In the authors notes on the first page, I state to ignore the variables that pop up. Those will be changed in the update after next. Those are a remnant of sandbox, but removing them takes time that I would rather dedicate to fleshing out the content of the game. It is on my radar, however.
I do believe that MC's Dad stated that the Stone brings out people's emotions, but I will review and ensure that it is as clear as needed.
Eventually, there will be more options on how the MC reacts and what happens with who, allowing the player to make their own choices and live with the consequences. However, everytime a choice is made, that scene then branches, leading to a different scene. Each render may take 20 mins to a few hours (the club scene was straight hell to render) and a scene may have 30 to 100 renders, which means I need to pick and choose which choices and options to include during each update, or I'll end up with an update that doesn't really go anywhere, is incredibly unexciting, and will be detrimental to the health of the game.
As I did during the Evening Party scene with this update, in which the player can choose to go find Sasha instead of engaging with Claudia and Emma entirely, I do plan on adding quite a few scenes during those first two days. I expect the first 2-3 days will end up being double or triple the currently 780ish renders currently in this build.
As for body type, you can refer to the new banner and, I believe it represents a decent spectrum of body types for the main romancable characters, of which that is only a small portion of the total planned characters that MC will meet and interact with.
Can you be more specific on where the MC shifts into player? That is something I would like to review.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Character development is also somewhat difficult for me, as writing is not really my strong suit. Thanks for that feedback, I will strive to improve that aspect of the game.
As for teleporting, some of that dead space between scenes will be filled with other activities in future updates, so that should help somewhat. I'm also trying to avoid the MC incessantly talking to himself during times of the game where there aren't other characters on screen. I've played some of those games and I don't really like that very much. I will make an attempt in the future to add some "travel" renders between scenes though, to ease the feeling of teleporting.
The game looks interesting, never the less.
