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What comes next for Take over (poll)
🕑 Added 2021-05-13 18:21:42 +0000 UTC
TL;DR for the poll at the end
Hello patrons and everyone! I want to talk a bit about Take Over; For a while, there have been complaints about the game, and I have to say I share the overall feeling people have about it.
The focus has been to add content so far, but although I think the quality of the renders and writing has improved, their implementation is less than desirable. To not say that many features are incomplete or unpolished.
Our next update (0.38) will follow the same pattern as the previous ones; A couple of story scenes and more transformation, but for 0.39 and for the next few months, our focus will be polishing the game and improving the gameplay of it, to make it feel again more like a sandbox than just a straightforward VN.
We really want to improve how you interact with other characters; Having to click 20 choices in different menus to get the content you want is, simply put, not fun nor practical, both for users and for maintaining the code and track of what we have. That's why we want to implement a more concise and straightforward way, which is an enhanced UI as pictured above.
From this "mini" journal, you'll be able to get basic information about them quickly (I.e., to know to which task they are assigned, their level of corruption, etc.), and you'll be able to interact in multiple ways; To go to dates with them, get frisky, give them a new task, or even transform them / train them.
This would be our first step in improving the quality of life of the game. Although we will implement it only for a few characters initially, we aim to add this to everyone, which also means expanding everyone's else content to a meaningful point.
We also aim to improve the management part of the game; We need to make this part more entertaining and add more content, like new facilities, so the resources you gather can be put to good use.
We must say, we will still be adding content each month, but mostly content related to this; We'll likely rewrite some old scenes and redo a few old renders that are pretty outdated, to say the least.
Lastly, but this is not a promise, we will look into readjusting the main story and how you interact with the other characters to make it less VN and more sandbox in its progression, even if the main story is clearly more VN in style (in other words, that corrupting other characters require a more personal interaction than just advancing the plot).
With this poll we want to know what you would prefer for us to focus more.
Poll choices:
Interactions - How do you interact with with characters and how they evolve and change. We're looking if we should implement alternative stats to corruption (i.e. love or trust, like Vera has) so changing them is more personal and rewarding.
Management - How you affect the world, and how the world affects you. This includes polishing the club, adding more facilities, and adding more policies.
Main story - This is if you don't really care about the other aspects of the game and you would rather have us focus on the VN aspect of it, as how it has been done until now. We'll still do polishing even if this is voted, but it would help us to know how much time we should invest in these aspects.
TL;DR: We want to know what aspects of the game you care about the most. Polishing will be done, but your opinion is important to know which are the weakest points of Take Over.
Comments
VitAnyaNaked
Well, really so glad that you are still trying to improve the game and bring some changes to it and give the game a more interesting look. Good luck!
