Finished for the Jam!

 I do have a few suggestions of new things to add. Since this is a farm management game, continuing on with that type of theme.

1. Hunting. Hunting for dangerous creatures and getting paid for doing that. They could also be creatures that threaten your crops or farm or something too. 

Example: Wolves (dangerous,) rabbits (could eat crops,) stuff like that.

2. Raising animals and getting stuff to eat or sell from them.

Example: Cows (milk, cheese, butter, etc.,) chickens (meat, eggs,) dogs or cats (can give away their litters or sell them for some extra money). 

The last one's a bit of a long shot, but the first 2 sound like something you could do. Similarly to when you forage, you could press say the interact key (originally f you have it as) when you come up to an animal (whatever corresponding animal noise ti goes with) and either use interact to feed them and then to gain whatever they would give that's useful (eggs, meat, etc.,). You could also just have you feed them (maybe create a feeding key similar to the plant key for the crops,) then you would gain what they would give you by either using the interact key or walking over them. Then the goods taken from the cow or chicken could be sold or put into the cooking pot to make for food later.

Sorry for not responding in a while. I never tried out bug fix 4, but I didn't really have too many issues with bug fix 5. To be honest, I can't really see any major issues with bug fix 5 other than that the cooking pot still stumps me. I think I put something in it, but can't figure out how to use it to get more energy.

qYeah, fixing the fishing and foraging should help. I do remember having that issue with the fishing you were talking about too. Other than a few other things I've mentioned in the last post, this is looking like it's coming along pretty nicely. From what I've observed about games like Harvest moon that yu based this somewhat off of, this is looking pretty good so far. I'll continue to look for any more bug fixes and changes whenever you get them out.

Well, it's a lot better now. I think I've mostly got the hang of things. I do have a few issues though.

1. When I go to the forage area, I keep getting stuck near William. Not sure if it's just small down here or what, but it gets confusing to figure out how to leave and go back to the main road. Also, when I try and forage sometimes it looks like the stuff to forage doesn't respawn when the new day comes up. I had the same issue with respawning at the lake too.

2. The lake. I like the music and sound effects, but can't figure out hhow to fish. I try all available keys (q, f, and e,) but none of them works. I've tried walking around a lot too, and nothing happens either. I just get a noise that I think means I can't do anything sometimes.

3. Money. When I press f6, it tells the money, but then when I buy something it's a bit confusing. What I'm saying here is that I don't really understand how to get money I guess ... and it makes things a bit confusing and frustrating.

4. Buying/selling crops. I can press the number keys to buy and sell things, but have no idea what I'm buying or selling. It doesn't say what the name of the crop I buy or sell is.

All the talking/chatting with npcs seems to be fine now. I have a few npcs (mostly william) who keep repeating things too much when I don't want them to, but at least I can now leave the area.

This is much better and thanks for the tutorial video, it definitely helps. The spreadsheet wasn't that bad either. I think between that and the basic intro in the readme you should be fine. 

Speaking of the map. Keep both the spreadsheet and the basic map info in the readme for people to use. Some blind people have trouble with tables (they can be confusing sometimes) and having two options for a map is a good idea just to be safe. I know the tables make sense when you can see, but it's not always the same for if you can't. Our screen reading programs will tell us what's there, but sometimes navigating a table is a bit tricky. I could navigate it fine once I figured out what you were going for though, so it's usable that's for sure.

I do have a question though. I read somewhere (don't remember if it was part of the dev log or the readme) that there was something to do if you go north of the farmhouse. I haven't found anything up there and am very confused on this. Is that something that hasn't been added into the game yet?

Also, the keybind thing is confusing still. It mentions that you can change keys, but the speech goes too fast for you to type the keys you wanted to change and be sure it actually worked. What I suggest for that is turning that part of the main menu into a key tutorial section where it just says what keys do what and stop worrying about keybinds. I'm glad you tried to fix it, but the way it is now, it's actually still confusing and not really doable if you can't see the screen. Unless you can figure out something else, that just doesn't work right now.

Glad to see that things are better though and will keep testing things out when you get them done. So far, the game's pretty fun, just with a few things to fix i think.

I've found several glitches so far and am very confused on how the keys for doing basic things (other than walking around) are supposed to work. I've mostly just been exploring around the basic areas of the map to try and get a feel for the game so far.

1. When I try to use the tools, interact (though that sometimes works) and q keys, they don't seem to do anything. I occasionally get little crinkling noises with the q key, but not sure if anything's actually happening.

fix:

Have the game say you did something. I mentioned this before in a previous post on here, so won't be too harsh here. I tend to not be able to tell if something's happening. I know if you're sighted you could tell, but just having a basic noise is actually not always helpful cause a lot of the noises are similar in the game. If you have the grass walking over noise the same as the one for planting a crop for example, it could make things hard. Maybe a bit more of a tutorial would help with my confusion here.

2. I can't get the keybind thing to work at all. When on the main menu when the game starts up, I press 2 and it just sits there and doesn't do anything.

3. glitch:

When I talk to Oliver and finish chatting with him (chat and not trying to upgrade anything,) he just keeps repeating the same thing and the game kind of glitches out there. He won't stop repeating the same message and it continues even when I walk away.

4. I can't figure out how to get any of the tools to do something as a job. For example, I made it to the lake and talked to Emily, but then I couldn't figure out how to fish or anything. How do I get tools?

Those things aside, the game's really good. I could interact mostly fine with the npc's I did find (minus Oliver and see above for the issue there). I can't figure out tools though and it would be nice to have the game say you entered an area since that could get somewhat confusing. I also got lost around the house sometimes and actually found times where I would get stuck running into things a lot and couldn't figure out what to do. With the keys thing from above, I'm not sure if I need a bit more practice with the game or if they're a bit screwed up or something. Maybe add a bit more of a tutorial when you post the next update to help out with that issue there. Don't know what's up with the keybinds thing, it might just not work if you're not sighted or not actually be implamented yet, which in that last case is fine. I was just confused that it doesn't seem to work is all.

I'll keep playing around and see what I can do with the game and give a better review on it later once I figure some more stuff out. Look forward to any updates or additions later and great job from what I can tell for now. Just cause some things were confusing or maybe didn't work right this first try, doesn't mean you can't work with them later and make things more playable later.

Also, I keep mentioning the game (or even the narrorator if you want, since that's already in the game) saying when you enter a new area cause I tended to get confused when I tried playing it just now. Even with the game music being different, I still got confused at points.