Game is simply not ready to be released. The creator is an amazing comic maker, but as all other great comic makers before him, the game just sucks.
As of now its too barebones to deserve a release. No direction, plopped randomly on some map. There's some random renpy build md called readme in the release. Sloppy work from someone with amazing art and story skills. I never understand why great comic creators have the desire to go in alone on a game, especially a more open navigation game. If you need to start making games, make more linear story focused visual novels. Learn the ropes through what you're good at. then make something more ambitious on your next run. This game has taken like well over half a year and the only worthwhile output is the art that probably took less than a few weeks in all.
It comes off more as if the dev has been sinking all his time into this and had to drop something to keep his patreon supporters happy, so he showed them what he has so far. I'm hoping that the sunk cost fallacy doesnt turn this game into the end of this creator, as it has for other comic makers. the game, and the process through which it is made, needs serious reconsideration.
As of now its too barebones to deserve a release. No direction, plopped randomly on some map. There's some random renpy build md called readme in the release. Sloppy work from someone with amazing art and story skills. I never understand why great comic creators have the desire to go in alone on a game, especially a more open navigation game. If you need to start making games, make more linear story focused visual novels. Learn the ropes through what you're good at. then make something more ambitious on your next run. This game has taken like well over half a year and the only worthwhile output is the art that probably took less than a few weeks in all.
It comes off more as if the dev has been sinking all his time into this and had to drop something to keep his patreon supporters happy, so he showed them what he has so far. I'm hoping that the sunk cost fallacy doesnt turn this game into the end of this creator, as it has for other comic makers. the game, and the process through which it is made, needs serious reconsideration.