Ren'Py Abandoned Where I Belong [v0.1.0 Beta] [Elementario]

[Elementario]

Looks like someone took UI inspiration from Superpowered, wouldn't have been my first choice.

Yeah, it is kinda inspired from SP, I wanted to make a sandbox kind of game and thought this kind of UI fits it the best.
My bad, I will try to think of a better way to get things done.

 

[Elementario]

left click dont open save but esc work

I think you mean right click, and yes I remapped most of the keys so some of the old keys and removed.
Like movement is with W, A, S, D, so the screenshot key is moved to N.
Game UI is with Right click, so game menu is moved to Middle click,
I mapped a few other buttons I thought would be convenient so I removed them.
Like Shift-Q, Shift-W and Shift-E are Save, Preferences and Load respectively,
Also, you can use Q and E for quick save and quick load.

 

[Steinchen]

Noted. Sorry for disappointing you, I will try to improve it surely.
Just a question though, what is it that really bothers you?
The navigation UI or the character interaction UI?
Asking so I can know what to improve upon.

in short? : all of that UI it reminds me of the game Bastard Girls and Superpowered too much clicking and options to interact with the characters.How about to give it a try to make it full Renpy or Unity without freeroaming or just a little bit of it?.

believe me when i say that this way many,many players who will try your game will delete it when the Turtorial of your UI will start many of other users here will say the same.

i think when you leave this UI behind you will have more time for the game itself

 

[Elementario]

He looks mid 20's xD

He is 21 by the time you start playing, so yeah.

 

[Elementario]

I have never played a game with such a needlessly complex and cluttered UI. I literally gave up navigating it and deleted. Good renders though, but that's about the only bright spot.

Thanks for your feedback, I guess I got a bit too ahead of myself and felt that the UI was a good choice.
Sorry about that.

 

[Elementario]

Adopted by a family is often used to hide incest content from Patreon and can be restored with a patch and the overview is questionable, there may be incest in the game, maybe he finds his real family later on or this is his real family

Not really no, it wasn't because of patreon but just because of the story I wanted to tell, there maybe a bit of incest in the future with both the Mother and sister being together with MC but no one's related to the MC.
Just wanted to make this clear, I enjoy incest as much as the next guy (Well, in the games I mean ) but nothing with MC in this story.

 

[Elementario]

in short? : all of that UI it reminds me of the game Bastard Girls and Superpowered too much clicking and options to interact with the characters.How about to give it a try to make it full Renpy or Unity without freeroaming or just a little bit of it?.

believe me when i say that this way many,many players who will try your game will delete it when the Turtorial of your UI will start many of other users here will say the same.

i think when you leave this UI behind you will have more time for the game itself

Yeah, that's true I guess.
I spent way too much time trying to figure out this damn UI and the keymapping for navigation around the game.
I get what you mean, maybe in a few days when I get the time, I will try to make a version that's a linear VN with choices instead of the sandbox and UI elements, would that be okay?

 

[Elementario]

I don't quite like that the first option i'm given already has a mistake "Be Freindly" isn't exactly pure english...
Visuals are very good though, Story seems okay, but i haven't gotten very far yet.

Sorry about that, English isn't my first language..or second..or third..
I am still learning about a lot of things and trying to improve upon it.
I will try to do better in the next version.

 

[Steinchen]

Yeah, that's true I guess.
I spent way too much time trying to figure out this damn UI and the keymapping for navigation around the game.
I get what you mean, maybe in a few days when I get the time, I will try to make a version that's a linear VN with choices instead of the sandbox and UI elements, would that be okay?

I think that will be a way better than now give it a try with VN with Choices you will see that many users will appreciate it in that way.

 

[Elementario]

Uh... this navigation is one hell of a click orgy. Also where to go, what to do exactly?
The story seems interesting but the rest is way too annoying to play, at least for me.

I tried to keep clicking to as low as I can still there are a lot of unnecessary clicking I understand that,
You can save your most of the clicking by using WASD to move and ZXC to open doors or use stairs.
About what to do, well I guess I didn't make it clear...
On the first day its mostly taking to the Mom and trying to talk to Sister, after 7AM you go to the college and just go through the day,
From day 2 you can use the Skip button (In the top right of the UI that is shown when you right click) to skip to the events and follow the story.
Sorry if its a bit annoying.

 

[Elementario]

I think that will be a way better than now give it a try with VN with Choices you will see that many users will appreciate it in that way.

Thank you for your feedback, I will try to do that as soon as I can and release it as a separate version.

 

[Methos23]

there maybe a bit of incest in the future with both the Mother and sister being together with MC

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

 

[Elementario]

Possible memory leak.
At least 3 times the game crashed with "out of memory error", usually when I play too long without saves. amd fx4300 4ghz 8GB + 500gb Patriot ssd. Win7 64bit

I am sorry about that, I have never faced that issue with this or any other Ren'Py game, I will see if I can fix that.

 

[Steinchen]

Thank you for your feedback, I will try to do that as soon as I can and release it as a separate version.

and don´t stress yourself for the bad English i come from Germany and English is also not my first language.
But i have improved my english very much by playing these kind of games
everything will improve in time

 

[Elementario]

It's game like this that makes me wish devs would ask some random friends to test the game first.

Dev: First question, how do you feel testing this game?
Friend: It's really annoying to play.
Dev: OK I'm not going to release the game until it's not annoying to play
Everyone else: THANK YOU, FRIEND!

Devs need to understand that when a game feels annoying to play, nobody would want to play it.
Why spend time just to feel annoyed?

The only good thing about this game is that it's the very first release, so there's time to completely kill this game and start over with a HUGE fix.

I understand, I did ask a few close friends to try it and they, like me thought this was a good idea.
But I guess this was the single worst idea I ever had
Anyway, I was unsure of the gameplay myself that's why I decided to release it in beta, I will try to improve upon it.
Thanks for checking it out.

 

[kulbak]

Looks like someone took UI inspiration from Superpowered, wouldn't have been my first choice.

To bad that boi fcked up his game. Having superpowers, raping/seducing chicks in the allay, bars, fighting villains/policeman. Man, with the idea of superpowers - so many things can be done.

 

[Elementario]

and don´t stress yourself for the bad English i come from Germany and English is also not my first language.
But i have improved my english very much by playing these kind of games
everything will improve in time

Thank you, I will try to improve both my English and the game as soon as I can.

 

[BaasB]

Nice so far butt THE UI omg, little less UI plz takes the fun wright out of this gem

 

[Elementario]

Nice so far butt THE UI omg, little less UI plz takes the fun wright out of this gem

Thanks you very much for the feedback.
I see that almost everyone agrees that the UI is the biggest problem right now, I will try to remove it and upload a better version in few days.

 

[ThunderRob]

ok..dev addressed everyone and was a pro about it...guess i'll stick around until the next update and see if things improve..i'm all for second chances