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I like the concept, I hope that in the final version icons will appear or we will have access to the Jocks' schedules, because it is difficult to guess where each one is, I know that this is a way to make the game more interactive but at the same time it is extremely tiring, this is because in demo 2 (beta) it takes place in a week, imagine how boring the game will be if it has a period of a year or a semester. If you are not at the specific time you will lose Derek x Bryce and this affects their relationship with you or both and you will probably have difficulty pairing them, yesterday I was playing and I tried to put the pairs that are shown in the game Derek & Bryce, Zayne & Leo, Avan & Yuuto, but I could not put Bryce with Derek, or even with me, maybe because he was not intimate with me or with Bryce, but I am still trying to find the route for each one, which is quite hard work, and I also hope that the IO does not appear all over time as in the demo because there are times when it bothers
Yeah I get what you mean. I'm not a fan of the kind of mechanics they have gone for here. They incentivize save scumming and it takes you out of the plot because you are more focused on making sure you are getting the right route than RP'ing by saying what you would actually want to say in a convo. The dialogue options are pretty vague and often not what Ace actually says when you click them. I felt like I was playing Fallout 4 again lol. Idk this has a lot of little problems that really stack up over time imo. It feels like an old dating sim in the worst ways.

The porn producing minigame is pretty lacking in sex appeal compared to the intimate cinematic scenes we got in the first demo. Ace is meant to be a director but the minigame implies that what we are seeing here is the porn that gets put out online. A wide shot from far away... which never moves. I just miss the sensuality that demo 1 had with it's scenes. You may as well skip the minigames tbh they aren't worth your time right now.

A good example of a glaring design flaw that I noticed early on is when Ace is in his room trying to psyche himself up to look at his contacts. I assumed I was meant to go into the menu and read whatever message he had gotten but when you do that nothing happens, you click the text box and then you get a tutorial about using the phone only to see no notification and then Ace chickens out in the actual story. This disconnect actively works against having the UI be Skeuomorphic. While you may be telling Ace where to go you aren't really controlling him so being able to look at the phone outside of railroaded story moments feels odd given how they are writing this thing overall.

I hope it improves on that front before the game releases because I really want to like it. I want to be pleasantly surprised when the game comes out and my computer can run it consistently without freezing on the popup before the main menu. Regardless, I hope everyone else is having fun with the demo!
 

fygbros

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How the stretch goals were shown off in demo 2 is really hit-or-miss imo. The way they phrased the ideas of mini games for filming and photoshoots during the kickstarter made them sound way better than the "final" product we are getting to experience in the demo. It's not exactly nefarious—I have no doubt they only intend to make a good game that sells well—but people were absolutely donating more because they thought those minigames would be a lot more sexual in nature than these weird Newgrounds flash animation games circa 2004. The first demo's solo session jerking off scenes were insanely more erotic.

I 100% agree with what someone said earlier about how they should've focused on using all that extra money (over half a million with a 50k goal) for improving the actual sex scenes, letting us choose positions—I saw a lot of people complaining Bryce won't top—etc. Also, I know voice acting is expensive and can be time-consuming, but when you get almost $600,000 from your fundraising and push your release date back 2.5-3 years... maybe voice the entire game instead of random grunts and sound effects when full sentences are shown. Fingers crossed at least all the sex scenes are fully voiced.

All that having been said, I'm still really looking forward to the game. I liked their previous games and they're really good quality products. I just don't know that what we were promised is what we're getting with this one.
 
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Wilwock

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I only skimmed it, but there seemed to be a LOT of menus and things to consider/manage. Did anyone get the impression it would be too much? I don't think much of it has been utilized much yet.
 

Aykonn

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Is there a bug? I can't get Derek's shower scene. Every other character works fine, but when I pick Derek's option I get other athletes.
 
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oh I meant the size of the game, but if it eats to 4GB of RAM, then something wrong with it, looks like a memory leak, also maybe the engine has a hand in it too? since it uses unity and before they only used renpy
Maybe, I'm just perplexed by it lmao. I'm not a tech savvy guy so I hope they are aware of it and fix it, if it's not just an issue only on my part.
 

donorys

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oh I meant the size of the game, but if it eats to 4GB of RAM, then something wrong with it, looks like a memory leak, also maybe the engine has a hand in it too? since it uses unity and before they only used renpy
What? It's not renpy? Well that complicates things a little bit. My current laptop wouldn't be able to handle it I think...
 

MrMrsSim

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May I know where I can watch the gameplay of demo 2.0 uncensored?
YouTube has too much censoring lol
 

Kuzesama

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What? It's not renpy? Well that complicates things a little bit. My current laptop wouldn't be able to handle it I think...
not sure about the demo 2.0 since I havent played it, but read before that the dev trying unity for this game, perhaps for this matchmaking minigames nonsense which they couldnt do with renpy
 

SkylerSkizz

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I have a problem where my game just stuck at the black loading screen when I opened the game. Maybe this demo is too much for my device to load I guess. Since they added this and that, so the game got "heavier" compared to the first demo. Which is make sense. Or they need to optimize the game idk.
 

Hayeeter

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So, I´m at the gym scene, no music, just background sounds, and I swear I keep hearing clicking sounds, as if there was a computer. Idk if it´s a mistake on the background noises or if the zip it´s hacked. I already ran it through antivirus and says no problem, but I´m not sure. Anyone else has heard clicking?
 

johnn2445

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A guide would be a bit difficult as unfortuently it seems that some of the results in the minigames are a bit rng based, its all luck :/
there still could be a guide for the different cgs, like the shower one. it depends on the choices you picked before. i started to make a bit of a guide but only for the characters i liked lol. for example, for bryce you have to pick "you only live once" on the first choice, and "make sure its worth it" on the third choice in the gym. u can check which choices give u "points" for each character depending on who speaks after ace. if it changes depending on the choice, it gives you "points", but if it doesn't then u can pick whatever (i think). unfortunately i dont have much time to play rn so i cant make a fully fledged guide :(
 

veanne

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aint demo 2 for public released today? i wonder what's the difference between the alpha version and today version