Contemplations and 2nd poll
Time flies and so the opportunities to reflect, sit down, breath, contemplate and meditate on the state of the game, the experiences so far are somewhat necessary.
One comment somewhere was "WHERE IS ART? I ONLY SEE BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES!" Really has been making me thing. Probably my favourite comment so far. When we seek the lowest common denominator, such as "How much should we write in the wiki to address the lowest common denominator", then we discover an entire new hole that reaches even further down. Then "WHERE IS ART?" what is art? where is beauty, art, ugly? Questions that have plagued humankind for eons. Where do we find art in our life, others, nature, cities and in our own thoughts and emotions... I still continue pondering on that comment every now and then with fascination.
Furthermore, we took necessary shortcuts in the narrative arcs and storytelling...and it has been so annoying and irksome. As an example, we had the images and story for the entire corruption and purity arc of Mina based on the theme "the loss of innocence", but we simply did not have yet the skills to make the images we wanted to convey the story in a meaningful manner. We remade entire new sections and then paused it again, it was once more annoying. It felt disjointed. And after further contemplation, we decided that in the next updates we will try to add a small intro when it reaches purity +5 or corruption +5 to introduce the next narrative arc, go deeper into the psyche of the npc.
I particularly like this wholesome image of Taylor, I made as a test for her arc introduction. "What happens next? I got all I wanted, but I still feel unsatisfied. I was an empty shells and thank to you, I found something, I thought I would feel whole, yet I am like an oyster with a piece of dirt inside that has yet to form a pearl...I don't feel present, my mind keeps drifting back into the depths of the caves and what is beyond...Where am I? What is down there?" A sneak peek into her arc : Insatisfaction vs satisfaction.
As usual: a work in progress.
For this poll we need help! We have two models for Landrace-chan a cute piggy, the question is: nose hook or piggy pajama?
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Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, next update is another massive one. We have been musing on how to make it android friendly. In Godot it is relatively easy to port and we think that adapting most actions and doing Android only movement is possible (with arrows). What we worry is text size, font and more. Next update we will make a test and then see how that goes, including how to manage save on android. Tablet is a sure "no problem".
The game has a lot of potential to grow and expand. It has good graphic models, it has history and Quest. But... They're not on android. It's a waste not to be able to take your favorite game everywhere. But there is still hope of solving it since the weight and the not are very large, they still have that opportunity. Take advantage of it.
In a surprise twist Pajama has won! CUTENESS FOR EVERYONE! (Cute is very happy, she hates nose hooks)