First of all, absolutely love the game! Writing - hilarious, minigames - really well implemented and fun.
Though I have a few complaints: 1) "Americans will use anything except metric system". I mean, chinook helicopter? The city of London? MY MOM?! (Christ that’s heavy...) But yeah, adding meters and liters in setting would be great. 2) Why the girls name is Yuri Belyaev? That’s a dude’s name in Slavic regions, especially "BelyaeV". The correct version would be BelyaevA (at least in russian)
Hey now, Astronomical Units is SI. Probably. And besides, the way to maximize horniness in text-based games is comparisons, nothing but. If I only ever used units of length and weight, it wouldn't have nearly as much impact. How much is 6 trillion kiloliters anyways? It's difficult for them to visualize, which makes it difficult for the game to have any meaning. It's not much of a game if you remove the plot, after all.
I could use metric units for the stuff that are actual units, sure. I considered making that a setting for a good while, until I thought about the actual work that it would take to implement, and the fact that the log(size) upgrades would make less sense than they currently do.
As for her name, Yuri's a cute name. It sounds vaguely japanese (a culture with quite a few foxes in it), and it's pretty common as a name there since it just means "lily". Her last name, Belyaev, stems from the Belyaev foxes, an experiement held in Russia by Dimitry Belyayev, who I've just realized I've been misspelling his name :|, specifically regarding the creation of truly domesticated foxes in the same ways that wolves and cats were. The foxes made from that experiment were much more amicable to humans, it was valuable research into domestication and biology, and it's even been found that the floppy-ear gene is pretty closely connected to the liking-humans gene, as Belyayev fox kits had slightly floppy ears. Wait no the wikipedia article spells it both ways. I'm in shambles.
I was not previously aware of the Russian handling of last names. It's pretty neat. But, because I'm an author and contain the infinite power of rationalization at my fingertips, I will simply say that Yuri's family previously immigrated to Japan from Russia, then from Japan to America. Or perhaps she's the daughter of a russian and japanese immigrant. Either way, anything can work in America's setting of taking bits and pieces of any/every culture and ignoring how they should really be handled.
About metric system - fair point, it does loose meaning after a while.
But(t)! I must suggest an alternative name - Yulia Belyaeva. It's just more appropriate for this kind of last name.
As for russian language - we have 6 cases for nouns and adjectives, it gets complicated very quickly. Third most difficult language after all! (for better and worse)
(BTW forgot to mention - LOVE the text art! It was really unexpected and greatly implemented. I'm afraid to imagine how long did you spent to line it up)
Haha twine's not designed for ASCII art.
Here's what I had to do:
Select a monospace font where each character has an equal size - easy
Wrap the characters in a <<nowiki>> formatting so that they don't get counted as code - easy
Doubletype all the \s because even the nowiki format isn't strong enough to prevent them from escaping - annoying
Redesign the div system because creating an individual div for every single character when those titties are made out of like 600 - had to do this three times
Hey wait these boobs are 26 characters tall instead of 20 - so I'll have to redo the milk display
Create a sidescrolling system that projects each line in sequence for the space game - easy as hell. Finished it without realizing it while working on the next problem.
Create a system to dynamically replace certain characters in each line so that the rocketship, y'know, exists - holy hell this was hard. Strings can be read but not written. I have to cobble new commands together with print statements because variables aren't designed to be put there. Arrays are easier and harder at the same time than they should be.
Copy and paste ASCII earth art without credit - whoops
Get a circle generator to produce the space boobs - not that hard. More of an oval since the characters are taller than they are wide.
Draw the hanging boobs - not that difficult, but the milking screen still lags on potato computers.
Copy the space background from the ASCII art program - It could be copied, yes. You know what the problem was? The enter/lineskip character exists in that program, which means spaces that looked like, y'know, spaces, were actually lineskips that made me have to clean up the entire thing and even then it was janky. I don't want to do that again.
I'm not an artist :(
