Hello Silk_Ari, just got done playing v0.2 and have some ideas for you:
- Unnamed Psychiatrist - this isn’t a deal breaker, but I think you need to introduce at least one other character, a psychiatrist (female of course), that will function as an explanation as to how the MC got out of the mental hospital so quickly. The intro seems to already be set up (with some minor tweaking) for the MC to be telling the Doctor how he got here instead of just narrating. The doc could then tell him that it’s the last session before he is conditionally released and that they are waiting for the family/police to come pick him up. Before I get too much further with this idea, she should be a weekly character (at first) ....
Thanks for the suggestions. I know the prologue needs work, but to be honest, I want to focus on the story after the fact, so in my view the story that follows and more importantly the relationship with the characters is much more important than what happened before. The prologue will be revisited, mainly with the psychiatrist character and getting info from the characters, but really, the plot is secondary to the actual interactions of characters and how their relationship evolves.
As for the crime itself, you have to remember 2 things.
1) The character was under age at the time, and juveniles get treated differently than adults.
2) He was never sentenced to a crime. He was sent to a mental health institution. You have a somewhat introduction to that concept when the Aunt says, you weren't responsible for your actions. So, the character was released once he was found competent to return into society. He does not have a criminal record. The house arrest is a temporary voluntary restriction that was set by his psychiatrist to make sure the character goes through a period of transition between being confined to the institution to being free to go where he pleases.
One more thing you have to remember, there's only so much you can cram into a game, I think the main focus and what interest people to play is the characters interactions ( and sexy scenes) rather than an actual story that is flawless. Though, I don't think I shouldn't strive for a coherent and flawless story... you'll have to give me a pass from time to time!
And lastly, about the Julia character. Yes I know there are certain issues in some scenes. The problem is with the rendering, with my current set up it takes between 6 to 8 hours to render a scene. I only have the preview to work with before locking it for an 8 hour bake. It looks great in the preview and then in the final baked scene I find out the eyes are fucked up or something, that means 8 hours down the tube or live with it for now. If you look at my patreon page, all money Im getting is getting to upgrading my set up sop I can reduce rendering times and have better control on models..... so until I can afford new gear...well....