Heartache 101 ~Sour into Sweet~

Yay first post! Anyway this game is great! The board game aspect was unique and the prologue set the story up nicely (it was also highly amusing). Also it's hard to believe this is an indie game it runs smoothly and it is well thought out with great story development(wish I could say the same about all mainstream games. There were a couple of things that bugged me, though those were in the interface. Because I read faster than the text scrolls I click to make the text appear on screen at once. The problem is sometimes I click one time too many and it selects an option before I can read it. Also on an option screen if i dont have the mouse on the option it still selects it(i.e. When I select use item on the board and i realize I dont have the item I want so I click in the backround thinking it will cancel the screen but it uses an item instead) sorry for the report but if you are still improving the game these are things that most annoyed me, but if you are done completly with it then I can live with these things. Again great game! And thank you for creating it.

Oops I should have figured a right click would have canceled its just a habit to click off the screen to cancel. As for using the arrow keys to control text speed I didnt know that. I'm going to have to try that. Thanks!

Personally I think you should keep the text skip on the right mouse button because the left mouse is the "main" button and I think that the main button should have as few functions as possible to avoid accidentally doing something you don't want to.

I don't know if you still add new functionality to the game or not, but I have some suggestions/ideas for the custom-content-creation.

1. Option to manipulate stats, so mind/soul/money,etc. Because right now it's limited to affection only.
1a. Preferably able to manipulate stats with an amount defined in script, so like "MIND = +20" or "MIND = DECREASE 20".
1b. Some custom stats/variable. Like limit it to numbers only maybe. That way we can for example introduce a different stat or even a secondary currency. This also makes it easier to control/predict the value of that stat. Can use some generic names for the stats: Hearts, token or whatever.

That's actually the suggestion I think is the nicest. I think some other people would also like it.


Apart from that I added another two suggestions, which I don't care as much for, but I thought I'd share them anyway.

2. Testing multiple OR conditions. For example:
(CONDITION = DAY 1
CONDITION = NOT DAY 8)
OR
(CONDITION = DAY 14
CONDITION = NOT DAY 21)
OR
(CONDITION = DAY 28
CONDITION = NOT DAY 35)

3. Multiple possible endings



Ps. Stuff like custom images would of course also be cool, but I tried to stick with suggestions that I think might be technically possible(well, nr 1 maybe). Although I know a custom image taking up the whole background could be used for the same purpose.

Edit:
Perhaps cut the help-file into several files? Because right now it's just one long page. The index on top is convenient, but you still have to scroll back and forth quite a bit.

Edit2:
Removed suggestion nr 3 because Marrend pointed out that functionality already exists.

author=Marrend
Talk of something akin to <ATTRIBUTE> UP or <ATTRIBUTE> DOWN, or like code, was discussed during the creation of 21 Ways, but nothing ever came of it. I think flowertheif presented a valid reason for not including it, but I forget what the reasoning was.

I read the custom content pages and I found what you mentioned(bottom of the page). Basically it would be impractical because it's a way to possibly screw up other character's route, as in making it impossible or too easy to pass a attribute check. Although telling people to turn on the clean mode would prevent interference with the built-in character it still create risks if the story is played with other custom characters as well.
Edit: And it's mentioned in the FAQ of the website. Although that one only mentions the official stats.


In that case I would still like to suggest nr 1b. Adding a custom(if needed hidden) stat. This would allow us to increase that stat through the storyline, making sure the player would pass/fail certain checks. In theory it would also be possible by using "story * = done" as some kind of stat, but that would be complicated in certain stories.
Being able to set the value of the custom stat would also be cool(if possible), because then you can make sure someone passes a check, without having to know the background. I would like to avoid telling people "you have to have at least 40 look" or just downright make them fail an event. It's possible to warn them to increase their stat, but that doesn't give as much flexbility.

author=Marrend
I'm not sure what you mean by "multiple possible endings". Does that functionality not already happen in some way, shape, or form?

That's true, I just checked and it's indeed already there. I thought it wasn't possible because I hadn't see it happen before yet.