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BBBen1 year ago (2 edits)

Thanks! That's great feedback. We get so little player feedback that can actually give us some perspective on it and now that the game's starting to take shape a little more it's very useful.

More guidance early on about how to do the management might be a good idea. It's good to hear the player's-side perspective on that.

One note was that I've planned to have a purchasable item from the merchant, once that's introduced, that would boost cleaning. Obviously not available now and maybe it'll still be a bit too hard to do early on anyway, so we might need to think about giving one of the rooms a boost to sweeping. Which one, though? I'm not sure. In past I've thought the only one that makes sense in-universe is the laundry again.

I've been wanting to add some more clear guidance on what's available or when players should stop playing. It's a little hard to figure out at the moment. We did put a note on the menu screen but that's not easy to see in gameplay. Maybe we should just slip some notes in on every area where we're going to be adding more content when you reach the end of the line.

Anyway, thanks again! I'll make notes of these points. I think we can probably act on a lot of this immediately.

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Hunter Sugar1 year ago

Some temporary thing would be fine enough, when it comes to the sweeping, imo.

With regards to that, and the indication on what’s available, I think you can just expand a bit on the [WIP] tags you already have in place. Since there’s a lot of them, it’s a bit murky when it comes to the level of implementation they have. Splitting them in [WIP] and [Coming Soon] or something along those lines would already indicate what places HAVE some content already and which don’t.

For the questlines, a “This is as far as you can go in this version” final placeholder event works wonders. I hit those in some other projects I follow and they’re always reassuring. You could also take a similar approach to some other elements… take, for instance, the Rituals with the maids:

From the content we already have with Az’ea, I’d assume the idea moving forward is to have more options for the maids as well. In which case, say, Delia, could have a list of options that looks like:

[Footjob - 0 obedience] [???? - ???] [Not implemented]

For, respectively, an action that’s already open, one that can be unlocked, and a placeholder that indicates there is more content planned for that character. Looking at something like that would already tell me a lot about whether there’s more content in the current version or not.

For regular main quest stuff, just have a special “You have reached the end of main content for this version” special day event that pops up at the appropriate time. The player may want to keep playing for more side stuff, but that at least tells them they’ll be done with the main as well.

Finally, if you’re keeping track of the version differences and adding more content on later days, you can always have, during development, a cheat menu that expands on the current “start at first day of content for this version”. something like:

day 10 (version 0.4) day 15 (version 0.5)

etc…

Could be a hassle, could be chucked out of the window if you rework the early game, but if you expect that players won’t be able to keep carrying the one save, this can give them some help if they’re coming back after waiting out a couple versions or whatnot. This last suggestion COULD be more hassle than it’s woryh, as it’s really kind of a tiny thing.

Hope this helps shape up some of these ideas better

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BBBen1 year ago

Thanks, yeah, we'll have a look at what it makes sense to implement for all this. Some of this might work well for us, or at least we'll look at it as we figure something out.

While shortcuts to see the content aren't exactly a long-term priority, we also need to think about the player experience right now in early access.

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Hunter Sugar1 year ago

They might be more trouble than they’re worth, definitely a long shot. Just more of a suggestion along the lines of “if you notice things fall into a pattern where this could be feasible without too much hassle, it would probably be quite handy”

But yeah, I wouldn’t waste a non-trivial amount of effort into something like this either, for sure =P

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BBBen1 year ago(+1)

Yeah, fair. Just getting some kind of release done each month feels like a major achievement. :D

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