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bcrr

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Promising second update, this game continues to feel like it has a ton of potential. I like the slow progression with the family, even if it means having to wait for content with them it's better than the alternative where everyone is down to fuck instantly. Your writing in general is also really solid, minor typos not withstanding but that's not a big deal at all. The whole game is a step above of a lot of the twine games people have been making recently.

I will say that limiting necessary progression like Kindle to weekends only could make things awkward if you aren't careful, especially when you can fail a date with low stats. If you end up progress gated by weekend stuff it might mean playing through a whole week with nothing to do. Maybe consider adding Kindle dates to Friday right after school. Also wasting time when you go for a stat gain and fail feels pretty bad, maybe consider 2 points on a success 1 point on a failure, or no failure state if the activity only rewards one point.

Finally, I'm a bit disappointed in the choice of Riley Reid to recast Rachel, but that's honestly just a personal preference, the rest of your casting choices are great so far. Keep up the good work, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this as it develops.
 

Pravitas

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Promising second update, this game continues to feel like it has a ton of potential. I like the slow progression with the family, even if it means having to wait for content with them it's better than the alternative where everyone is down to fuck instantly. Your writing in general is also really solid, minor typos not withstanding but that's not a big deal at all. The whole game is a step above of a lot of the twine games people have been making recently.
Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback. If you find any typo, please report it in my , in the Bugs Report channel.


I will say that limiting necessary progression like Kindle to weekends only could make things awkward if you aren't careful, especially when you can fail a date with low stats. If you end up progress gated by weekend stuff it might mean playing through a whole week with nothing to do. Maybe consider adding Kindle dates to Friday right after school. Also wasting time when you go for a stat gain and fail feels pretty bad, maybe consider 2 points on a success 1 point on a failure, or no failure state if the activity only rewards one point.
The Kindle is your primarily way of getting corruption at the very start. After it will be used merely as a bonus of Corruption + Potential Stat Gain. As of right now, it requires you to do only 2 of them successfully (you start with 6, gain 7 on intro to kindle and then you only need 2 more to activate your own quest). Once you start corrupting those around you, it will be easier to gain corruption via interacting with the people around you. As such, I feel that it's fine for now. Maybe I will eventually allow it on other days too, once there are more random events.

As for stat up, it actually work better than you described. It works like this:

Fitness - 1/3 No Success (+0), 1/3 Success (+1), 1/3 Huge Success(+2). As such, in average, you should be getting 1 point per interaction. You only need 5 points to cap it as of now, so it should only take 5 interactions in average. If you feel that you want to min max it, you can always just save scum it.

Charm/Intelligence- 1/4 No Success (+0), 1/4 Success (+1), 1/4 Huge Success(+2), 1/4 Special Event (+1 Love; +1). In this case, before you have the first cap, you only have 50% chance of getting a successful roll, but you should still be getting around 0.75 points per interaction. I feel this is reasonable, because you really don't have anything else to do in these time slots, so it will only take you around 2 weeks, even if you are unlucky. You will also gain 1 free Charm and 1 free Intelligence during the Kindle intro. So you only need 4 points total, or around 5.5 interactions. Once you reach 10, the Special Event will now allow you to gain stat also, increasing your average stat gain to 1, just like Fitness. This can also be save scummed, if you are in a rush.

All in all, I feel that it's very reasonable, but I'm always open to feedback!


Finally, I'm a bit disappointed in the choice of Riley Reid to recast Rachel, but that's honestly just a personal preference, the rest of your casting choices are great so far. Keep up the good work, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this as it develops.
Unfortunately, Angels Small wasn't a good choice, because she lacked a lot of high quality pictures and videos to use. I went with Riley Reid, because she has a lot of "cute" moments and she herself looks cute.
 

bcrr

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Unfortunately, Angels Small wasn't a good choice, because she lacked a lot of high quality pictures and videos to use. I went with Riley Reid, because
Yeah I think I remember your first post about having to change the model, and that's understandable. As I said it's really just a personal preference, I always kind of feel like Riley Reid is over exposed enough that I have trouble buying her as anything but a pornstar pretending to be a cute girl next door type. Personal preference would probably be a girl like maybe Kristen Scott, but I'm drifting off topic, since if you were going to cater to everyone's model preferences instead of working on new content you'd never get any work done, and I'm eager to see more of your game :)

As for the mechanics stuff, those are all solid points. It does feel a bit bad when you waste a time slot for no gain, but the requirements aren't grindy enough that it matters and the variety of events is preferable to just a single message for each kind of stat gain. Also finding the right time to interact with people to gain love with them feels a bit awkward, but I suspect a lot of the time slots with stat neutral interactions will be used for corruption or progress into more interesting scenes as we get further into game and increase the girls' stats.

Your use of limited time slots over like a clock that moves every time you switch rooms, plus the fact that events you can't trigger yet don't move time forward are all pretty solid tools for avoiding unnecessary grind or frustration. So far your game isn't at all frustrating to play through, just keeping an eye on things that could become that in the right situation, but it sounds like you're on top of things.
 

Pravitas

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Hello everyone! I would like to proudly present to you guys: !

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This version focuses on getting to Corruption Level 1 for both Kelly and Anna. The reason I didn't do anything for Rachel is because I still have to finish the system for the people at the school. Originally I wanted to do it on version 0.3, but I changed my mind.

I would also like to give a shout out to OldOtaku for heavily testing the Build 5 and 5.5! And with this update, I'm over 80k words!

What's next?

For version 0.3 I will focus on fleshing out the House. This means that I will update the common events to take into account Sarah's Love Level and Kelly's and Anna's Corruption Level. I will also finish all the Picture Common Events and the Massage Common Events. This way, it will feel "complete" to a certain extent. My plan is to focus on the school aspect on version 0.4 and 0.5.

Where can I interact with other members, report bugs, give feedback and test the Beta Build?

You can always join my . If you wish to test Beta Builds, just apply for it.

Where can I support you?

If you want to support me, please use my ! I will much appreciate it!

How do I get an event into your game?

Everyone that becomes a $20 (1) or a $50 (3) supporter on my is able to request an event, that will then be added to the Kindle App.
 

baneini

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"As you both arrive at the campus, you can see a girl on top of chair, that is on top of a table. At a closer inspection, you notice that the girl is Rachel and that she is wearing a crown. Seems like Rachel found the crown. Vanessa looks a bit surprise Vanessa Oh! Who would expect that the prim girl would actually win. Now I'm curious at what she is going to do. Before you could answer her, you heard a loud voice that came from a megaphone. Mr. HD THE LAST TWO ARE FINALLY HERE! NOW WE CAN START THE CEREMONY! Seems like they didn't start without you. Suddenly you feel something wet touching your cheek and a hand putting something in your pocket. "

Thats the amount of text you see at a full screen at once without scrolling down. The sentence starting positions vary wildly from left to more right, the text backgrounds change constantly. You have to scroll down too much and search for text with your eyes constantly. It's technically incompetent implementation of dialogue and is as tiring to read as possible.
 
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Pravitas

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"As you both arrive at the campus, you can see a girl on top of chair, that is on top of a table. At a closer inspection, you notice that the girl is Rachel and that she is wearing a crown. Seems like Rachel found the crown. Vanessa looks a bit surprise Vanessa Oh! Who would expect that the prim girl would actually win. Now I'm curious at what she is going to do. Before you could answer her, you heard a loud voice that came from a megaphone. Mr. HD THE LAST TWO ARE FINALLY HERE! NOW WE CAN START THE CEREMONY! Seems like they didn't start without you. Suddenly you feel something wet touching your cheek and a hand putting something in your pocket. "

Thats the amount of text you see at a full screen at once without scrolling down. The sentence starting positions vary wildly from left to more right, the text backgrounds change constantly. You have to scroll down too much and search for text with your eyes constantly. It's technically incompetent implementation of dialogue and is as tiring to read as possible.
What? It should look like this (with images, I'm using the Debug, so it doesn't show images):
Example.jpg
What browser are you using?
 

elmandor

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Grandork There are two types of quests as i see. Corruption and love. Will we be able to finish all the quests on 1 play through or are we going to need different saves for that ?
 

Pravitas

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Grandork There are two types of quests as i see. Corruption and love. Will we be able to finish all the quests on 1 play through or are we going to need different saves for that ?
The way the game works, you must raise the Love in order to raise Corruption. Love will let you get closer to the girl, Corruption will allow you to do the nasty. This MAY change once you reach Pravitas Level 3 (i.e. Love 3/Corruption 3), but that's in the future.
 

Raknor

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Why is it that during the day after school that In The Yard I can take pictures of younger sister when she wears the flower dress, but all other scenes with her or mom or older sister and tells me I have no camera?
 
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