Unity The Handyman [v1.1.2] [thecyborgmummy]

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Erik1986

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Its a funy game and the mini-games arnt of the "throw your keyboard through your screen variety. However the tedious, click fast to complete task variant can get realy anoying, especialy the second day when you have to do it 9 times in a row.

Limited time also makes enjoying the scenes dificult cause your always press to complete everything within a realy short amount of time. Maybe slow down time progression in future versions a bit.

Third person camera angle is too off, you can barely see where you are going. It should be angled a bit down slightly. Controls arnt bad either, though a random click can sent you out of a scene or walking of to god knows where. Implimenting a simple wasd or arrow keys movement mode can be helpfull in navigating a bit.

For the mini- game (sex) maybe make the bar on the right fade in (or show up) but only start working after 1 second or so, that will help get people ready for it. Right now you have no clue when it shows up, and have to hury to get your mouse on the click button in time. Fadding in or a timeout when it apears will help alot to get ready for the mini-game.

All in all a fun game, and the looks are actualy good, despite its throw back graphics (characters look real good, and nothings is hideously pixelated) Good luck, and look forward to more.

PS: for the love of all thats unholy.....dont add quick-time events!!! Just saying ;)
 
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GentlemanFaun

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May 24, 2017
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I just played through without much issue. I had some trouble with the "instalation" minigame (I didn't even notice it for a while). The sex scenes were nice. I used a cheat engine to slow down the minigame, so i could complete it without a panic.

I'd love to get some real reward for winning all the baseball minigames. Personally, I'd like to get to cum inside the girls, possibly with a puddle under them after the fact.
 
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Irondude

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Jan 22, 2019
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Its good,any walktrough or guides? needs add to move freely with WASD anyway, the click to move is kinda pissing me off sometimes, thx.
 

zoneitorboneit

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Apr 30, 2018
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For some reason the L option to skip the day was removed and b/c the one one the couch never climaxes, it just never ends.
 

thecyborgmummy

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Aug 2, 2019
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Hi guys, thanks again everyone for your feedback. i just have a few quick things i'd like mention/ask.

Its a funy game and the mini-games arnt of the "throw your keyboard through your screen variety. However the tedious, click fast to complete task variant can get realy anoying, especialy the second day when you have to do it 9 times in a row.
you don't need to fast click. you can just hold down M1. I failed to give any kind of proper instructions on the "fix" mini-game. I will remedy that in the next version.

For some reason the L option to skip the day was removed and b/c the one one the couch never climaxes, it just never ends.
does the mini-game never pop up? it sounds like you are experiencing a bug the "T" skip button was never meant to be in the previous version, it was an oversight on my part.

I feel like adding the fact that the girl currently DOES NOT reach orgasm ever. She just produces hearts over her head.
I don't know any girls who can do that, but I know plenty who can reach orgasm, and that is not only a higher pitched moan.
there should be more than hearts popping up, there should be a change in animation. i'm not clear on whether you are experiencing a bug, or whether you simply find the animation inadequate. each orgasm should produce a different animation, the higher the level, the more pronounced.

Man, I just have the worst luck with this game... last version, day 2 would crash if I tried to go upstairs or if about a minute elapsed. The Dev is awesome, and sent me a custom version of the game to help with troubleshooting. Couldn't resolve it though.

This version, Tanya walks up to me on day 1 and just stares. No dialog. No one else on here seems to be having these issues, so I guess it's something wrong with my computer. It's a little old, pair of AMD Radeon 5850s. Wheeee.
i have not forgotten about you! but... i am thinking it's a hardware issue. I will continue to see what i can do.

I would recommend reversing the order of successes needed. It is hard for a woman to have her first orgasm but successive orgasms after the first take less time. So the first should be 4 successes the second still 3 and the third 2.
i will consider this. i have already reduced the speed the blue bar shrinks at (after posting latest version). Definitely don't want people stressing, but also don't want it to be a freebie, so its a bit of a balancing act. Thanks for your input!

are you really that dumb?
he is just being snarky. he wants me to remove the time limit entirely (he is not alone in that).


i do really appreciate the feedback and response. there are a ton of things that i would like to add going forward, more characters, different outfits for the girls, a free mode where you can play the sex animations you want (if you've unlocked them), hair and clothing physics, and on and on. but just to keep things real, i am a solo dev, who works on this in his spare time. what you have in front of you is about a years worth of work. i do have a lot of the groundwork laid out for things, but pretty much every "day" requires me to add a few new systems. for days 3 & 4, i will be building a system to keep track of certain decisions/events that happen during a day that will affect other days. as a minor example, under certain circumstances, on day 1, karli will tell you that she is going to paint a picture of you. if you've triggered this during day 1, on day 3, she will paint a picture of you (yes, karli confirmed for day 3). and i have a more interesting plan for carry over between days 3 and 4. BUT BUT BUT BUT... all these things take time, so i have to pick and choose where i will focus my energy. i've been busy fighting bugs and other technical stuff for the last several weeks, so my brain needs to move on to more creative aspects of the game for a while.

and i ain't sayin, but... i'm just sayin, if you like the game... it would be cool if you'd rate it here or over on itch... if you're into that sort of thing.
the cyborgmummy
 

zoneitorboneit

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does the mini-game never pop up? it sounds like you are experiencing a bug the "T" skip button was never meant to be in the previous version, it was an oversight on my part.
It does pop up, the pink bar slowly fills however it just keeps popping up over and over and over. It never ends. Also T does not work.
 

thecyborgmummy

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Aug 2, 2019
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It does pop up, the pink bar slowly fills however it just keeps popping up over and over and over. It never ends. Also T does not work.
ok. "T" isn't supposed to do anything, it was some code i accidentally left in the original build. it was, effectively, a cheat i accidentally left in.

so, here is how the sex mini-game is supposed to work:
there are 3 levels of orgasm for the girl. to reach an orgasm, you need to fill the pink meter. to fill the meter the first time requires 2 successful mini-game hits. when you do that, you should see hearts over her head (depending on the camera angle, they may not be visible), and she should have a brief orgasm animation. then regular sex should start again. the pink meter will revert to 0. it takes 3 successful mini-game hits to reach orgasm 2. again, once the meter is full, she will orgasm, with hearts over her head and a different orgasm animation. the meter will revert to 0 again. to reach the 3rd level orgasm require 4 successful mini-game hits. if you reach the third orgasm, the player will orgasm no matter what.
 

MikeL07

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Jun 14, 2017
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I'm not the first to say this, but I think this game has house party-level potential and tbh I'd like to get in on the ground floor. I have 4 years industry experience, dm me if you need any assets made.
 

jarb01

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May 18, 2017
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hey, this game is pretty good.i'm glad you extended how long a day lasts, since the game takes a bit of getting used to. the first day's task is kind of a pain in the ass since there's some trial and error, or at least it is until you realise you can talk to the girls to find out where some of the spare lightbulbs and burnt out lights are. figuring out how to get tanya to fuck off so you can have sex with one of the girls is an interesting idea that feels rewarding.
 

TarlZaralka

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Dec 13, 2018
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For some reason I have checked every lamp and light source in the the house but still have one left to replace, I think I broke it.
 

bigbay

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Jul 28, 2018
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I think this game is pretty good no matter what people say about the way the characters look, because for me the animations weren't even that bad. The only change I would actually make is changing the controls for the character by having W A S D instead of the mouse.
 

wdbrain

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Mar 16, 2019
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Tried version 0.1.2, it's really nice as a proof of concept, but I see some problems, here is my feedback for the author:

Controls/camera: Firstly, I would make it so that the player does not need to press "Cancel" to get out of the interaction menu (just clicking anywhere else than menu options would work as "cancel"), so that the transition between "interaction mode" and "movement mode" feels more effortless. Second thing, playing from 1st person view is painful. In 3rd person, you mostly don't need to move the camera, so it's fine, but in 1st you have to do it all the time to change direction. I think either movement by keyboard or at least camera rotation by keyboard would be better. Or some automatic camera rotation based on where the player clicks on, e.g. when in first person, set camera look-at point to the last thing the player clicked on, it could work, though maybe it would need to do the transition smoothly over several frames so that the camera does not jump too much.

Gameplay (lack of) focus: there is already a lot of mechanics, but some seem to not really work with each other. What is the time constraint for? If I understand it correctly, the aim of the game is to be a puzzle game. But there is enough time that if I know the solution to the puzzle(s), I will have no problem executing it. If I don't and won't find it before time runs out, all it will do is it will cause me to restart the level. I don't see any purpose in that, it doesn't make the game more challenging, just more annoying.
Then there's the "patrol time", that is avoiding Tanya: I think it would be better to either not start with sex before the puzzle is solved (like let handyman say: "nah, I gotta control myself, I'm sure Tanya is gonna be here any second to look at the stupid fish again" when you click the "grab her hips") or have it break automatically before it leads to game over ("shit, I can hear someone coming to the door, pull out!"). I know it sounds like hand-holding at first, but right now, the moment you choose to engage in sex without solving the puzzle, you are basically clicking "restart the game". Again, more annoying rather than challenging. If you're afraid that getting rid of the gameovers would remove any challenge from the game, I would say add the challenge through your main mechanic - the puzzles: make them more complex, add some red herrings or moving pieces (perhaps even time sensitive?) etc.
Moreover, because even as I am (almost) inevitably losing the game, you still let me play the sex minigame, which makes me feel like "maybe if I am fast enough I can make it" - which is not true, but it's not clear. If nothing else, at least add some hint with the game over, like: Tanya: "oh you're fucking my yoga girl, game over"; handyman: "fuck, if only the stupid fish would hide in its stupid house so that Tanya wouldn't come here all the time I could have had a nice time". If you insist on making things time sensitive to get some urgency, make it matter: if I do things fast enough, I "win", if I don't, I "lose". But that might require to change your sex minigame - instead of making it as long as possible, making it as fast as possible, so that if you make the girl cum before Tanya shows up, you get rewarded, and if not, you get punished (either game over, or you pull out in time, but then the girl is angry at you and doesn't give you some item/info that would be useful for progressing the game etc.).

Speaking of which, the sex scenes don't seem to really influence anything, there is no reward for winning the minigame other than the animations themselves. In fact, you can skip them altogether and the game continues. I think it should be more connected to the work you do as the handyman, so that you need to interact with the girls to progress the game. If I can get through the whole game just by being a good manual worker, why even put it in the "Adult Games" section (to be fair, there are some hints at that, like the TV girl telling you location of one light bulb only if you let her molest you; and Tanya searching for light bulb in her room when you already took it....but I think it needs to be more intertwined than that). Without it, you will just make the chores feel like, well, chores. Or the other way around - make it so that completing the chores unlocks some sexy content. For example, after I install the shelves, Tanya starts putting something on them - and I can finally fuck the yoga girl in peace etc.

Narrative: this is rather subjective and not really a problem in the current version, just wanted to say that currently it all feels like those 80s porn movies ("Miss, I came to fix your plumbing, wink wink"), which IMO is good, but only as long as you can keep the dialogs ridiculous and silly enough. If the characters start to resemble actual human beings, the game could turn pretty weird and creepy in no time. So my suggestion for future content would be to keep it as silly as possible. Alternatively, make the progression with sex less porn-y, that is have some character development, don't let them put out immediately. Up to you, just don't try to do both at the same time (at least not with the same character).
 

GuardianZ

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Jun 12, 2017
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Okay. So far the protagonist has met five girls (as of the end of day 2). Only two can be banged so far. The Blonde on the Sofa on day 1 and the Ginger doing Yoga on day 2.

Side note. The girl upstairs goes straight to her room after telling the protagonist off. She helps herself to so schlicking. Door is locked. Can not get a key for the door from her until day 2 to get the shelving. Is she the Tsundere of this little group of dorm girls?
 

dayloppoly

Newbie
Jul 31, 2017
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I just tried the game. Had low expectations going in.

The descriptions and pics don't do it justice. I really really like what you've gotten started here. Good luck going forward, can't wait to see how this turns out.
 
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jarb01

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May 18, 2017
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the changes from the new dev log and the last one look great! i think i like tanyas new outfit more than her old one, i feel like the new one makes more sense. if i had to make a suggestion, maybe you could give the girls's nipples a little bit more detail somehow? the actual nipples don't stick out much from the areolas right now.

and be careful with not censoring the sex scenes in dev logs. i'm not sure what the rules are on youtube, but i think the uncensored sex scene might be against the rules even if the video is age restricted.
 
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