I always do a lot of hotfixes because catching all of the errors before releasing is impossible for a solo dev. Though I can't fix any bugs that aren't reported to me.
Sounds like you're encountering a recurring bug which keeps throwing you an error. Could you describe it to me or send a screenshot of the error message?
Look, I'm not trying to be a dick to you, but I think that you would be better off slowing down the development and focus on fixing the bugs that are currently there. As Bethesda has taught us since 'Morrowind' adding new stuff on top of a broken base only makes everything worse in the long run.
As for reporting the bug, I didn't screenshot it. I made it to the day when the girls are introduced to the hang-out room. After which, I saw the red exclamation point on the club's portion of the menu bar, so I clicked it. When I went through the tutorial for it, it kicked me to the main menu. This happened 3 times in a row until I just chose to skip the tutorial altogether. At that time, it was dusk, so I had time to kill. So I went to the bookstore in town, and that's where the first error occurred. I loaded the game from a previous save, and tried again, but the error still occurred. I tried to roll back, but it was like the error screen was frozen. So I reloaded from a previous save again, and tried one more time. The error screen popped up again, and this time I skipped it. The very next text box was fine, the one after that resulted in an error. I reloaded the game from a previous save, and went to the bar instead. And immediately got an error screen. At which point I said "fuck it," and deleted the game from my drive.
Your game has a really good premise. The characters look good. The short time I spent interacting with them was fun. But no matter how interesting the individual components are, if they combine into aggravation it's all for naught. I wish you the best of luck, because I would certainly pay for a quality version of this game once it's finished.
Well, those are good tips what to look for. Tutorial doesn't return you to the game and going to the bookstore crashes for new players. Probably because I just reworked the way inventory and shops work (it used to break with rollback sometimes), but some references to old code might remain.
I playtest the game quite a lot, but it gets super hard finding the bugs as I tend to play it in a certain way even if I try to do things "out of order". Other people just click on things at different points of the game than I would, so a lot of stuff goes unnoticed by me until people report them. Luckily people report bugs pretty often on Discord or forums. But yeah, I get that it's frustrating to run into a ton of bug and tbh I would've probably also quit on a game after running into so many.
I only hope your experience is not the average experience since there are no people flooding my Discord with bug reports 😅 feel free to check up on the game in the future - it might get better. It might not, but I'm forever an optimist.
I hope that my experience is unnatural too. And I will definitely be keeping my eye on this game. It's saved to my library so that I don't forget about it.
I don't make games. I have no practical experience with coding. However, I've been a nurse for over 30 years, and my limited time with "RPG Maker" has convinced me that coding is only slightly harder than surgery!
I seriously hope that this game continues in development and becomes one of the greats. From my short time with it, I believe that it has the potential.
