oh wow im sorry i've been pretty busy and didn't see this im sorry for that
1.I honestly like your chapter and contact idea, I think I might actually use this in the future because while i wasn't planning on working on this game for a few years I don't want it to reach like chapter 16, so I'm really grateful for this suggestion!
2.Believe it or not this is my highest prioty right now because trust me it's just as frustrating or probably more for me, knowing theres a lot of bugs and you can't fix them all. It is a gradual thing but I haven't recieved as much complaints from the spin off so I think that might've fixed a few things
3.I actually would've loved to do this but in the first version of my game there was an annoying glitch where the text will just go by really fast AND the screen kept going all the way to the top, so I had to make the first chapter fast so the player wouldn't get annoyed (it was a big problem i had no idea how to fix), while it sucks that had to happen and I couldn't go with my original plan I did try a soft reboot in chapter 4
4. I'm actually in the progress of improving this, I wanted it to be unlockable from the start but i'm gonna be honest. I think a bigger prioty is the foundational stuff before this because I want to add an undo button and skip button since a lot of people have been requesting it
5.thats more of a problem with the older chapters due to me not knowing how to properly write in dialogic but newer problems it is being actively fixed (or at least the best to my abilities) i want the player to feel like they have actual sway in the conversation and i'm trying new writing flows to see how i can closer get there
Thank you for your feedback! I really love this game and I only hope to improve while sometimes i get sad this is just called a cash crab, people like you remind me that other people love this project (or probably more) then me!