My gosh. Literally almost all of my current pet peeves are in my first story.
At the time, I was still getting a grasp on coding, so I didn’t really understand animations. I would use pose animations while someone was supposed to be talking, which resulted in a character literally holding some random pose while a speech bubble was in front of them… not sure how I reviewed this and decided to publish my story like this…
I also had really terrible episode lengths. There was customization in the first three episodes, so I really didn’t need to go above 1000, which made my episodes actually line 500 lines long.
I also had no clue where the story was going to go. I just wrote what I felt like and didn’t really have anything set in stone.
And here are more things I did that I cringe at:
- Used a default character to represent an important character (I only changed the name, not the appearance or outfit)
- Was really lazy with coding so sometimes the main male character would be shorter than the main female character, and sometimes he would not be
- Had an unnecessarily long dressing game where the character would do a dance after putting on each outfit
- Made two of the male characters look almost identical
- Terrible dialogue. One of the lines was like, “I need to go up there, I must!”
- Did an author cameo at the end. After re-reading, I realized that “me” looked nothing like me. I didn’t really care about the mouth or nose or eyes, I would only change the skin tone, eye color, hair color and style, and lip color. So I had a really thin nose and lips (I’m black with a wide nose and big lips)
Sorry if this is long, but my first story was really, really atrocious. Luckily, I’ve hidden and it has a pretty basic name which would make it harder to find through the search tab.