Certainly, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. All the menu and settings items are text-only, there are no important graphical elements in that portion of the game. However, the game makes use of background images to set the scenes or the location the characters are interacting in in that moment. Those do not have any text descriptors as of this moment.
We do have an update planned for a host of other fixes, adding texts for scene descriptions is now on the agenda as well.
Hello, and thanks for checking in! We are using ren'py as our engine, which has built-in TTS support. It can be enabled and disabled by pressing v on the keyboard. Once enabled, the menus, as well as all the game text, are being read out loud. The menu, as well as the rest of the game, can be navigated exclusively via keyboard, or controller, if that's preferred. Additionally, all of the prologue, as well as all direct speech within the game, are voice acted by the team. Those lines seemlessly are being played while TTS is enabled.
If you have further questions, or improvement suggestions to better help the vision impaired community, please don't hesitate to reach out further.
I'd be hard-pressed to think of another feature I love and hate as much at the same time as the ren'py bubbles. I like their look, and how they help keep the reader's gaze much closer to where the characters are, rather than trapped down in the text box. At the same time, the technical implementation of it in the ren'py core is just about the worst system anyone could have possible come up with, and breaks all… the… time.
My main appreciations are absolutely all the visual effects, custom additions, and overall the use of the visual part of a visual novel. Effects like fading in the city in the distance as they talk about it, or changing the framing of the scene as things are pointed out. They're fairly simple things that add so much, in my opinion. Attention to details like the color shift in the sprite from sitting by the fireplace were further great touches which I enjoyed a great deal.
The story is something that others are better equipped to comment in detail on, so I'll just say that I enjoyed the storytelling, and think the ending was well done in leaving room for the reader's own imagination.
I had to laugh thanks to your comment because that is something we were joking about internally. Maybe some day, although probably not. I already got a number of other game ideas I want to see fulfilled before returning to a whole new VN.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm always happy to share any kind of code snippets or whatnot as well. Most things in ren'py don't require too much effort while adding a little bit of extra flair. I do have some more plans to add some final polish in a post-voting update, before turning towards the next projects, now that I've got a proper taste for it.
I have a hard time believing this. ChatGPT provides a lot better translations than the current version contains. Just pulling up some random examples:
# "而且冒着大雨出来面试并不是个好主意，你感受着鞋子里的雨水，一种极度不舒服的感觉自脚下传出." "Citizen like that will be assigned job. The human like you who need to find job himself is rare. " == ChatGPT: "Moreover, it's not a good idea to come out for an interview in heavy rain. You can feel the rainwater in your shoes, which is an extremely uncomfortable feeling spreading from under your feet."
Which.... isn't even remotely the same sentence, no idea what happened there.
# "那是一名雌性的野兽，丰满的身材与这里的一切相得益彰，你甚至能时不时地看到她因为过于丰满，胸口受到了桌面边缘的挤压，可惜这福利对于你来说并没有太多吸引力，你更喜欢另外一个性别的人这样做." "That is a female beast whose figure is so good and fit everything here. You can even see her chest press by table because her busty. But is pity because that welfare it's not attracted you. You rather beast of another gender does that." == ChatGPT: "That is a female beast with a full figure that complements everything here. You can even occasionally see her chest being squeezed by the edge of the table because of her ample size. Unfortunately, this perk doesn't have much appeal to you as you prefer people of a different gender to do so."
That said, I want to improve things, and would be happy to offer support redoing the translation with ChatGPT in the quality provided above. I have written a tool to do so with ren'py automatically.
