really glad i stumbled across this SUPER cool project, can't wait to see where it's at now! and thanks for that simple, but effective advice at the end. I've been in a rut lately and needed to hear that honestly.

"hell no, it's not like I'm looping this..." *is looping it*

the game is mostly about reading and all the interactions feel like they're just distracting you from the story for no good reason, because they don't add any gameplay value.. I don't know it's not my kind of game, but I really like your voice over, it's always great : )

Hellooo thank you for the video and the message! ı think everything you said is true for in any work/hobby basically anything and ıt actually made me remember my one past conversation with my philosophy teacher in my high school ı do remember her saying to me something like ''ıf you want to live happy and successful your life then try do things you love or try to love whatever you do and dont care anything else since ıts your process.'' perhaps because ı was usually pushing myself thorough goals ı often forget this so ı kinda feel being reminded XD. I also love your art! in game when ı would see skill triggers or tavern animations ı could actually see each character's personality very well and thanks to those animations help ı also managed to understand characters very well too since their expressions combining with words made them very clear. even though ı dont know anything about drawing ı do remember doodling comics about the game characters ı liked based on their character stories or personalities and ı do remember that ı basically drawing stickmen and then drawing hair of the character and put some anime face expressions without even knowing anime at that times (those days ı was more into listening music rather than watching things so ı missed everything until my one classmates said the way ı draw eyes in expressions are very close to a comic she bought and later on she gifted me that manga she got and ı was introduced with anime XD) the reason ı didnt really payed attention to bodies were because ıt was whole alot easier for me to draw their fights or adventures without trying to understand how should ı draw their bodies correctly. ıt was a fun way for me to escape reality and ı wouldnt much care about the comic itself once ı would manage to draw what ı had in my mind but for some reason my friends would like my anime style stickman comics and they would read them even though they werent playing the games and didnt know the characters which would make me happy. When ı was playing games that doesnt really have much story going on ı would always love to get to know characters better and try to understand their personalities so ı could reflect their true identity on my small comics. ı really would enjoy complex characters with emotions rather than some robotic characters. Of course there were times when such complex characters made me question many things. ( ı love them but sometimes they just stand in very weird moral line that ı also cant bring myself to like them. I guess jeth is a good explanation for this XD ı love him in player perspective since he gives so much depth into story and he is very complex character but in my personal ''MC perpective'' ı dont like him simply because ı wouldn't be with someone who is like jeth in real life) my love for complex characters and their stories perhaps was the reason ı went for fantasy/action style of anime instead of romance once ı discovered anime. because ıf the story is not very well written romance can only show you a little when ıt comes to characters' personalities. Such as ıf the character is open type or jealous type, how much different they act around stranger vs their partner, what is their love language, how they choose to ''communicate'' in the relationship and how they act around their partner when they are happy, sad, stressed or angry but that is usually all. (ofc ıf there is not certain good-written main story going along with this romance). but in action you can see alot more aspect about that character as story can even touch moral sides of that world characters live in (of course well-written story is still important but ıts not impossible to still see such aspects without it too). I am verry happy that in the most of the projects you did ı could tell that there was strong and good main story and romance was something coming along the way. It wasnt forced one too. (the only exception that ı could tell as pure romance game was gacha date one but even there ı could tell that there was certain story about development of emotions and also game gave important background story of the main game.). Overall ı really love them in every aspect ^^ and ı think even though in arts the characters dont really have super details they still all look amazing (also ı think drawing without even zooming in is a amazing flex ı only tried digital art once out of curiosity and ıf ıt wasnt zooming in ı would have been ended up with very messed up drawing lol XD) thank you for your great work and video ^^

Keeping one's passions alive while having family responsibilities and full-time employment is difficult but necessary for creative personalities. The risk otherwise is to feel dead inside. I haven't found my way yet but I'm trying and this content is much more helpful than the usual "I sold my game and made millions" videos. I wish all of you on the journey the best.

1:12 - oh my, that's a lot of conditions :D you should group some of them -> beileph.relationship not in ('reject_friend', 'friend', 'romance', 'rejected'); or if the default state of the relationship has no value or some value, it might be faster to set the condition the other way around.. instead of writing the whole list to exclude all unwanted values, just check if it's not a certain value like -> beileph.relationship == None or beileph.relationship == 'no_romance' or something like that.. and if you need to use these conditions in multiple places, putting them in a method and calling the method with parameters might be a better option -> if companion.bonding_requirements(companion = 'beileph', qs = 1, bond = 5, loyalty = 110, relationship = ('reject_friend', 'friend', 'romance', 'rejected')); and do the method as you would the condition.. 6:32 - this may be caused by an old extension. A new extension to support renpy was recently introduced, it's called "Ren'Py Language (8.3+)" 10:31 - this type of mistake is the most common, especially in bigger projects.. I can't even count how many times I've made this kind of mistake :D

you can make a RPG using RenPy?!!! that's so cool

hellooo ı actually wanted to write a comment ı prepared but for some reason yutube refuses me to send it and while trying to udnerstand the issue ı accidentaly deleted my last comment on the Soul labyrinth video :') hopefully ı will manage to send my comment though edit: I diiddd iiiittt by replyin myself XD now ı will try to get my deleted comment back hopefully ı will...(ı actually read the reply and ım glad ıt wasnt gone before you see but ı will still try to get it back )

Thanks for playing! Sorry, I forgot to reply to this post till now, I'm glad you enjoyed the story and gameplay! We changed the camera a bit during the dodge so hopefully it feels better now. We've also just re-opened our playtest with a new build for Feedback Quest 7, featuring skill combos, unlimited levels, and a new minigame! Please feel free to try it out!

Loving a focus on putting animations/cutscenes in Ren’Py! I definitely would a big deep tutorial, ngl😂😂😂

Wow, I love how you keep going with more than one project!! so inspiring ❤

Omg, so curious about what happened next!! and especially who that kid was!😂😂 will we ever know?👀

Loving your calm reading tone as well!!❤

Lovely how your cat decided to join our gameplay, haha!😂❤

I’m loving the vibe😭💓💓

here we go!!💓 thank you for accepting my request, I appreciate it!!🫂✨ I hope more people can find your game this way!!💓🤞🏻✨

Ooh, I've been needing to play some games with objective/quest pages/ui so I can find inspiration. Also, you're not a bad writer, it's not filled with filler language (especially the word 'just'). It also doesn't do a huge info dump right at the beginning. Nice game, you're quite multi-talented. :)

ty for the update :) the game looks so much more polished than last time i've tried it out

I’m not sure if you will see this comment since this is an older video, but I felt compelled to leave a reply. I really relate to what you said. The past five years I’ve been in collapse and consumed with nihilism. I’ve been in a deep depression and lost hope. I had failed so much in life that I just gave up. The past few months I’ve really tried to start moving again. I’ve wanted to make a visual novel for a few years but kept thinking why bother. I like what you said about being motivated for your own intrinsic desire to bring something to life and create just for yourself. That’s the conclusion I’m trying to get to also. Like you I did alot of drawing and writing but for the praise of others. I needed that validation and acceptance. Coming from abusive childhood I think it made me feel safe. Like I mattered. Anyway I’m rambling. Thank you for this video. I needed to hear this today. Also I like your G1 transformers. That was the only toys I wanted as a kid.

Hellooo thanks for the all hardwork ım very glad that you feel okay ^^ all the arts ı have seen so far and katnir's animations are sooo cool! ım very excited to play the new routes Im also happy that ı was able to help to find the bugs (my itchio account name is JustaOneGirl ı mean thats me XD) Also about the programming although ı never did program myself before ı once had to use very simple and easy level program called ''Flowchart'' because of my one lesson and god know how much ı just suffered because of typos :') ı guess ıts safe to say that writing correct is one of golden rules of programming. ım bond level 5 with everyone and hopefully ı will manage to give the pendant and rings ı prepared to everyone ^^

OMG! Thank you! I'm making my first game and this is SO HELPFUL!!

Do you plan to make it available for mobile phones as well?💓

Thank you for sharing your story!! You’re really inspiring!!💓🫂

Wowww! Looks promising 😍💓

Yeah, that all sounds pretty reasonable and matches my experience. I’m in my 30s and “struggling with my mental health” as Brits seem to adore saying. (I’d more phrase is as a constant radio of intrusive thoughts about being utterly done with everything, venlafaxine or not.) There are still good and bad times, regardless of mental state. It’s just that the meds that work for you tend to shift that range to a more sustainable, positive, pleasurable, or tolerable direction. They might also expand the range to encompass more emotions anyway. It feels a bit like restricting yourself to one paint tube, but you can use exactly as much water or time as you want. In that case, you’d draw or paint something with much more emphasis on shade / tone, texture, negative space, gradient, and form. Whereas an unlimited color palette might need to be rushed because of getting overwhelmed by choice.

Hello! Maybe you could try uploading lots of shorts to get expand your reach. Finding your channel is such a big inspiration for me to keep going and I hope for the same for other people!

Hi Jen, aside from making video games, I feel like you like to talk about life stuff.. sometimes it's encouraging others, sometimes it's seeking encouragement.. I think it's fine, I have it like this too and I think it's directly related to how lonely an indie developer is most of the time.. creating games is easy now, as far as software and information are concerned, but no one talks about how difficult and challenging it is to invent everything and do other stuff like making graphics, animations, sound effects, write dialogues and not repeat yourself and preserve natures of the characters.. sometimes it can be too much, so even though it's a sanctuary, there are still some demons there.. btw: I haven't played your Gatcha game yet, but I will soon (likely tomorrow), because I'm very interested in it.. I'm just short on time and I don't want to rush it to play it.. after I play it I'll write you what I think about it.. this will probably be my first gotcha game, so if I write something weird tell me it's supposed to be like that or something : )

Helloooo! ım going to write this comment while listening the video because these topic sactually important to me so ı guess ı will end up writing way too much (perhaps even waay more than before because ı do think A LOT about negative topics) again and ı might sound very depressing here and there but ı will do my best to focus on positive as much as ı can. while starting to talk ı may be jumping into conclusions but your voice tone seemed to a bearing sadness (ı mean ıts also calm but..) so ı guess this week was full of negative thoughts?. I really do hope you can find your way to breathe from them ıf so 😢. the topic really looks like one of facts about reality but ıts also true that ıts actually can be depressing topic.. I do really hope ıt wont be bothering you too much though since although we cant escape negative sides of reality focusing on them too much can be also harmful :'). ı also want to share my own emotions about this topic. and of course my thoughts in several perspectives of ''aging'' ı also do hope maybe my small inspiration can cheer you bit. Well although since ım just a 20 years old girl right now my opinions might seem too raw and uncompleted or perhaps nonsense but ''aging'' is something ı actually thought about alot in my life even since ı was just an elementary school kid and ı also think about it alot since my some friends started to marry and switching my life phases like ''child'' or ''young girl'' which are like my whole life phases for now to ''adult woman''.. a new phase that ı have never experienced and know nothing about seems terrifying. I wont really dive into dark places since there few things that ı cant seem to solve and ı dont really want to destroy the mood so ı will just give my few thoughts and small conclusion that suddenly appeared on my mind like an inspiration and ı quiet like it actually. aging was something ı was afraid of since ı was kid. perhaps ı knew that with every year my life was going to be more difficult too. there are so many times ı wished that ı could just stop the time and just continue for a while like that. perhaps another reason was that there are things are ı can only do in certain times and ıf ı accidentally miss it then ı will technically miss the whole opportunity. but then ım reminded by my friends and teachers that life is a road that you walk on... and this road is completely belongs to that person whoever living the life which means ıts not a race and ıts definitely not a game that person has to gain all the achievements to have a '''successful'' or ''fulfilling'' life ı also believe think of the life in a different perspective like a maze where everyone goes and experience it from different place and always keep move on. you may or may not be to reach the ''end'' which ı usually think of it like being either satisfied with your life or perhaps making peace with your own life and living peacefully. ı believe that all of us have our own pace and our phases and although ı tend to forget that this is ok. all the choices we did so far was what shaped us and ıf there any mistakes we think we could do better then rather than looking it at like failure ıt can be seen as a lesson as life has never be done with them. I also think about ''remembrance'' of my life and everyone around me which is kind of a topic ı talk with my friends (perhaps we go into dark topics alot ım not so sure XD) but ı believe that ANY PHASE AND TİME OF OUR LİFE WİLL BE FORGOTTEN OR WİLL BE GONE FOREVER and ım not talking about me and the people who know me will remember it. ım talking about something alot bigger than that. this inspiration came to me when ı was actually having another depressing thoughts like ''will whatever ı do even matter? ım just a one single tiny piece of this chess and pretty replaceable ı wont be remembered by anything ı will do'' but then a thought suddenly came to my mind like light and ıt was something like ''The time what takes parts of life from us will be the one that will always remember and have who exactly we are just like how river always keeps moving while every single water drop is always will be the part it whetver ıt crossed to sea or not since ıf they wouldnt exist in the first place river would be absent'' and ı like to keep this thought with me since ıt actually makes sense with every people who lived in history to future generations we are all in this time river and whetever we crossed it or not wont change the fact the we will always be known by it as we certainly was and is part of it with every year of our life... It makes me feel better and ı also like the thought of being connected to all other people with this one certainty, the ''time''. One of the saddest things in aging is perhaps how body just gets weaker. and ı really dont like the sound of that... ı just dont like hearing stories of how older ones in my family has to stay in hospital of some reason that when me and my young cousins can actually get over with it unlike them. It makes me feel sad because ı know that this is a destination many has to face as we keep aging. my one of biggest wish is actually maybe doctors can at least find a way to support older ones body health with either perhaps developing some good medicines or ways that can make their body stay healthy and strong or maybe some robot assistants? that would be cool since they would be able help them 7/24 with no need of sleep or other things. ı do hope this wish will come true. ı do hope every older people will have other young people to support them since loneliness and weakness sounds terrible. ı often escape into my mind and imagination world whenever ı feel like world becomes too much (ıt usually becomes too much but ıts not like ım having much hardships ı guess ım just too sensitive) but when ı was going middle school or high school all ı could have from this imagination world was the visual version of my emotions which wouldn't much help me to recover myself XD but ı guess after ı joined supportive online communities and learned how to be more kind and considerate ı slowly reflected this kindness ı used for others to myself which actually allowed me to ''consult myself''? ıts still way too difficult to do but sometimes ı actually get very interesting supportive dreams from my imagination world that surprises me alot since ım usually a depressed person ı do remember that ı was seeing the game characters ı like and them saying supportive things to me or maybe praise me for something ı did in my dream which always makes me so happy and ım thankful for my imagination world and this developed kindness for these XD ı do think that maybe some truths will never leave our side ıt doesnt really mean that they will be either bad or good truth about our life. well maybe ı failed to explain myself but ım trying to say is sometimes trying to see different perspectives, maybe starting with small things like doing small positive or helpful things to slowly try to develop new positive perspective is always the best choice rather than being stuck in one certain perspective especially ıf ıts a bad one. in other words '' you cant simply assume from looking at the dirty window and assume world is a dirty and horrible place'' ı guess ıt was something Franz Kafka said? ım trying to do that and trying to see the other ways of seeing even trying to get help from is ı guess one talk ı did have with my friend is very good example of this because ı one day tell them that ''the sky ı wanted to reached went higher ıt seems but ım still drowning in the depths of the sea no matter how much sturggle ım simply sinking down'' and she answered that ''you cant simply sink down since sea would always pull you up so what makes you sink would not be only the sea itself but also your own moves maybe you just need to stand still for a while so you can rise?'' and that was something ı actually never taught about while telling my feelings to my friend at that moment and she actually showed me another beautiful perspective (perhaps ıt was obvious but sometimes ı can focus on something soo much that ı forget other things) being productive is not bad coping but ıt sound tiring... my case which is literally doing nothing or thinking and then rush things while trying to be perfect definitely alot more horrible coping so ı guess ı can say being productive is useful but still tiring. ı usually think trying to cope with negative thoughts and emotions like trying to find my way in a pitch dark labyrinth with no light. ıts difficult ıts hurting as ı can bump into many objects or walls while trying to find my way but ı guess not giving up the key because ıf you give up then you will lock with your past with no ''future'' about this topic because you stopped moving but ıf you keep mocing then there will always a chance for a ''future'' that may bring light into these problems. thank you for bringing all these thoughts in this video ı guess ı can relate or will definitely relate as ı grow older and ım glad that ım not alone yet of course ı wish that everyone including me will be able find some good answers that can help us to keep going on in this life. again thank you for all the work and sharing ^^

a lot of what you say I can totally relate with. sending you the biggest digital hug imaginable!

Hi Jen, sorry to hear about your health problems, it must be awful, even if it's regular, you can't really get used to it.. about the option to end the game early, this can be very harmful, because some people may not realize that this is the end, so it's always a good idea to let them know or ask them (or do it automatically) to save the game at this point.. it's also a little strange to end your own game with such an option, as this option rather opens up the opportunity to branch out the story and turn the player against his friends, for example.. I know it's a lot of work and a lot of brainstorming to make a new branch, but if you put an option like that in your game, some people might expect something like that and be disappointed if it's not.. btw: The confession spot is a pretty hilarious idea :D although it would probably be a quick give away of what's going on if you used one spot for the same thing over and over : )

Hellooo! ı hope you are doing fine now although this type of pain is unfortunately repetitive ıt doesnt mean that ıt should be seen ''less important'' than well other type of pains by any chance. ım also told that resting time to time actually helps you to work better (well of course some certain house chores has to be done :') but there easy meal types that can save the day ı think?? ı cant say much since ı cant cook and can only bake things) and ım veeery happy that new bond update is coming to main game!! yay ^^ by looking how good katnir's animations is ım actually very excited to see other's! making all the scenes, stories, arts and character skills seems like a very huge package for a update actually. though ıt will take my lots of time to reach each of them since ı was mainly focused on Lor's route and moved accordingly for this so ı guess ı need to make at least one restart and finish the huge endless beast fights to obtain all materials and then ı can move on every route one by one but ı hope ı will be able to achieve this since ı want to see all routes ^^ also about the question about whetever main chaarcter would like to fight against to crown or doesnt want to do that was actually interesting choice but because of that ı played the villain's heart side game before the quest 5 ı was more like ''no thank youu ı have already seen enough ^^;; ! '' and just chose the going to war XD ı also want to say that ım verry happy to see your games since they are actually verry good ^^ and ı mean it ı really like characters and ı can actually feel the atmosphere of the game very clear and ı can feel how deep the characters of the game are ım verry happy that how much effort you put in this game and you actually have fun while doing that and ı really hope this happiness will only grow bigger with the game as ıts the case for me ^^ ı also hope you can still lay back time to time since your health is always matters firstly :3

i wanted to do a similar project thanks for sharing

why youtube is banning my comments.....🤕

thanks!!!

Hellooo today ı kind of finished the otomejam and ıts very amazing! ı really like how sometimes ı cant predict how characters will react in certain things which shows how much deep and detailed they are. in the whole game ı was freely choosing whatever comes to my mind and not facing some sort of ''bad end'' or ''reaction'' just because of that was a great time for me ı did get many confused or not-so-happy reactions from LI's but ı still think my choices was worth it XD ı guess ı have finished 5 endings in 6 endings and will probably leave a massive comment (and hopefully ım trying to add few things into it before sending it) ı just wanted to write my thoughts here too since this game was like my highlight for life from the day ıts released to today :). as for burning out cycle this is something ım very very very accustomed with. since ı was a kid ıusually haid laid back personality with hating any type of competition. maybe ı was motivated in part my childhood but not anymore :') maybe because of that ı know how much ıt makes me feel sad once ı work so hard for it and give it my all only to receive words of disappointment like how people were waiting something better from me or how some certain person could or did better than me. ıt hurts me so much ıf that ever happens which usually makes me step back and ignore everything until the very last moment where my stress and anxiety kicks in and pushes me to work as much as ı can no matter how much tired ı get to at least get a good grades and even ıf ı dont ı cant simply tell ''meh ı studied like for few days only so ı wasnt expecting much'' though ı usually force myself to even not sleep and work. ı guess in the end ı just cant say ''eh ı tried my best and ım proud of it'' because ı feel like ım not the one who sets expectations in my life but some system is. the best option in every type of work is doings things because you like it because ı both gives you motivation to do your best and ıt tires you lest than normal since you feel like you did that not because you have to but because you wanted to. unfortunalety ı feel like ı have veeery long way to reach that point. another good way to avoid burn out is doing your tasks in a order that how much you can handle in that day and really planning thorough everything to make sure you will finish it until the deadline. this one saves you from the stress that you would feel everyday and perhaps helps you to go with your on pace without having some roller coaster experience (depends on the work but lets say generally) and again ım also veery away from that :D since ım not disciplined (unfortunately). but ı agree with your words! ^^ usually the easiest way to avoid burn out is not pushing yourself way too hard and keeping your expectations in the place that you reach without breaking your health. ı guess the main problem here is how system is pushing people into a race that seems unavoidable which causes many people to think like they had to be on certain level no matter what and spending (or maybe wasting) their entire life into that reaching that level or perhaps even trying to reach higher places and they wont notice how time goes until they finally notice.. hopefully when not too late. ı also want to be able live my live without burning out since ıt somehow became part of my life with every exam week, deadlines and many other things. I usually kept myself standing and pushing my burning our phase to later thanks to my friends who inspired me to say ''ok ı will give myself fully into this'', games (yours are definitelyy included ^^) and my daydreaming times but in the no matter how much ı delayed my burn out ıt eventually came and found me hopefully ı will learn to go with my own pace and finally be released by this cycles thank you for your great advices ı guess ı should work on creating my own expectations and shield myself from harsh ones firstly. Have a verry great daay ^^ ı wasnt thinking ı would write this much ı hope my over sharing is not annoying ;-;

❤Wow, I’ve been waiting so hard for this wonderful game to come out! You’re great! Also your channel and your videos are always keeping in the way! Thank you!❤ (By the way, I don't know English well and I use translator, so if some words or sentences are wrong, unclear, I apologize, I just really want to share my emotions with you!)

You’ve worked so hard, well done!! I’m really excited for the game ^^

Yeah ! Good job ! 🥳👏💪

yeeeeesss!! ıts finally about to come ouuut ım so exciteeeedd ^^

let's gooo

I think one of the hard things of receiving critiques, is when someone is simultaneously rude but gives you good points. Like being corrected snootily for a typing error, then also pointing out something you've done wrong, and gives you a good alternative. It's harder to trust someone, because they've been rude, thus it's harder to believe in their good advice. I always find it best to listen to the advice and criticism that's being repeated to you.

Hi Jen, respect each other humanity is nicely said.. some people can be really insensitive and almost act like you owe them something and you haven't delivered it, so they have to be rude to you.. my approach may seem cold to some, but I never try to hurt anyone.. basically I try to point out something that is a problem and usually tell at least one way how to solve it.. I really like this approach and when someone gives me something like that, it's always good.. I generally don't like criticism like "this is terrible" or "this is ugly".. it doesn't really help me and I can't do anything about it, because I can't see what the person sees.. a more specific approach is always preferred, like "this function always lag for 1 second, every time I use it, it's terrible" or "this thing has to bright colors and the texture is broken, it's ugly".. just a little thing that I can work with and this is also how I approaching my criticism towards others.. to be completely honest I prefer to take criticism than give, because I feel like I can't say things in a warm way.. I think sugarcoating things to make them sound less harsh doesn't help anyone and being completely honest is kind of cold even if it's helpful.. I'm trying to find a middle ground here, but it usually leans more one way or the other.. but I never try to harm, just to say what is wrong and how it can be improved.. btw: I miss the face cam in this video, because you laugh a lot and I love seeing people laugh :) and I also want to say good luck with Ottoman Jam :)

So cool! I’d love to know more about this art process! Art is the most daunting thing about trying to make a visual novel, from size, to how the body is broken down and how changes and animation is done, to importing into engine and setting up. When it comes to critiques, they are tricky indeed. I just heard, for the first time, about writers doing positivity reads, and I kinda like the idea. Sometimes you just need the fluff - and sometimes you want the honest “help me grow” stuff, of course. :)

although ı dont create games (ım actually curious but ı know nothing about them) ı had to make many teaching materials in my university since my major is ''mathematic teaching'' for this few months and most of the time when ı showed my work to my classmates to receive any kind of critiques so ı can improve my work. To be honest recieving critique can be difficult for newbies like me no matter how kind it is ıf critique points me a way that ı have to do a alot of work on my material ıt can be bit saddening and in the end ı was also really glad that ı listened them because end result was alot better than my first work. ı guess my problem was ı didnt know how to approach critique while working on my work (like how should ı apply this critique to my work so ıt can get better). ı also thought about critiques same ! :3 ı really like to say good things and give my critiques between praise since ıt makes critiques less harsh. ı also try my best to understand what is the work about before giving my own critiques and ıf ı dont know much about ı usually warn other side that ı dont have much knowledge about it so they shouldnt take me too seriously. I usually like to give my critiques ıf ı believe that other side has alot more potential to make their work improved but sometimes ı cant say anything at all too ıt can because of many reasons XD like maybe ı really didnt understand or like the work or ıf ı have no idea whats going on there XD but when receiving critiques ı usually focus on what part of my ''material'' is understood very well and what part is ı usually had to explain others because ıf even someone who knows how to create a material cant make it out something then someone from complete outside wont be able get whats going on at all (my materials had that alot ;-; ) well ı guess ım more type of ''praising'' person rather than giving critiques though. since ı wont say much unless ı feel like ı need to point it out or someone really asks me to do it since ıts not only me giving the critique but how other side will take it. overall ı think moving according to golden rules in both giving and receiving critiques are very important :3 also thanks for the video ^^ ! and good luck for the both otomejam and art fight :3

I think this is a beautiful way to look at the critiquing process! I don’t have your level of experience in creative spaces, but I agree with everything you said. Thank you for sharing, sincerely, and I shall carry your pebble onwards.

Hellooo thanks for the video! Im actually really glad to learn few things about team OG and both of them look gorgeus! About characters ı also love to learn about their personality more than some info about them though ı also like to learn about what they like or dislike too since ıt gives sense of being closer to that character like what is their hobby that they do in their free time or well some small details that actually helps you to understand them. As for alluring male poses.. I dont really think any special pose but ı dont think the pose itself would only enough ıf we are talking about romance ı guess.. Perhaps trying to catch caharacters sincere feelings into that pose could be more alluring? For me ıt doesnt have to be "sexy" Pose or something but ı usually like sneces where the character you are romancing lets you know their feelings openly eaither by telling them or doing something (ı might havr picked too cheesy example by giving this scene but in some romance shows character can hold other ones hand and put them on their chest too let the other side know about how crazy their heartbeat goes when they are with that other company XD ı mean they do something to show their love) of course this is only my point of view since ı usually look for romance rather than sexy Edit: well while not being too sure sometimes people can find characters simply focusing on their serious work "alluring" Too. I guess ıt depends but ı just remembered this and wanted to tell Im soo excited for this game ! 😊 thanks for all the hard work

Hi Jen, if it's really difficult to make a seductive male character, you can try to make a seductive female character and give it masculine features.. like slowly transforming a female character into a male one.. anyway during the drawing process you may come up with something unique that will work or you can add more and more masculine features.. it can also help if you think about the character while drawing, what it should represent, how and why.. if you come up with a story for the character, it can help a lot with the vision of the character and its features..

The games that get it right make me feel like I'm falling in love with somebody rather than doing a math problem to optimize the maximum possible bond with the designated NPC of my choice. lol Also I always like replaying the game to bond with each different character, even if I already have a favorite/personal bias. And I still want it to be an immersive experience each time

Helloo thank you for the video! ı waiting for the game with great excitement and once ı saw the video ı immediately jumped in ^^ well this will be a long comment since ı finally got lots of free time ^^ wow thats alot of words! thanks for the hard work! As a player ı usually dont like when a choice ı randomly pick literally decides ıf ı will get a good or bad ending especially ıf ı also cant make any sense of it so being able build my own character or my own path always excites me alot more than normal type of visual novels since ıt gives me a feeling of being able play the game as ''myself'' which is actually important to for someone who has weird anxiety like me. by calling it weird ı mean when ı play games ı ALWAYS do my best to get ''right choices '' and sometimes ı sometimes imagine my own self as a main character with a question like ''would ı survive ıf I WOULD GO THOURGH THİS?'' or for otome/ dating games ''would character love ıf ıt were ME?'' and ıf game doesnt give me much of a choice then answer would be usually ''no'' and that makes me feel kind of disconnected to game world especially ıf the game doesnt really introduce the ''main character'' much in the name of ''giving to players the feeling of creating their own story path '' or things like that (ım totally fine with well introduced characters tho since ı can see that story is about someone else not me clearly) but in games that gives me so many choices and/or variety of endings ıt makes me feel like ı dont have to reach a ''true ending'' since there no such thing and what ı should reach is the path ı want to have and the being able to decorate room to catch the interest is amazing idea! ıt both gives so many choices to player to decorate to room with their preferences and be able catch the interest of game characters :3 thats amazing freedom that we can have our own preferences instead of being have to find right choices but ı guess ıt seems difficult to ''program'' them all? then perhaps the game can come out as an demo or uncompleted to be able to not miss the jam and then can get updates? rushing can be pretty tiring afterall point system is so cool! well ı hope there is no negative points XD 0 points are fine but no negative plss and also different responses in different bonds are pretty good too ıt makes things lots more realistic the fact that you can do speedrun whole moth to 10 days is cool but ı guess ı will keep playing for all days ıdk ıt actually changes anything but ım fine with slow process :3.... oh well ı am curious about how they will spend their time with me in their full bond level too x3 so ı guess ı will go both... chancing opinionnss haha ıts actually relaxing to know that having only ''Im good by myself'' ending which well perfectly fine with me :D (ı cant just like sad/bad endings although they can make story deeper) overall the process of the game is amazing and ı am sooo excited for this ı hope things will go well for you and ekkoberry for this project (well of course for everything too) thanks for the all hardwork again and also thanks for the video ^^ ıf ım correct game will be out on end of the 8th week right? which means there is technically 2 weeks to go... ı dont wanna sound impatient since taking things slowly ıf possible is best choice for health but ı will keep following updates so ı can at least have small peeks >w< Have a very nice day!

Hi Jen, I also don't like it when the game locks you on a certain path or if you don't do everything 100% right you ruin your chances with that character.. I faced the same dilemma with choices.. so I created a class for decisions and save almost every single player decision.. I also save behaviors, if they are nice/rude to someone, if they flirt or if they were flattered when the character flirted with them, etc.. so I can decide which things are important for which character and also the most important choices from the list.. it has a lot of options and freedom, but on the other hand, I have to know about all the options they can do and keep a list of them.. btw: I would like to try this game, when will it be available to play ?