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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Kink | #3 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #9 | 2.975 | 2.975 |
| Harmony | #12 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Novelty | #13 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Horny | #13 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Narrative | #14 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Play | #15 | 2.778 | 2.778 |
| Sound | #17 | 2.333 | 2.333 |
| Stealth | #19 | 1.778 | 1.778 |
| Aesthetic | #20 | 2.889 | 2.889 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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first of all, bravo on having a portrait-oriented window to match the phone theme, that is extremely charming
wish there'd been backscroll or something though; a couple times i briefly forgot context after the screen cleared, oops
the specific gay subculture here is a bit alien to me (do guys really talk to each other like this?? i 100% believe it) but this felt like getting a peek into a world i never really see any of? that was pretty interesting
and then there's the elephant in the room which is rather conspicuous, but i definitely appreciate making it so conspicuous that it's trivial to avoid, even if i'm dying to know how folks would react to our hero cockily dropping a bomb like that out of nowhere
it's a nice little story game! it's a bit weird but i like seeing other folks' brands of weird
I watched videos, read comments and looked at pictures for each of the gay kink communities I tried to portray, all for research. That's how they talk in the videos and comments of the videos so that's what I tried to mimic.
If that's how people would talk to each other in real life, without a screen to hide behind, I have no clue; it's not the sort of thing I can go up and ask about ^^;
With my limited knowledge of Renpy a backscroll would have been hard, I have an idea of how to do it with screens, but I would have needed another month to make it work.
Thank you for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed this game in all it's weirdness.
Props for the texting format, I considered it myself and had to drop due to time, and you made good use of it here. The UI was a bit dodgy though. I was expecting the in-game phone's home button to work to get home for the gallery, and the choice textboxes obscured the last chat message, though that may be due to my font settings.
As far as scat, I think it was telegraphed well enough to avoid so I had no problems even though it's not my kink.
I did plan for the home button to take you to the main screen anytime you pressed it, but I had two hours left and too many screens to hide.
Some of the text boxes are obscured by the choices, I had that problem under 'fix if time' aaaand, I ran out -_-
Thank you for playing!
Giving the player a limited window into the game world is a very neat approach. I really like horny games where your interactions with the characters are more subtle or interact, so I found the whole premise quite intriguing. I know you've said that you have no interest in making lewd games in the future, but I think you've got a very solid foundation for something cool if you ever change your mind.
Displaying the text as a proper phone conversation is a good choice, but could use some breakpoints, so that the player doesn't skip through it while clicking. I would also like to be able to collect the missing pictures by calling the guys again, it seems only some of the later ones are available. Maybe there could be some sort of a time progression system, where calling them on different days will get you different conversations and events?
The pictures are cute. Lin and Travis in particular.
Thank you for playing my game!
I noticed when I was testing the game that it skips over text if there's not a choice button. I considered adding a next button for screens that could be accidentally skipped, but I thought that would break the player out of the moment, i wanted it to seem more like a natural conversation and less like a game.
Lin's poses are the one I used the most references for, so I'm glad you like him.
I don't think any of what's going on here is my kink, unfortunately. These conversations are tripping my social anxiety X3 It could maybe use a warning that scat references come up, that's a pretty offputting topic for most people.
Can relate to the anxiety. I definitely can't say any of this to a real person, even anonymously.
It's near impossible to shock me when it comes to fiction, so I didn't consider talking about scat might disturb some people, I'll put a warning up now. ^^; I figured if the player responds positively to something like that, John's kink wont be near as off putting.
Thank you for playing my game! I can't see myself doing more of these, but if I do I'll try to include more common kinks to appeal to more people.
I understand. Strawberry Jam will be here next year if you change your mind, though!