Lol, it's here, but you're not going to get it, be patient, you're a second class customer.
You guys are really turning to dicks.
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We're really sorry for the disappointment, but our Itch.io players are absolutely in no way second class customers to us! Please allow us to explain:
As mentioned in the post above, the reason we are unable to put the female player first look on various DLSites is because these platforms are not built for hosting testing builds like Steam is. Steam supports convenient game branch and version switching for both developers and players.
To put it frankly, the female first look in its current state is nowhere near finalized enough to be shared as a live stable release with all players like Itch.io and other DLSites are built for. It has known bugs, broken cutscenes, it's missing content, and so on. It's very early on in development, and it would be wrong of us to replace Itch.io's normal version of the game with a version that is intended only for very early testing.
If the Itch.io platform and other DLSites were built for version switching, we would put the female first look on them in a heartbeat. However, these websites are not built for that, so we're really sorry, but all Itch.io players WILL still get the female update when it is eventually in a better, more complete state for stable release.
We're very sorry for the disappointment this caused, and we understand that you might think we're jerks for this, but you are absolutely not and never will be second rate to us, and we really appreciate your patience and understanding about the platform restrictions of Itch.io.
It is completely possible to have different versions of a game in the download section of Itch, others are doing it : some adult VN have both free and extended paying versions available, so if you wanted you could just put the two versions with a warning for the FPC version. Somethig like
V0.22.0 Stable build FPC disabled x64 AO
V0.22.0 Unstable testing build Female Player Character enabled x64 AO
We really appreciate you reaching out to us and sharing this information! Actually, we weren't aware that this was something we could do and that other developers were doing it.
Thanks to your comment, our team has been dedicating time to look into this option and has confirmed that it is possible for us to do!
So, we've been working on getting builds of House Party prepared and uploaded, and we're happy to announce that the female character first look is now available for testing on Itch.io!
Once again, we're sorry for ever making you feel second rate. We care so much about our players and that wasn't ever our intention; we honestly didn't know it was possible or common practice to host testing builds on Itch.io alongside stable builds.
Thanks so much for bringing it to our attention, though, and we hope you enjoy playing!