Hi Eva, thank you so much for your comment! I sincerely apologize for the lack of updates (シ_ _)シ Indeed, so much has been going on in my life, these last few months went by in a blur and progress on the game has been slow. But rest assured that we're still working on Her Choice! Currently, the extended demo has entered alpha testing and is scheduled to release in December! You can also check out our socials, where we share smaller updates and more content related to the world of Her Choice: https://totes-studio.carrd.co/ Thank you for your patience and understanding ♡
Thank you so much! We're really glad you're enjoying the game ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ We hope you'll be looking forward to the extended demo, where you'll get to continue the story and meet even more characters!
Hi Nahryla, thank you so much for trying out the game! We're so happy you enjoyed it ♡〜٩(^▿^)۶〜♡
The demo does not have any alternative "endings" since it only contains content up to Day 1. Choosing what to do on the first evening will lead to encounters with different characters that night. And depending on your choices during Day 1, there's a secret scene you can unlock on each route 😉
Are you playing on the latest version (2.1.1)? Also, could you provide more details? Which platform are you using? Does it not let you input your preferred name or does it display the default name on the MC's name tag no matter what you type in?
Thank you so much, and sorry for the inconvenience!
Congratulations on your 1 year into game development and everything you achieved so far (it's still kind of wild to me that you've been doing this for only 1 year). Keep enjoying the journey and the process of making the games you love!
We all dream of sharing our stories and seeing them loved by as many people as possible, and in itself it's a great thing if it gives us the drive to improve and keep making better games. But as you said, numbers are a fickle thing and they only hold the worth we want to give them. We are all moving forward at our own pace, and it's perfectly ok!
That's our privilege as indie devs, that we get to create something which is, first and foremost, purely for our own enjoyment ❤
Thank you so much for your kind words! ♥ Glad you enjoyed the game and the little details we were able to add within the time and jam restraints.
We indeed chose to experiment with the puzzle metaphor as a subtle and fun way to convey various aspects of the story's theme, so I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed it.
Congrats on the progress, I'm looking forward to The Guide's route! I'm so curious and just want to know more, so at this point I'll legit take whatever hahaha And Secret Route ∑(O_O;)?? You're spoiling us!
Welcome back Tsum-tsum (＾▽＾) And don't worry about the dress collab, it's still available (I replied to it on the other devlog).
I'm sorry you were disappointed, it was our miss to not be more upfront about this. We can still simp for Higre in our fantasies, though (^_<) I don't know if this is of any consolation or not, but the new game is from Higre's POV, so more content about him, though probably not the kind you were hoping for.
So many people have been asking for Lawnce and Scai, so we are all for writing their routes in the future. I've also been adding a lot of new scenes featuring them in the other routes, so look forward to those!
And I think it's cute you want to know all those little details, it's not creepy, don't worry. We have more info about the characters on our Tumblr https://herchoicevn.tumblr.com/ (Likes and dislikes sound like real fun things I'll be adding soon, so make sure to check it out)
Thank you so much for the reply and the kind words! ❤ So glad you enjoyed the demo!
If you want to read more about the world and get all the random trivia about the characters you can check out the "cast" and "locations" pages on our Tumblr: https://herchoicevn.tumblr.com/ (I just finished doing a "50 random questions interview" with Zanas that I will be posting to his profile later this week, just saying (¬‿¬ ) )
And it makes me really happy to hear you'd still want the friendship-only route. Higre plays such an integral role behind the scenes in all the other character's lives, and Our Summers (due to it being so short) just scratches the surface of his story.
Also thank you for your input, it's an interesting point of view, and we will definitely take it into consideration. We're seeing more people asking for pronouns, so we will definitely fix that and add them (MC will still be using improper pronouns because she knows no better, but the correct ones will be made available behind spoiler tags in the character bios)
Hi Tsum-tsum, welcome back! (⁀ᗢ⁀) I hope your school enrollment went well and your computer got fixed!
And don't worry, you're not too late! We posted this idea plenty in advance, and we got busy too during July with the little side game we made for the jam. So we're still open to the collab! Looking forward to hearing more from you (✧ω✧)
PS. No need to feel guilty, I'm like that too sometimes. We really appreciate all your comments, and hope you will continue to support us ♡♡♡
Thank you for the reply. I too prefer to dive in blind!
At the moment we are thinking of adding the character information to the game menu and locking it behind a spoiler screen, so everybody will be actively choosing by themselves how much information they want to see. Hopefully, this can be an acceptable compromise.
I'm giving you free rein here, so don't worry about the workload. We'll accommodate as much as we can, and let you know if anything is beyond our abilities.
And we can definitely add pronouns and squeeze in a bio for the side characters somewhere. As you suggested we could put the additional info behind a spoiler tag and let players actively decide if they want to see it or not.
PS. Fanservice is always on the house around here, you know that (¬‿¬ )
