Katewing's Adventures (WIP) Full Public Beta 12/8/2024

Hey, I have never beta tested before so I am not entirely sure how you prefer your feedback.

I was planning to deliver my suggestions in segments: Status screen, then chapter 0, following chapter 1, chapter 2, and so on.

For instance, status screen suggestions would look like this:

You. A pale girl in her teenage years with a thin athletic physique thanks to your training and being constantly on the move, coal dark hair, and eyes of a green so prominent you haven’t seen elsewhere. Would you consider yourself a monster? You can’t say for sure, but you certainly don’t feel like one despite what you may look like. You haven’t made many friends yet thanks to that, people fear you and thus they prefer for you to be far from them, and some make the effort to get rid of you in ways you don’t appreciate at all.
Besides that, you manage to survive and are quite used to hiding in plain sight, avoiding unwanted conflict.

He is both taller and older than you. Which you can see in the slight wrinkles on his face and how they deepen when he smiles at you. He is also, possibly the smartest person you know, though sometimes you both get into trouble, you wouldn’t be here if not for him and all the effort he makes to keep you alive. Similar to most people his tan is darker than yours. He usually has a clean shave, despite not taking much care of his looks as he has too many things to worry about with you on the drift around him.

:point_down: Then this part I am assuming, it is a mistake that it is in the status screen :point_down:

“Well look at you,” he says with a warm smile “You have grown a lot since you were a hairless white small bead with a tiny pair of dark wings,” he chuckles. “Have you been doing your exercises?”

“Oh yes, your stubbornness is an exact copy of your father’s,” he laughs and lets his gaze fall down. “Anyone who knew him would say that. I’m sure of it.” He takes a slow breath in and sighs. “Yes, I miss a lot of things from that time,” his eyes go up to you. “But I wouldn’t change the time we spent together,” he keeps his eyes locked on you. “You are the best I could’ve asked for. Your father would be as proud as I am.”

So would you prefer to test like that OR give a summary of what I think of all the chapters combined?

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I also don’t have much experience in beta testing, so whatever works best for you and you can convey the information it’ll work for me too.
The more you give me the more I’ll have to work with, but I wouldn’t want to force you into writing an essay on all chapters separately.

That’s not a mistake. Each character has some dialogue lines that change slightly according to your relationship with them and other factors. I was trying to take a little bit of “show, don’t tell” to the stats screen, like getting a taste of their reaction if you bumped into them.

Okay, very interesting take. I would suggest adding something like “Most memorable conversation:” before the dialogue because it confused me at first.

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Hi, I only read the introduction so far. So here are some of the things that stood out:

Random words: “Hum…”
I think you should search “…” in order to find them.

notSURESentence

Not sure if this is a mistake and you wanted to put “his” instead: holding the edge of your cloak for him to see. > TUGGING the edge of HIS cloak for him to see.
Only assuming it is a mistake because tugging his cloak to glance at you, seems to go a bit better……i think….

“We can’t allow us to get sloppy, you have to be patient.” > “We can’t allow OURSELVES to get sloppy, you have to be patient.”

That’s not good, you think, opening your eyes big but keeping your calmness. > That’s not good, you think, WIDENING your eyes but keeping your CALM.

Staying here will only make things worse for both. > Staying here will only make things worse for both OF YOU.

noice

And found the intro to have had very nice heartfelt moments :point_up_2: :point_up_2: :point_up_2: :point_up_2: :point_up_2: :point_up_2:. Next I will read the next chapter.

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Okay, I see.

The one you’re playing is ChanceOfFire’s version. I had a similar problem before, I think it has to do with something about the text encoding, it usually happens when changing OS from Windows to Linux or something like that, I’m not sure, but I’ll see to fix it.


Hmm, no, that’s not a mistake, but I think I did it wrong nonetheless, cause the reader doesn’t know she has wings at that point, and she does that to say she wants to “go for a walk” but actually she implies she wants to go fly arounf, so that’s why “she holds the edges of the clock for him to see.”

Maybe I shouldn’t expect the reader to remember that part and make sense of it later…?


Thanks for the corrections. I’ll need to make another complete rework paying more attention to that I think.

Haha, that’s awesome to hear. Thanks :grin:

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Public Beta 3.0 Revision weird symbols are already fixed.

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Oh, Okay. Is that the version we should be reading/playing OR??

And I am still not that far ahead yet, so I don’t really know. However if it is a big reveal you can probably add, a bit more clues like: Having her look up at the sky and say “I want to go up”, then him replying “not now” or something along those lines.
But like I say I haven’t gotten to the reveal yet. So not sure how much sense that will make.

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Well, there’s the
Full Public Beta 2.2 12/8/2024:
This is the full game version, the last release made by me.

And
Public Beta 3.0 Revision 18/8/2024:
This is the first 3 chapters reworked by ChanceOfFire, who knows better English and better writing than me

So you can try whichever you want. Mind you the reworked version is only 3 chapters long.

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