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Hey there! Sorry for my delay in the reply- but I really love your feedback, thank-you so -so- much! <3 I'm really happy to hear it's ranked that high for you, really gives me that oomph to keep pushing on. I really enjoy making the feel of the game quite unabashedly, and unapologetically horny. Light-hearted with a little twist here and there.

Hearing that you got rock hard- definitely a huge -huge- compliment for me, so thankyou for that ;) Fingers crossed I can keep that streak goin' for ya!

- Duke's looking to have some new threads, some of them definitely gives that vibes even more.  That's much more into the future- but they're definitely on route with his new sprites.. :3c 
- Boss, will have quite a bit coming for him. What role he fulfills, falls to you. ;) If you wanna get a shot at that ass, you gotta play your cards right~
- Seb definitely serves a little bit of cheeky brat energy. I think if you really like puttin' someone in their place- you're gonna be quite satisifed with the end result. :3c 

Regarding future stuff...
-I like that a lot; I always got a little worried that I was bloating the text if I did that- but it's great to have that little shove to indulge in that a little more. So, going forward I'm definitely gonna see to figure out the right balance. :3c 
-I've actually been requested to see if I can allow the MC to bottom more heheh. I do intend for you to be able to rail anyone, and be railed by anyone- depending on how you handle them. Some are much more top-focused e.g. Roz; Boss etc. - but they can very much be, convinced. But, you'll get plenty of bottoming. The next update going to the Patreon soon (like within the next couple of days if that) is Archie's second half of the date, in which you can totally pound. :p 

Thankyou again for all of that, it was really great to read through it- here's hoping the rest of the game hits just as good. :3c If you want, there's a publicly open discord if you ever wanna chat there!

https://www.discord.gg/YPG3NPn6uC - if you're interested. :3c

All the hugs!

-Munch.

Oooh, great job on implementing these- i can imagine having to overhaul was quite the task! I hope y'all who are ill or healing recover swiftly and easily. <3

Take care all of you! And treat yourself! <3

Gotcha! I had a look; I think the issue might've been that Dukes headshot in the textbox actually covers his name slightly and that's a bit of an adjustment I need to make for sure- I've got that in my amend log, so I'll get to that soonish. <3 
~Archie's WIP screen- as in the loading one? :D I'm wondering if I can maybe make a nightmode or a brightness adjustment slider... Thanks for giving me something to look into! <3

Boss flirting time is definitely coming, I do fully intend for Boss to have fully romancable path(s). ;3c

P.S. If you're interested, and I'm not being slow on this-- there's a public discord! I tend to slide quite a bit in the way of updates and the likes, but I'm pretty easy to reach there too. <3

https://discord.com/invite/tfUZSSMxNn

All the hugs!

Hello! Thankyou! I really love all you put- it gives me that real fuel for the fire to keep on truckin!

-- There's definitely a degree of bottom leaning characters, but each character leans on a percentile, e.g.  Duke is actually 60% Top / 40% Sub leaning. Ideally, I'd like to have it where you have the chance to play with them top or bottom regardless, even the subbiest ones can top service style. :3c another plan is- How you interact with them would also inform how they may act with you personally as well; e.g. Roz will be dominant top energy, or submissive hungry bottom energy depending on how you play them. :3c - but even if you get them to be all dom top, you could still push them into bottom bunk and vice versa, how those scenes would play out would change too to match. (Dom Top Roz = Powerbottom Roz)

--Roz isn't implemented just yet but he is just around the bend.
Once these sets of patches are released, the one due to release publicly in a week or two- Patreon members at the Preview tier will get access to it in a few mins ideally) and the following patch (which will become active not long after the first, so those in Game Support tier+ will get access to two patches effectively soon) Roz will become the focus and the ability to meet him falls namely when you get the opportunity to "Go Outside" when the game asks you who you want to call to help you with the applications (seb/duke/archie)

-I'm still admittedly workshopping the employee events. 

Currently, each member of the cast will recommend you a potential recruit (Aster, Dane and Beau) and both Aster or Dane you could've met prior to being recommended to (The game actually reacts if you've met them already, when it comes to someone recommending. E.G. If you've met Dane at the Gym, Archie and the MC will respond differently when they see his application. :3c). I would like it that you have the ability to hire everyone and have a cast to choose from each time the club event happens-- and maybe have it so unique combinations of interest v recommendations trigger a special event.

So, in this case- Seb and Aster have a dance together, Archie and Dane have a 'performance' together. That's the benefit of having the route specifics hired. Now, lets say you're in Seb's route, but you hire Aster and Dane- you'd get the Seb/Aster event, but you'd also get all of Dane's individual sequences. :3c e.g. lapdances in the club for customers~

Hopefully, i explained that well- but if you have any questions whatsoever, by all means ask away! there's also the discord group if you want to reach out to me in there. :3c 

All the best, and all the hugs!
-Munch.

Hello! Thankyou for your feedback- this is really helpful, and glad to hear you're enjoying it so far- a new patch should be rolling round soon too!

If it's not too much of a bother may I ask, regarding the legibility of the name text box- what made it difficult to see certain names? Was it perhaps that certain names were too bright or saturated- or were they too dark? (More or less, is there a particular adjustment you feel would make a general improvement on that field?)

Thankyou again, it's a pleasure to hear your thoughts. <3

psst, vaya si eres la misma persona que se subscribio a mi canal de patreon- tengo un regalo para ti si me envias un mensaje alli ;3c

Heheh, yep yep! Theres gonna be more characters,  such as the mysteriously silohuetted one in the reputation tab or Duke's dad :3c

But theres gonna be quite a few new additions to both main cast, but then youll also have all the potential club hires :D

Thankyou so much! That really made my night to read that- came at a great time too. <3

Thankyou for playing and next update might be sooner than expected! Is there anything you might be hoping to see? (Might end up in there ;3c)

All the best, and love to you too!

-Munch

I just had to remove my first case of spam/trash links from an account impersonating Itch's support team that was a thread on the VIP comments. 
It goes without saying, absolutely do not click on these links. In any event, if there is an update to Patreon, it will be released in the devlogs under the official page, by yours truly.

Take care, and keep safe y'all!

All the best,

-Munch.

Hello!

I do fully plan to release for all platforms as much as I can, and im currently modifying the android versions for the next patch. ♡ i have heard rumours that ios can be quite a challenge so that might be a trick ill have to figure out!

¡Vaya! muchas gracias por su tiempo- en cuanto mas personajes, ¡si!

Hasta la fecha  - Roz (padre de Duke); Barry (¡con un giro!) + more
Empleados del club - Beau; Benedictus; Rowan; Calder (tiempo parcial // eventos?) + more

¡Buenas noticias!- var desde gordo-musculosos hasta con sobrepeso. :p y si- puedes elegir la ropa y el tema de baile :D

me encanta tu opiniones, y espero disfrutes de las futuras actualizaciones de juego. <3 

Duke x Mao escena cinematica? 👀💦

 

Oh snap, I thought I replied to this one but it doesn't seem to have posted- or it did and I might've accidentally deleted it? Either way, my bad!

This is really good to know- and thankyou also for giving me pointers of where to look- that's a huge help, cannot state that enough! <3

Funny to know the timer outright canes the game if you decided not to grab them shorts. :p Archie wins in one final motion XD

By all means, my doors are always open to you on that front- I'd love to sit down and have a chat about those things whenever is good for you. :D Same goes generally, if you ever want a chat, i'm a message away!

¡muchas gracias! mi espanol no es muy bueno, lo siento :p pero- ¿que lo que mas te gustado? <3

¿tambien jugar en ingles // espanol? (¿tercero?) 

hopefully my spanish isn't offensively bad, but i'm always happy tp practice more! xD I learned a little bit of portuguese (mostly br) but my spanish is clunky to say the least, so just in case-

thankyou for the compliments! it's really nice to hear about looking forward to the future potential of the game and I really hope it lives up to that. <3 - what was your favourite things about it? 

also, i've toyed with using Renpy's translation feature to include other languages such as spanish, french etc- but i know they're not 100% accurate, as with many translation apps. Did you play the game in english or was there a third-party to make it spanish? :D

Also, if you have anything you'd like to see more of- by all means let me know! be that scenes/CGs, activities, etc. <3 

Thankyou so much for the feedback. It was really nice to read through and definitely lets me know that I'm walking the right direction so far, phew!

I definitely intend to expand on the growth of the MC twofold, im currently designing a system where it should inform the game if you're like a top/switch/bottom and if you lean dom/sub (that way you can get like, service top, powerbottom, domtop, etc) and that can potentially reflect in the dialogue or actions the MC might take.

CG roles, (if/when the prompt is given) will always be flexible to pick so if someone whos normally a bottom decides "nah i wanna pound!" They can. :3c

I do agree that the dialogue does feel stiff in areas, funnily enough- that Duke dialogue qas one that i was looking at rehashing. I do think theres a character coming who's much more fitting for that kind of exchange- so I might move that bit to a different branch (who for them, business IS pleasure) and their ambience/attitudes rubs off on the MC somewhat. (I'd love to have it where each route romance, reflects in the club through the MC somewhat) but yeah, that part of the script was very early into development a couple if years ago, coming back to it- I have some, changes to reflect. <3

By all means, open invitation as well- if theres ever anything you wanna see/do in the game, let me know! Good chance it'll end up in there. ( Be that say like an Archie x Seb, or a MC x Calder or even like a stripclub theme, as theres gonna be themed clubnights ;) )

Thanks again for the feedback, hope the game keeps satisfying!

All the best, and all the hugs!

-Munch.

I can potentially slide over an android build for sure! I can't promise though how operational the game would be however; as I've not tested it myself and I've heard sometimes it can be finnicky without all the custom python i've built up... Lemmie build an android version and test it on my phone to see how it goes. <3 I'll keep you posted.

Let me know when you get a chance to play, I'm really lookin' forward to your initial thoughts as/when they come. <3

Heheh, thankyou!

Oooh yeah, there's quite a few dadbods, and literal dads too that are very much available and more- Duke's dad is actually a planned romance route too. :3c

Got a favourite character so far? (if you have any ideas for things you might wanna see with any of them... my doors are always open, it might just find it's way in the game ;3c)

Hello! Thankyou for many things, including thankyou for letting me be your first NSFW focused VN. <3 

Yes! The lack of music is very much a big thing, originally I was looking at producing my own (albeit amateur) slow music; thinking about jazz vibes, soft synths that sort of agenda. At this point, I'm potentially looking at commissioning a freelancer to help make some tracks. I'd love to make it where each character has their own theme for casual moments one on one.

The bugs is a very good thing to know about; I've not heard too much on that front so that's a huge thing to learn, thank-you! Things like the reputation screens and the likes, I do plan to overhaul at some point. I started the project when I was very much new to coding, especially Python (This actually made me pursue changing it to my specialisation in university!) So in theory, most of the stuff in Future plans looks to be feasible. Currently, I've been looking at creating a little stripclub minigame within it that would require full python framework and that's a whole thing, think like Yakuza 0's club management system. Though, this is much more down the line once the game has received a lot more story based content. I do think I'd probably need another pair of eyes who does coding to look over it, limit test the code and help me as my specialisation went down more the 3D asset pipeline versus the coding production side (but looking to make that my masters.)

Regarding expanded platforms, the original release of VIP actually did include Linux/Mac too; but there was that wave where things were flagging up as a virus and it was something to do with Ren'py at the time, but removing that and changing a couple of things eliminated the false positive back then- Curiously though, I dont think I actually had any MAC/Linux users for the previous one. I wonder if i can check the statistics on that front. (I've had about 600-700 downloads currently, that much I know!)

Thankyou though again for all the feedback, that was really nice to read through and there was a lot of really good constructive critique there- I really appreciated reading this. :)

All the best! (And all the hugs too!)
-Munch.

Oh, also- do you have a BSKY or anywhere else we could potentially follow you? :3c

Hey Y33n! A couple of things!

Firstly, congratulations for releasing! Regardless of however long it took you, like me it took a couple of years and when I got ready to ship, I bolted and then it transformed the game into something entirely new each time- taking the plunge to release is always the hardest step but you've taken it. Great job! It gets a lot easier from here on.

Secondly, it might be worth creating a sticky thread, that way if you have any questions go on or any particular snippets people want to share, it wont get lost in the void of thread upon thread. Plus;  I've also seen it where people have posted reviews on a stickied thread and a lot of people then get intermingling on the boards and discussing- it's really neat to see!

Now; onwards to my next part! The review!

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1.) 

The Story & Setup

I really enjoyed the introduction to the game, there's a very strong visceral set-up and I like darker themed games and there's quite a brutal start, now I'm a little curious to the introduction on the MC, as they seem also very disoriented to their body? I'm not entirely sure if that's like a nod to an isekai- as there was comments about no humans, just nonhuman shapes being everpresent or if it's just amnesia? I lean to isekai?

I like that it was almost poetic in parts of the introduction,  some very pretty sentences- such as 'A memory, fragile as moth wings.' that I really enjoyed as they cropped up.
I'm very curious to see where this may journey to? I admit, I wish there was  more, but I'd much rather you break the glass ceiling of having that first release over it being delayed into a more 'quantifiable' start. This is a good balance, enough to propose a good hook, versus having perhaps too much followup where it doesn't feel as strong of a first swing. Plus, it buys you some time to receive feedback, cook the plot a bit more, make some plans etc. If you ever wanna talk shop, or if you ever want someone to test your work before you release it, I don't mind being a beta reader for you, keep me in mind- as one VN dev to another.

2.)

The Technical Side of things

I like the weaving on the NVL, it's quite different from what you get, maybe even a nod towards older VNs, where something like the way the NVL was used here was more prevalent. It gives it a different kind of rhythm. Now, I've looked through the other reviews and I noticed that they've mentioned the auto text made it so they couldn't read at their own pace. It's valid, and my best advice is that the pacing the player gives usually is the same pace that you have in your mind when you're conveying it in script and play- and when a player gets hooked in on a detail they want to pause and think about, it still preserves your pacing and intrigue and often, multiplies it.
Now, instead of me saying the same thing, I want to add onto that but point at a different thing.

There's certain parts e.g. the club alleyway where the bright neons make some of that white text hard to read at times, and the NVL has no black backing behind it to make it stand out against the CG backgrounds which can dominate the text and that's something, with autoscrolling text as well, it's a challenge and dyslexia, etc. can struggle with things like that.

So. I'd suggest maybe it might be worth creating a black screen that's about like 10-20% opacity that's displayed whenever the NVL tag is used, that way you can still keep the bright neon spaces, and they'll come in full force whenever the NVL isn't progressing, but the shadow behind the text would add a great deal of readability.

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All in all, it's a great introduction/proposal and I'm hoping we get to see more of it. What's the standing on the art side of things, such as sprites and the likes? :3c

Hahaha, oops! I thought I attached the update log to this. Thankyou for the heads up! Credited to you in the log. <3

It's more words; leads up to the introduction of a new character includes multiple new CGs including the WIP first introductory strip tease by a new character called Calder!

Hello! Sorry for the late reply, my machine took a nosedive and I was out of action for a while haha!

Thankyou so much for the feedback; I can confirm I'm very much working on the project still and should be due a new patch release with a lot of stuff *very soon* so keep an eye out!

If there's stuff you were a particular fan of, I'd love to hear about it, same with any ideas of things you might want to see? Might make it into the game!

Again, thankyou- and many hugs!

-Munch

Oh goodness! That's an amazing feedback, thankyou so much for explaining, it really means the world to me!

Could you explain that first point a little bit more for me? <3 Regarding the structure and presentation, there's quite a few experiments that I had going on; and more to be seen in the future release (which is coming real soon, just finalising my uni hand-ins! <3)

Thank-you again for making my night Cyaneo. <3

Oh awesome! Thankyou for taking the time to tell me, i really appreciate that. <3 

Is there something you particularly liked? :D

Is there something you liked?

Let me know what you think! Is there something you're hoping to see?

I might just include it...~

If you encounter any bugs or anything- put it down here.

Thankyou!