View attachment 4182271
This could be the banner for the Patreon and the wallpaper for the options screen and the welcome screen and the Save/Load screen and the gallery screen and the fade in and fade out start of chapter screen and end of chapter screen.
Every thing in this game is going on in anticipation of the birthday, which is totally odd as nobody cares about the impending double birthday of the twins in this game - no talk about organising a party or throwing a party or going out the both of them or asking peers to come out on the town so they can cellebrate together. Where is the whole plot of ”birthday in a couple a days” plot line get lost all of a sudden? The tension is forced and hard to grasp, the ”momma*s boy” MC should be either growing out of it or getting deeper in the ”parents fave pet” territory, for being teased and seemingly passive to the digs that the others keep throwing at MC.
Narration is a staple of Star Wars and Dune with walls of text going on in the early movies.
Most game devs around here have a special girl/guy do the narration in the beginning - the MC, the antagonist, the antagonist and the MC, a different girl or a girl from the game doing the talking. MC being the 4th wall breaker in the beginning works well enough, yet the description of the fairy ladies should be done by one of them - as a thought that we see as being in her head or a thought of Mc who is dreaming all of this - he already was dreaming of the girl before, so another vivid dream would be on par with his character description - ”MC is living in his head” - dark horse, rough diamond, keeps to himself, distant, daydreaming, head in the clouds.
The huge problem is the story that makes absolutely no sense: apart from the fact nobody seems to know or act or prepare or acknowledge the impending double birthday of the protagonist characters, even the MC narration is all over the place.
May I first say thank you for the well thought out response. This is exactly what I was looking for when I asked for feedback. Now I have plenty of really good suggestions to work with. I am currently parsing through each part of this post, and writing notes that will help me with the redesign. I would love for you to join the Discord so you could give me feedback, as I will be releasing small updates there along the way until I have a more polished version for release here.
First off, you should just make the MC 18. Cause currently, he is underage, and you have him involved in a sex scene. That is not allowed here and will get your game deleted/banned unless it is changed.
Already done. The story is about the 19th birthday approaching. In the process of rewriting the script to take in the great suggestions I have received. Should have an update on discord in a few days.
I haven't played this yet, only read the description. Have a few questions to try to figure out if this will be something I will enjoy. First, can anyone explain to me the mind control elements of the game? Also, the description makes reference to becoming a hero, but will that be the only path available to us? Or will we have a darker, leaning toward villainous option as well?
Curious because, if the MC is the one with mind control powers(not sure if that is the case), normally that power trends toward more villainous or at least morally grey characters.
I haven't played this yet, only read the description. Have a few questions to try to figure out if this will be something I will enjoy. First, can anyone explain to me the mind control elements of the game? Also, the description makes reference to becoming a hero, but will that be the only path available to us? Or will we have a darker, leaning toward villainous option as well?
Curious because, if the MC is the one with mind control powers(not sure if that is the case), normally that power trends toward more villainous or at least morally grey characters.
The final outcome hero or villain will be based upon player choices. The MC will have innate mind control abilities, power of suggestion type abilities. The strength of these abilities will vary based on MC choices. It is not the only power in the game though, and was only added in to the tags because it exists in the game. It will not be the main focus of powers unless the correct darker choices are made.
The final outcome hero or villain will be based upon player choices. The MC will have innate mind control abilities, power of suggestion type abilities. The strength of these abilities will vary based on MC choices. It is not the only power in the game though, and was only added in to the tags because it exists in the game. It will not be the main focus of powers unless the correct darker choices are made.
Already done. The story is about the 19th birthday approaching. In the process of rewriting the script to take in the great suggestions I have received. Should have an update on discord in a few days.
To be clear, it’s okay for the MC to be under 18 on this site, heck he could be 14 as long as he doesn’t look too young, the problem is with Patreon not here.
Though it’s always a good precaution to make sure that any characters that will be in sexual situations are over 18 even if they aren’t. There are so many games on this site with 18 years old characters that are clearly not…
Also deciding on the controversial tags early too especially the three letter word. There are some, including me, that won’t touch your game even if it’s optional.
Thank other devs for that when there’s a nasty surprise when you avoided that content.
These concepts are good as a payoff from a good narrative. Once you hack and do away with parts of what motivates the characters, there is little left for a story in there.
Man I think you should put the answer to the quotes below and not above them. It kinda confused me lol. Well I may as well be the only one so maybe there's no need. I honestly did't play the game, I always wait for a game to be past the 1st vers. b4 playing it. I wrote my com reacting to another's.
So, I don't rly know what to think abt the chunk of text you wrote (mc needing motivation, b-day plot, him being affraid to approach his crush...). From what you're saying there is a lot of room for improvement. I hope dev/s will take a look to what you wrote.
But yeah, I like the fantasy genre when done correctly, the fights (even if it's been so long since I last saw a game proposing good fight scenes), the epicness... From the front img and the overview (even if let's be honest the overview rly doesn't say much), I thought we'd get smt similar however that guy's com rly put a stop to that. How can you have epic fights if for every imgs you have a whole chink of text....
It's not possible, I dislike that even in "non dynamic" VN. Idk, the idea is jut not attractive and those more than often put me to sleep lol. It's like when some games describe some seggs scene like we didn't have a litteral (see what I did here lol) visual representation of it. Just a little description suffice, let the player's mind, story's build up, renders... do the rest.
I just find it's breaking the immersion the player has.
These concepts are good as a payoff from a good narrative. Once you hack and do away with parts of what motivates the characters, there is little left for a story in there.
I don't rly understand what you mean and I don't want to go down a misunderstanding. SO here's what I think, Initial concepts/genres (I mean they are tightly correlated lol) are of great importance to me. For exemple, there was a time when I enjoyed BAD, Acting Lesson... "concepts" but nowadays even if the narrative is rly good in those they just don't attract me (not attracting me doesn't necessarily mean that if I try them I won't enjoy them).
This game seemed somewhat near my type of games. The only thing is, the game seems a bit too generic but a lot of stories start that way and develop their own signature as the story advances.
still playing this but my first two bits of feedback are
1)dial the horse cock back 3 or 4 notches and return it to human proportions
2)make the siblings look a bit more like siblings facially
3)make alex look 18 not 40
writing could use a bit more polish
all in all its worth a watch
Second that.
Many games have mc at 18 yo, with face of 12 yo, but hey, since mother look like 18 and grandma 25 maybe it's something to be expected
You took a better way in this, but dont go so far ahead. Alex looks like 30+ tired alcoholic, and MC i will give at last 25.
In general, entire game population looks older.
And good luck, i'm still ready for antoher urban fantasy setting
Second that.
Many games have mc at 18 yo, with face of 12 yo, but hey, since mother look like 18 and grandma 25 maybe it's something to be expected
You took a better way in this, but dont go so far ahead. Alex looks like 30+ tired alcoholic, and MC i will give at last 25.
In general, entire game population looks older.
And good luck, i'm still ready for antoher urban fantasy setting
Yeah i kinda felt the same, as stated im redoing all renders and redesigning a bunch of characters as well. plan to rework Kate Alex and MC at the very least