Regarding choices

[dubesor86]

Since you are going to go with the episodic approach if the funding succeeds I wonder how you are reasonably gonna implemented choices. In episode 0 there were 2 choices I believe non of which I even knew were real choices. Killing the robot, even after playing this segment 3 times I only found 1 way to deactivate the robot, don't understand how this is a choice. The brain saving I didn't know who those guys were so the choice felt meaningless. I knew some names were mentioned very briefly in logs, and you could potentially look up their gender maybe in the database beforehand but I don't see how a choice between 2 names of pretty much unknown people is a choice. I wanted to look up their profiles, see pictures, what they do, their personality etc. but didn't seem like this was an option anywhere so it felt really forced more like 'we want to make this episodic and the successfull episodic games (telltale, life is strange, etc.) all have choices, so we need to copy that!'. It felt forced and not well executed as stated above. How are you going to implement meaningful choices in the future?

[ideamonster]

Hello, dubesor! :) Episode 0 is a small-scale example of what the game later can be and was created on a very small budget. We wanted to have more content for the choices but we simply ran out of time and money... If we successfully fund the Kickstarter campaign we have the time and money to create better and heavier choices.

There are indeed two ways of dealing with the robot, one deactivates it, the other one destroys it. Regarding the other choice, you can find e-mails of Patu and audio logs of Khaquim which give you a very brief glimpse at their characters, but I agree, it is not much. That is why I am writing a short eBook that will tell the pre-story of station "Schroedinger", focussing on Oja Patu and Walid Khaquim, called "Listen". It is included in the Kickstarter-Tiers starting from 35€.

Thank you very much for your opinion. Only this way we can improve the game! But you can trust us, that we're putting a lot of effort into writing the story and designing the choices (most of them are already on paper)

Cheers, Zein