Mac version works fine, although the permissions are hosed up (pretty common if you don't use a zip program that understands POSIX permissions). That's trivial to fix though.
Unfortunately after playing 20m or so I'm going to pass on the game for now. The art is cute and the production values of the UI are high, but there are a few things that make it a no-sale from me:
* The lack of an ipatch is a downer-- not that I'm even particularly into the "boy fucks his family" trope, it's just dumb to see stuff like "I fucked your JUDY" and "JUDY is the best JUDY ever". Please consider getting a "fan" to provide a patch.
* The English isn't terrible, but given the very slick UI I would expect as much attention being paid to the words. There are numerous minor grammatical errors. I realize you are a small team supporting a ton of languages, but at least the English version could really use an editorial pass
* No rollback is a huge pain. I get that it probably causes problems with the code and you guys are sick of getting questions about it, but it's a VN-- I accidentally click too soon because I mistook some text effect for a transition, and some piece of information is gone forever
* I can't hide the textbox (usually done with "H" in renpy). The juicy bits of some of the CGs are obscured.
(I'm doing this as a post and not a review because I feel like it is unfair for me to put in a harsh review for a game I only played for 20 minutes.)
Hello there
Thank you very much for your honesty and also not leaving negative review quickly.
Just a quick responses:
The lack of an ipatch is a downer
There is an incest patch available in the latest downloaded files 0.24.6 there shouldn't be any action made extra to apply it, just download, unzip and play.
Regarding grammar - Sadly none of us creators is a native English speaker, I speak 4 languages and honestly english was always my weakness, but we are cooperating with some editors to make it better and fix these issues, in the past they were much much worse. We will look through the occurences as you said Judy is the best Judy ever, it is written in game file correctly but some checkup changes it incorrectly - WE WILL GO THROUGH THESE CASES AND FIX THIS ONE AND MANY MORE.
Rollback option
When you press arrow keys (LEFT / RIGHT) you are able to see the history of the conversation like this in a rewind:
And it is also available by clicking on the small arrow on the left side next to SKIP:
But if you are used to mouse scroll for example we could definitely add that option into the game to do it like that or if Ren'Py uses some common practice or a keybind to do it please let me know and I will promptly include it into the game.
I am also considering to change the arrow to a text ''HISTORY'' to make it more clear.
I was even considering an open question to add LOG there - to see whole conversation or at least last 6-7 talks in the middle of the screen as some sort of log history of talks window, what is your opinion about this?
* I can't hide the textbox (usually done with "H" in Ren'Py).
Can you please mark or tell us specifically which textbox do you mean? (we can easily include such hide by some key into the game, just let me know how it should work as I am not familiar with how it works in Ren'PY)
I can hope you could give the game one more chance some time in the future. And currently we are adding more choices (we have 60 talks in our TODO list for this) and possibility to skip certain in-game moments (we have a list of at least 30 moments) making it smoother as well as adding new story parts (that will fill the gaps and make more sense).
The humor here is pretty hit or miss, and where it misses the mark is where it relies on juvenile and ignorant assumptions. The writers try to portray the MC as a guy who listens to women and gives them what they want, but most of this thoughts betray a frame of reference that indicates he does not. I can't tell whether the writer hasn't actually had the opportunity to, or didn't take the opportunity to! I suspect the writer lacks a lot of sexual experience and has been informed by porn and lowbrow humor.
Years ago we wrote about 500 A4 pages of conversations in a span of 2 months, some are not perfect and many are incomplete. We are still learning and grow over time to know what worked and what was weak and need a rework. The first prototype contained more realistic talks but people complained heavily it was too much about the story. So we added more crazier stuff that people voted for in public votes to create better variety. I agree to rework some of the talks to make some less kinky or accessible later with a prerequisite or something. We have these on our todo list for characters Alexa, Sharon, Victoria but also Raven, Natalie and some teachers. Right now we are focusing on Judy so these changes will take us 4-5 updates to do fully and have a natural transition towards different girls sexuality.
Yes some will be bitches and some will be shy or have hobbies, wins and fails where you as a main character will choose to support them or act selfish. And as more variety will open up by your choices it would feel natural even to a player who enjoy romance but also to a player who intent to make girls have sex. In some cases when you push it too hard the girls won't talk to you for couple of days and feel grumpy about you as a consequence of bad actions made. I know this isn't currently in the game but we have a plan to include these impactful choices over time much more as well as creating relationships between characters - Eg. every girl should have a girl friend and a rival who she hates, this will create more tense situations.
Game is still in the development, that's why we are here to talk about it.
