatable scenes without impacting the rest.
- It should be easy to limit repeatable scenes chapter by chapter with a global "chapter number" variable, if you don't want to backport new scenes in old chapters.
This shouls reduce some criticisms about the download size, and also reduce copy/paste for you - that's always something bad and not funny to do.
Also, maybe the two "maps" (world & jump) should be merged - and put a better icon for "Back" on these screens, this ugly circular grey arrow one really don't suit the game!
The "Love/bio" screen (the one you get from the "Heart" icon) may be extended a little with all girls (several pages, maybe?), and a completion ratio could be displayed for each girl (for example, a "Story: 3/5" or similar display under each portrait). Would be easier than scrolling in replay gallery to check if everything was done, and it could make this screen a bit more useful - honestly, once bio are read, there is absolutely no need to return there, despite its easy access through the icon... While the replay gallery is less accessible, but way more useful.
Last but not least, a little "import/export" function would be nice... It's quite a pain to re-set all nicknames, choices, etc. when you want to continue "your" story, even if it's a nice feature to avoid replay everything from chapter 1 just to change one or two choices.
Thanks for this little gem, I don't know how I missed it, but now I got it!