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That sounds very inaccessible. Do the dateable characters have no patience for people with reading issues (e.g. dyslexia) and the like? xP
If the way this game works is anything like how I imagine it does, it should be quite interesting. I assume that, since it happens in real time, the characters also sleep and eat and go to the bathroom and the player will actually have some downtime for their own needs.
I feel the more cartoony sprite clashes with the rest of it.
I didn't say trying to pause the game and spending more time to finish it was more weird than playing in coop. Actually, all solutions are "weird" : you can eventually hack the game, pause it and finish it later, be helped by someone or even try to play alone and put your life in danger. These aren't common ways to finish a game, and that's the point.
And I don't expect anything from the players : if they don't want to play for one week, then it's okay, it's normal. There is no real entertainment in a dating sim like this, what's important is that the game exists. It'll be a very difficult game, and it's intentional : you can't distract someone for one week with a real time story, because real time means waiting, eventually hoping, and waiting again. And today, when somebody decides to make a videogame/movie/song/whatever implies narration, what he tries to do is to completely delete this notion of waiting, which includes the suppression of +50% of a story.
Concerning the duration of the game, there'll be exactly 128 hours of gameplay, or only a few minutes out, depending on the player. No time ellipsis, so you can't skip the text. However, the text speed depends on the situation. What the player has to do is to choose what he wants to tell to a character, he can lose if he makes the wrong choice or if he takes too long to reply (there'll be a ~5sec timer).
Don't you think playing dating sim in coop is way more weird? Plus I doubt there'll be 128 hours of gameplay, since it's probably gonna text, you can skip it, or read it faster than average person can read text. And what about sleep? You can hardly find a pair, who awake in different time and can play the game on same machine in different time as replacement of each other. Plus distractions. Idea seems pretty interesting on paper, but on practice it has a lot of problems.
It's not a problem, the player still has to adapt himself to the game. Cooperation is one of the solutions and the fastest and easiest way to beat the game, but if someone wants to spend more than a week playing a dating sim with pauses, then I don't mind :)
Nah, memory dumping, process pausing, a smart man can easily find a way to play it solo with pauses.
Woah boy.. DAT DITHERING IS TURNING ME ON LIKE NOBODY'S BUSINESS
What a nice style! I especially like the color scheme of the top right corner panel. Hope to see more from you, this is beautiful work here!
Good solid style. Love it!
Great concept and idea!
Graphic are beautiful as well!
Do you plan to release the game as a free software?