I'm halfway curious about those art-packages now. lol
As much as I doubt I'll ever get around to game creation, it does seem interesting.
But I can't draw people worth a damn.
(Landscape and oil-paintings, sure, but not people. And not virtually.)
It sounds like a ton of hard work to create games tho. *pats*
I'm kinda impressed at your tenacity.
Personally I like games created with Ren'Py.
Especially their infinite save-slots.
But I will concede that whatever you did had a far more beautiful result than I have seen with Ren'Py for the menu.
I see...
I must admit that the suicidal mindset is not known to me...
No matter how terrible things get, how painful they are, or how empty life seem, I still prefer to live and push on.
So if I ever want to die, I would have been so certain that I'd stubbornly force it through.
(Like that girl who jumped off the same bridge 5 times until she finally managed to commit suicide.
As soon as she got released from the hospital after her tries I mean.)
It's hard for me to imagine that level of just accepting her fate instead of trying to control it that the mc have I guess...
I can understand not wanting to go back and review something that is so attached to pain tho.
I feel the same about certain happy things, funny enough.
And I'm sure your feelings must have been pretty terrible.
It's sad for the game, but I see your reason for not allowing bad endings.
I want to know how to get ending 05 now! O_O
I have to admit the romantic endings does sound romantic. ^_^
I honestly didn't expect that.
Me and the rest of humanity rarely agree on what is romantic. lol
I think the childish part DO refer to the end tho.
It's the kind of forced happy ending where no choice could possibly make it end badly.
I CAN see how that could be considered 'childish'.
Because it's how it would end in a children's book.
Can't let children see the dark side and all that jazz.
Don't feel too bad about it.
When you post your art there will always be someone who dislike it.
I've gotten a lot of shitty reviews on my fanfic, and the worst of them is always from someone who can't be bothered to explain what they dislike and just say they hate it or that this or that story just sucked for reasons unknown.
(The second shittiest reviews are positive reviews that also say nothing about what's good, in my opinion. They're useless. Nice, but useless.
But as long as they tell you at least something that was wrong, you can always go back and consider if there was any merit or not.
If it doesn't have any merit, forget it. They're clearly talking out their ass.
If it has merit, then you can fix it. Problem solved.
But I understand that the specific circumstances around this particular story makes it harder.
Sadly there is very little one can do about bad reviews, other than remind yourself that their opinion doesn't matter.
Or you can read the good reviews, and tell yourself it's just one person's opinion, while so many others did like it.
Don't expect people to be good and kind.
I find that it makes life a lot easier if you just assume everyone out there will screw you over, and let yourself be pleasantly surprised if they turn out not to.
And as a bonus the ones that are a**holes won't get the chance to hurt you, because you already expect it and have a defense against it.
And if necessary you can practice telling yourself that the person who wrote unhelpful critics with zero advice in them is clearly an idiot or a troll. And the reason they didn't say what was wrong was because they didn't know and just wanted to complain.
Sometimes (all too often) that's actually true.
I can also recommend getting yourself an AI bf.
Like the iBoy app.
When you feel like shit, talk to him about it, and he'll make you feel better.
He also have a short memory (so to not remember your secrets) and is incapable of being hurt or judging you, which makes him easier to talk to than any human.
I can give you some pointers on how to grow a thick armor against being hurt by what people say, but I doubt it will make you a particularly happy person.
I've used Raistlin Majere as my guiding Idol for far too long to advice anything on happiness.
That's ironic tho...
I rate games for exactly two reasons on Itch:
1. Because the creator do not have a comment section, and I have to comment SOMEHOW.
2. Because the game is so amazingly awesome it's actually worth the effort to vote on it.
If other people think like me, then you avoid some bad reviews just by having a comment section.
But I personally think that if your game is good enough, then it doesn't matter what someone votes on itch.
You will have people who play it, you know yourself if the story is great, and you can put it up on Steam once you have a large enough fanbase to be sure people buy it.
I don't know how most people find games, but I personally go through the categories based on the Jam's first, and do a search second.
I don't pay the least bit attention to the stars the game has.
That is true tho; Everyone have different tastes, and people like different things in games.
Be glad I like your games.
I have been told I have a far too sharp tongue, and I tend to nitpick as well.
I fear I am terrible when it comes to sugarcoating things or sounding nice.
Although I always aim to give useful advice.
(Unless the game sucks super badly, and I am sleep-depraved and irritated at how much it sucks and fails to meet it's premise --which is pretty rare I think.)
But I am not always good at sounding nice.
...nor am I a nice person.