Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate your honesty a lot, because we don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable playing our game and we are always eager to listen and to learn to do better. I’m Jace’s writer and I wanted to explain some things, but before I delve into it, we would like to apologize for any discomfort we have caused. Even if it was not our intention, it’s an issue that our game made you uncomfortable and for that we are genuinely sorry.
Jace is always bisexual. Other than Hazel (who is pan), all the main characters are always bi in every route. Since this is a short demo focused on character interactions, we wanted to make sure players could quickly access only the love interests which they are interested in, hence why we allowed players to pick which gender they wanted to focus on pursuing. Sorry if that caused any misunderstandings, but this feature will not be in the final demo.
Because we wanted to present different relationship dynamics, certain characters such as Hazel already have experience dating people of different genders while Jace is not as open (with others or himself) about his attraction to men as he is about his attraction to women. It wasn’t our intention to make him come off as misleading or homophobic in the process, but I will make sure to change the writing to avoid such misunderstandings. There are reasons for his discomfort with flirting with men which will be adressed in the full game, but I’ll make sure to tone it down in the early stages of the game to make sure it doesn’t come off the wrong way before it’s explained. Because Jace’s MxM routes have a lot to do with him coming to terms with openly dating men, they start out as less romantic than some other routes but will end just as romantic! Jace is just a little slow when it comes to love, both with girls and boys. :)
As for his personality traits, this is a short demo so we weren’t able to show all layers of our characters, however we’ll note your comments down and make sure to improve that for the full demo! We hope you might give the full demo another try later and hopefully, you’ll feel more comfortable with how we’ve changed things. If you do decide to give us another chance later, we hope you’ll grow to like Jace more! Once again, thank you for your criticism — we are taking it seriously!