Loose Threads

yooo, really cool concept. My only critique is that sometimes I had the right connections but I'd gotten ahead of myself and only got the green string through accidentally deleting a red or by using the walkthrough. Still a fun experience and a compelling mystery!

Great game! Love the mechanic, the story is compelling. Simple to play, difficult to progress and intriguing enough to make you want to finish.

My biggest gripe is the way evidence is grouped. The "anchor" piece (the piece of the main thread) that the next group needs to connect to seemed arbitrary for a few groups, which pieces constituted a group seemed arbitrary, and the current group not completing if it was connected to any pieces from upcoming groups (or the wrong anchor) was frustrating. Sometimes, two pieces of evidence would be more related to each other than they were to the rest of the evidence in their respective groups. Overall, this gave it an unnatural feel, like the protagonist suffered rapid-onset amnesia if she saw something of interest but didn't already have a crystal clear picture of how pieces connected back to the beginning post-it.

I understand this system is to enable a linear plot progression, and to allow the player to connect pieces within a group any which way without letting them just connect every piece on the board and have every plot-point trigger at once. I don't think a linear progression is necessary nor fits with the "cognitive map" style gameplay that evidence boards inherently are, not sure what could be done about the latter problem. Perhaps every single piece of evidence should have others it is required to connect directly to, and not worry so much about being able to bundle it into arbitrarily connected groups.

God i'd love to make a short film of this, story is really interesting, it took a while to figure out and i got stuck a few times but overall really good game. Does anyone know if the next part is in production?

Is the thinking log part of the new update?

This is the solution for the first section. I'm having a lot of trouble to find the solution for the next 4 links. Anyone has a clue?
https://ibb.co/BNY2nWY

Everyone else has made the points I wanted to make. A potentially great game, but figuring out exactly how things are supposed to link up is kind of frustrating.

So I tried this, checked the comments for help, saw that everyone was stuck in exactly the way I was, shrugged and left.  But then I saw it again in the trending feed, and I thought, "You know, it's a shame to give up on this".  That's because it's got the potential to be a great idea.

I hope you take to heart the feedback people have given, though, because right now there really is too much guesswork without any feedback.  I read through the various images, and it's clear what's basically going on (in ROT13 for spoilers: Ur jnf fhccbfrq gb tb gb n zrrgvat, ohg ur gbbx gur ohf sebz gurer gb Geragba, jurer gurer jnf fbzr rzcyblrr bs n ubfcvgny ng 22 Senaxyva Fgerrg jub gbyq gur snzvyl gurve onol unq qvrq, juvpu vg unqa'g) -- but it's not at all clear what things to connect to what other things to tell the game that you have that information.

There's a good game at the heart of this.  I really hope you can make it work.

Is the game supposed to move to the next stage/ part of the board on it's own? I'm stuck on the first section of the board and I'm not sure where I went wrong  ;A; 

I don't even really know what the game is asking of me.  Can I make multiple connections?  Does it want just one timeline?  How close am I to the solution?  I'm not going to spend forever switching stuff around until I happen to stumble upon the correct answer.
A neat idea, but without any sort of feedback... no thanks.

I'm mostly just echoing what the people below already said. There are a lot of ways to connect pictures to form the same story. 
I'm guessing you're hinting that we have to connect the evidence chronologically with all of the "trace his footsteps". If that's not it then can you maybe help out with how we're supposed to connect them?

A fix maybe something like different color strings for different interpretations.    For example red line for chronologically time when Pete put the evidence up/got his hand on them. Blue line for connections between the evidences like Piece A, B, and C aren't discovered near each other but they all hint about a single thing. 

Another fix can just be a tutorial of sort at the start, showing how the strings are suppose to be use.

Overall interesting idea for a game, just hope it is easier to understand what I am suppose to do.

The game seems instresting, but  theres a large disconnect between understanding what the series of event/puzzle is in the first section and figuring out EXACTLY how the game wants you to express it. Some way to verify certain connections would be nice, given how a single timeline of events could be represented by many different webs, differing only in a few connections. I still havent beaten the first part.

this game is so cool! but I still can't solve it even the first part, ill keep trying tho!

I'm very intrigued, but also slightly infuriated, and a lot stumped. There are 12 items on the first corner of the board, and no real way to know how close you really are to getting it right. Can you add some sort of clue that the connection you made is correct?