thanks! I’m going to do a big cleaning house update this patch. Some of these I’ve stumbled across already, but I hadn’t caught a lot of the tags errors! I’ll make a note of these things to fix. I appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback!! I’m still super new to the coding side of things, and this is a passion project, so seriously, thanks so much for taking the time to report all this! It’s super helpful as I try and improve. :-) most of the things I miss are tagging errors. I’m taking a new approach this chapter of coding the tags as I write the story out, so /hopefully/ there will be less bugs!!
Also, for what it’s worth, there’s a bug reporting channel in the discord if that’s your thing!
Thanks for reading my story! And taking time to comment! <3
The latter! Some decisions/choices, but it won’t change the main story! Routes will change things, but in the sense that each route has its own sub-story. The world’s main story will feel a little different depending on the route, but the main idea/issue won’t change. Hope that helps clarify! Thanks for the comment!!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate them. I'm so stoked you liked it!!! It's been a solo project, but honestly I'd love to see what kinda tracks you were thinking sometime. Music is a must at some point!! But I am definitely not a musician, so would def love to hear tunes that the game brings to mind! :')))
My main goal is to write a story following your interactions with Devil, but eventually I may add other main character routes. If you’re familiar with The Smoke Room, it would be in a similar vein. But I’ll update this for clarity!
Your comment got me thinking, and I think I found a simple enough solution to moving Devil lower on the screen. I think it looks nice!
And, sorta--I got into visual novels playing Echo Project's stuff, and I like how in some of them, the character's 'route' is basically its own story. I love the possibilities that offers!
I also have played some with the NSFW toggle, and it's been awesome. That and the gallery are a must at some point! I'm working on theorycrafting other OCs for this story, and if they'd be dateable. BGs (for now) are royalty free, public domain images. Taking some advice I heard one of the Echo Project dev's give once--don't worry about stuff like backgrounds upfront. Find some photos to be there in the meantime before you can make/commission the art yourself.
Once I can figure out how to package the APK, yes! Lmao they made it complicated and for what >:(
so i have discovered ren'py has trouble differentiating "-" and "—", so I found some more of those errors and fixed em! i was like... now wait a minute
LMAO every time I posted a response I got a new notif!! Thanks so much for your feedback and enthusiasm... seriously has me extra pumped to keep moving on this.
My excuse for not having legs yet is I'm too lazy to draw them LMAO, but in reality, I will be updating sprites for the characters. So I'll have full body sprites /eventually/. But for now I'm keeping things simple. But the rest of the chapter will include new sprites/shirtless (bc of the same reason as >.> ya know >.> )
For brevity's sake, I'll respond to each bullet--but this is all so very helpful! Thank you <3
For now, I'm imagining the story will be linear. Perhaps there will be different linear character arcs, though! I wanna focus on telling stories.
Devil will be most immediately. But with time, it won't be just him (esp with additional character arcs)
Yep. I'm going to learn how to make that a feature before adding NSFW/explicit.
There's a super solid reason I haven't quite made a distinction yet! Soon enough
ALSO HELL YEAH GALLERIES R THE BEST. Will be on the docket 100%!!
The first one is a change that will be going live tonight. I figured out how to do that today xD actually, most of this feedback is helpful bc of the changes I'm making tonight!!
I need to make clear the voice at the beginning doesn't actually belong to Devil. Good point.
I'm adding guard sprites and nametags tonight as well! More sketch than sprite but I thought it would be helpful there too!
Yeah, there's a discussion of magic that I haven't implemented yet. Bc i can't decide if the reaction is WTF MAN or like... *panic* or... anyways, it's a character moment I need to make sure I get right. That is most definitely going to be in an update!
"sense-at" should've had an em dash--thanks for the catch!
*edit* also!!! The stops on the audio is intentional, as I have heard very mixed things about long audios in VNs... originally the sounds played through most of the scene it started in. Is that more chill than I assumed? Did you wish it played for the entire scene?
I made the demo in about a week--but this is my second time figuring out Ren'Py. I have an earlier project that needs more time in the cooker, so to speak. My goal is to constantly improve the game itself as it grows, especially by learning more about Ren'Py and pushing its limits in creative directions.
That VN thing is seriously so cool!! What a way to connect to digital audiences!
You totally can!! It can be a lot of info up front, but I just google problems I run into and learn new things that way too xD
The setting is totally (and should feel like) a WTF thing up front. Assumptions can really get you into trouble in Hell (at least, this one LOL). There's far more to be learned about Hell and its occupants. Time will tell >:D
I wanna have fun and play around with Christian/protestant ideas of Hell, while also redefining it in an interesting (and not totally awful) way. The demo is setup (and a test of the OC sprite).
Thanks for catching the typo! When I throw in some additional sketches and stuff, that change will go with it!
