Heya, no offense taken! These questions actually provide great feedback for some design choices so i appreciate it.
The potion effectiveness is a two part thing. First it is to prevent an infinite pregnancy. You make big money when you're preggo so I'm trying to keep the income semi balanced. Next lore wise, your body builds up a tolerance to the medications as you use them so it takes more each time to be effective.
Yes, the tea is a fertility booster. Meant to call it fertilitea, but forgot to change it before I made the build. That has been fixed. I'm now looking for a good way to show item descriptions.
I haven't done any keybinds since the game is designed around just left clicking your mouse. If this is a widely requested thing I'll look into it. As for the shop popping up, I've reworked all the locations and timers so the shop is a place you go to at will instead of being forced there at the end of the day. The exit X is gone now too with this next update. I redid the UI too for it. Still playing with layout and collecting feedback.
the drug resistance makes sense in every way though. as for the bar on the left, great choice! with a lot of games the textbar is in the way of the image and I have to press H to see the full image. so this is a great choice! but for the sake of the design keep everything in that box. If you want any tips or advice on visual presentation feel free to shoot me a message and I'll be happy to help if the need arises.
That actually wasn't supposed to make it into the game. It's a part of my dev tools. It re rolls how many babies you're carrying.
I didn't notice it till I had already uploaded the build lol.
Thanks! I haven't added saving in yet since there's not a whole lot of progression to do in this build. I'm working on that now though and will hopefully have it in with either this next build or the one after.
Oh boy, even 7-zip is throwing a fit about this game, it wont even let me open it because it's calling it a virus, after which it straight-up deleted the file.
I'm a trained computer technician and I've never seen 7-zip do that before. Heck, Windows Defender didn't even have time to respond. Redownloading it made my browser nervous and autodelete it too.
You sure your computer itself is clean? If your projects regularly trip people's AV often enough to mention it in the game's description, my assumption would be that your PC has a legitimate virus and it's bad enough to be infecting your files.
Haha yeah, I promise it's clean (infrastructure engineer here).
This is a common occurrence with Unity (my guess is it has something to do with all the telemetry they collect now for advertising and what not), a quick google will show this. I run Malwarebytes on everything I upload along with virus checker, which I have linked above.
As for the game being flagged, I'm going to see if there's something I can disable so this doesn't happen in future builds.
Edit: I've done some digging and I can go about signing the builds but that requires a LOT of money to set up. I'll tinker with some distribution options and see if maybe it's the file being in a zip that does it. Either way, this is very high on my priority list to fix.
Funny how in all of that description, at the time of writing there isn't really a description of the game itself lol. I infer that it is some sort of pregnancy game, but that's about it!
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Sorry stupid question. I can't press the renew contract button. The message bar is in the way. Any ide how to get to click it?
Dang, I'll get that fixed when I get home today. Sorry about that!
I see great potential in this game!
however I have a couple of questions:
how come the effectiveness of the potions decrease but the price goes up? probably for the game mechanics but it feels a bit off.
what does the TEA do? is that the fertility booster?
is it possible to assign keys to the buttons? (also the shop pops up automatically after the 3rd activity without showing the said activity.)
and is the X top right corner there to stay? it seems out of place since every option is in the left column.
I don't mean any offense just genuinely curious, I really like the game so far. it's a real diamond in the rough ;)
Heya, no offense taken! These questions actually provide great feedback for some design choices so i appreciate it.
The potion effectiveness is a two part thing. First it is to prevent an infinite pregnancy. You make big money when you're preggo so I'm trying to keep the income semi balanced. Next lore wise, your body builds up a tolerance to the medications as you use them so it takes more each time to be effective.
Yes, the tea is a fertility booster. Meant to call it fertilitea, but forgot to change it before I made the build. That has been fixed. I'm now looking for a good way to show item descriptions.
I haven't done any keybinds since the game is designed around just left clicking your mouse. If this is a widely requested thing I'll look into it. As for the shop popping up, I've reworked all the locations and timers so the shop is a place you go to at will instead of being forced there at the end of the day. The exit X is gone now too with this next update. I redid the UI too for it. Still playing with layout and collecting feedback.
haha fertilitea genius.
the drug resistance makes sense in every way though. as for the bar on the left, great choice! with a lot of games the textbar is in the way of the image and I have to press H to see the full image. so this is a great choice! but for the sake of the design keep everything in that box. If you want any tips or advice on visual presentation feel free to shoot me a message and I'll be happy to help if the need arises.
What exactly does the roll button do? one time it made my belly grow, but the rest of the time it did nothing
That actually wasn't supposed to make it into the game. It's a part of my dev tools. It re rolls how many babies you're carrying. I didn't notice it till I had already uploaded the build lol.
Looks good!
Is there a Mobile version?
Thanks! No mobile version so far and it's not on my road map. I'll consider it down the line once i get more content added in.
ok
This is a great idea. Is it possible to save your progress?
Also what does the tea do?
Thanks! I haven't added saving in yet since there's not a whole lot of progression to do in this build. I'm working on that now though and will hopefully have it in with either this next build or the one after.
Oh boy, even 7-zip is throwing a fit about this game, it wont even let me open it because it's calling it a virus, after which it straight-up deleted the file.
I'm a trained computer technician and I've never seen 7-zip do that before. Heck, Windows Defender didn't even have time to respond. Redownloading it made my browser nervous and autodelete it too.
You sure your computer itself is clean? If your projects regularly trip people's AV often enough to mention it in the game's description, my assumption would be that your PC has a legitimate virus and it's bad enough to be infecting your files.
Haha yeah, I promise it's clean (infrastructure engineer here).
This is a common occurrence with Unity (my guess is it has something to do with all the telemetry they collect now for advertising and what not), a quick google will show this. I run Malwarebytes on everything I upload along with virus checker, which I have linked above.
As for the game being flagged, I'm going to see if there's something I can disable so this doesn't happen in future builds.
Edit: I've done some digging and I can go about signing the builds but that requires a LOT of money to set up. I'll tinker with some distribution options and see if maybe it's the file being in a zip that does it. Either way, this is very high on my priority list to fix.
Funny how in all of that description, at the time of writing there isn't really a description of the game itself lol. I infer that it is some sort of pregnancy game, but that's about it!
lol how in the world did I forget that?
I'll get that fixed. Thanks for pointing it out!