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Hi!! So sorry for the late reply (been sick all week), but yes I’m definitely still looking for beta! How do you prefer to communicate?

Hi! I'm shai/noogie (he/they)! I'm looking for beta reader(s) for my novelette project I'm planning on doing for this jam. Here's the jist of the project:

The main characters are Hans (transmasc nb, they/them) and their partners, Jakey (questioning cis man, he/him) and Daesung/Dougie (cis man, he/him)! They're all retired hockey players in their late 30s/early 40s and adjusting to "being normal again" after leaving the sport.

• Short story/novelette (around 15k words), free/PWYW*, 18+ only, a few explicit scenes but mostly focused on romance and relationship
  • *You'll get a cut of the earnings if I make anything off of PWYW. We can negotiate this.
• "Plot": they to go skinny dipping and fool around while camping somewhere in late summer northern California. There's bickering and teasing, as any old throuple would
  • I'll have the outline and WIP available for you to look at as I'm working on it!
  • Will be on Google Docs

• Timeline: I'll be chipping away at this slowly between other work, but I'll lock in the outline and main scenes by the end of March.
  

Please keep in mind this will be unpaid, as I'm a postgrad student with not a lot of spending money. I'll be very appreciative of you, though, and can pay you in art if you'd like (I specialize in portraits and character designs). You can check out my art at https://shai.pink/ or https://vgen.co/shai

If you'd like a sample of my writing, check out sleepover (2024) which was also a jam project!

Comment below, shoot an email to noogie@shai.pink, or send a Discord DM to noogies if you're interested in working with me! thanks for reading :)

I'll shoot you an email with story and character details in a little bit so i can attach some reference sketches!! (no hockey gear drawing needed :)) Also, a lot of my itch.io stuff is game design work from uni but i've since pivoted, you can see my newer stuff here, i'm doing paintings and poetry: https://shai.pink/

I'm confident in wanting to work with you! i've been a fan of your work for a while (but as a lurker lol)

hey!! i’d totally love to collab with you for a short comic or story, it’s been way too long since i’ve done a jam :) i’ve got a few ideas involving my hockey characters, lemme know if you’re interested!!

This is such a huge compliment thank you!!! I’ll definitely be sharing more in the future, I have written so much about this world haha

thank you!!! <3 and lol yeah i've put him through so much 😭 retiring for a reason!

this is super fun!

Just bought your full bundle, gorgeous work! Thanks so much :)

just bought! do you require devs to give credit? if so, should i just link back to this page? thanks ^^