adumbtoy99 thank you so much for the review, and your first one at that, I feel honoured!
I will address some points from another reviewer below, I hope that it will answer some questions that you have.
But most of all, thank you for your patronage c:
Jnx thanks for the review, and fair points. I'd like to address a few of them.
- I only say that because the scope the Dev has for this is too large and overly ambitious. "Episodic" is a very strange story to strive for when episodes of every episode are put out sporadically themselves.
Honestly, it could be the case. I had the outline of a slow burn story in mind dating from several years back, and after discovering F95 I was like "Hey, why not adapt it in this format?". I chose an Episodic format cuz it will kind of allow me to experiment both in terms of stories and visually, I've learned a few things since I started working on Chapter 1 but I don't want to implement everything in Chapter 1 itself, especially for the sake of visual consistency. And yeah, I'm trying to get better at putting out more updates regularly, I'm still learning as to how to manage this project, work and life in a balanced way, my apologies.
- The inbetween moments in this is the MC watching VTubers. Or scrolling through reddit. Or he says "I made money in crypto." because he's already planned to leave home again, to meet other girls whose only trait is they find the MC attractive.
Lemao yeah tbh for the vtuber thing, one of the main reasons why I put that in the inbetween moments is really cuz that's what I've been doing in my downtime until a couple of weeks ago, watching vtuber compilations. I get how it may get some people miffed, it ain't for everyone. Reddit's gonna be a plot device in the future for travelling, and the crypto money part I wanted a quick way to show that the MC isn't broke, but isn't rich. A part time job while at uni wouldn't really help this cuz the MC was dealing with depression, and I remembered the Gamestop thing with reddit a few years back. And for the girls finding the MC attractive being one of their main personality traits, well, I've got more planned for Grace and Lily in future chapters, and there's a reason as to why they're attracted to him, they have a bigger role, and the story will not just stay at being daily everyday nothings, chapter 1 is just the setup. I'll leave it at that to not spoil anything.
Another reason why I'm keeping the first chapter pretty inoffensive, even boring at times as you say, is really cuz I'm taking this first chapter as a learning experience to have a better grip on Studio Neo, Renpy, time management, and writing in a Visual Novel format before putting in more interesting ambitious things the further along I go.
