Love to see a lengthy comment! I'm glad you seemed to enjoy it!
" basically I've played a lot of games like this, and this is the best type: one that actually lets you do the action instead of just 'click and watch the action happen'. "
Same! I'm heavily inspired by horny flash games I used to play and I was always disappointed when they were just slideshows with no real engagement.
"The character designs are really interesting to me. Do they have names?"
Not yet, unfortunately. I'm developing their personalities but they're still just "The Mechanic Girl" and "Unit No. Whatever" in my head.
"the buzz of the buttons almost jumpscared me. Maybe add a noise to the zipper and the screws?.. ^^'"
Sorry 😅 It was almost completely silent but I knew I needed some form of audio feedback for the panels so I was sure to add at least those. Ideally when I update that will be something I address.
"Narrative: It doesn't have one yet- I hope there will be one when it's finished!"
Yup! I intend to have VN style scenes as well as dialogue during minigames if all goes well!
"Horny: [...] Did you not just get to it, or is it supposed to be really subtle?"
A little of both, I plan to have other characters and scenes that go all the way, but I knew I wanted this particular character to have a more subtle/personal vibe. The actual relationship between machine and mechanic itself is the main kink I wanted to display. (I like to place myself in the perspective of the machine, if that tells you anything 😉)
"I was a little startled when I hit play and it launched something weird, probably because I haven't seen any game do that before- maybe clarify on the jam page that it launches pretty much a new webpage. It was also 'running with IndexedDB access disabled'? I don't know what that means."
Yeeah, this was my first time actually exporting a project and the way UE4 does HTML is weird, but I didnt want to make people download such a small project. When I update it will likely be more fully formed and not be released in this format.