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Hi Zak! Yea, i wanted to be short and to the point so i dont send a wall of text. It s mean regardless, cuz my aim was to not go on too long with it, which would make it mean x2. I don't like having debates in comment sections. I'd love to give proper feedback, but to reply to the longest part, which is the ai usage:

You're being disrespectful! You at least understand that, right? Saying its ok to use a tool built on the stolen and uncompensated work of millions of artists, because you spent 500 hours making sure it looks good. It s insulting my guy.

Im not interested in the wishy washy "is it real art" debate. Brother everything is art. Everything you can lay your eyes upon, everything you can hear, smell, touch. It's so silly, to compare digital art with a machine built to steal from artists and churn out art. Its so silly, to compare photography with a machine that uses industrial quantities of water and electricity, enough to set the entire world's plans for climate change action back decades- just to create pretty pictures or sometimes-accurate text or whatever else it stole.

Before ai, how did anyone do anything? Clearly, its *impossible* to create a vn with no art budget or artistic inclination...... cmon now. I get you wanted it to look pretty, you didnt want to make a vn that looks amateurish, you wanted people to be drawn to it, but at least dont hide behind the "its real art" thing. This is a moral choice first and foremost. Some care ab the "not real art" thing but i think its a stupid argument on both sides. 

Anyway i dont expect u to come kiss me feet n say "ahh yes ur so right i ll repent and change the entire thing now and i ll also give you a thousand hundred dollars and the keys to the kingdom." I fully expect this to be a waste of time. I usually dont bother if ai is involved but your passion is was so clear had to see more and say my piece. Im also silly for that.

But if i can convince u to do one ☝️ thing :  pls workshop that fighting minigame bcs bro 😭 how make cool strategic decisions when no info is given to me, and the fight is too short to notice any patterns.... Minigames in renpy r hard to do from what i know but there s somethin to work on there

I've never seen a vn specifically explain the existence of choices like its a new mechanic 😭 u said in the comments u dont really have experience with vn's, but its so goddamn funny. It's like booting up call of duty and gettin an npc that says "this world is different- we fight different. That thing in your hands? Its called a Bullet Shooter. It works by shooting Bullets"

I don t want to be too mean in these comments so i'll keep it short, but from what i ve seen this isn't. Great. Weird little lack of punctuation and simple writing aside, i get thrown in here, told i dont get to pick my own name despite this being a self insert story, realise the game wants me to think im best friends with matt when i the player just met his ass, the fighting minigame is pure chance which makes it very annoying and not fun, and.... you use AI. 

I was never going to download this, from the start, because of the AI. But reading your replies here, it really highlighted your passion for this project. The game has a .... good, somewhat cohesive artstyle which you put effort into making look not like shitty ai. I just wonder, if you can write and code, if you can find a UI artist, game testers, socmed managers that do all this work for you out of passion, sans compensation.... you couldn't find an artist? Or is it that an amateur artists passion wouldn't be good enough? 

I recommend Paul Platt's vid called "the real problem with AI isn't what you think". Preachy ass title but since you ve mentioned you hesitated on ur decision to use ai, maybe it'll make you think. 

Signed, an artist that was exicted to see the lemmasoft forums post, only for it to dawn on me that you've used ai for your game's art- which wasn't mentioned anywhere.

oh the colors n fov were fine. i can see why the red would be a bit bright for some though, an option to turn the saturation down a bit would be nice for them. For me, it's the way the diagonal lines move that made me a bit sick. thanks for the concern, it wasn't too horrible, but enough to be uncomfortable ;;. The lines when you're static do look very good keeping them would be nice, but it's the way they shift when you move that has this bad effect. 

Scared me too much to continue lmao and gave me motion sickness as a bonus. The game looks sick when you re not moving but boy oh boy does it hurt my eyes if im actually playing it

This is such a sweet little thing and honestly i d love for it to be a full game!! but even if you don t make a full thing out of it i enjoyed it. Thank u for makin this ^^

what up this has lil spoilers so if u didnt play the demo yet go do it thank

I didn t know this is a demo until i reached the end and said out loud "wait that s it?" so i complained (to myself) the whole game that i couldn't save. But now i know it will probably definitely be implemented so yee (and if not then (ง'̀-'́)ง)

Anyway i played the demo twice, the second time to see if i can cut the girls' hair or not (you can hooraaay good game) and see if that changes anything (it doesnt boooo) but it s a demo so i m not gonna complain. yet

There s really nothing bad i can say about this.
The art is absolutely wonderful, i like the main character, shit scared me a coupla times but i am a coward so i dunno how much that matters, and the little details you guys added like the lil spinning globes, the cute stars and hearts turning to 'thief' in the theatre club when you steal the key, no longer being able to turn on the lights or open the window, and the highlight of the game, drawing a butt on the chalkboard.
a masterpiece what can i say

i m talkin too much aight aight thats all good game can t wait to play the whole thing good day to yall