OH MYY~ haha thank you so much for your comment and for playing through the demo! i appreciate and am blown away by your passion! it's been a LOOOONG time since i've taken a chemistry course, so the details like adding the phase states and what not have slipped my mind (oops haha). i'll keep this in mind for the future and edit that in for future lectures as well! i also don't mind your nitpicking! i welcome it and appreciate it! not a lot of people like chemistry, so it's nice to have someone so passionate about the subject enough to help me with the details xDD
i'm glad you liked the beef stew analogy! that's... actually how i learned it in high school LMAO so all the credit there goes to my high school chemistry teachers. my goal with the game was and is to make studying chemistry somewhat enjoyable and interesting, so i'm glad you're engaged with it so far! part of learning chemistry is learning how to navigate the periodic table and use your calculator, so there's no way i'm gonna take that experience away xDD
i agree with you! if marina puts in the time, she'd definitely be able to pass! and mr. k does seem kind of soft hahaa. he's relatively new at teaching, and i think new teachers would realistically struggle to find a balance between being strict and being friendly with students. i remember in high school, our teachers set up review sessions that were lecture style, but they also had a bunch of review packets where we did the questions and they went through the answers and whatnot.
for me, since i've been going back through old notes and watching khan academy videos to relearn chemistry, writing the lectures takes the most time, but it's relatively the easiest thing to add to the game. that's why i'm planning to implement them last. right now i'm planning to add each route one by one and im starting with sidney! i don't plan to release the full game until all routes are implemented and all chemistry mishaps and grammar mistakes are fixed and polished! to do that, i'll likely ask for volunteers who'd like to test the final version of the game before i release it. i hope you'll look forward to that and the final release!
i'm super happy and glad that you like the game! it's kinda quirky and unique in the visual novel market haha, so when i receive feedback like this, it warms my heart. C:
i'll do my best to make this as close to a chemistry class experience as possible, but i'd also like to make the questions simple and accessible to those who have not taken the advanced placement course. thus, i plan for all the quizzes and trivia to be general chemistry level and nothing *too* impossibly difficult (i remember some ridiculous and traumatizing questions from my time haha...)
thank you again so much! it means a lot, truly!