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How To Pua - Space

Space Exploration meets VN meets PUA Training - a unique mix of awesome stuff! · By Schneeritter Studios

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A topic by Maxime Martyr created Jul 19, 2021 Views: 264 Replies: 7
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Okay, I don't get the rules of the dating game, I thought it was a match-3 game, and I managed to succeed the first few dates, but now, I started a new date and when I matched 4 blue blocks, I lost, why?

You prepared tutorials for everything in the game but you did not give a tutorial for the dates, you didn't explain anything about how they work!

Please add a proper tutorial for the dates like everything else has.

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Actually, now that I think about it, this match-3 date doesn't make sense and is pointless.

If the purpose of the game is to have fun while training to date girls, then shouldn't there be actual dating training?

The fun of dating sims is actually the dating part, but in this game, the dating has been completely removed in profit of a match-3 game which is off-topic with dating.

I understand that this game was inspired by Hunie Pop, but I don't think Hunie Pop makes more sense either and I never played it specifically because it was a fake dating sim since there is no actual dating gameplay in it, merely a candy crush saga disguised as a dating sim without actual dating.

I expected better from How to PUA, because you presented it as "a game which would help me improve my dating skills" but how can I improve anything if I can never practice dating in the game because all I do during dates is playing match-3, I don't actually interact with the girls during dates, how is that "dating"?? This is just as ridiculous as Hunie Pop.

If you want to make a match-3 game, then just say it is a match-3 game, don't present it as a dating sim if there is no actual dating simulation.

Tell me, how am I supposed to improve my dating skills by playing match-3? Please tell me that you are aware how ridiculous that sounds.

You even insisted on claiming that "the primary focus of this game is flirting", however the core gameplay is candy crush, tell me how this serves the purpose of emphasizing the flirting focus?

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Moreover, your advices are bad, really bad, some of them are techniques that I actually already tried before playing your game and they always resulted in failures!

For example, "always ask something in return when a girl asks you to do something", I already tried that, the exact same way the protagonist does in your game, answer "What do i get in return?", well, let me tell you, for having already attempted that in real life, that doesn't work out like you pretend it does in your game, that doesn't demonstrate that you are worth more than to be a girl's servant, that just makes you look like a pathetic beggar, like you need to blackmail a girl's affection because you can't earn it on your own.

You claim that "being yourself" is bad advice, which implies that we should not be ourselves, we should be what the girl wants us to be. Even if that does work, I want to question what is the point is the girl doesn't actually likes you but a character that you created and pretend to be? I think it is not worth it. A misdirected love has no value. As soon as I started your game and the first advice that you gave was "Everyone say to be yourself, they are wrong.", I already knew that you were bad advices. And the more I played your game, the more you proved me right, each of your advices are worse than the previous, your game is a descent into an obnoxious mind-state, the mind of a dick, to be honest.

Another example, when I met the engineer, she started to talk to me about technological stuff and that actually interested me, then she stopped herself and apologized for making me waste my time and I had to choose between "Not at all, please go on!" or "I'm here to hear your beautiful voice so I don't mind but don't talk your head off.".  I thought that the cheap compliment was really obnoxious, it made me feel like I didn't give a shit about what she shared with me, her passion, I only cared about how her voice sounded, and I even finished the compliment with a sugar-coated "shut up", which I found disrespectful and tasteless. But I didn't care about because I actually enjoyed the technological conversation, being a sci-fi fan myself, so I actually wanted to pursue it and I logically chose "Go on!". Then Satella mocked me, telling me I shouldn't be friendly, I should be sexual, I should have chosen the other option. Holy shit, are you genuinely so obnoxious? Are you saying that we should not actually care about talking with girls, we should just compliment them and direct every conversation to sex? Do you actually love girls if you treat them that way? And you don't stop there! Because next, I went to meet the fighter in the holo-room and she welcomed me by asking if I came here to watch her sexy body while she sweats in training then I had to choose between being mean to her or approving her self-compliment. Since I don't want to be a dick, I obviously didn't want to be mean to her, so I chose to approve her self-compliment. Then Satella mocked me again, telling me I shouldn't encourage her, I should act indifferent. So what is it? When I met the engineer, she told me I should just compliment her instead of actually having a conversation with her, and when I met the fighter, she disapproved of me complimenting her. So what? "Compliment girls at every opportunity however if they compliment themselves put them to their place."? Urgh, that is so obnoxious that it makes me cringe, a real dick mind-set. ~_~'

You also advice to make sexual innuendos, but acting as if you were innocent and blaming girls for thinking sexually when they catch your meaning. You basically say to be hypocrite. Your game is a real lesson to be a dick. A man who doesn't assume what he thinks and says and blames it on women. You basically embarrass women, shame them, make them feel uncomfortable, weaken them, because you don't feel strong enough to face them at their full power. A coward's trick. A pathetic coward who thinks he is such hot stuff that he must teach other people.

Another example, you advice to have a dominative approach towards females. What will be your next advice? "Hit them on the head with a club then drag them by the hair to your cave?" :-3 Your game makes me feel like you are completely obsolete, you have the mind-set of a past era, nowadays girls want to emancipate themselves from the ancestral masculine domination, they want to be strong, autonomous and independent, the time of the damsel in distress who needs a strong man to protect her is over, it is about time that you adapt your mind-set to the present era, women are fed up of being dependent on men , nowadays they desire independence, so if you believe that women like to be dominated then you really don't understand neither women neither present culture. To demonstrate my point, you could analyze the evolution of Disney movies. 30 years ago, they were all about a brave male hero who saves a helpless damsel in distress. And now? Now they are all about girls who don't want to be saved by a a male hero, they are all about strong girls who take matters in their own hands and the male heroes barely assist the female heroines, they are no more the focus of the heroism. This evolution of Disney movies shows how social culture evolved. Women are fed up of the ancestral masculine domination, they want independence and autonomy, they want to take care of themselves, they don't want to be taken care of anymore, they don't need the male dominative presence in their life. And you come with a game which advices players to be dominative with girls, oh boy, you couldn't be more off the mark, it is my turn to give you an advice, and unlike yours, this advice is actually a good advice: Pick your mind off the gutter, observe the world around you, the way it evolves, realize that your primitive mind-set is obsolete in our progressist era, update your way of life accordingly, do your best to actually understand women, then update your game with actual good advices instead of the current worst dating advices that I was ever given. ;-p

Developer

Heyho, sorry, I didn't check itch in ages since the sales here are abysmal, compared to the other platforms, so I kinda forgot about it.


While I disagree on many accounts with the things you said, I do give you kudos for structuring your points well and staying in a feedback/constructive headspace while disagreeing with most of the content - I will not dive deeper into counter arguments, since it has been well over half a year for you and I am not sure how useful that usage of both our time would be.

From a gameplay perspective side, I do agree with your critisicm mostly - you should've lost the dates since you overshot on the needs of the girls (aka doing too much of one thing is as bad as doing too little).

With that being said, my future games are much less ideologically spreading, so to speak, as well as "tutorial stronger".


Oh, and do you own a VR headset? Because I have mostly switched to the VR style, and I really enjoy your clear articulation, as well as the soundness of your thought, even if, or especially since you are arriving at different conclusions compared to me. Hence I would like to offer you to be included as a tester in my future games :)

Even if that would be moot, if you don't have a VR headset, due to you not being able to play it then xD

I don't have a VR headset. :-3

Developer

Man, shame :(

You would have had much fun. And I'd have another awesome beta tester.

Oh well, if that changes, you know where to find me :)

Okay. :-)