This game is so good, I chose Angels route. I like xir character. Relate to him on many parts too. The story and character designs are really cool and well done. The art is amazing, i love Angel's tattoos and style, the flowers in xir hair. I like how all the characters are so different to each other but most still get along.
The fact that Irene was oblivious to the fact it was a queer meet-up/reunion was hilarious. She just walks in and is like "am i in the right place?" Very funny, sweet relatable game. Loved the autistic and trans representation too.
I'll be playing this tonight at 5 PM PST/8 EST with my friend DeviousVacuum on my twitch channel, prettypinkpansy - looking forward to coming back and dropping a more thorough review!
(Not trying to advertise, just saying "if any devs happen to see this they're welcome to watch us check it out if they'd be interested in that sort of thing")
Couldn't help but comment real quick to say that I was booting the game up to test it pre-stream and was really shocked it's on Godot and not Ren'Py!
As a very amateur developer who's really interested in learning Godot and loves visual novel/dating sim/adjacent stuff, I would love to hear if the programmer has any tips on working with the engine, any prefab stuff you might've used, et cetera. 🥺
aw shoot i wish i had seen this and made the stream! i hope you had a lot of fun playing it ^^ (is there a vod??)
i've also passed this along to our programmer so that she can answer your godot Qs. i was also very impressed with what we got done in godot in such a short period! i know dialogic was a HUGE help in the process
Hi hi! Yes I'm always happy to help people learn about Godot especially if they wanna make VNs in it ^_^
The overview of it is that we used Godot 4.2 (and now I use 4.3 so the latest releases are all good) along with the Dialogic 2 plugin which helps us manage the dialogue. Dialogic is also a helpful plugin for people who are just getting started with Godot since Dialogic can handle your dialogue, your backgrounds, the audio, sound effects, sprites, etc.
We didn't actually use Dialogic for anything more than the dialogue and saving some save file variables, so in Good Lord! The music and all the visuals run on a separate system that I coded from the ground up because Dialogic doesn't have the full range of flexibility we wanted for animations and music cues. Fortunately it's very easy to get all that connected and it was a pretty smooth process!
I also coded another VN demo in Godot if you want to take a look at a very different style of VN too (BDWA Radio). OH! Also I'm giving a talk about this at VN;Conference on the 25th too so that talk will be recorded up on their youtube after the fact too if you can't make it.
I'm glad you all enjoyed the game too and feel free to reach out if you have any questions too!
We have something very cool in the works on this exact line! I really really appreciate you reaching out <3 (and will let you know if we need more hands...)
Hi, I'm so curious to play this, but after downloading and opening the game, it just gives a black screen with bird sounds...anyone else have this issue?
Hi kittyrancher! I'm looking into this now and it looks like there's an issue preventing the opening animation that reveals the main menu from playing. The game is still running, but for some reason the screen never gets revealed so you never see the main menu. If uninstalling and reinstalling the game + rebooting your computer doesn't help, this may need a small patch to resolve - I'm still hunting down the exact bug that could be causing this and just wanted to let you know that we're still working to get this resolved!
Please let us know if you have any luck and we'll let you know as soon as we get a quickfix patch ready!
playing to get liam's route, with my first impression of him i was like "he ain't one of the creatures god made" and full on despised him but as i got to that part of his route i am positively losing it. him and irene's dynamic and backstory is insane upon closer look--- shamus kelley it appears i owe you an apology i wasn't familiar with your game
Had a ton of fun with this, as an ex-Christian who turned out to be a transgender of sorts, myself!!
I found myself relating a LOT to Angel, and I joked with my friends multiple times that it's because xir autistic like I am. So, of course, I lost my MIND with the reveal that xe actually is, lol. Not just that, but demiromantic, just like me!! We share the exact same thoughts on dating in general -- "how can you like me? we just met?? you people are so weird???" I've even pulled the "weaponizing my airheadedness to pretend I didn't understand what someone meant when they said they 'liked' me" move, lmao. These traits of mine, when shown in a character in a dating sim, are usually relegated to the non-datable NPC who's there for comic relief; the freakshow whose purpose is to be laughed at. To have them instead portrayed honestly, and as something that could even be desirable, made my heart grow three sizes this night~!
I also saw my younger self a LOT in Liam. Kudos to the writers -- you truly captured the Complete And Utter Behaviors only present in a repressed good-girl Christian turned alt trans queer. His final monologue in the honeymoon suite also very much got me In My Religious Trauma Feelings... Mourning that you used to be everything that your family and community wanted you to be, but you can't be that anymore if you want to be happy. So, seeking that validation in other places instead (ESPECIALLY online)... Woof
And, of course, Elias' plight of feeling like he has to prove he's still just as good at his job, and becoming a workaholic because of it, was ALSO a topic that hit home. Ough. I also really appreciated the representation for bigger boys!! Plus-size romance options are still shockingly rare in the dating sim space, so I do love to see it. Plus, the reveal in this route that Irene is, herself, potentially an egg had me HOLLERING. "Gender is confusing, and also I just wanna dress up in nice clothing, and men's fashion is so SAD" Girl. I fucking get it.
I generally appreciate Irene's internal monologues. The "religious girl who is Doing Her Best while in a crowd of queers" vibe are sooo palpable.
It feels like the topics covered in this game are things that are very close to the hearts of the team! From religion to queerness to the issue each character faces to even photography -- there were a few lines from Irene about her cameras that made me perk up, because it was something I'd never heard of before. Thank you for making this game! I had a blast.
this silly game better heal me (joking but maybe not. all this to say I'm excited to give this game a shot! I already have my eyes set on Liam and Angel)
I haven't downloaded this game yet but I fully intend to! I just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you for making this at all. It's so hard to find trans masculine representation in dating sims, much less an entire game focused on them like this. I think this is the first game of it's kind that I've seen. It makes me so happy and I hope that this can start a trend of more trans masc representation in games. I actually teared up when I saw this game recommended to me.
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I LOVE THIS GAME!!
i love Angel :3 i also want to punch Liam in the face... hard.
This game is so good, I chose Angels route. I like xir character. Relate to him on many parts too. The story and character designs are really cool and well done. The art is amazing, i love Angel's tattoos and style, the flowers in xir hair. I like how all the characters are so different to each other but most still get along.
The fact that Irene was oblivious to the fact it was a queer meet-up/reunion was hilarious. She just walks in and is like "am i in the right place?" Very funny, sweet relatable game. Loved the autistic and trans representation too.
:)
Best game I've ever played, I love Angel so much.
Very nice game!! I enjoyed all routes in their own right, and had many good laughs. Angel is wonderful, definitely my fave❤
it's really nice! I liked all 3 endings and I think they compliment eachother
Thank you very much! I'm glad they worked as a nice bouquet ^^
I'll be playing this tonight at 5 PM PST/8 EST with my friend DeviousVacuum on my twitch channel, prettypinkpansy - looking forward to coming back and dropping a more thorough review!
(Not trying to advertise, just saying "if any devs happen to see this they're welcome to watch us check it out if they'd be interested in that sort of thing")
Couldn't help but comment real quick to say that I was booting the game up to test it pre-stream and was really shocked it's on Godot and not Ren'Py!
As a very amateur developer who's really interested in learning Godot and loves visual novel/dating sim/adjacent stuff, I would love to hear if the programmer has any tips on working with the engine, any prefab stuff you might've used, et cetera. 🥺
aw shoot i wish i had seen this and made the stream! i hope you had a lot of fun playing it ^^ (is there a vod??)
i've also passed this along to our programmer so that she can answer your godot Qs. i was also very impressed with what we got done in godot in such a short period! i know dialogic was a HUGE help in the process
Hi hi! Yes I'm always happy to help people learn about Godot especially if they wanna make VNs in it ^_^
The overview of it is that we used Godot 4.2 (and now I use 4.3 so the latest releases are all good) along with the Dialogic 2 plugin which helps us manage the dialogue. Dialogic is also a helpful plugin for people who are just getting started with Godot since Dialogic can handle your dialogue, your backgrounds, the audio, sound effects, sprites, etc.
We didn't actually use Dialogic for anything more than the dialogue and saving some save file variables, so in Good Lord! The music and all the visuals run on a separate system that I coded from the ground up because Dialogic doesn't have the full range of flexibility we wanted for animations and music cues. Fortunately it's very easy to get all that connected and it was a pretty smooth process!
I also coded another VN demo in Godot if you want to take a look at a very different style of VN too (BDWA Radio). OH! Also I'm giving a talk about this at VN;Conference on the 25th too so that talk will be recorded up on their youtube after the fact too if you can't make it.
I'm glad you all enjoyed the game too and feel free to reach out if you have any questions too!
loved it!!! this game is everything....do you plan to add more languages? i'm a Spanish localiser and it would be a pleasure to translate it!
We have something very cool in the works on this exact line! I really really appreciate you reaching out <3 (and will let you know if we need more hands...)
Hi, I'm so curious to play this, but after downloading and opening the game, it just gives a black screen with bird sounds...anyone else have this issue?
very strange! i don't remember seeing any reports of this before. what system are you playing on?
I'm on a PC (x64-based), and here's some copypaste system info:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2712 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Hope that helps? Maybe if others aren't experiencing this, I just need to clear the cache or something...
Hi kittyrancher! I'm looking into this now and it looks like there's an issue preventing the opening animation that reveals the main menu from playing. The game is still running, but for some reason the screen never gets revealed so you never see the main menu. If uninstalling and reinstalling the game + rebooting your computer doesn't help, this may need a small patch to resolve - I'm still hunting down the exact bug that could be causing this and just wanted to let you know that we're still working to get this resolved!
Please let us know if you have any luck and we'll let you know as soon as we get a quickfix patch ready!
playing to get liam's route, with my first impression of him i was like "he ain't one of the creatures god made" and full on despised him but as i got to that part of his route i am positively losing it. him and irene's dynamic and backstory is insane upon closer look--- shamus kelley it appears i owe you an apology i wasn't familiar with your game
(This review contains spoilers!)
Had a ton of fun with this, as an ex-Christian who turned out to be a transgender of sorts, myself!!
I found myself relating a LOT to Angel, and I joked with my friends multiple times that it's because xir autistic like I am. So, of course, I lost my MIND with the reveal that xe actually is, lol. Not just that, but demiromantic, just like me!! We share the exact same thoughts on dating in general -- "how can you like me? we just met?? you people are so weird???" I've even pulled the "weaponizing my airheadedness to pretend I didn't understand what someone meant when they said they 'liked' me" move, lmao. These traits of mine, when shown in a character in a dating sim, are usually relegated to the non-datable NPC who's there for comic relief; the freakshow whose purpose is to be laughed at. To have them instead portrayed honestly, and as something that could even be desirable, made my heart grow three sizes this night~!
I also saw my younger self a LOT in Liam. Kudos to the writers -- you truly captured the Complete And Utter Behaviors only present in a repressed good-girl Christian turned alt trans queer. His final monologue in the honeymoon suite also very much got me In My Religious Trauma Feelings... Mourning that you used to be everything that your family and community wanted you to be, but you can't be that anymore if you want to be happy. So, seeking that validation in other places instead (ESPECIALLY online)... Woof
And, of course, Elias' plight of feeling like he has to prove he's still just as good at his job, and becoming a workaholic because of it, was ALSO a topic that hit home. Ough. I also really appreciated the representation for bigger boys!! Plus-size romance options are still shockingly rare in the dating sim space, so I do love to see it. Plus, the reveal in this route that Irene is, herself, potentially an egg had me HOLLERING. "Gender is confusing, and also I just wanna dress up in nice clothing, and men's fashion is so SAD" Girl. I fucking get it.
I generally appreciate Irene's internal monologues. The "religious girl who is Doing Her Best while in a crowd of queers" vibe are sooo palpable.
It feels like the topics covered in this game are things that are very close to the hearts of the team! From religion to queerness to the issue each character faces to even photography -- there were a few lines from Irene about her cameras that made me perk up, because it was something I'd never heard of before. Thank you for making this game! I had a blast.
thank you so much for this deeply kind review! i am glad to hear it resonated with you on so many different levels <3 <3
Why does Liam looks like the kid from Iron Giant?
this is the funniest roast omg
this silly game better heal me (joking but maybe not. all this to say I'm excited to give this game a shot! I already have my eyes set on Liam and Angel)
Hi! Neither Windows or Linux have worked for me, what can I do?
Oh no! Can you describe what's happening? We haven't had reports of this before so whatever details you can provide will help us troubleshoot.
Goose, a peak character design, such masterpiece, deserve everything in the best
What a twist knowing your girl friends turn to boy friends
I haven't downloaded this game yet but I fully intend to! I just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you for making this at all. It's so hard to find trans masculine representation in dating sims, much less an entire game focused on them like this. I think this is the first game of it's kind that I've seen. It makes me so happy and I hope that this can start a trend of more trans masc representation in games. I actually teared up when I saw this game recommended to me.