Heh, thanks man, I do try. The programming itself isn't actually all that complicated, it's more just trying to take into account all of what the player may or may not have done. Very simple from a programming perspective, but kinda complicated logically. Totally necessary though given what I'm trying to make. The entire thing would be a mess if I didn't consider all possible choices. (With one exception being if you just reject every girl. I do eventually plan for this to be possible, but currently doing that will result in the game pretty much falling apart. Luckily, not many people do this. Most people play the porn game for the porn lmao)
Also, thanks for your support. I've seen the messages I assume to be yours on the other platforms, but I haven't had a proper chance to respond to any of them yet. I've had no internet for the last week sadly, and I figured I'd respond when I got it back. It just took a lot longer than I expected (So much so that my isp actually owes me money now due to UK law. Not much, but that's still funny to me.)
I'm not likely to change the existing section, but I can confirm that future ghost hunting sandbox things won't follow the same structure. The next one is the only one I've planned in detail, and it's planned to follow a grid based movement system similar to legends of grimrock (Google if you're not familiar, you'll get the idea) so this problem should be solved. However, since the next ghost hunt will be more important to Sasha's story than the first, a VN version will be available from the start instead of being introduced like 8 months later. Won't be skippable though because skipping the second ghost hunt would truly make Sasha's story make no sense. (The first ghost hung is basically is only there to introduce you to the concept, and to show you a bit of her world. It isn't technically necessary given she kinda explains it anyway. The second will be far more important to her overall story.)
Glad you liked it
Yeahh, the phone can be a little buggy when skipping and using rollback, though I've been unable to work out exactly why this is. In theory, it should work fine, but in practice it can kinda fall apart sometimes. I don't generally develop the game with "What if the player tries to skip all this" in mind though, so mostly I focus on bugs like that annoying one where it's possible to softlock the game right as MC arrives at the academy for the first time (Which is fixed for the next version, luckily.)I do try quite hard with the branching. There's obviously going to be limits to it since I'm just one person, but I didn't want the branching to be a case of minor dialogue changes but the same exact thing overall. I can't make it full on "do whatever you want" but I do intend to make it so that you can treat the girls how you want, and you get to experience the story with those choices considered. I do hope to be able to include some actual "This totally changes the story" kind of choices later on, but that will depend on whether or not I get to go full time, as well as my ability if and when that happens. Easy for me to make promises but until I know what I can actually get done working full time, it's just speculation.
Amusingly, both the second year girls' scenes that you mentioned were basically made on a whim. I'd planned jade's one for a while but I originally planned to give it to Cassie at some point, but while I was making 0.22 I kinda just got bored one day and thought "I wanna make some dumb sex scenes." Ended up giving Jade the weird text to speech scene, and made up something exceptionally stupid for Paige and Ashley. That's pretty much what the second year girls are there for. They fill in backgrounds, and also I can use them to make dumb stuff that would kinda cheapen or derail whatever I have planned for the main girls. (For the record though, the ghost dildo scene is my favourite in the game. It was a lot of fun to make.)
Also, regarding MC's release from the military, stay tuned regarding that. Whilst the overall plot is not the focus of the game, it's not entirely forgotten about. This topic will come up again.
Hah, this is the first time I've had someone specifically point out Cassie's dildo scene xD. Been so long since I made it that I'd kinda forgotten about it. I think it was originally made because I wanted there to be some content there for if people decided to opt out of the lesbian scene between Cassie and Riley, and since Cassie is a gigahoe (And also doesn't get off during the lesbian scene), I figured she'd probably get freaky regardless of whether the player decided to play the lesbian scene.
Oh yeah, regarding Taliya, she will get some stuff in not the coming update, but the one after that. Thing with her is that the start of her content isn't really tied to a specific time like Riley's was (Being that it started on a 4th of july party) so her originally planned slot ended up getting taken by the Hikari/Akemi scenes on the evening of day 11, which was a bit more time sensitive. She's not forgotten about though, kinda just backburner compared to the other girls. Like the other main girls, she has her own storyline planned out, which is the condition by which a girl is considered a main girl. (Technically it's whether they get the 3 route system applied, but what I mean is that Taliya is a delayed main girl, rather than just a side girl I've put in the wrong category.)
