I wanted to try and make sure even if the player didn't directly relate to Bao (despite how much I tried to put them in her head), they at least understood her and were forced to stand next to her as everything happened.
I love her too, unsurprisingly. She has enough of me in her for me to relate to her, but is uniquely shitty enough in her own ways that it's not TOO close to looking in the mirror. A fun, uncomfortable middle ground. I'm glad people end up loving her too.
Also thank you for noticing the whole time thing! It's a minor touch but I figure a sense of place is at its stronger when there is a sense of time to go with it. 😌
Thank you very much! I don't know if I could keep up the quality of a 10 part series, but I'll definitely think if there is any more I can do! I'm glad I could make you feel games and while they were confusing emotions, I hope they weren't entirely unpleasant.
Thank you! I didn't have much access to games like this when I was younger, but I'm glad my respect for them and their aesthetic
It'd be fun watching Bao fuck up more, but given the scale of the game I feel like this is the ideal amount of time. I feel like to get more, there would need to be another perspective to switch away to...
Thank you so much! The DRONE (track title officially being 'Bao') is SO good aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
And thank you I felt like I was really being excessive and extravagant with all the little animations and unnecessary amount of backgrounds and animations but that stuff is just so cool I had to do it and I'm glad my efforts are appreciated
It's feature complete and content complete. One of these upcoming versions will be 1.0 but it'll be making menus and stuff nicer, I wouldn't worry about it. As for play time, I don't know, I never timed it, but I'd say around an hour is probably right? Less if you skip forward a lot and read quick. More of a "Visual Novella" than a novel.
Thank you so much, for the kind words and the typo, which will be fixed whenever I push out the next release! I'm really proud of how I could bring everything together and how Doric was able to effortlessly match my vibe with the music.
Alas it is probably best to be left wanting. I feel like I've benefited a lot from how hyper focused it is. I HAVE all this lore and character detail, but I feel like extending stuff out would just weaken the whole thing. But GOSH do I love to see that response!! 😭 Also I LOVE the map so much it is so excessive and pointless but I want people to really feel like they're SOME PLACE, even if they can't explore on their own.
But yeah for all the violence, the 'psychological suffering' and mental aspect is the real horror.
Extremely kind and thoughtful thing to leave me! I'm glad I based this off an AU RP setting, because alluding to bigger things helps make things seem juicier and bigger. As a creator my personal bugbear is to make sure people don't assume the world ends past where the screen shows.
Comments like this help me see that I'm on the right track with that, thank you.
ALSO LOL no that was an accident and I'll remove it later, but it'll probably feature in the design notes.
