Thanks for the well thought out feedback! This is exactly the reason why early access is a good way to start out for a small fry like me, because getting the audience for a big beta test would be extremely difficult! I have a tiny discord community where I do engage a lot, so it has been very helpful as well, and I feel games like this are always a community effort.
I'm actually planning a small manual, because I feel that tutorials are a bit tedious and prefer reading. Also, I LOVE lore, so there is a good chance to lore dump into that as well. I do have a quite a bit written out about Cheshire, but I can see how it comes out as... Rushed, which it probably was. Anyway, Cheshire dialogue goes into priority #1 as of now. Kind of agreeing with the forced to share a bed part. I kinda vibed with the early ones, so I'll noodle a little bit with the dialogues.
So for things that are already on the pipeline:
- Rewards for beating bonus rounds, like an additional picture or something. I'm not going to like, demand the extra CGs for that though. Just would be nice.
- Skipping dialogue for pre-match scenes that you've already seen. Again, if this is already in the game, I don't know how to do it.
- Some system to avoid repetitive vocal BGM:s (a lot more are on the way), one case would be to play the vocal one at the start, then go into instrumental and at the last stage get back to the vocal
Things that I haven't thought of, but I want to implement
- Being able to replay earlier rounds, in case you want to replay a girl's story without deleting your save or something. If there's currently a way to do this, I haven't found it.
- Regarding the chatbots, I'm by no means an expert on AI chat stuff, but I wonder if an actual NSFW service like spicychat.ai would be better than character.ai? I don't know if there are better options out there but it just feels kinda... underwhelming to have a strictly censored chat with a character that explicitly states they're going to give you a prostate massage with their tongue in this game.
(I've been looking for a service like this! Thanks!)
Thing that I haven't thought of implementing because you can't replay a girl's story, but if you can, the dialogue system already supports it
- Maybe having some conversation options to make the pre-match scenes a bit more interactive?
I think I'll put the dialogue changes + tooltips and hitboxes as a quick update over the weekend (because I LOVE Cheshire, so she needs better dialogue) and implement manual + the pipeline improvements along with the reward image rework. Replaying and conversation options I could implement and release with the music player and cosplay reward images.