My itch.io and paypal use the same email, which starts the way you mentioned. I also checked my spam folder throughout the day and there's nothing there, so I'm not sure what's going on. Technology is great, until it does stupid things like this. -_-
EDIT: Well, it showed up, but very delayed. -_- Not sure what the problem was, but sorry for the trouble, and thanks for answering.
Oh, the projection. Goodness.
You realise no-one said you weren't allowed to post anything, right? You also realise this is a public website and thus, anyone can post, right? This was not a private conversation. I bet you would have had no problem with me "butting into" the thread if I agreed with you. Sorry, but as much as some people may want it to be, this isn't quite an echo-chamber full of mindless sycophants.
People like you who bring up "freedom of speech" are often the ones trying to silence others, as you're clearly trying to do by whining about my post to the dev, because you didn't like what I had to say. Well, too bad. If you can't handle push back, perhaps you should step away from the internet for a bit.
"Again, should've worked on it more"? Going to be blunt, here... NEVER apologize for making the protagonist you want to make, and never feel like you need to cater to others. You didn't commit some cardinal sin by not putting in pronoun options, for goodness sake. There are many other VNs out there with customization options; things don't need to cater to everyone under the sun. If anything, female-locked VNs are the minority these days, and actually have been for years at this point. It always baffles me when I see people try to claim otherwise... and quite a few people have, on this site. As someone who has been playing VNs for 30+ years at this point (so, long enough to see the evolution of them in real-time), the claim isn't even remotely accurate.
They weren't, but sure, go with that if it makes you feel better. A number of Otome have had friendship routes (this was the case for Kyoko in CnD), or are you one of those English players who mistakenly thought the ones in Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side, which was never released in the West, were romantic? Psst... I'm old enough to have played the original TM game with the male protagonist. And, you know... the OG Otome, Angelique? Regardless, even if there were romantic ones, exceptions do not make the rule. Also, rofl... imagine mentioning the "Otome" subreddit as some sort of point of authority, when they're as clueless as you clearly are. There's a reason Japanese players are really getting tired of Westerner's BS (localizers for anime/manga/games blatantly rewriting entire characters/scenes for "a Western audience") and I can't say I blame them.
I don't use tiktok btw, never have. It's brain-rot, which you obviously have succumbed too. Tragic. The heck even is "tween LADS girlies?" I'm not even going to bother looking that up. Brain-rot to the extreme.
I find it questionable that you felt the need to delete my comment, given the blatant hypocrisy of it. Apparently, it's fine for Seraiden to call me a "whiny pissbaby", but my responding post pointing out her/his nonsense (I did type "obnoxious twit," which is hardly the worst thing ever, and the only slightly uncivil thing I did type) is perfectly fine? Uh huh. Definitely glad I stopped being a patreon of yours when you first announced you were venturing into the pronoun nonsense with this new game, waaay back when Aidens' route was still being worked on. Have fun sitting in your echo chamber along with the rest, I suppose.
Make whatever you want to make, but Western devs seriously need to stop calling things Otome that are not Otome. The Otome genre is FxM relationships, period, point blank. It'd be like referring to something as Yuri when it features a male protagonist...
Genres exist for a reason. If people just arbitrarily decide words mean whatever they feel like, what's the point? It sure doesn't help with classifying things properly so people can find what they're looking for. Feel free to throw whatever "ist" or "phobic" word at me you want, btw. I've heard it all before; it wasn't true then, and isn't true now.
Echoing the Cain affection bug during Truth or Dare, and the inability to proceed if I pick the bottom choice when speaking to Maya at the Louvre. Also, another problem... I've never been able to view Florians' scene during the summer camp chapter (even though I bought it), and I can't view it in the scene replay section. I can replay every other scene, just not that one. I paid for Patreon access so I can switch routes whenever I want, but even that doesn't make it viewable. : / Not sure what's going on.
EDIT: Oookay, now I can view it. Odd. Well, nevermind then!
Also... wtf, Florian? Always figured something was up with you (that bio page...), but sabotaging YOURSELF? Bruh...
...Season 2 can't come soon enough.
While I wasn't as frustrated as the original poster... I must point out it this has nothing to do with the "girl boss" narrative (the push back on that has been as obnoxious as the push for it). Being naive doesn't mean you're completely clueless with no sense of self-preservation. Furthermore, being an idiot or a doormat isn't relatable at all, so that had me side-eyeing your comment. A MC making mistakes is fine, but if you were going for "relatable and realistic", uh... I'm sorry, but you didn't succeed, here.
Gotta love how people can't be bothered to read the page at all..
"Can I choose the main character’s gender/pronouns?
👉 We are sorry, but that’s not possible. TYL’s story revolves around a female protagonist, and her gender/pronouns along with some other information about her (such as, for example, her degree or the members of her family) are set from the beginning. Even so, we hope that this does not keep you from enjoying the game and having a fun time with the Supergroup 😊 Thank you for your understanding."
Hey, I wanted to get "Dungeons and Dumbasses", but I only see the 3 spin-offs I already purchased. The newest one doesn't even show up.
EDIT: Ok, seems I had to play through chap 10 again for some reason before it showed. Also, some illustrations I purchased in other chapters are locked again? I really don't want to have to buy them again. :/
That's fine. That's ever been my only problem...the lack of properly tagging things. In response to your other post; no, I am not projecting. Perhaps you are? See, I can flip that around, too.
If you bothered to see the comment threads on many, MANY VNs that were (originally) female only, there's always someone pestering the creator to make the MC neutral or gender-selectable, and the creator ends up caving. In the same vein, any time someone points out things don't need to be for EVERYONE, and it's fine to have VNs that cater to specific groups, said person gets called a "bigot" and other such nonsense. They also do this even if you mention something is incorrectly tagged Otome when it is not, in fact, Otome. Meanwhile (and I will always use this example, because it always applies), if someone were to go to a BL or Bara game and pester for a gender-selectable protag... there would be/is chaos. It's hypocrisy, and it's tiring. I'm all for VNs being for certain groups, but it has to be CONSISTENT. None of this "rules for thee, but not for me" BS.
Anyway, my issue was your out of left field "hetero girlies" comment, as the people (like myself. also, apparently bis don't exist? bruh) pointing any of this out reads more like "anyone saying otherwise is homophobic", because that's usually the case. People love throwing that word around so much that it has lost all meaning. However, since you just seem to be focused on tagging things correctly, I don't have an issue with you.
Here's me, rolling my eyes. Any time there's a VN with a female protag only, there's always people coming in, whining/demanding (or claiming to "just be asking" ... uh huh) that it should be gender-selectable. Things don't need to cater to everyone, for goodness sake. If I went over to a BL or Bara VN (Bara is specifically made for gay/bi men. look that genre up; there's tons of VNs), and whining that it should be gender-selectable, it would be just as ridiculous.
Also, "hetero girlies?" Your realise there are bi women (and gays, even) calling this hypocrisy out too, yes? Miss me with the nonsense.
Huh. I know your comment wasn't directed at me, but I just wanted to say: thanks for the reasonable comment.
Any time I try to point any of this stuff out, I get called "bigot" or a homophobe, or w/e other nonsense. The word(s) has/have lost all meaning, with how liberally people throw it around (or any -phobe or -ist word). It's an immediate red flag to me, because it tells me whoever goes off like this clearly doesn't understand what the words they use mean, and they don't want an actual discussion; they just want to shut things down and feel "morally superior." It's tiring, because all they're doing is just shitting on people who actually never had a problem with gay/bi/trans folk in the first place. Lol. I understand why people are sick of it, because I certainly am.
Lol, yeah. Any time I try to point any of this out, the eternally offended brigade show up and start slinging words like "bigot" around and other nonsense, while acting like I've committed some heinous crime. Like I had to tell others, language is meant to make communicating easier, not harder, and trying to change the definitions of words whenever you feel like it does the exact opposite of that. It's super gross how they overuse words like homophobia too, which just serves to cheapen the word, considering actual homophobia still exists in the world. The various Arab nations where being homosexual is punishable by death under their laws come to mind.
There's a reason all the sane gays, bi and trans folks are trying to distance themselves from all this nonsense.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. Anything that has only a female protag tends to draw the type that demand everyone be included, otherwise you're a bigot, or whatever insult they come up with. They can't accept that you don't need to include everyone—that people can have their own spaces, and that's okay. They don't want to consume the mountains of other content that fits their desires already—they demand everyone drop what they're doing and change everything for them. It's incredibly childish and narcissistic, and I'm tired of it.
Anyway, you weren't being rude; there are just certain people that can't handle others pushing back on their nonsense.
Displaying your ignorance here once more... I'm thinking you're much younger, given the way you type... You probably aren't even 18, in which case, why are you posting on an 18+ game? You could—and should—be doing literally anything else.
Anyway, talk to any old gay, and they'll tell you "queer" was originally an insult. Better yet, look it up if you can't take my word for it. The original meaning of the word is "strange", and people started to use it as a pejorative for homosexuals, which is why many of the older gays aren't fans of it and refuse to use it.
Regarding your yuri claim, oh, honey... no. Again, I'm assuming you're a child, so I'm not going into specifics, but no, yuri is NOT mostly made by women... not even close. There are a few women here and there (mostly in the West) that make lesbian content, but yuri was always, (and always will be. statistics, honey; there are more straight men than gay/bi women) male-dominated, and as I said, nearly always hentai/eroge. Sorry to hit you with reality, but those of us that are old enough to remember when you loaded games up via command prompt haven't suddenly forgotten this.
Furthermore, I never said VNs were a "queer people thing", I was referring to you typing "a topic like this is also purely for queer people too discuss," to which I say: no, it is not. This is a public site, meaning anyone can post; I am not a fan of misinformation, so I posted.
Review bombing? Quite an assumption, there; I have better things to do with my time. Also, well done completely ignoring anything I actually posted and screeching "bigotry" because you can't handle anyone not agreeing with nonsense. You do realise many gay, bi and trans folk don't agree with any of it and call it out, (don't like the "queer" label, either) as I've said? I even mentioned some of them in the post you're referencing, but ideologues such as yourself don't tend to enjoy being confronted with reality, since it doesn't fit your narrative. Oops?
And no, sweetie, the otome (a Japanese word) genre of VNs always refereed to a female protagonist with male love interests, until some Westerners 7+ years ago decided it meant something entirely different. But sure, go tell a Japanese person it means something else... I'll wait. The whole "Westerners know better than people from the country of origin" is working out real well for Ubisoft, isn't it? Granted, that's not an American company, but they sure have been pushing those politics heavily.
What next; gonna tell me that Bara is something other than M/M relationships, aimed at men? You'd be wrong on that front, too.
It's baffling that you felt the need to apologise for locking the protag to female, while promising not to do so in the future. For goodness sake, if people have an issue with that, it's their problem, period. There are many VNs out there they can play instead, and you are not responsible for whatever they may think/feel. Make what you want to make, not what others insist you should.
If someone thinks a bisexual being in a straight relationship suddenly means they're straight, or that it's somehow "bi-erasure"... that's very much a them problem. For normal people, that's blatantly obvious, and we really don't need to be beat over the head with it. The ones that complain about such things tend to be an extremely loud and obnoxious minority, (and as I mentioned previously) fighting on behalf of people who never asked. They also tend to be the same people who (hypocritically) insist bisexuals are just "in the closet", and that bisexuals should "pick a side"... when that's, uh, not how that works. It's in the name; "bi", meaning two, or both.
As an aside, I'm sorry, but respectfully, pansexual isn't a thing—it's lit just bisexual with extra, imaginary steps. Likewise, biromantic+asexual? You realise it's normal for women to have a lower sex drive than men, right? Doesn't suddenly make it a new sexuality. I'm under no delusions that I can convince you of anything, but given this is a public website, I'll speak my piece regardless.
Anyway, the same argument goes for the race example. What you mentioned is very much an American problem since they started this nonsense, fabricating issues where they haven't existed in years. Most of us don't care, and treat everyone the same way. It's really tiring seeing American politics shoehorned into everything, with other Western countries being expected to follow suit. Yeah, no thanks. There's a reason recent games like Concord, Dragon Age: Veilguard, Avowed, and so on, have been complete flops. People are tired of being preached to over problems the "activists" created themselves.
I'd suggest looking up people on Youtube like Amir Odom, Brad Plumbo, Ariel Scarcella, Buck Angel and Marcus Dibb, to name a few. Most of them are American and gay or trans, and speak against all this divisive nonsense being pushed.
Again, good luck on your KS, but just as you can make whatever you like, I can spend my money elsewhere.
Oh sweetie, you're really displaying your ignorance here. You're very likely under 20, so of course you know nothing about anything prior to 2000; since you're apparently incapable of looking anything up, VNs were very male dominated, for many, many years. They were nearly always eroge or hentai (again... targeted at straight men) and the very few that existed for women were few and far between, weren't hentai, (they were actual otome... GxB) and weren't translated into English.
Again, if you bothered to look anything up (absolutely no excuse, since the internet is at your finger tips), yuri was always targeted at straight men, and yoai was always targeted at straight women (I don't even read yoai, honey). It's the whole "girl-on-girl is hot" thing for men, with yoai being the equivalent for straight women. People like what they like; let's not pretend other groups don't fetishize things either, so kindly get over yourself.
Nothing stops anyone from reading whatever they want of course, but the fact is, VNs never had anything to do with "queer" people originally. Furthermore, the word(s) you're looking for is/are homosexual/bisexual, kiddo; people of those sexualities don't tend to appreciate the word "queer," given the negative connotation it carries.
One last thing... best believe I'm going to talk on a topic when someone is spewing misinformation on said topic and calling it "facts."
Things don't need to conclude EVERYONE under the sun, just because you want them to. Plenty of things aren't targeted at me (a woman), and I don't go to developers and demand they change them. I don't know how old you are, but for many years VNs for woman were nearly non-existent, then that started to change... and now, in the last 7 or so years, that's changed AGAIN, and women are being told "no, you need to include EVERYONE, or you're a terrible person if you don't!" Absolutely ridiculous.
FYI, BL (yoai, in other words) was NOT made specifically for "queer men"; women were the target demographic originally (made by women, bruh), just like yuri (made by men, honey) targeted men. Doesn't mean you can't consume BL content, but men weren't the target audience. Bara, however, is a genre that is specifically for gay/bi men, with the love interests being men.
And since you brought it up to the other poster... why are you (a man) insisting that an OTOME (female protag, male love interests) be changed to suit you? You do realize what the word hypocrite means, yes?
So-called "sensitivity readers" are just people who feel the need to get offended over nothing, on behalf of people who never asked for their "help." Sounds more like you let someone gaslight you into believing whatever you had in mind originally was "offensive." Contrary to whatever this person might be telling you (or echo chambers, of which itch.io is one), normal gays/bi folk aren't offended by everything, and are actually sick of being treated like infants. I'm guessing whoever this "reader" is, is American, or heavily influenced by them? Wouldn't surprise me at all, but it's odd, given your studio is listed as Polish on KS.
I can't tell you how to develop your own game, but I'd advise ditching the "sensitivity reader" and not buying into political ideologues telling you whatever you're doing might offend someone. Even if someone were offended, that's their own problem, no one else. Further more, your VN is a work of fiction; it doesn't need to conform to the real world.
While I wish you luck on your eventual KS (and was looking forward to it, myself), I no longer have a desire to back it. Over-correction and this bizarre fear of possibly offending someone even slightly has absolutely gutted modern gaming and media in general, and I have no desire to engage in it.
(Appreciate it. People can't handle being called out, clearly... like that poster below, Totervogel, who blocked me before I could even respond to any of his/her 6 posts. Lol. Just proving my point; yet another perfect example of a coward who can't handle push back. Gonna just cut and paste here what I originally typed out, then. I have no patience for this nonsense.)
I thought about not responding, but here, I'll humour you. But... wow, 6 posts from you? Really? You realise you could have put everything in one comment, right? Or was that too difficult for you?
1) I don't think you understand what the word "bait" is. The person (whom I had never interacted with previously) made one post, and when I tried to respond months later, well, turns out I was already blocked. That smells of someone with low self-esteem who can't handle any sort of push back and can't actually support what they say, which is pathetic. I was blunt in all my posts and calling out nonsense (hardly "toxic;" that word gets thrown around so often without any understanding of the word itself), and I won't apologise for it. Deal with it.
2) I said "clown world"; I did not call the poster a clown. You need to work on your reading comprehension. If I'm "rude and foul" according to you, I'm guessing you've never encountered people who actually are those things? Gotta say, you're in for a rude awakening when you finally do, kiddo. Calling people "whiners" is hardly the worst thing a person can say. Grow up.
As for the "grow up" comment directed at me, honey... I'm not the one demanding that a single word in a visual novel be changed, or going on about "cultural sensitivity", or demanding the world be covered in bubble wrap for my sake; that's a very specific group of vocal whiners doing that these days in the western world. I have more important things to worry about, like paying bills.
3) Look up "anti-white hate" on youtube and tons of results will pop up. Your ignorance of reality is not my problem. Also, gotta love how you ignored me saying "asian hate", too. While you're at it, look up "anti-asian hate"; plenty of results there, as well, but I doubt you'll look up either of those things. People such as yourself (and the original poster) don't really like having your view of the world challenged, so I'm not expecting much.
Oh, and before you (or anyone else) brings it up... I'm not on the right OR the left. I find both sides equally annoying most of the time, and there are people of every race out there who echo my sentiments. Step out of your little bubble and actually take a look for a change. Here, I'll even give you an example of one such person: Amir Odom. Look him up on youtube.
I did, actually, but sure, ignore it. Here, I'll say the same thing again in a different way, just for you: it was a pointless change and achieves nothing except making some virtue-signaling keyboard activists (whiners) pat themselves on the back because they made someone on the internet remove a single word in a visual novel—someones' (their) knickers might get in a twist otherwise! Oh no! These mighty internet warriors, these saviors, fighting on behalf of the poor, poor poc. I'm sure everyone out their with actual problems really appreciate it. /s (if it wasn't obvious)
This sort of thing has been happening daily, on much larger scales in the west, with far more important things than a visual novel. So, do you understand? Is it clicking for you yet? Hope so, because I've already spent one minute too many on this circus, so have fun, I guess.
Don't know how I only noticed this months later, but anyway... posting this here since Itch won't let me respond to that Echo user below. If Itch allows people to block others, and then you can't respond to them... bruh. How pathetic is it to block someone because you can't handle them disagreeing with you on the internet? Doubt she or he will see this, but w/e.
1: I never mentioned anything about Christianity, but another poster did, so maybe actually check who you're responding to before hitting that "post reply" button, honey. Also, I'm an atheist, so it's all nonsense to me—get over it.
2: "Our" culture? Oh, please. Even if you are NA, YOU do not speak for everyone who is, full stop, and plenty who are do not share your backwards views. Furthermore, no culture is "closed", so what are you even on about? No-one gets to talk about any culture, ever, except those who are supposedly a part of it? Miss me with that (actual) regressive nonsense. Sharing stories, food, clothing, etc., across cultures can enrich society as a whole, but here you are, endorsing staying in an isolated little bubble. Brilliant.
3: Speaking of "curses" like they're actually real IS superstitious nonsense, honey, and blindly following the words of some hyper sensitive, virtue-signalling person on a discord server claiming using the word WENDIGO (again, a creature from NA folklore) is honestly sad. It's people like you that are making society as a whole worse. Step out of your regressive echo chamber and grow up.
Funny... that whiner down below responded to me as if I was the one who mentioned Christianity, but it was you. I love it when people just keyboard mash and don't bother to check who they're responding to... Itch won't even let me reply to it, either. lol
Anyway, this is just another case of virtue signaling nonsense. Pretty common, unfortunately.
Oh, please. Going with the "hill you want to die on" bit? Really, now? How about this: the vast majority of poc don't buy into this censor every little thing nonsense, and are speaking out on it more and more, particularly when nothing was ever offensive to begin with. Step out of the echo chamber and actually see what people are saying about how harmful this gibberish is (hello, CRT); how patronizing and infantilizing treating poc (or any group really, not to mention the anti-white and asian hate) this way is, as if they're all brainless, spineless children that require treatment with kid gloves. Do some self-reflection and Knock it off.
EDIT: Treating superstitious nonsense this way isn't "dismissive", it's living in reality. Get over it.
Oh, for goodness sake... You did nothing wrong, and it sounds like someone tried (and succeeded) in convincing you it's the equivalent of the n word or something. It is not, and the word WENDIGO is not a "cursed" word; that's a load of superstitious nonsense. A wendigo is a creature from Native American folk lore, period, full stop. If we can't even speak about FOLK LORE, of all things, this is truly a clown world and I am SO tired of it.
It's your game so you can ultimately do what you want, but I don't think you should ever allow others to guilt trip you or brainwash you into thinking you committed some crime when you did nothing of the sort.
I'm baffled that Yuna didn't just... claim amnesia. Since Ciel was so badly injured that she fell into a coma, I don't think anyone would be surprised to hear that she couldn't remember much, if anything. Yuna'd probably have far fewer issues if she just leaned into that right after waking up. Could have just told Rigel right after meeting him and went on from there.
