Time for our beta update! You’ll notice there’s no bar chart this week, and that’s because we’ve gotten a significant piece of feedback from numerous testers that we want to take some time to properly address, so the demo is officially on hold until we get it done.

So, what’s changing? A common problem we got in our feedback is that people found WiP’s setting (Salt Lake City) hard to settle into. Numerous testers stated that they either couldn’t wrap their head around some of the American customs, or that they were from different parts of the country and their experiences in America clashed with their own. This has proven really problematic to find a solution for, since just moving it to another city or state would just keep causing confusion.

After much deliberating, we’ve come to the following solution: We’ll be spending a few weeks going over the writing and changing the setting to a Japanese high school and updating the character names to match. We figured this would be the best way to maintain immersion, regardless of where the reader lives, due to the fact that our audience is most likely familiar with visual novels set in Japan from playing critically acclaimed VNs like Katawa Shoujo. We’re hoping this change drastically reduces the problems we’ve had with our American setting.

In the past few days, we’ve already established our school’s uniform and a few character names: Caprice is now Hatsu Shifuto and Mekki is now Marisu Kawai.

We hope you’re as excited as we are about this change, we’ll have more info about this soon! さようなら!