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Hi! First, on the page to edit your game on itch.io, do you have the option to enable scrollbars checked? You can find it under "embed options" if you scroll down a bit. If that's the case or that doesn't work, feel free to send me the html file of your game to my email (you can find it above in the description) and I'll take a look at it for you!

Thanks so much for the wonderful comment, I really appreciate it 🙏🏼💖💖 Always happy to see some love for R, and it's great to hear you feel the choices really matter in the game, that was definitely one of my aims in writing the story 😊

It has actually never occurred in the history of Arsur that the child of the Crown became the next Crown. It's not a hereditary title, every time the previous one dies someone completely new has been chosen for the role! The children of Crowns (regardless of the Crown's gender) are referred to as Crownsblood to denote their lineage, but it doesn't afford them any political or noble rights: in fact they are barred from any political positions. At most they merely inherit some wealth to live comfortable lives. Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you're enjoying the game!! 💖💖💖

No plans for that one, I'm afraid! All the polyamorous routes (A/R, A/X, D/X) are all mutual triads, but D and A are not interested in each other romantically so it wouldn't work out.

Sorry to hear that!! It may be one of your extensions causing the problem? You could try turning some off to find out the culprit or try playing on a different browser!

Thank you so much!! I'm glad it could give you several days' worth of entertainment 🫶🏼💖

Thanks so much, that's high praise!! 💖💖

Glad to hear you're still checking in for it 🙏🏼💖

Aw, thank you!! 💖 I'm working on CH15 as we speak so hopefully the wait won't be too long haha

Thanks so much for this lovely comment!! I'm especially glad you enjoyed the game enough to try out all the routes 💞💖

Current estimate is somewhere around 25-28, but it may end up a bit longer depending on how the rest of the chapters go. The polyamorous routes will be added after the main game and the solo routes are finished!

I would recommend to try a different browser. I've noticed Firefox gives the least issues (both on pc and mobile)!

That is the highest possible relationship you can get right now, actually! And steady = high, so you're all good ✨

I won't be making any guides for the game (beyond the walkthrough I made for how to get a love interest locked in, that is). Players can feel free to make those guides themselves for others if they want 🙏🏼

You can find all the details in the Credits page in the game!

First, thanks so much for the kind words!

As for your question: yep, that's a step back from their relationship status. Don't think of it as pushing the issue, and it's not really about the dagger either. It's more so about the fact that X is clearly hiding something incredibly important, which includes severe political ramifications which has caused problems for the Crown on multiple occasions, as well as being emotionally unavailable and distant. 

If the Crown just lets it go and makes no further effort to close that emotional gap and hold X accountable, as well as showing X that they want to know the real them and not just the performance they put on, then the relationship remains surface-level. However, it still falls within the acceptable threshold of romance points that keeps the relationship steady, so it's not a problem yet. Hope that gives you some understanding!

Thanks so much for the kind words 💖

The full game will likely be somewhere between 26-30 chapters, so we're just about halfway through ✨

That's not something I'm planning on adding at the moment, but I'm glad you enjoyed the game regardless! 🙏🏼

Thanks so much 🫶🏼🫶🏼 Hang in there D romancers!!

Oh, tysm, that's a great catch!! It's been like 5+ years since I wrote the start of the story so sometimes I forget the details of what I established prior, I'll make sure to adjust the scene with the horses to account for that 🙏🏼

Tysm!!💖💖 And yeah, I really enjoyed writing X's scene this chapter in particular, for multiple reasons haha. Hope you enjoy the rest!

I think maybe that could be doable for the first 4 chapters? But after that the coding would take more time since the story splits into separate romance routes, and diverges with plot variations later on too 🧐

It would have to be a QoL feature to look into after the game is finished, I'd say!

Thanks so much!! 💖💖 I was definitely aiming for that kind of dread haha, glad to know I nailed it.

I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter!! 💖

About Yekbûn specifically, she and the Crown will have opportunities to deepen their relationship later, but it wasn't really the time for that in this chapter considering how busy the Crown is atm. The Crown's question about their parents is not about the Crown actually doubting that, it's more of a veiled way of saying, "can you reassure me about this?" especially after they feel the weight of expectation on them more heavily than ever. There's social nuance there ;)

Loved reading this reaction haha 💖💖🫶🏼

Tysm!! Glad you enjoyed that scene too 🤭

Politically/socially speaking, yes! D's would be the taboo romance. R and A also have positions at court but their romances would not be as scandalous since neither hold political power the way D does.

Nope, no scripted unsteady points at all! It's very possible to keep D's route on steady/high for the entirety of the chapters so far.

Ah! What was the Chrome extension if you don't mind me asking? I could add it to my FAQ in case anyone else runs into this problem 🙏🏼

I've tested it in 3 different browsers on 2 devices. This is definitely an issue on your end, not with the game. Try playing the game in a different browser, turning VPN off, turning adblock off, etc. I've never heard of this issue before so I can't say what's causing it, unfortunately.

CH9 is basically the very start of where the game starts to evaluate your relationship, so you have many, many, many more opportunities to improve it in the upcoming chapters. It also does not affect the amount of scenes you get with a love interest, it only changes the content/tone of those scenes!

There will be once we're a bit further along in the game! My Twine files are a bit of a mess right now so I'd have to clean it up a bit haha

Thanks so much 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Depending on your choices and the variations you get, per playthrough the novel is roughly around ~270k words. In total (including all variations and the different romance routes) it's 585k words!

Oh, thanks for that!! I had a really long break between writing CH11 and CH12+ so that detail must have slipped my mind, I'll definitely correct it in the next update 🙏🏼

I recommend this guide! It's very detailed and a great starting point for beginners.

Thank you!! 💖💖

CH14&15!!

Tysm!! 💖 Very excited to share CH14 with you all!!