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Yeah, I figured that text-based games would (apparently) attract fewer players than other types of games, especially hentai games since typing with one hand is hard! Again, I prefer text-based over GUI, so I'm happy to see you haven't ruled out returning to it completely yet. But regardless, I think you've done as well so far with Timelapse as you have with Legacy, so I support your decision to use GUI, I believe it's the way forward for you now. I guess the reason why I like your games is because they're really a breath of fresh air. When it comes to western NTR, there's so many crappy, unfinished Ren'Py VNs, and a few bare-bones Ren'Py sandboxes. I'm thoroughly sick of Ren'Py, I wish developers used other engines. Not to mention, most developers are unimaginative when it comes to NTR scenarios.Thanks for the thoughtful and detailed comments!
There were multiple reasons I switched to the GUI for this game: technical troubles with Adrift, seemingly waning interest from players in the text formate (although possibly that's because it's so mired in old technology) and an urge on my part to try new things as a developer. Text games are actually pretty quick to develop, in fact, and I like the style and the amount of freedom it gives both me and the player. I wouldn't rule out potentially returning to a text based game again in the future if I can get myself a good enough engine that captures what Adrift could do, is more modern and allows me to customise the interface, and importantly, that is simple enough for me to use... I've been looking into doing that one day, but it's more of a long-term goal and nothing happening soon.
As you say I do plan to develop the NTR content more; you have some good suggestions but I also appreciate the self-awareness that going into really huge stuff turns it into primarily an NTR game. I hope you'll enjoy where I take it in the future, anyway; I don't like to commit to too much in terms of details of what I'm planning to do, in large part because a big reason for me to do this job is that I enjoy improvising content depending on my mood and not having too much pressure to do anything specific. I like to just go with whatever feels interesting to me at the time, but that usually tends to give the best results, too.
And I'm glad you're an Emi fan! I don't think she gets enough love, myself. For the sake of the thread, here's an Emi image that I think I never ended up using for anything.
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Also I felt like I was getting carried away there with the NTR suggestions lol. I wish developers were able to pull off a harem-focused game with NTR elements as well as you do. I don't think I can name a game I've played from this site that was harem-focused, had decent NTR, and was overall good.
And yeah, Emi is fucking A+. Nice picture and again, good luck with the game.