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Hey! Really glad you are enjoying the game! :)

1 - only Violet has the date right now. Unless you consider Ciara's impromptu date at a cafe.

2 - I've been actually thinking about this for some time now, but I don't have a good idea how to do this diagetically. I would either have to make everyone acknowledge that you forfeited the Trial, or have you to write something to make it so you still competed but lost. I might still have a solution to this conundrum someday soon

We'll have to see about that. But likely, the girls will have their events added asymmetrically.

You don't need to just not anger her, but also specifically make her trust you. You probably didn't do enough. Also, spending Samhain with her help, but you rushed her storyline before that.

Ruachan blocks Violet

Yeah, I am constantly forgetting that I actually need to write journal entries for every new event, and that they won't just magically appear by themselves =)

Her whole storyline was reviewed and edited. And now, you reminded me that I have forgotten to add a new journal entry for Violet after the date... :|

Oh, yes. If Violet refuses your suggestion to go out, her storyline terminates and you only remain friends. Thus, no Samhain event.

The date is in the Town. You have to go there on the specified date. It won't trigger otherwise.

No idea. Different systems probably need different utilities and drivers that are packaged with the game. Like Ren'py launcher and the like

Yeah, they are a point of contention for sure. But not a dealbreaker by themselves, so I am hopeful.

Yeah, I know, thankfully, I have ways of publishing it on steam outside of Germany. 

Releasing a game and having an NSFW patch elsewhere might get you delisted too, I heard. It is not certain, but I wouldn't want to risk that...

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First of all, thank you for your feedback. Second, I do listen to feedback, but not all feedback needs to be listened to. 

As for the Trial itself - really, no significant RNG is involved, and a lot of people successfully finish the first Trial. And, no, the Trial is balanced the way I want it to be. If you want to pass a trial you have to either focus on one of the stats specific to this Trial (yes, stats - multiple, you don't have to focus on just one), you have to look for spells that would make the Trial easier, or you need to be very attentive during the Trial to know how it works mechanically. You cannot just try and bruteforce it. And that's the experience I want the players to have.

If you want to win a non-mandatory encounter, you'll have to work for that win. And it IS a non-mandatory encounter.

Well, first of all, Violet's date is not in the free version of the game yet, it was only added in version 0.5.0 and it doesn't get overridden by other events. You have been warned that Violet's date is not in the game yet, when the date gets assigned.

About the saves. The game autosaves every Monday, so even if you forgot to save manually, with 8 autosave slots, you should have almost two months worth of save points.

Lastly, even though the first Trial can be won with you stats just above 30 if you know the Trial inside and out, and anything above that just makes the Trial easier, you don't really need to win to progress the game, as you clearly figured out yourself.

If after all of that, this still isn't your kind of game, well, I am not doing a "game for everyone." Hopefully, there are a lot more games for you to scratch your itch =)

Thank you! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the game. Yes, the skill system is meant to be difficult to balance, that's the whole point of the game. Also, trying, failing and looking for you own way to progress through the story. You don't have to win every battle to win the war 😉

Hi! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the game :) Yes, sadly you hit a dead end with Violet. You need to build up her trust in you by good interactions during her earlier event. Having higher Appeal and/or spending the Samhain festival with her does help too.

Yeah, going with option 2 every time would be cool, but even with how I have been doing it so far, the games script has grown much bigger than I originally anticipated. I definitely would not be able to handle anything more.

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Maybe. That's definitely in the books, but I cannot say anything for certain 

Thank you for you constant support and comments. They are always duch a treat to read :)

We had a roadmap at some point, but we found out that it was to stressful and, actually, inefficient to try and stick to it, do now we are just trying to develop things as they come. We do also have polls for supporters on patreon to see what their preferred direction is (within our guidelines) and give more focus to that.

Did you maybe extract the newer version into the old folder or something? Try extracting the game into a new folder and running from there.

No dates are in the game yet. Save before that date, so you can trigger the event once it is added to the game

You can visit Divination for hints on triggering girl's next event if you have the stat requirements

You can visit Divination for hints on triggering girl's next event if you have the stat requirements

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Thank you. This has been fixed, and the fixed version have been uploaded 👍

Eventually, definitely. But I can give no estimate on that.

Yes, sound, I know. For some reason, sound is my weakness. But it will be fixed someday...

If by "scenes" you mean specifically "sex", then - no :)

Hi, no, there is no full version of the game. The word "demo" is just meant to represent that this is not yet the complete version of the game.

You know what, hectic life is kinda good. My life was pretty stagnant in the last several years, so movement is good, even if it is sometimes stressful :D

Oh, I don't drive. So it was either rail or rail, to airplane to rail :D

Hi, thank you for the review. The game is definitely not meant to be just breezed through, and exploration and experimentation is important.

As for the Trials, they are intended as difficult challenges, requiring either good understanding of the trial OR very high stats. First place is very attainable with stats around 30s if you know exactly what to do. But winning is not necessary anyway and failing certain tests might bring rewards of its own.

Ох, перевод это больная тема. Постоянно над ней думаю. Я просто знаю как ИИ переводит, а без возможности проверить текст - стрёмно. 😮‍💨

Just three comment like that a day? I consider myself lucky when I only have to remove three of those in a day. Usually it is closer to ten. I am almost became desensitized to them at them point. Whenever I see a comment notification, I automatically assume that it is spam

Well, you don't really get to the Olympian athlete or Mega-mind levels in the game. You just train to an "exceptionally good shape" and a "top student in your grade". Which are both very possible within a span of a year if you put your mind to it. The fact that you can get from 5 to a 100 withing a couple of months, and do all five skills within a year, well, that we'll have to write off as magical intervention =D

As for Elizabeth's sports outfit, well, I guess you'll have to wait for this one. As she is not in the same grade as you, and you have very few chances to see her in her sports outfit (unlike Gwen), she will have a very low priority there. Nonetheless, she does have a few new outfits planned for her. At least one of which should be pretty saucy =)

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Hi. The answer to your question is hidden in your question. - You shouldn't only pump up you knowledge :)

Oh, no, thank god, it doesn't cost anything but time to build and upload. And laptop is very convenient, just not mine, which is old and was not that powerful to begin with

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Make sure you are saving on the Page 1...9 screens, and not on "Automatic saves" screen

Don't worry, there's no real plans on dropping the Mac version as of now. As for saves - I don't know.

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Violet's next event has been added to the patreon version though ;)

Sorry, I cannot understand what you are asking... :(