We are back and working on a new update!
Thank you all for the great feedback! good bad and the ugly, we really want to grow our community and make sure that the first game is as good as it can possibly be before we work on the translations and the next games.
A number of people, including us... have wanted to put in a frame/border for each puzzle to show where the pieces go. We also like this idea as it will mean when we put in achievements you can complete a puzzle without using the puzzle help button in the top right hand corner.
Also on the visual novel side, we are aware a number of players were a little frustrated that they had clicked through the story while trying to do the puzzle, as it is a long wait to get back to that point we fully understand and will look at working on creating a separate visual novel scene for each puzzle which has more functionality.
Gallery, this is the big one and we did know this off the bat hence why when you complete a puzzle you get a smaller image of the completed puzzle. For now I may look at creating a folder within the game folder that you can view the images in. steam>common>puzzleimages or somewhere like that. I will list exact location as soon as implemented.
There have been a couple of criticisms of the artwork not being HENTAI enough, while we fully understand that, please bear with us that valve has very strict polices and that we have to test the waters.
Our game was put on a hold due to the adults only content and we had to tone it down prior to the initial release date. Having taken that step we lose most of the market. We fully believe that we should be able to put what we like into the game.... but appreciate valves policys and we have proper Hentai, but the story is also based on the lead evolving with his artwork. So we are drip feeding the hardcore content and accessing whether to upgrade the games rating to more AO. In HENTAI PUZZLE we slowly built up to more racey content to coincide with the narrative.
Ah... thinking... achievements are another big one, we knew that if we just put in the puzzles and the achievements we would have more sales... but yes we would have MADE just another HENTAI GAME. We wanted to create a universe, as we are avid anime and manga fans our goal is to create a universe. Being novice universe builders... we are learning along the way.
Initially the story was to revolve around an older Erika-Sama and be more horror based, that was to coincide with Halloween, but we missed our window for release and had to pivot so now it looks like it will be a dlc. That was the narrative and story which we developed the most.
Please continue to feel ask questions as well!
We are working on fully voice acting the English version as soon as possible and implementing. I feel the voice acting will bring a great amount of understanding and relevance to the comedy so we can't wait to share that! After that we aill aim to focus on JP translation.
Apologies that this is all over the place, I have had a death in the family and it has been a crazy time where I was away from all technology for 6 days... no wi-fi, no cellphone reception... just the wilderness. I really needed the break as trying to get the game ready these last 6 months has been a very intense time.
We sincerely hope you are all well!. THANKYOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
We send our love and hope you all continue to help us develop HENTAI PUZZLE to being the best game it can possibly be!