Thank you so much, Mayshing!! This is Tonic, the artist/writer of our team, and I'm so glad you enjoyed the demo! It's really great to hear your opinions as a fellow artist, and I agree about cleaning up some of the art... As you know, it just takes so much time, that if I truly polish the art to be as clean as I want, it will be 5 years later and nothing else will be finished!! 😂 Haha. But I definitely plan on doing that! Thank you for all your kind compliments on the artwork and characters 💙💚💜 Your "INFJ game" comments struck deeply lol
I am really glad the gameplay instructions and hints made things enjoyable for you! After Chapter 1, we have "difficulties" available for Story Mode that will allow players of all kinds to select their own pace. Including one where all enemies only do 1 damage (so players can focus more on the Story if they wish).
It is true that the entire first area is basically a big "tutorial!" Because most of the story set up happens in Chapter 1, there's already a lot more writing than in later chapters... So I didn't want to overwhelm by adding too many stages on top of that. But in the future, we are thinking about adding Chapter 2 to the demo as well! 🤔 So that will have more of the normal gameplay ratio.
About the pairings... I really loved hearing you guess about the character genders, hahaha!! I wanted all of the designs to look androgynous, so I'm glad that succeeded. And "boys love production" made me laugh SO much 🤣 I feel it still does have boys love energy, even if Weapon is a woman... 🥲 Regardless, they will all get up to even more trouble soon 💕
Lastly, in your video, you mentioned wondering what I used for animating the characters! I wanted to let you know, it was Unity 2D's "spine" module. I watched this video to learn the basics. But it's actually pretty intuitive once you get in there! In my experience, the key is making sure the .psb you export has all the layers exactly the size you want them... It's a gigantic pain to switch them out. I've erased hours of work more times than I want to admit!