Ah, so you believe that William Shakespeare was an expert in the use of specifically 21st Century dialectical modern American English in the late 1500s, as was Charles Dickens in the mid 1800s, and as also Edgar Allen Poe in the early 1800s. They must have been great mediums of times to come and you yourself an expert historian and scholar of their works.
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See my above comment regarding professional conduct with paid products and services and maintenance of storefronts and payment sites. Expecting his entire consumer-base to go out of their way to search for information on a product that the immediate evidence suggests is abandoned when he neglects professional maintenance IS, in fact, an unreasonable suggestion. Expecting those same people to go out of their way to search for ADDITIONAL information when he upkeeps maintenance is reasonable. That would be the difference between telling everyone to go read his Discord for ANY information when he keeps his pages dark versus telling people to go read his Discord for extras he holds back or doesn't think of when he keeps the lights on with monthly remarks.
Addendum: As a clarification; this is not meant to "beat on" Sir Dammed or invite others to do so. It is no more and no less than a reminder to all of professional standards - even if those standards have fallen increasingly by the wayside over the past twenty years. Anyone who DOES take this as an excuse to denigrate Sir Dammed, Spannerface, or anyone else for anything but what they post here directly WILL be reported for harassment.
Smash's biting sarcasm aside, John, it's far from unreasonable to expect some measure of professional conduct from someone who is taking money for a product or service. Requesting or even demanding that SD keep his clients and customers informed by properly maintaining his storefront and Patreon pages on at least a monthly basis would be par for the course and understandable even without the long silence broken only by one or two comment threads spaced out over more than a year following the last update.
A very interesting game to play, and I appreciate the options that went into the customization, and the uncommon way you chose to do it! It's a bit impossible at present to really play a shy or withdrawn character, though -- I'd argue that the dialogue available takes away immersion from attempts to even play as inexperienced, since they'd need a bit more than is there to explain [i]why[/i] the player's character is so confident and self-assured as to say those things. Is that something you're uncomfortable writing, or something you simply overlooked during development and testing?
The download link for version 0.90 is currently broken. Please reupload the game to your current or an alternative host, or upload the next revision.
Edit: FWIW, most people who use the Itch client will probably be more likely to play this if you choose to upload the game to the Itch servers, but entirely up to your own preference.
Wow. Just wow. The artwork, the story, but most especially... the sheer heart and effort put forth into the dialogue. Playing through this, you can feel the terror and love and heartache and weariness that Malcolm feels. You can bask in the cameradery of the pubgoers. You can hear almost every lilt and elision of Balgair's accent and dialect in your mind's voice, with no dropped letters in the text and only a few dialectical spellings... You and yours truly know the ancient and artful craft of the dedicated wordsmith.