Thanks for playing the demo!

>you'll need a big notebook to keep everything in check

I predicted this, so internally the dialogue branches (or the beginnings of branches) are grouped not only by categories, but also in internal groups. For example - the "Goal" category had 3 groups - "Ask about the goal", "Goal achieved - negative" and "Goal achieved - positive". Those groups can be plain ("always enabled"), or be removed from the dialogue options via some condition check (like the goal dialogue options were). I think this will at the very least help with managing the scope of the dialogue contents.

>just fill out your stickman's mood meter

Yup, either way (negative or positive) is fine.

>I sure hope there will be other ways to achieve a 'win' condition

Not in this demo since I didn't have other gameplay mechanics (map traversal, etc) ready for the demo. If I manage to implement everything that I want, including the story planned - praising every NPC will not get you a happy ending.

>Also it's a long dialog tree already, other NPC interractions should be a little more rigid imho.

Yeah. This is a tech demo for the dialogue mechanics, so I went wild with it. I plan to have proper dialogue trees for quest objectives, every other interaction should not be this long.

Thanks for playing the demo!

>before realizing that you had to be kind to see the goal lol

Nope, you could be mean and still reach it, the requirements for both positive and negative are the same. But it seems that I've screwed up the balancing and put too many positive affinity changes. Sorry about that.

Yeah, this is a tech demo for one part of the game. Can't promise killing demons and treasure, but guns and blood *may* appear further down the line.

Thanks for playing the demo, I appreciate it!

Thank's a lot for playing the demo!

>I'm not sure about the sim-ese language

Yup, it's supposed to be exactly that, since I'm trying to remake a 20 year old rpg sims game. Though VA is still not set in stone, I'm just trying stuff out to see what works and what doesn't. 

>Poor grammar: "So whats your game is about?" better as: "So what's your game about?"

That's really odd. It's "What's" in the game resources, but for some reason the apostrophe is not being rendered. May be an issue with the font lacking a glyph for an apostrophe, I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the report!

>I think experienced dialogue should be removed after I go through it. I got to the congratulations screen by just spamming a talk prompt that seemed to move the bar further into the red.

This seems to be a common complaint. While the "farming" is kinda intentional this demo - I'll definitely have to look into removing/altering it for future versions.

>The 'I like you' / 'I hate you' binary setup feels too simple

There are 5 stages actually, "neutral", "positive", "friend/lover", "enemy", "nemesis". The "Do you like/hate me" question is more of a "condition check" dialogue option. The main gauge for affinity is the bar and little face icon between the character screen part and the player options screen part. But I get what you're saying. While I don't think I will alter the dialogue screen - I think you're right about it being too binary. I'll think about something to let the player know his relationship with a certain character and add a bit more "flair" to it.

Absolutely!

Thanks for playing my demo!

Thanks for playing the game, I appreciate it!

Thanks for playing the demo!
Yeah, I'll set it to "on" by default, it seems to be a common complaint.
As for the affinity system - you can reach the end by pissing the character off enough times. Basically you can go both positive and negative. The idea is "Be nice or be rude - doesn't matter, but be consistent". 
There are some dialogue branches when the character hints at the fact that it's not required to make him happy to progress.
Anyway - thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!

Thank you for playing the demo, and thank you for your kind words!

Thanks for playing the demo!

You're right about autoskip, will probably do something like "Skip all/Skip read" VN style with "Skip read" on by default.

Farming love/hate is intentional since I wasn't sure if players will be able to consistently reach the requirements for the end screen. Some dialogue branches are pretty lackluster in terms of affinity changes. But I'll keep this idea in mind for when the game has more content.

Thanks for playing the demo!
I know, that's why I put that dialogue option there :)

As for scrolling - mouse scroll (or any function, actually) is not supposed to work in dialogue UI. Character message box supports scrolling with arrow keys, just like the player options choice.

Thanks for playing my demo, and I appreciate your feedback!

Thanks for playing the demo!

You're correct, it's more or less a tech demo of a dialogue system. 

I tried to make at least a bit entertaining though to showcase its capabilities.