Hello My Friends

A little late, but I threw in an image of Ginger in her new (old) outfit you may have seen on the show. Took me forever to figure out how to make it.

I took my one week scheduled break, and had to keep myself from working on the Visual Novel (VN).

I also checked out the feedback, which I appreciate, good or bad. I decided to comment about a couple comments below.

Stat Alerts

There was a comment about my stat images being reversed, but it turned out the person was confused, not realizing we want the morality stat to decrease for Gilligan. But it did point out a mistake I made, and that the way I color coded it could be confusing, so I doubt he was the only one.

The mistake was color coding the stats based on the stat, not on what direction it was moving, and I chose red for morality. Since most of us are conditioned that red is bad, people see red, see the stat decline, but there is a ding, so they assume something is wrong

I changed all the improvements to blue, and negative to red.

Is my VN short?

I also had one complaint about the length of my VN, with a comparison to “other visual novels”. I ignored it there, but decided to address it here.

Obviously, this person wasn’t aware of the shit show my life was last year. But I don’t know what visual novels he is trying to compare me with. Is he comparing me to novels with a team? To people using Honey Select or Koikatsu? Or maybe to people using 5 generic images for each character, and putting them in front of a generic background. I mean there’s nothing wrong with that. It gets content out quickly, but it just isn’t my style.

I am attempting to put my heart and soul into this. I realize that I have spent hours on some images that people will only see for a few seconds. I have gone back to fix images because I wasn’t happy with how the pinky was positioned.

At times I really regret choosing Gilligan’s Island. There are no off the shelf assets I can use without a lot of modification. I have to make yet another important prop for the next release.

With the disaster that was last year over, and finally getting into a grove with my schedule, I expect to be producing at a faster rate.

Keep the critiques coming

Compliments are nice, but I don’t learn anything from them. I want to become better, and the only way is to know where I’m making mistakes. Although constructive criticism is the best. Just saying “That Sucked” without saying why isn’t exactly helpful.

Final Words

I have 4 sections written for the next update. They should have been in the last update, but unfortunately weren’t. The content is about 50% longer than the last.

Next Update

Game update: April (Planned)

Next post: February 4, 2023

As always, enjoy life.