Gave it a go, was curious about this one and i see potential in this game. Sure it's rough right now, but that's just how it goes with game development, with time it'll shape up to be a good game as it gets features in and some tender loving care in it. Just wanted to drop my two cents on this one:
- > Since the game's focus is sandbox and the story is secondary, don't feel too pressured into providing a lot of story and dialogue, or forcing the player's hand on decision-making events. Sometimes it's better to show and not tell, as in ambient storytelling. If you want to tell the story of say, a haunted location, like a forest or a building, you show the player with the images and a little bit of text. Take a look at AI: Somnium Files as an example, there are points of interest for the player to click, and it'll give you either a dialogue or a little bit of dialogue describing what the character sees.
- > As i started playing, i noticed that my character was already set, then i read that different models were planned. It might be a good idea to look at sex scenes as modular instead of tied to a specific main character. Sandbox games with high levels of customization might get out of control regarding the images for scenes, especially for a single individual. Instead of showing faces of every individual generated character, you might focus on their bodies instead, and use the body for a modular sex system that is called for every character in the game, instead of every character having a dedicated handmade scene for themselves. Let me give you an example of what i mean, say i went and got a scene for a female character that has an incredible big ass and huge boobs. If you show only her body, this one image can be used for similar character with the same body as this one character. This could reduce your workload and recycle assets instead of having to go and do one for every character introduced in the game. This isn't an excuse to not make more assets though, just that every asset made can be used for more than one character in certain situations, like sex.
- > If you're looking to make a game that is aiming for all sides of the sexual spectrum, don't feel bad about including content for Gay, Lesbian and Straight. One thing sandbox games do amazingly well, especially fantasy games like this one with a lot of magic in it, is offering a setting the lets players pursue what they're into the most. Giving the players freedom to choose and pursue the type of content that turns the on on these games is what makes them follow your project and keep coming back for more. I'm an example for this one, i came to see if the game offers Male/Male content for me to pick and go for, but right at the intro i saw that i could not choose and pursue what turns me on, so i decided to drop and wait to see if the game will have more support for what i'm into. This is also a good example of having a modular system would work really well, as the system would generate characters using the assets already in the game to provide characters for the player to pursue with interactions and then triggering the sex system, that would use in a similar fashion sex and body image assets that would fit best with the body type and configuration the player is currently sexing.
- > Since i already covered in my previous suggestions a modular sex system, let me suggest more body variety as the game develops with time. Let's say you're sexing a male on missionary position and since the sex system does not show the NPC's face, it means the system would only be showing their body, which means you can recycle this asset and use it in different scenes for different characters that have bodies like this NPC. Let's call this AssetMale1. Now i go and do the same for another character, but their body has a sexy tanned skin, let's call this AssetMale1Var1. As development time goes on, if you dedicate a little time in making more variations for these assets, the sex scene could then search and include them in sex scenes. So instead of the system only having this one image, it now looks for AssetMale2, AssetMale3, AssetMale4 and so on to be used, the same happening to Var1 as well, see where i'm going?
Just some thoughts i had while taking a look at the game at its current state. If i could make a request, maybe including Femboys to the game as well? Femboys are best boys
Cheers dev! This one shows a lot of potential, i'm hoping it grows into a great game for us to have fun. We really need good games right now
