Hi! Thank you very much for you input! It really helps having this kind of feedback. I can implement by the next update hte suggestiong of item 4. Regarding the Café maybe I need to rework the whole thing, but I think I won't be doind it right now. I want to give the option of a normal work/no corruption path. Maybe it needs some sort of advantage and/or reward. I'm planning on add more professions both "normal" and "corrupted" ones. I totally agree with you on 5, I used most of those scenes as placeholders for better scenes in the near future. I'm trying to make them animated using Koikatsu, so no more censorship and better expirience. I hope you stick around and watch the game grow!
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Alright. I finished this current update. Here are my thoughts. Sorry if these are long, I just want to get all of my opinions out.
- I miss the original "fetish porn" images. It stinks that there is only one of them now. I particularly miss the one with the ribbons, since that one felt unique.
- I like the adventure option. It's a good way to either get early money at the potential cost of corruption (if you're in the early game) or a good way to get rid of excess corruption (if you're in the late game). As you mentioned previously, if someone wanted to do a "pure route," adventure would probably be their go-to option.
- When you update the café, could you add an image associated with the option where Furina only wears the apron? It feels like there should be an image associated with that one, but there isn't.
- I didn't say this with the last demo, even though this also applies to that one, but I really like how when you lose and Furina gets all out of whack (whether it be from depression or corruption), the game doesn't instantly boot you back to the title screen. That's really helpful for stopping people from losing all of their progress.
- At the bottom-right corner of the "adventure tavern," there is a little bit of incomprehensible text that came from the ai generation.
- I think that the one image in the normal advertising photoshoot when Furina is doing a squat might be a little lewd for an advertisement. (this is a joke)
- The "fetish porn" option displays the incorrect amount of stamina required. It says 5, while it really costs 10.
- I feel like the images used for both the "escort" and "hookup" option should just be used for one of them, since Furina gains happiness during the "hookup" option but she loses happiness during the "escort" option. Despite this, she looks sad during both. Plus, I miss the original image, since she looked happier there.
- I feel like the normal corruption drug and normal happiness drug are kinda useless. You gain money so fast that there's really no reason to get the normal ones at basically any point.
- I'm still not sure what the "side effects" of the drugs are. Has that been added in yet?
- I have no notes for the "porn movie" and "bikini photoshoot" options. The images used for those are very good.
- I'd personally add more images for the "naked photoshoot" option. Two is just not enough in my opinion.
- Sometimes, the "go on an adventure" option crashes my game. It's never crashed before this point. I think it might have something to do with the images.
- [This one is for the future, not the current build] You don't have to add this if you don't want to, but I'd like to know more about the bosses. Who exactly is this "Charlotte" and what are her goals? She knows Furina from her past, which can lead to some interesting story opportunities. Her being the only other named character in the game right now makes her feel more important than she currently is. I mean, the manager of the café doesn't have a name or a face, making Charlotte seem a lot more important. Maybe the ability to talk to Charlotte/the café Manager and maybe even romance them(???) could go a long way to making the world feel more lived in. Getting to know your boss seems like a normal thing to do during work, right? Also, if you want to go down this route, maybe there could be a chance that one of your bosses shows up while you're drinking at the bar, since right now there don't seem to be any perks to alcoholism that can't be achieved by eating fast food, which also doesn't even increment your corruption.
- I thought of another idea. Right now, it’s easy to get way too much money in like 10 days no matter which route due to the fact that you can easily get $400 per day adventuring. So, to fix this, maybe you could add a weekly rent/tax thing where you have to pay a set amount of money every seven days or else you instantly lose. This would definitely make players think about money more, and isn’t that the point when Furina is supposed to be somewhat poor?
Keep up the good work, luminara! I am excited to see this game grow.
Hi! Sorry for the late reply, but I only wanted to reply when I adressed your suggestions. Your feedback helped me a lot and I can't thank you enough for helping me developing this project.
1 - Added more fetish images matching the old ones, more to come.
2 - Glad to hear it! I want to add more things to it like random encounters with characters.
3 - It might sound funny, but it already had images for her only wearing the apron, but someone (me) forgot to reference them, now it's fixed!
4 - Thanks! I want the player to have fun and have the chance to explore multiple endings and playstyles.
5 - Fixed!
6 - Naughty Furina! lol
7 - Fixed!
8 - Will add more images and separate those set of images
9 - I removed the smaller drugs to see how it balances the game.
10 - for now the only side effect is leading Furina to the junkie ending. I haven't implemented others, but they are coming.
11 - I'm happy to hear it!
12 - More images added! I learned more tecniques that are producing prettier art and less weird results.
13 - One of the images was misspelled making that error, fixed!
14 - I have plans to add the option to date those characters and others. The idea of randomly meeting someone at the bar or increasing the relationship with your boss while working will make the places feel more interesting and alive. I want to add this to the next big update that I hope will go live by next week.
14.1 - Just for context: Charlotte is a famous journalist and a photographer in the Genshin universe, in the game I'm focusing more on the photographer aspect of her and planning to build her relationship with Furina based on that.
15 - I made a few changes and lowered some salaries, also added the daily rent cost. For now is low, only $50, just so we see how it feels. My plan is add more houses and make it a huge factor changing how much happiness, corruptions and other factors she wins or loses everyday.
16(?) - I also plan on changing the UI, making it prettier and organized. But that probably won't happen in the next update.
I'm checking if everything is okay to upload the uptade that will fix those!
Hey, I really appreciate you taking my suggestions to heart. Now I’m even more motivated to give suggestions and now I’ll be able to anticipate late replies. I’ll make sure to keep updating you on my thoughts in the future, even if it isn’t right away. (I start the game over completely for each review.) Just make sure to keep me posted on when updates happen and I’ll keep giving my thoughts on them!
Hello, Friend! Hope you had a great time on your holydays. The game is updated with the mentioned fixes. By the next update I want to have added the feature of buying a new home, what will give more options to what to spend and at least dating with Charlotte. I'm just figuring out the technical part on what will come along with that mechanic. Like random encounters at the bar, maybe a bonus to the profession, etc. I wish a very good year for you and I hope to hear from you soon!
Time for the review of version 1.0.2! I hope you had a very good winter holiday and happy 2024, friend!
1. Every time I wake up, an error happens because the 'rentValue' is undefined. I can just hit ignore to continue with the game, though.
2. I'd go back and grammar-check the intro section. "Looing" is not a word.
3. One of the images for the naked photoshoot causes an error. Number 4, to be precise.
4. One of the images for the naked photoshoot just doesn't show up at all, though this could be related to image 4.
5. One of the images in "porn movie" isn't centered properly. Do you think you could adjust it so that it's in the center and not at the bottom without changing the image? (It's the one where someone is behind Furina and there are hearts floating around her head.)
6. Did you buff the amount of happiness the escort option takes? It feels like I lose way more from it now. After one escort, Furina starts crying herself to sleep. I'd probably nerf it a little bit. 35 happiness is a bit much.
7. Furina isn't naked in one of the "naked photoshoots." (not really a problem. It's just funny, like the 'lewd' photoshoot in the advertising photoshoot images.)
8. Thanks to the added images in each of the photoshoots, they feel more fleshed out now. (Also, don't think I didn't notice the ribbon images. The red on Furina's blue looks very good. I still miss the original image a bit, but these are worthwhile alternatives.) However, maybe adding more types of fetishes in the fetish porn movie would be beneficial, since right now it only seems like these are two main options. The ribbons are great, but if there are too many of them and not enough of other things, it gets a little stale.
9. I still miss the original 'happier' image for the "hookup" option. I don't know if you can get it back or not. I still really think that adding it back to differentiate "hookup" from "escort" would be beneficial.
10. I am very happy to see the apron-only option finally has not one, but two images now! I wonder where we can go from here. Maybe Furina could try working at the café naked/topless in the future? Hmmm...
11. You removed the small drugs. Nice. I never used those anyway.
12. Random idea time! Maybe at some point, there could be a way to increase the stamina that Furina has per day, such as by working out or something. This is just something I thought of while playing, since I either had to sleep or buy stamina in order to see most of the fetish movie images.
13. You don't have to do this if you don't want, but I have seen other people on Itch.io and Newgrounds.com do this. If you want, for the next update, you could create a "new game" of sorts. Basically, release version 1.0.3 as a standalone game and then more people can discover this game in the latest games tab. I think that having more fans of this game besides me would be nice.
Overall, this demo has quite a few improvements to the previous version (see the added images and slight corrections), but the errors bring it down a little bit. (see the rentValue) This is also definitely a smaller update than 1.0.1 to 1.0.2, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I am looking forward to version 1.0.3. The things you mentioned in the post above sound promising.