@Deadlyreaper sadly, you are correct, as I have been stating here, this release along with the next release will be more "blah, blah, blah" finishing the background information and setting up the rest of the universe before turning everyone loose and letting them make informed decisions to the choices that they will be making in May's and future releases...
Again, this is a "Visual Novel"... meaning it is a picture book... an, interactive story with pictures and sometimes choices that can be made during the course of the story... and, while I could've done this as a .PDF or as a CYOA Web-based game... however, I felt that Ren'Py was the best vehicle for it because it provides the ability for me to tell the story of the universe that I wish people to feel immersed in, while also giving use the ability to track, record and make a player's choices count for something.
Yes, I could've probably have done what other games like Halo, Mass Effect or Skyrim does, provide the main story and include background information within texts, tomes and journals, but... let's be honest here, how many of those damn things do any of us really read while playing those games??
As I've said before, to you and others... if you don't like reading, don't like updates that may not have "gameplay" in it, then THIS is not a game for you.
I mean, this is NOT a full time gig for me, I wish I was making enough with it so that it was, but even though it isn't, this game has only been out seven months and has over 100,000 words and over 2,000 images in it... show me another product or game out there that has that much for only being out for seven months... you'd be hard pressed to.
What's more... many of you are getting it for FREE... and, yet, still complain.
@Palanto Games and myself are working our asses off, every month, using our free time to entertain
YOU and others for a few bucks a month (paid by people who appreciate the effort and work we are doing) so that you can be entertained for
FREE... costs you nothing but time and hard drive space... and, still, you complain because it has too much talking and story in it?
I said this publically when I first started doing this, that I am going to build a game and a story that
I want to make and that if people
want to support me in that through Patreon then GREAT... but, that I am going to make the game that
I WANT to make...
...and that is precisely what I am doing, even if it has a lot of "blah, blah, blah" in it.
I regret that you may not like all of the talking in it, but, Love it or Hate it... it is still my game to make.