beefypotatoes wrote:Just discovered this yesterday, thanks for the great VN! It's pretty uncommon to find a GxG oriented VN that actually has a compelling story. Loving the characters and relationships. I'm really look forward to its continuation.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. ^_^
A few thoughts I'd like to share that I had while playing the game:
- It was mentioned once already, but it can be hard to follow who's talking in the beggining. I think matching the name colors to hair colors closer would have helped. A few, like Kika, don't really match at all, although I get the impression her hair color changed at some point which would explain that. But even like Lenna or Yoi, I think darkening them up a bit to match closer would work nicely.
When I was determining colors, I balanced out between two things. One, did color work on the textbox? Two, did the color match the character? There were a few characters that didn't really match up well. In the end, I decided to go with colors that would be easily read. Since I... shotgun'd the characters out in the beginning, I can see how it might have gotten confusing. A more spread out introduction is something I'm trying to do better in future works.
- Adorable protagonist, but we barely ever got see her
. I'm assuming this was a style decision for the POV story telling, but I still would have liked to see her a little more often. Don't recall seeing her in uniform at all while playing (although I found the sprite for it in the game folder).
Faye's cuteness is the reason she got to be protagonist. The original protagonist was Lenna, since she's an established main character in the series this story is technically a part of. However, when the sprites came out, Faye bumped Lenna off. I would have liked to have shown her off more, but it was a style choice to remove the side-by sprites. I think it worked better in the long run, but it makes poor Faye lose a lot of screen time.
Anyway, great work!
PS Is there a particular spot to watch for updates on this, or is it being kept internal for now?
I'm rather bad about changing things during the early... mid... late development, so I've been keeping my mouth shut about development. I don't want to say things like "The next one will have unique spaceship backgrounds!" or "You can romance Sol in the next one, because everyone loves Sol!" no matter how true they may be because I might lose the artist or something may happen in my personal life where I won't be able to work on VNs and will have to cut things short.
That being said, I'm almost at the point where I feel comfortable making some public announcements soon. They will be posted on my website, on this thread, and then the new thread that will be created in the WIP forum. I will say now that the continuation of this storyline will be delayed. The next thing that will be coming out in the RA sub-series is a spin-off involving a Special Investigations and Tactics officer investigating a missing research team and a potential ancient menace. Several characters will be making a return. There is a planned GxG and a GxB route. All I can say is check here every now and then over the week.
I totally understand.
