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Is the story experience clear from our page? Looking for first impressions

A topic by medrixoo created 7 days ago Views: 136 Replies: 3
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Hi everyone, I’m Dorothy from the Ludio team.

Ludio is an AI-powered interactive storytelling platform where you enter a story as a character and respond in your own words.

I’d appreciate some outside feedback on how we present that experience. Since we work on the product every day, it’s easy to overlook things that might be confusing to someone seeing it for the first time.

Our itch.io page:
https://3218961440qqcom.itch.io/ludio

A few things I’d especially like your thoughts on:

  • After looking at the page, is it clear what you would actually do in Ludio?
  • Do the screenshots help explain the experience, or would a short gameplay recording be more useful?
  • Is there anything you’d need to know before deciding to try a story?

If you also try it, I’d love to hear whether the opening gives you enough context to know who you are and what you might say next.

Even a brief first impression would help. Thanks for taking the time!

Dorothy — Ludio team

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The note that the web build opens on your own site, not as an embedded itch demo, is the clarity win — it answers where Play is before someone bounces. Tiny test for the questions you listed: show the page for 20 seconds with no clicking and ask what they would type first. If two people say they would pick a dialogue option, the screenshots are still selling a visual novel.

That’s a really useful distinction, thank you. We want people to understand that they can type their own response, and I can see how the screenshots might suggest preset dialogue choices instead.

I’ll try that 20-second test. A short clip showing someone typing a reply and the character responding could make it much clearer, too. Really appreciate the practical suggestion!

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