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Benefitship is actually complete - it isn't really receiving updates anymore, as we're working on the sequel and other games. The updates to the storefront here are to help increase our sales, etc., such that we have more money to put into future game content.

That said, we are sorry that people keep receiving notifications for it. I would disable it if I could, but it seems that Itch.io insists on giving people notifications for it.

It sounds like you might've downloaded the demo, rather than purchased the actual game, if you're only experiencing one scene.

I'm afraid we have no plans to localize Sci-Futa to different languages.

Sorry, but we don't plan on doing any more localization into different languages.

We're hoping for some time in May.

Glad you liked it! Yeah, we're aware Benefitship was a little too short - the sequel will be a bit longer.

Unfortunately, we probably won't be doing anything like tomboy x femboy for the foreseeable future. Not that we'll never do it, but it requires that we have something interesting to tell.

Oh, strange that you're receiving feed notifications. Maybe it's some weird quirk of Itch. It probably happens whenever we update the store page (like screnshots, etc.)
That's kind of inconvenient - sorry. You can safely ignore those from us. There'll be a devlog when there's anything of note!

The full version will have an Android version. For the time being, though, the demo won't.

Sci-Futa is complete, so we won't be adding any new scenes to it. As for whether that'll appear in a future game we can't really say, since it all comes down to the stories we want to tell.

Thanks, we're glad you liked it! I don't know how many people have actually tried it with the Japanese voice acting, but I hope you enjoy it, if you decide to give it a go!

Hey! Yeah, it has a fair amount of cumflation. Nothing extreme, but still enough that I'd qualify it as cumflation.

Why, as it happens, we actually have another game coming up called Born to Breed, which just so happens to have a futanari centaur with an equine penis. What a coincidence!

No worries! Glad you found it appealing regardless!

Well, that depends on whether or not you listen to the full voice acting. If you do (which I highly recommend), it'll probably be a little under an hour and a half. That's per our estimates, anyway. I know some people have read the narration faster, and so they've gotten through it quicker.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Unfortunately, we're nowhere near having a release date for the sequel. If we're lucky, it'll be by the end of this year, but it also might not be until early next year. I wish I could give you something more certain, but since all the art is done by one person, we're generally subject to his schedule.

In the mean time, we're releasing other games with different artists. Our next fully voiced game, Born to Breed, has a free demo out now, and is expected to release within a few months.

Nope, it's the same game! The Itch version does come with an Android APK, but whether or not that matters more than the convenience of Steam is totally up to you!

Afraid not! A lot goes into managing a Discord, and we'd rather spend that time making games. If you want to be notified of updates and such, I recommend following our Twitter, @benefitshipgame.

Yeah, Benefitship is done. We're focusing our attention on Benefitship 2 and our other upcoming games.

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean. Benefitship is effectively complete - we're working on a sequel right now.

I don't really know; We don't test our games on third-party tools. The full version will have a dedicated Android APK, though.

Born to Breed isn't out yet! We've only just released the demo, but we're hoping to get the full version out some time in the next couple of months.

Thanks! We hope you enjoy!

Hey, glad you liked it!

As for the scene you're referring to, Born to Breed isn't really romantically focused like that, so I would kind of hesitate to call it NTR. There isn't cheating or anything like that involved. It's more like friends with benefits, but with more feeling.

So I guess it depends on how you define NTR, but I, as someone who's not really into NTR, wouldn't classify it as such.

Now, to actually answer your question. Born to Breed is a (mostly)  linear story, and that scene is a part of the story and the natural development of the characters, so it isn't optional.

I hope that helps - sorry it got a bit long!

Glad you liked it! It's hard to give an exact number, but by a rough line estimate, it's a little under 10%! There's longer between the sex scenes later on, though.

Thanks!

Honestly, I can't give you a release date yet because it depends on the voice actor's schedule. We've still got a few lines missing, and we can't really release until we have them. I'm hoping for April-ish, but as I don't have control over the voice actor's schedule, it might not be before May.

Glad to hear you're excited, though! Once we've narrowed in on a release date, it'll be posted on our Twitter, and probably on the page here as well.

Until then, we hope you enjoy the demo!

Glad you liked it! Yeah, there'll be even more of Karla the goblin later on, so we hope you'll be looking forward to that.

Yup! That's why we chose her!

The full version will have an Android version! The interface isn't ready yet, though, and there are also some optimization issues due to the high-res videos used for Live2D, so the demo doesn't have it.

Enjoy! Let us know what you think!

Thanks, we're really glad you liked it! All the voice acting was done by one person, so I'm sure she'll be very happy to hear that she did a good job.

Ah, sorry about that! We were on a pretty tight schedule, so we actually haven't had time to level out all the voices yet.

Glad you liked the rest of it, though! Please do feel free to let us know if you have any more feedback. We always try to make note of it.

Glad you liked it! I guess you'll have to wait and play the sequel - no spoilers.

As for the meal in the final scene, it wasn't exactly thought through in detail, since the meal itself wasn't plot-critical, but while writing it, I always pictured it as a kind of stew.

Not technically canon, since I might think of something else that works better for storytelling purposes, but something like this is what was in my mind.

Hm, we haven't had any reports like that for Sci-Futa, but I believe someone got an antivirus alert on Benefitship. They're designed to protect you, so they can be a bit overzealous at times.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure we can do a lot about the antivirus popups on our end because there are so many programs and they all work differently; My suggestion is just to whitelist it or ignore the warning, depending on your program.

Sorry about the inconvenience!

Well, that's a bit of a longer conversation.

Proper frame-by-frame animation takes a very long time and is very expensive, so I'm afraid we won't be doing anything like that in the near future. It would at least triple both development time and overall cost, if not more.

A common alternative is Live2D,  which we experimented with here in Born to Breed. However, I don't think that look would suit Sulcate's art. It has a tendency to look a stiff and can be kind of distracting. I doubt we'll be doing that either.

That said, it won't be quite like Benefitship 1.
I expect that Benefitship 2 will take more use of dynamic camera movements and sound effects. We've experimented with in Sci-Futa, which released earlier today. I'll probably also try to have more unique CGs (rather than a lot of alts) to help give scenes an extra layer of energy and variety.

I hope that answers your question!

We expect to have an Android version when the game releases, yeah!

The Android version should look and sound just as good as the desktop version. The APK is a smaller size because we compressed all the audio files to OGG instead of WAV, which is a lot smaller, and it sounds just as good. All our future games will be using OGG files on desktop as well. Most games do.

The images haven't been compressed any differently. They should look exactly the same.

As for JoiPlay, I'm not sure I can do anything about that, since it's a third-party tool, but if you're on Android, you should be able to play Benefitship with the APK at just as high a quality as on PC.

The full release will probably have an Android version, yeah!

Glad you liked it!

Benefitship has actually been effectively complete from version 1.0. Versions 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 added quality-of-life features and Japanese voice acting respectively.

We're currently working on a sequel, as well as a couple of other games! You can see the other two upcoming games on https://rfh-games.itch.io/.

For more updates on Benefitship 2, you can follow our X/Twitter, @benefitshipgame.

Noted!

Just a few more weeks! Glad you're excited!

Sorry, but we aren't really planning to localize to other languages.

The Japanese localization was an exception because Benefitship is loosely inspired by anime and hentai, which are traditionally in Japanese, and we thought it could be fun to have Japanese voice acting.

Localization takes time and money that we'd rather spend making more games, which is our main focus right now.

We appreciate the interest, though!