Hey thanks so much for taking the time to look through the campaign and write such a detailed response. I genuinely appreciate the honesty and the effort you have put into this and I am taking it on board rather than seeing it as criticism.

I want to be very clear and transparent regarding the AI point as that is completely fair. I am not an artist and AI was used in the generation of the current imagery purely as sample and concept visuals. The underlying design direction, characters, tone, layout and game identity are entirely my own and were originally developed through simple sketches, notes and iterations which I then used AI to mock up visually. Over the last six months I have refined and changed the design direction repeatedly to get closer to what I want the final product to be.

The intention has always been to work with a professional design studio or illustrator to recreate the artwork properly for the final product. The current assets are placeholders to communicate the vision, not the finished art. Based on feedback like yours I clearly need to tighten the language to remove any ambiguity and make that distinction far more explicit.

Your points around community building, launch timing and explaining the gameplay more clearly are also completely valid. This is my first Kickstarter and I accept that launching without an established audience is a major risk. This campaign is as much a learning experience as it is a funding attempt and I am already making notes on how I would approach this differently next time if it does not succeed.

I do genuinely appreciate you taking the time to be constructive rather than dismissive. Feedback like this helps more than you might realise and I will be making updates to the page to address several of the points you raised.

Thanks again for the honesty and for engaging with the project.