Why do I have the impression that regardless of my choices the end would be the same? Is there more than one end for this game? I was hoping there was different routes... a good, one we take advantage and another where they flip the game... this one feels just like being attacked on the same way regardless of what we do. And they move to psycho mode too quickly. This game has a lot of potential if you explore all that castor(ia) effort on pleasing/manipulating us... even before turning real once we realised that they actually chat with us they could access our records on the own game to know what we like them to do, change their looks, etc... making us crave for them to come to reality only to regreat later if we take the wrong options... Anyway, it will be a great game once finnished
There are currently two different branches/endings available in this sorta little jam/demo version. One leaning toward the sweet side of the character and the other toward the more sinister. However, both of those branches are expanded upon in the update that I'm currently working on, which in turn lead to more endings :3
In the update, different kinds of choices impact the ending you steer toward, as the player has more control over the way MC responds. Some choices let you act either kindly or cruelly, whereas other choices have more impact on a love interest's sanity. There will also be timed choices, where the player can choose not to act at all, for better or for worse. In order to implement all the extra choices, it's resulted in around 100 additional lines of dialogue for Castor/ia to respond with within the existing content of their route, meaning that all save data from the current version of the project will be unusable once the new update is released as it would cause some major bugs.
Aside from bad/dead endings, I'm aiming for each individual character route to have 4 proper endings to unlock. But yeah, as it is right now, there are just the beginning of two branches available because I made the game for a jam that only lasted 1 month. In that month, I also had to learn how to use Nani x Unity to put it all together since I'd just switched from using Tyranobuilder to make my previous projects, haha. That's why the game is quite short + a bit clunky. I just didn't know the best way to use the software back then and I didn't have much time to create it all in general. I wasn't even able to utilise the full month since it was so close to Christmas x3
The project was on hold for a long time after that because I didn't have the funding to continue since I'm too poor to pay voice actors myself (and having VA in my projects is a huuuuge motivator for me.) I wound up just working on other game jam projects in the meantime since it's much easier to work with others on jam games without having to worry about money :3
The update is not only adding more content for Castor/ia, adding more choices to the existing segment of their story while also continuing where it left off on both branches, but I'm also introducing the next character in the lineup and the start of their route. So it should be a fairly chunky update. I hope to try and leave it at a point again where it could be taken as a standalone story, and where the branches could be seen as endings even if they're technically not.
Fully completing the project will take a looong time though with me being a solo dev >.< Add to that my general poor mental health, which causes dramatically fluctuating levels of productivity, and then there's funding to worry about if I want to keep having voice acting in it. That's why I'm trying to do it episodically sorta thing cos otherwise it would just get far too overwhelming when I've got around 10 character routes in my notes x3
Thanks so much for checking out the game in its infancy anyhow! I appreciate you taking the time to both play and comment :3
Thank you so much for you answer... when it comes about the money, I understand what you mean, I am about to spend almost a month within a rainning forest in a project to protect it and the money they pay us is so little that I might have to sacrifice my savings... I hope that wont be the case... I am looking forward your progress... take care :D
That's such a noble project to be involved in :3 I'd love to be able to help with conservation myself in my local area, but my anxiety is so extreme that I really struggle to cope with things if I don't have someone with me that I feel comfortable around, and aside from that, everywhere that's looking for volunteers to help protect nature and animals near me are in rural areas that can't be reached without a car >.< And guess what; I can drive... but I can't afford a car! T_T haha.
That really sucks that you don't get paid much for doing something like that though because it's such important work to protect nature! I really hope you don't have to sacrifice your savings to survive :( The world needs more people to stand up and give nature a helping hand :3
I'm planning to take part in a project in June run by one of our local wildlife charities to try and do one small thing a day to help nature + attempt to raise some money for them at the same time. If I were rich, I'd give most of my money to help protect animals and nature x3 It was actually my childhood dream to get into conservation, but there just weren't any sort of options available to get started in something like that back when I was a kid in my area, and at school, we were all told to be realistic and pick careers in things like retail >.>
Good luck with the project and everything in general :3