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First off, are you playing on windows or Mac or android? That might help.
Secondly: yes, that's it.
For windows or Mac (I don't know about android), you download the zip, unzip it where you want it, and play. If the saved games are compatible (usually but not always) you can then load the latest save (it'll find it) and continue. If you get an error (screen with text on it), then you can try to restart the game and load an older save - sometimes that works.
The saved games working or not working depends on how good the person programming the game planned his or her game. It contains the state of all the variables in the game, and if the dev suddenly realizes that he needs to add a new variable to keep track of something important, the saved games are usually borked and you need to restart playing the game from the beginning.
In that case, as explained by the author: you don't load a saved game, you just select the last episode you played and start from there.
For windows and Mac, the save game files are always saved outside of the game itself (somewhere under your profile in windows, somewhere in your personal library in Mac, google it if you want to know the exact location) so you can overwrite the whole game, and it will still find the save games.
However! The dev said the saved games are not always compatible with this release due to code changes so you might have to replay everything or use the Episode Skipper he added to the game.
Re: the animation. I think it can be very effective to emphasize a point, or just add a playful thing in there. Not necessarily mouth open/closed, but for example in a conversation where the eyes look at different things, hands that clasp, or a change of hand positioning, or even a small background change (like a person or a car travels across). But I would limit it to small things - they're nice, they're cute, but they are not the most important thing.
It's like they stole my money man (not actually, but the feeling).
I payed (an admittedly paltry sum) for that game ages ago, and I was going to wait a few more versions before downloading a version. I enjoy your updates here. If you move on to another place, plz update here where you are moving to.
Hahaha - it's always interesting trying to make sense of your writings, in a good way. I think you and I differ a lot, perhaps age or culture, but that's one of the reasons that I like playing your games - they are sometimes a puzzle to me - why did this happen? Why should someone even think of offering this choice to me in this game? But always interesting, not to mention funny and spicy.
I agree with your post - it's not because you explore stuff that you need to act on it. Nosirree! I've read about the genetics behind going that way - lots more genetic disorders etc.
Hey, after such hard work, I couldn't not buy it. Just tested it out, and it works just fine, sitting at the dinner table now with mom, ready for my last day of school :-) Thx !
Did you buy an Apple dev license? Most AVNs I need to go into Apple preferences, privacy to insist that Yes, I want to play this game. Yours just started right up, no extra hoops to jump through.
I was more thinking about when you're still deciding things, like an author friend of mine used to ask me things because she wanted a male perspective. She was heavily surprised by some of my answers, but it did help her to think in the right direction and decide what she wanted to do and how it would be perceived. No worries if that is not your way of working.
Eh, it's another life once you have kids. I just hope (for you and yours) that (s)he sleeps well at night - we had a few months (actually a few years, but apparently that's exceptional) of not enough sleep at night. Really messes with you, and takes a while to recover. But as I said, I asked other parents and most of those were lucky devils.
I just finished this game - thank you for telling such a compelling story, looking forward to new adventures (and some closure for the prince and his search for his mother).
I don't normally play sandboxes, so the fact that you are switching to a VN makes me happy. There were a lot of times the story seemed to be out of sync with the way it was now.
Congrats on the little one coming, that's a whole new adventure!!