The storywriting is totally ultimate here, but there are not enough visuals, graphics, the things to took at (you now why)
Anyway, this game seem to have a lot of potential, so thanks for it :)
I understand, and absolutely agree. The story is just too good to let this game stay the way it is currently.
This project should be pumped full with money!
I just wish I wouldn't be just a NEET, so I could contribute to great games like this. Because damn sure I have a lot of free time, I may as well try to learn how to draw some artwork for this game, but honestly I can promise nothing.
Anyway, I suppose there should be at least some pepole who are interested in contributing free artwork for this game. Maybe it would be good to add some notice to some game menu, that you are looking for free artists, just in case you accept any third-party artwork at all. As I remember there was a scene with Sarah, that really looked like it was made by some other artist, beacuse Sarah does not have a red colored stripe in her hair on her standing images.
Hah, don't worry, I feel you. I have NOWHERE near enough money to support even 10% of the creators I want to. Up until a few years ago, I was kinda in NEET territory too.
I am spending basically everything I get from patreon on commissions so we're slowly getting art/music sorted - a fair number of character themes are custom work now, and I'm working with a number of artists for backgrounds, character art, and CGs. Reaching out to two possibilities today actually.
Not sure what the legality of free art is, especially for commercial usage - I'll check into it. We've gotten some really nice fanart over time though, so maybe?
Cool, I'm also not sure about the legal stuff, but maybe I can try to point you in the right direction, as I already have some slight clues about it.
In case you would like to protect the third-party assets contributed into your project from being NTR-ed away by copyright lunatic trolls, then you may need to make your contributors sign a so called "CLA", that means "Contributor License Agreement", what would make it sure, that you are allowed to use the third-party assets in your project, while the contributors can also be happy about their rights. At least I suppose it works this way in case of big and important open source projects. The huge drawback of this is that the thing makes it impossible to accept stuff from random anonymous pepole on the internet, so I would advise against it.
A probably much better way to be legally cool, is to formally define in lawyerspeak some kind of general auto-applying policy on every third-party contributions you may receive. For example make a public statement of that everyone who posts into some kind of special forum topic on your discord, accepts to allow you to use their stuff under a Creative Commons license. I know that it doesn't sound very convincig this way, but for example have a look here, to see how the thing actually works anyway.
But sure you need a lawyer for this, and that would mean again, the need for more money.
So, back to the topic on money. There is a common saying in my country, which if translated to english means something like this:
"It's better to stand on two legs than one."
So, I mean that I noticed, you do not have a subscribestar account, and only rely on patreon for getting money. It's rather common amongst adult games to also accept support through https://subscribestar.adult/ , just in case patreon goes mad on them for whatever reason. I also mean that I have encountered some games which were ruined by the silly censorship of patreon, so even if I would have the money to donate, I would very much prefer to avoid giving it through patreon.
Also it would be additionalaly cool to have an alternative, for those who may not wanna subscribe, instead just give you a simple one-time donation, not only through the itch-paypal solution.
For example https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ provides other options than paypal. I've seem some adult games use it, and buymeacoffe seem to be okay with it as long as nothing lewd is posted on their own website, so it may be worth a try.
Sorry for the big wall of text, I just had a lot on my mind, and felt like I needed to write it all down xD
Anyway, I wish you good luck :)