I like the idea and have been looking for swimming games and therefore I press thumbs up, but at the moment, it is lacking a lot that has to be improved before you can charge money for it. This is obvious a work in progress and the demo is still lacking a bit, so I would really consider it a real demo, but more a form of early play testing (at least I hope that is the point of it). The graphic during the races will hopefully be improved a lot, but I like where it's going (although as a former competitive swimmer, I don't think an outside stadium is the most appropriate, even if it looks nice). The main problem of the demo is that it lacks a proper tutorial (and also has problems processing at times). For example, you can only see the info on the controls for swimming when you are in the heat you're swimming and only when it is not paused. So you de facto automatically loose the first heat you try as your competitors race ahead while you read the instructions. The instructions also aren't completely clear. To swim it says you should press left and right in back and forth, but when doing it, I'm unsure if it is best to do it as fast as possible or in a specific rhythm or what else, at least initially it doesn't seem obvious what works best.

But it also applies to the homescreen that is a bit confusing, especially when most things you have to click on does not have a name but just a picture and the pictures aren't that obvious, so you have to click through almost everything initially to be sure to find what you're looking for.

A smaller last note, I find to many of the club logos to be too aggressive. Not entirely sure how it works in the USA or other places, but in Denmark where I swam competitive, most club logos are made to be quite friendly and cute and are mostly made to attract children to the club, rather than to be aggressive towards competitors.

I hope this game goes forward and that these comments can help to improve it, best of luck to the creators.
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