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Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! It will help us a ton to improve the game and the story.

The interactions are indeed written by a female person :) Though they are solely based on real interactions between a male dog owner and his dog. But I am interested what is the reason you saw it like that :)

You are right about the mini game, we didn't have enough time to implement more complex mechanics, so right now it is a bit random.

Regarding the emotions of the protagonist — it was the initial idea to make him not to describe his emotions, so that the player could deside for themselves what to think of various situations and concepts that they face. But perhaps it hasn't worked out the way I planned! 

As we ran out of time to do some polishing and proofreading, there might be even more mistakes than you have pointed out, sorry about that! I am grateful for your help with these. I would certainly spend some time on fixing it after the jam ends.

Glad I can contribute.

Aha! I knew it! ... How did I figure it out? With a focus on small details and the presence of a lot of words for tenderness it just feels too "soft". Whereas a male person would have a more "tough" love. Apologies for the stereotypes.

I tried to play the game again to give you some specific examples but it crashes on me right now. I'll try to write another comment some later time. 

Oh, I see what you are talking about, thanks! In this case it was a conscious decision - why does an owner behave like that with his dog? Is there something off? Though I might have given too little time to the player to be confused by that :) 

Yes, why does it matter? Good question. It just broke the immersion a bit for me. I was thinking: Wait, who was the protagonist again? Was it a male or female? Maybe it's just me.

I think it would be possibly better to add some "tough" interactions into memories in that case, or make a build up not that rough. I will look into that, thank you for sharing your vision :)

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Hey, I played it again. Here are the extracts that gave you away :P
"Jesse looks content: yep, some ears have been scratched.

I gently help her to get to bed...

I am sitting on my bed. Jesse already snores softly.

Jesse woofs in her sleep: I hope she is having some sweet dreams about a meatloaf. Or two.

Good night, little bun."

The way they are phrased - it's kind of obvious it is written by a woman. Whereas the character is a male. 

I don't have a problem with it. You can leave it as it is. Just sharing my observation.

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I see where you are coming from, though among my friends and acquaintances it is quite typical to call a dog "a little bun", regardless of the gender of the person speaking. It could also depend on the dog, I believe :) You may speak differently to a toy poodle (this is the case for this story) and a German shepherd, for instance.

I'm not a dog owner so I'm probably wrong about that.