Haha I understand the alt-account for this type of thing.
Well I love Godot, so might be biased! When I first started gamedev like 3 years ago, the first thing I tried was Unity, and it was a horrible experience, things felt really slow. By now you must be used to it, but once you open Godot and see that you can type code in and just open whatever scene you are in in seconds, there's no comparison. I understand not everyone cares that much, but to me it's important that it's so lightweight and fast, makes iteration easier.
The biggest thing tho must be the licensing; I never liked the idea of needing to adhere to the rules of a company, I've come to appreciate open source more with time. Right now it's also a very good time to hop in, Godot 4 is SO much better than Godot 3, and it's just fun to develop in general in Godot, can't explain it any other way.. Also I strongly encourage you to give gdscript a try, since it's really easy to pick up and learn, it's very integrated in the engine with plenty of documentation.
If you ever give it a go, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Damn I always have a hard time during winter and don't ever see snow, can't imagine winter where you are from! I guess with a lot of snow also comes a lot of water, so no lack of wood for you. Indeed it's best to do something and feel active!
Thankfully a lot of wonderful japanese composers that have royalty free music; once this gets a bit bigger I'd love to contact them and see if I can have some commissioned music from them, would be really cool!
As a gamedev you know these things take time, but feels nice once they are done right? I wish you good luck with your project as well! If you ever want to share something I'd be glad to look at it :)
Thank you very much for the kind words! I'm very glad you like it.
Right now I'm focusing on restructuring code and other things, but I'll announce in the future when playable versions are ready once again :) Thanks <3
Sorry for the late response! I was trying to get my life together haha, but I'm finally back.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Además yo también hablo español :P I've just been pushing the translation since I really have a hard time managing everything by myself haha Eventually I'll probably translate either myself, or make dialogue texts really easy to edit so there's multiple translations, but for now I'm just focusing on other things.
And what do you want to learn? I can explain whatever you want, there's nothing complex in the game :)
Scott! It's been a while! I just read your other comment, you are always so kind, it's truly a pleasure to receive messages from you.
Thanks for the warm welcome :) I'll definitely work hard on this and try to make it something more and more enjoyable. Some things like porting and such take a long time, but I really think it's worth it. Hopefully in not too long I'll be able to share something cool I've been working on and then get some feedback to see how you and other people like it. This is a really iterative process so only after mistakes it can get better.
I hope everything is going well with your life, and as we talked about before, winter is going away, and a nice spring is coming. Wish you the best Scott.
It's F! I have a drawing that indicates that in the tutorial panel when you start a fresh save file, I probably should put that somewhere in the menu as well.
Happy Halloween to you too Scott!! :D Wishing from here you have a nice pleasant day! And thank you, perseverance is key (or so I hope! haha). After this one, finally I can move on to 0.2, which I'm dying to start. But first, need to stuff some more things into the game 😤
Ah!! Here it doesn't really snow (well, it snowed once like 10 yeras ago and everyone didn't really know how to handle it haha). But I do love a fireplace, so cozy! After today I'll probably catch up with some series, or watch my favorite horror movie, "Hereditary"!! I love horror, but I didn't watch many shows when I was younger about it unfortunately, but I still remember some Scooby Doo episodes. Hoping things are well for you :)
Haha every time I work on something I get excited to do the next thing, so I have a big backlog of things I gotta do. "There's no rest for the wicked" :P And actually the game is quite lightweight so it's not much of a problem, but still takes a lot of time between all platforms, oof.
And yeah perfect date next week, hope you have some fun if there's some festivities around you! Even tho where I live we don't celebrate much Halloween, thanks to the internet I can start to feel its spirit, and I'm getting excited! I hope you are well as well Scott! A lot of rain around here, perfect for some hot cocoa.
I think I'm kind of a masochist, because some days I really enjoy the melancholy of sad, rainy days. I have to say I'm mesmerized by your comments Scott. Some days are tougher than others, but I want you to know I smile when I read your comments.
Even though we don't know the future, one thing is for certain, without a doubt: tomorrow the sun will come out once again, and spring will be waiting for us. I'm also affected by the low light winters, so I hope you take some moments to relax and enjoy life. We will enjoy the sun when the time comes, but now it's the time of the ghosts and witches.
We never appreciate how our body works until we are sick right? We take good health for granted, at least I do haha.
That's a fantastic idea, I don't have time for this Halloween but who knows what will bring the next one! I have included a small secret for this Halloween thought! It has a low chance of triggering so I don't know how many people will see it, but I love secrets and spooky things, so it's the perfect time of the year to add such details.
With comments like yours, I could go forever Scott doing this Scott!!
Thank you Scott, your comments always cheer me up. Sorry for not answering earlier, I don't want to rush the comments since it wouldn't be fair, I prefer to read and answer when I'm relaxed and in a good mindset. Was really pushing this week for the update on early access, and finally it's done. So next Monday it'll be out for public :)
Regarding Ano Hana, I really recommend it! It's short and sad, but sad in a good way.
Hahaha so many people mentioned the low poly look looking good for supernatural stuff! I guess it's a combination of the static camera planes like old Resident Evil games haha One of my favorite genres is horror so makes total sense.
The old project didn't have any real content, but it had a bunch of rooms so it was cool to walk around the ryokan x) Maybe some day I could release it as a demo, just so people can look around.
And yeah man Love Hina was amazing. I never really played the old games, but I have watched hours of gameplay just to absorb information. I love and own both the complete manga and anime, the true first anime I watched. I guess it impacted me, since I remember it still fondly even after +16 years.
Thank you Scott, you are the man. Hope you have recovered by now, the cold season is coming and hopefully this year it will be nice to both of us!
Honestly that's one of the most difficult parts of improving something, coming up with a solution. Having a critical mind helps a lot, so I'll always welcome any kind of feedback you have! And yeah some of the best ideas also arrive like lighting without much though, those are really the special ones haha.
Here in Spain a bit more cold would help, since it's warm again for some reason haha. Cheers mate.
Scott those are GREAT suggestions!! Thanks!! I've been struggling with that aspect for a while, and that's the perfect solution! I already can see that so I'll do that for sure! It also gives it a lot more unique feeling to it so I love it.
Having outside suggestions that fit the game is a great way to improve it! And that's all I want to do, keep making this into a better game.
And don't worry friend, your kind words, suggestions and attention for the game already mean a lot to me and it's more than enough. Have a great day!
Thank you for your interest Scott! If I pour enough hours into this, it will get good eventually!! And yeah it's a bit difficult to concentrate drawing in pixels without a quick sketch first haha
I'm starting to feel the Halloween spirit, I feel a curse in this ryokan that makes you sleep weird 👻👻
Thank you! And yeah hahaha she's definitely not supposed to be there. Thanks for reporting. By any chance, did you start a new save file or something like that without closing the game? I fixed something related to it two days ago, hopefully it's related to that.
Hello! First of all, thanks for playing and liking it so much that you wrote such a long and constructive comment! Let me address it point by point :D
Bugs: I'm aware of the new game save file problem, I noticed it recently and I'll change it for next version hopefully! About closing all menus, it was deliberate since I didn't want to press escape two times. I will end up doing a poll, to see which way the majority prefers it! I don't mind changing it if enough people want it that way. About hiding dialogue, you are right that it's a bother. Right now pressing the Tab button does exactly what you want (it goes from hiding text only, to hiding sprites and text, and back to default), but I don't indicate it anywhere so I'll do that.
Game feedback: I agree about feedback! To address your comments about stress and money, I'm thinking the best solution would be to display a small popup that shows exactly the stats affected. Another user requested if the player could change the tasks for the day after when going to sleep, and I think it's a great idea, so might do that. About the menu on escape, there's a small icon on the tutorial sheet when starting the game precisely because someone before didn't know about it haha I suppose I could force the players to press Escape when the tutorial sheet shows up. The stress level showing up at all times could be an option, but I feel it would distract too much. Another option would be to show up the stress visuals just when it's altered. The text about what's the interaction about is a good idea!
Gameplay: Thank you!! I hate branching games because I want to do all content in one save file. Some people will dislike it, but I have strong opinions about it haha And yeah more interactions will come for sure. The cleaning and maintenance were just introduced last update, so it was more of a "base" to work on from now on. I like your suggestions about slowly progressing towards something in those scenes. I agree that the world is empty right now, but that's a consequence of having been doing this for just a few months now, and not a design choice. I want to expand everything, this is not the game I wanted when I started making it, but it's getting there with every update. Surprising characters while they are doing their own things, more repeatable events, more varied schedules, more things in general, trust me, I also want that! I like the suggestions, so I'll write them down :D
Visuals: The next current thing I'm working on is the gallery, since before it didn't make any sense since the game basically had no content. Now there's not much either, but I've received a couple of requests about it so that's happening for this update :) I appreciate the kind words.
Sex/Porn Story: This is very porno like because this is more based on doujins than on any other piece of media. I started the game because I wanted to see some free roaming pixel sex game. When I start reading hentai, if by page 20 there's no sex, I'm usually bored by then. I base characters from hentais I like, I'm not really trying to make some narrative driven game. To me the main point is sex and different sexual things I want to explore, and the narrative to me is just how to get there. Doujin artists starting sex on page 5 with little to no context, or the stupidest plot? That's what I like XD So this is a design thing, I'm sorry this is not what you wanted.
Random points: I also like voyeur! Again, some things you mention are just that I haven't implemented them yet because it's really early in development. About minigames, I'm not against them, I like coding and design, but I'm sure a lot of people would be bothered by them. This again could be something to revisit in the future in the form of polls or something. About the world, I'm sad to inform you that I want to expand it haha But I'm doing it slowly, working towards having the current areas with enough things to do and characters around, and with the new areas introducing new characters and events. The hints being vague is also a design choice. If I left exactly what to do, it would feel more like a wiki. Also about cleaning and maintenance, if you don't do them, the stats can get low enough that it affects the mood of the current residents. And having the price be 3998 is because I knew it would bother people heh.
Thanks a lot for such a nice and thoughtful comment! Took me a while but well worth it! While I will always greatly appreciate Patreon support, please take into consideration what I've said on certain things (stupid porno plot (and more maddening 3998 price tags)), since I don't want you to be disappointed. Anyhow, thank you. This is not yet a good game, or even a game to be honest, but I do plan to keep doing it one way or the other, mainly because I'm obsessed with it. I work solo on this and take feedback seriously. For example, you mentioned music, and the first release back in May 30, the game didn't have any, until someone pointed it out and I agreed, so I added it. I just need time.
Thank you as always Scott! Yeah I agree that some sort of communication before going straight to sex is always good manners hahaha.
Also, with the power of hentai in the protagonist's hand, I plan to let the player increase a bit the loads of the protagonist, Maybe as some type of unlockable, requiring some sort of divine grant at a local shrine? Who knows haha.
