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Broken Harbours was in huge part an experiment in writing in third perspective in a VN and in that regards I'm happy with the result. From the literary style to more adult themes, it was meant to be very unlike Dawn Chorus. I don't agree with it not sticking to a perspective. 

I agree that the smuttier side and more serious one pull the story in two directions at once and now I wish I stuck only one of these. My interests shifted between the time I wrote down the rough idea and the time I sat down to write the text, the initial plan was for a much more lighthearted story. Still, in the end I'm happy with the result, and though I wish either I toned down the smutty side or leaned only into the horniness, I think it uses the word count well and is still worth a read. It is possible but unlikely that I'll revisit it in a future to tidy it up and expand on it, once the time allows and I need a breather from working on Dawn Chorus again. 

The route is far from finished! The ending with proper credits is an actual end, while the other will get a continuation in the next updates. 

It's not the end of the route, of course! Day 3 can end in one of two ways on Mikko route, and the one with credits is an actual end, while the other will be continued in the next updates.

Hi!

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What I'm getting is that many of the games on itch.io also have soundtracks available to buy, including mine. I hosted mine both on itch.io and Bandcamp, but I've always seen much more activity and sales on Bandcamp, even though the game itself is hosted here, on itch.io. Due to the current situation over at Bandcamp, however, I don't want them to get any money from sales of my music and I'd like to redirect people who want to buy the soundtrack to itch.io. However, as of now, I can only upload a zip with all the files and I can't offer any previews or anything of sorts. Including a player for audio media would help creators to preview soundtracks and potentially increase sales - hence my idea. 

It's already the final version! Any future updates would only add more artwork or something of similar nature. 

Just uploaded the album to bandcamp with a free download!

https://buildingslikeradiators.bandcamp.com/album/broken-harbours

The events in the story are canon, yes. The story is a sort of a prequel, not a spin-off. 

Thank you 💜

💜Thank you ^^

This is an old goodbye message shown at the end of the routes, somehow a version from a past update it made it to the current one ;_; The next build will have a new message!

This month the old goodbye message somehow made it to the current build somehow ;_; The next build will have a new message, thank you for reporting!

Hi! Access to the side story starts with Lively Lion tier. Thank you :3

The plan is for every route to have NSFW scenes. 

Travis does not have a route unfortunately u.u

You can decline smoking yourself, but at the moment there is no alternate scene without smoking. Maybe it's something for me to consider in a future update.

You can decline smoking and drinking yourself and still get the good ending! The choice to drink only determines whether you get the nsfw scene or not, at least for now. 

Not necesarily, at least not before the public release of the game. If you want the passwords, these are:

imalittlestinker - for musk kink and some extra sniffing
davidvsgoliath - for those who like them really big
snoutmania - for snouts exploring tight holes

I'll likely delete this comment some time from now, but if you use them in game, the kinks stay unlocked and you can always disable them again.

Available only through the Queer Games Bundle 2023 now, if you bought the bundle than you should be able to download the game through the button at the top of the page or from your profile! 

The fact that it's complicated makes it fun to write! Glad you liked it :3

The intro was mostly rewritten, I'm hoping of getting a new illustration to put there someday, but for now this is the current version of the intro.

It'll be made available once the illustrations and drawn backgrounds are done, what's available on Patreon right now I consider a preview build.

https://dawn-chorus.itch.io/all-the-lonely-people

Working on it right now ✨

Which of the files is that? The April build or v0.26?

Lots of work gets put into making of any visual novel, especially as big as this one. I personally like the artstyle of ExCa and had a lot of fun playing it.

I made the files available to download again now! Grab them now, I'll delete them again in a few days

No, the update should most definitely be working. Perhaps you tried to load a save instead of starting a new game?

Today! Uploaded the actual visual novel back :)

I'm deleting the April Fool's update files from itch.io, you can always keep the files on your machine!

I'll upload the previous version again after today, sorry 😅

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Yes, but only once I have a final build. The one available for patrons now is a preview build with placeholder backgrounds and no illustrations, I'm waiting for these assets.

The page got updated, not the visual novel itself

The next update I'm working on will feature new content for Devon, Bjorn and Torulf, so all the remaining main characters c:

The update that includes the start of Day 2 is already finished, for now it's available for patrons and I'll upload it here on 25.04.

I like these, but I have to ask you to post them in one thread, not to have too many off-topic ones. Thank you!

Three are on Torulf's route, just on the main path, one on Bjorn's route, if you decide to drink with him at the end of Day 2

There are four

For now - yes, but it'll be released publicly as a standalone VN too

The intro up to the title screen got reworked a bit, hopefully to its final version, and there were some minor bugfixes. No new content in this update, sadly :c