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Thanks, Maxime; am I guessing correctly that English isn't your first language? Maybe this is a bit of a translation issue. :)

The gender choices were developed after speaking with a bunch of transgender, non-binary, and intersex writers, game devs, and players to try and give a good balance of choices for everyone to pick from. Androgyne in the game is closer to non-binary, whereas "hermaphrodite" is considered an outdated and potentially offensive term. The gender choice, ultimately, has little material impact on the game itself and is just to give players more representation to enjoy the game however they wish.

As far as what the game itself is, I think if I call it an RPG people might be expecting something like Zelda or Diablo, and I don't want to give anyone the wrong idea. You pointed out that there's not much gameplay in the video — that was the Kickstarter pitch (I'm working on a proper trailer at the moment!) so it's slightly different, but it's difficult to put a text-based game into a video format unfortunately. I'm working on it, though! It's closer to an RPG than a visual novel, I think, but it's not quite either. I don't mind what people want to call it as long as they enjoy it, though. :)

Why are there graphical artifacts in the texts?

I'm not sure what you mean here, could you possibly send me a screenshot of what's happening? That's not been a bug that other people have reported so I'll see what I can do. If you can't attach it in an itch message, you can email joshua at alcyonegame dot com instead.

Maxime Martyr5 years ago

Indeed, my original language is not english.

Ah, indeed, "A hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female reproductive organs during its life. For human hermaphrodites, see intersex.".

Indeed, in english, the word "hermaphrodite" is for "organisms" while the word for human hermaphrodites is "intersex" so now I understand why humans are offended by the word "hermaphrodite".

In french, the word "hermaphrodite" is for any being that possesses both male and female genitals and there is nothing wrong with using this word for humans, it is not pejorative.

What? But you do call it a RPG, remember I explained you what drew me here, I was looking for a RPG for Linux in the Itch app and your game was categorized as a RPG, check it, type "Alcyone" in Itch browser and see what genre Alcyone is labelled at.

And this is why I suggested you a description to make sure that everyone knows what to expect.

People will come here expecting a RPG and upon reading the description, they will get an accurate idea of what kind of RPG Alcyone is exactly.

That is, if you make your description more accurate, as I suggested.

What do you think is the point of descriptions?

A game genre alone is not enough to get an accurate idea of how a game is, this is why we write descriptions and the more accurate the description is, the more accurately people will picture the game.

This is why your current description fails to fulfill its purpose, I totally thought that Alcyone was a visual novel upon reading your description, you description sent me far away from the truth, if I didn't suggest you to call it a visual novel and you didn't answer me it isn't a visual novel, I would have gone away, I wouldn't have experimented it myself in order to get an accurate idea of what exactly it is, and people will not do as I did, they will read your description, be mistaken, and go away without knowing what Alcyone actually is.

About the trailer, how about you show a recording of the demo from start to end? :-)

Check your e-mails. ;-)

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