I really appreciated the way that this game sought to encourage discussion of gender's role in different ways and in entertaining fashion and would suggest it as a primer to those early gender questions to many with some caveats. That said, I was pretty displeased to see the one clearly extremely unpleasant character so strongly associated with neopronouns with no off-balance. For all the sense of inclusion otherwise, I walked away feeling like the game was telling you that neopronouns aren't valid and are only for arrogant pseudo-intellectual edgy people, which is exactly the stereotype they already have to deal with from outside the queer community. Perpetuating it within the queer community is a hard sin to swallow, even with the rest of the game being nice.
i'm really sorry that's how it came across! that was never the intention and honestly i love jolene just as much as all the other characters, hoo was actually my favorite to write. hoo's abrasive personality is certainly not a reflection of my or heather's feelings about neopronouns, which i fully support, and have tried out in the past myself! jolene might be a little annoying but to me is still lovable and worthy of respect and community, and i personally don't like writing all my queer characters to be friendly and sweet, because i think we should be allowed to be abrasive and messy and difficult. jolene is also a little bit of a self-drag, because i can be a bit pretentious and use 10 words when 2 would do, and am kind of a dick sometimes when i really want someone to be my friend.
i hope this helps and i'm so sorry that our game made you feel othered. (also sorry this reply is so late. for some reason i don't get notifications when someone posts on this page, so i only see them when i remember to check.)