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I'm glad you're enjoying it! And yeah, not being allowed in to the private party was a bummer, but you'll definitely see more of Alex. NC17 as well 🙂

Thank you for your kind words 🙂

There isn't a release date yet. I will make a post on here when there is one. If you follow me, you'll get an email when I make that post.

It is still being created and hasn't been released yet. I have an early preview available as an incomplete build, which has stuff for Matt, Owen, Evan, & Julian. But that's only on Patreon. The full release will be free on here after an early access period, so don't feel like you need to join to continue the story!

You can't hook up with Matt in the current version of the game. You can start trending things in that direction in the next story update that I'm working on now.

I would like to do an Android port at some point, but I'll need to have the funds to hire someone to assist me first. So I don't know when that will happen.

The morning after update isn't released yet, it's still in development.

There's only one so far. I'm adding a new one between each bigger story update. The next release continues everyone's storylines, and the release after that will add the second Grind'm scenario. The guy voted to get the scenario is Trevor, NC17's twin.

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it so far 🙂

Wow, big in Brazil? I have no idea how accurate that is, but I'll gladly accept all the hugs 🥰

I haven't written a CG unlock guide yet, but there are a couple of unofficial guides:

Google Docs Guide
Fan Wiki

I appreciate the offer, but I have a policy against using volunteer work since this will be a product for sale. There is so much dialogue that asking someone to do a translation for free would feel unethical. If I ever do have the funds to hire translators, I'll definitely put a call out, though!

Kind of depends what you're most looking for. The most similar VN to this one is probably Coming Out on Top, which inspired my game. Straight?! is a more introspective game set in college, and it has a lot of fans. On my Itch page there is a "Related Games" link on the top right that'll get Itch to show you more that are similar!

Thank you so much - I'm glad you found it, too 🙂

Both Riley & Evan are romanceable 🙂

No, it'll be posted on here for free after early access on Patreon. The full update is not finished yet, what's on Patreon now is basically a sneak peek at finished Matt, Evan, Owen, & Julian content for higher level patrons.

Some of what Griffin says is accurate, some is something he misinterpreted. I don't think anything he said was an out and out lie, but he does like to stir up trouble sometimes, so...

I rely on email notifications since I don't come to Itch regularly, so I do miss comments if one of their emails doesn't reach me. I usually find them eventually, like the comment below this one and your follow-ups.

Beyond that, if I don't reply right away, it's usually because I saw the message at a time when I wasn't able to craft a response and chose to come back to it later. Some questions/comments are quicker to reply to than others.

For your follow-ups - While I appreciate the idea, I won't be coding Wes as possibly trans via something like chest tattoos because he has a penis but does not have a backstory that would allow him to have had bottom surgery before coming to 21CA. He's from a rural, conservative small town, which informed his reserved personality due to him feeling scared that even just showing a little bit of emotion would give away he's gay. There's no realistic way he could leave that situation, get and recover from bottom surgery, and then go to college in the span of a month. While this is a game that plays a little loose with realism, I still want to keep things grounded.

If I was never going to show Wes naked it wouldn't be an issue, but I have and I will, and as noted in my prior response, I don't want to mislead anyone. It seems very queerbait-y to even vaguely hint at him being trans while knowing he will never be presented as such. I hope that reasoning makes sense.

As for Griffin's comments about Riley, his interpretations of what people say aren't necessarily always accurate...

Do you mean have sex as in full penetration? You can in the Grind'm scenario and you will be able to the next time you have sex in the story. If you just mean sexual situations in general, there are several in the game with Marco, Leo, Griffin, Alex, and Mafia & NC17 as options.

I don't currently know when the next story update will come out, but I'll post on here when I do know.

Honestly, same - every guy becomes my favorite when I write their scenes, so I'm swapping favs all the time. One of the reasons I found a way to name saves was so players could keep track of saves for different storylines if they want to follow more than one!

No, he's not trans. I've already depicted him as a cis man in Patreon galleries and he will likely have a Grind'm hookup showing the same, otherwise I wouldn't state it so definitively and leave it to the reader to decide.

Good idea, thanks for the suggestion!

I think you mean if I intend to? Haha. I wrote a dev post on here the other day that has details about the next update, but in brief, the update is well underway in being created, but I don't know when it'll be complete. Once I do, I'll make another post on here.

It will! When the full Morning After Update is done it'll go into early access on Patreon for four weeks, then it'll be posted here on Itch.io for free. Once I know those dates I'll make a post to announce it.

You didn't do anything wrong! The game is coming out in "episodes," as it were, and we haven't reached the part of the story where you and Matt can hook up yet. The story update I'm creating now lets you start moving things in that direction, but he'll take just a little bit longer to get to the hook up stage than some other guys. I'm still adding sexy content for him in the meantime, though.

You're welcome! 🙂

For that one you need to end the night solo, dance once, get drunk, then dance again. Easiest way, I think, is to play the night solo without getting any drinks. After Skinema's show, dance once. Then get drinks until Connor is visibly woozy. Dance again and that CG should unlock.

I want to do translations, but it'll have to wait until I have the funds to hire translators, unfortunately. I don't know when that will be.

I will work diligently to get the free update out before the world goes entirely crazy 🙂

I'm not sure yet. Right now I'm creating the portions where you wake up in your dorm room or Griffin's apartment. That's followed by a couple of other sequences, and then we reach Will's stuff. I'll post on here when I have a concrete idea of when it'll be done.

Evan is interesting to write because he can be so oblivious in a funny and cute way, but also so casually confident about stuff Connor hasn't experienced yet. I have some fun scenarios planned for him, one of which gets set up when you reunite for classes in the full update.

His morning sequence is probably my favorite right now, I hope you enjoy it when you get to play 🙂

You'll have the chance after class to ask Will about potentially hooking up now that you gave hanging out with other students a try. It can lead to some very sexy stuff that I don't want to spoil. I've been anxiously waiting to make this sequence for a long time now!

If you're playing a Connor that doesn't want to get with Will, it's entirely skippable.

Evan went through a big evolution from initial idea to who he is now. The original idea was for a classmate you'd occasionally see and could hook up with, and the name and personality were totally different. That version of the character wasn't meant to be seen anywhere except class/between classes.

When I couldn't get the character to look like I wanted, I messed around in Daz until I came up with Evan, and how he looked led to a personality change. I liked writing his and Connor's interactions so much that I wrote him into the party, and I went on to realize I wanted to keep writing more scenes with him. 

So he's the only romance that wasn't preplanned and just happened organically—kind of like meeting someone unexpectedly in real life, I suppose!

Hey there. The current free version of the game ends at that point. This is an in-development game that releases story updates episodically, so any time you see "to be continued," you can expect the continuation of that storyline to be added in a future release.

This specific storyline—passing out drunk at Matt's apartment—is going to continue in the Morning After Update, which I'm working on now. I actually just finished this part of the story. There will be a post on here within a day or so with more details.

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it 🙂 I'm not sure which images you mean, but I think probably the last ones in each guys' grid? If so, for Matt, go to the club, spend all your time with Griffin (including going to his apartment), and anytime Matt is brought up, pick the option to unlock those CGs. For Alex & NC17, spend the afternoon with Alex, go to the club with him, spend the night with him until he propositions you, turn him down, leave via the back exit, and then take a peek into a room when you hear some intriguing sounds.

I'll have a post on here soon to talk about that and some other stuff.

Thank you for the kind words! I followed the lead of other gay VN creators on here who also release games for free, and I'm very glad our work provides discrete entertainment that younger gay guys can relate to 🙂

I'm glad you love it! We're still relatively early in the story, so the full game won't be done for awhile. But I'll be releasing a new update that continues everyone's storylines in the next month or two.

Oh, I got you. Yes, that's intentional. If you let the ending slide with Marco sit on the screen for a few seconds, it'll slowly fade from Marco to the other character to represent Connor reaching certain milestones with them. I can see how it would look unintended if the fade doesn't play before you click/press a key to move forward!

I hope he does, too! I didn't originally plan that Mafia & Forte CG, I made an excuse to add it in after I saw how hot Forte turned out, haha. Here's a selfie pic of him I made for Patreon to maybe quench the thirst a tiny bit: