Ah, yes, the ol' hide and seek we all love from sandboxes
I do agree it’s better to have the initial introduction to each girl be railroaded. This in an of itself is a valuable hint for the players as it’ll give them a vibe of what these girls are into.Ah, yes, the ol' hide and seek we all love from sandboxes
Idk but if I can't even get to know the girls during the first 5 minutes of gameplay I lost interest really fast.
Think about making a railroaded general introduction for the main characters and game mechanics.
I just used the word trainer because we’re training our stats to be better as the gameplay loop. If that’s a genre of gaming idk what the criteria is for that to qualify for a tag for it or not
Two girls per house are already introduced automatically in an event. It has no artworks for now, so it isn't very clear. I hope it will get more clear with artworks. And I am currently thinking on ways to introduce others organically too
Trainer is a genre where you "train the girls", not train yourself
Oh lmao I didn’t know that’s an actual defined genre lmao. Well the more ya know.
Between the removal of rollback and save, I don't understand why you would disable basic Renpy functions. It's quite unplayable like this.
In my experience, a lot of bugs occur in RenPy games when you rollback (the more complicated ones that go beyond typical kinetic VN level, and actually have a lot of code going on behind the scenes.) Assuming by rollback we are talking about when you scroll the mouse up to move backwards through content to change your mind / redo something you recently did like make a different choice. Desert Stalker used to crash like a mofo (unhandled exception errors) when I tried to rollback for example.
One of the benefits of saving at specific places is knowing what's happening at that time. If every save looks the same, it's very difficult to remember what happened. This will get much worse as the game goes on when there are more updates and time between updates. When the story starts to branch and you go on different routes, when the next update arrives after a few weeks or months, can you say you'll remember what you've done up until then, with no visual cues?
Due to complexity of the code, rollback crashes the game constantly. This isn't a linear visual novel, so stopping or resuming rollback at a wrong moment can just crash the game or mess up the triggers.
That's why I added a function to name your saves, in case you need to discern between them.
This is where im at currently. Cant really get off to this game but it did enough with what is currently has to make me go "okay im gonna keep an eye on this one,"
Honestly the kind of monkey paw deal I wouldn’t mind. Nothing would give me the confidence to ask out women quite like the threat of an eternal loneliness curse if I don’t.
Admittedly that's pretty good motivation but to be fair that's basically how life works anyway given 95+% of women refuse to make the first move on a guy so unless you're a lesbian the curse would just be kinda redundant.
