This is such a great concept and the writing is great!!!! Absolutely love it!
But the game needs hints badly. It's just so hard without help and I keep going around in circles and not achieving anything. 😭
(Oh, and on a side note: hello, fellow Ink user! 👋)
That is the universal consensus. A fix is needed, fellow Ink user!
Would it help to have a notification/visual signal when the flirtation/drunk value is too low for your prompt to be well-received?
It's been hard to have a definitive guide, with so many possible branches (which then get updated and expanded on over time).
Sometimes one choice can have many paths based on the flirtation/drunk score, and there's not a definitive 'good' result, so it's been difficult to think of an easy fix. I just know it's hard for me to aim for specific endings, too, and get someone just the right amount of drunk and horny!
Having additional pathways to the harder goals was my initial thought, so I've been trying to add them in, as well. And they've been... equally difficult to find!
I think there are just many sudden death situations. It's very easy to make a mistake and then it's game over. Two times I accidentally ran around naked because I misunderstood the clothing choices and it was immediate sudden death. Say a slightly wrong thing and you get kicked out of the house etc. That's fine but having to replay the whole thing again is a bit tedious. Have you thought about adding save-points? For example, say I have played until the part where we get drinks and I have a good enough flirtation score, then I make a mistake. I don't want to restart from the very beginning. Let me jump back to a specified point and keep my flirtation score. Another possible idea: maybe give me one undo per play-through? Like telling the player: "That went wrong. You are allowed to go back in time and revert this decision, but only this once." Also, if coding save-points sounds hard: I am fairly certain I could do that, I am pretty good at JavaScript, currently bored and on vacation. (Or maybe you are a better coder than me, in which case: no insult meant LOL.)