Thank you for reading, I am glad you enjoyed it!
I also wish I had some art to offer and that may come some day. Art requirements are slow and difficult for me to fulfill compared to writing or coding so no promises.
Absolutely! Wish I had the funds to support you so you could get it comissioned (broke lmao)
Really rooting for your success, this is shockingly well written, and the way it doesn't glorify, but legitimizes these predicaments is lovely. Characters with distinct personalities have distinctly written dialogue in a way even some professionally written stories struggle, and none of the dialogue has the "artificial" or "fake" feel that is so common in Indie VNs (which this, realistically, is. It just has a clicker game stapled to it. (Not that that's a bad thing.(I quite enjoy it, even if I wish it had an easy mode so I can focus on the story)))
No worries at all! I make it a point to provide everything I do for free and if I were to include art it would be my own, just need to get back on the saddle for that...
Thank you for the kind words, it means a lot to know people somewhere enjoy the weird characters and dynamics I come up with for my own enjoyment.
As for in-game performance, I'd say don't sweat it too much, you don't have to do everything optimally and failing to reach production goals is part of the narrative (the game is balanced so it happens mathematically, no matter how good you are).