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I dunno how much time they have but, writing good plot and making these routes brand new only on their free time must be incredibly demanding. I wouldn't be surprised if this game starts having updates every 15 months instead of 12. 

I'm gonna try that. If it works I'll be happy, indexation is a very important thing for a project to grow, it's a miracle I got so many views without indexation here. Thanks for telling me!

That's actually interesting, gonna see if it works. Thanks!

... Even if the project lacks any NSFW stuff into it? True, it is marked as +18 because there may be strong language, but there's literally no NSFW content into it. 

But fine, thanks for your answer I guess.

Hello there, I'm writing this here after trying to contact the support twice, one day 8 from last month, and another this month, just to be sure I also want to add this complain here to see if things can be explained a bit further.

I have checked the page about indexation, and I followed all the rules, game is public, there are files to download, public extra options are not selected so I'm not opting out of indexation, the project has thumbnails, the page is well made and have all information, and yes I had access on the page, but I did notice that even if I search my own username, the only game that appears is my first project. 

My second project which follows the same layout of the first, from page description to how I add files to download, it's even entirely compatible with the app so people can just download the game and install with the app right away, is not being shown, I can search for the full name, or for my name, and it doesn't show. Being frank with you all, it's a miracle I've had a few thousand visits on the page, but the fact that the project is not indexed can hurt it in the long run especially since I need more people supporting me and for that I need more people seeing the project, download the current version of the game, and so on. 

I know a LOT of people are talking about this,  asking what is happening, but my project is public for 31 whole days already. I just want to know why is it not being shown to people who searches for it? Thank you for your time and I'm sorry if I was rude at any moment.

I mean in his good ending, there is a point where he is pretty much an asshole to you, so I CAN see him being a fucking little fucker XD.

Now I'm curious to know how the bad ending is XD

Thank you!

Hello there, even though Godot do export for MAC, sadly, Apple made it incredibly hard to port stuff for their platform without owning the hardware and paying a hefty fee just to get the licenses. Godot will refuse to export to Mac without said licenses, so unless the project starts making some serious money eventually on Patreon, I would recomend you trying to emulate the Windows app on MAC (I know someone did it before and it should work).

Sorry about that but right now it's not possible to export a build for MAC OS yet. 

It should be fixed now. Sorry about that, I have no idea what I have done to make it happen @_@. But it can be downloaded now. Thanks for the input!

That's an old bug that happened in older builds. Sadly, the current builds for Just Friends on the public are still build on Godot 3, on Patreon we're already using Godot 4.5

It's a very annoying bug but it was completelly fixed in the private builds. But if you want to wait a bit, the next Public Build to be released in December may fix this.

It's been quite a long time since I dealt with this, and sadly I don't have the backup of the project in this current build to fix it, sorry about that. 

But do remember this: If you load the wrong save, you may have different affinity points. Sorry about the issue though. I'm pretty sure this issue was fixed in the next build. But if you enjoy Just Friends enough, consider supporting me on Patreon, Tier2 patrons have access to the latest build which is 0.76.

Thank you so much for your time, and I'm really sorry I can't help you with this issue right now though. 

No, I should be the one thanking you.

You see, I have two projects on Godot right now, but this one is the only one that actually works with multiple characters. Thanks to your input I was able to see a memory leak situation that I'm already working to fix and release here the fix right away, but essentially the Characters were not being "removed". This would essentially create a situation where, whenever I hide a character his "node" still exists in the scene, forever. 

This was fixed, and I already checked that the memory stays stable now.

However, Godot will still slowly build up RAM just like any other game, so as you play the memory will get more usage because that's just how Windows works, but I already made sure into the game that these resources won't be recreating themselves forever. :) An update will be added here shortly so try to download the game again in a few hours.

Thank you for your input again, and for giving our project a shot. :3

Hello there, thank you for your input.

I have read your feedback, and I understand your concerns. Godot was chosen to be used for this Visual Novel for the same reasons you have mentioned: I have played visual novels in both Unity and Ren'py that had FPS Drops, and I wanted to have more control over the VN itself, if the project gets too huge, there's a huge chance of being very hard to fix typos later on with how Ren'py organizes scenes, and Unity is paid at the end of the day and very annoying to work on. 

About your considerations on the system, I know there are some missing features and I will code them into the game as Patrons eventually start voting on them in the future, but skipping with a key and other small features are added to the roadmap already :)

I will keep in mind the writing and make sure it's less descriptive if not needed. Eventually, the game will have hand-drawn backgrounds, so  I hope those can help.

The text size changing is a thing I'm considering, but that would mean a reworking of already written and added text into the game, which can take quite a lot of time, so I will probably also add a feature that allows you to change the text size and add more speed for text scrolling, too. These will eventually be implemented, so thank you for your feedback!!

Yesterday I uploaded new files to the page, try downloading it again and change your browser too. I tried downloading it here and it works fine, so it must be something on your end, sadly there's nothing more I can do besides telling you to change your zip file manager.

If you end up finding a solution please post it here. Thank you :)

Are you downloading them from Windows, or with the app from itch? Just so I can try doing the same and seeing what happens here on my end to help you.

Just to be sure, if you're trying to unzip with express zip, try installing 7zip or winrar, both are far more stable than other options. :)

Hey there Tom. If you can't install the apk file, you need to enable your Android device to allow sources from outside the play store to install temporarily. I just tested the APK here on my android phone and it ran nicely :)

Thanks for your time and for trying Luna Lake!

Update:

If you're downloading  a .bin file, try to changing your browser to Chrome. At least on my tests, Firefox for example, has a bug that pushes the file as Bin for you, not apk. Chrome gives you the file correctly. :D

Yeah, for a payment place, I would reccomend opening a subscribestar, that's what I'm doing in preparation for my next project (gotta work on two at once). As soon as we find other places that comes to replace itch.io we will gladly move out of here. In the end, we need to make sure we have somewhere to go after all. 

Things are dark indeed, and if things keeps on like this, what will happen soon is that big corporatiions will use those excuses to control us, we cannot allow that. 

The internet should be secure? Yes.

But the parents should be responsible for not using parental controls and making sure their kids are doing the right thing on the net, supervising them, and of course, websites should also make sure to add a flag that would help those parental settings to block those websites in underage OS accounts, but of course it's just easier to fuck everyone else rather than creating a safe system for people to use.

We'll keep fighting, that's all we can do. After all, without fight we can't fuffill our dreams and keep on living with out projects. 

I totally agree, right now Kyouji is my favorite character and I doubt they will be able to top him. I love a tragic story, I love when I see a person everyone think is flawless showing flaws after flaws after flaws, I love the very bottom of ris route when he's being distant as much as I love the tops of his route. I hope they can rework Kouya's routes now because his route will be so stupid after reading through Kyouji's. xD 

I agree with ya on that point. I've been reading on Reddit people complaining this game is not OG morenatsu but at this point it's clear this game wants to be it's own thing, same setup, same people, but another angle on what happened in another universe. And frankly Kyouji's route is peak writing there. I was expecting nothing out of it, now I want to know what they will do with Kouya's route, because with Kyouji's route the way it is, it makes the struggles Kouya had on the OG game so stupid.

Aw, thank you so much. Art is so fucking expensive, it's being very slow on the update for me to save enough to buy more of this high-quality art. But the game keeps getting updated every month, so thanks for your support! 

The game's structure works as follows:

After the Day 3 in-game, every A and S rank answers can lead you to special routes that can show you more interactions with the characters. Eventually their interaction start being more intimate but not by a lot.

There's also PLOT routes but to achieve them you need to answer only S-Rank routes. For now though, only patrons have access to a cheat-sheet, and recently the game got updates on Patreon that gives you a message that displays the mood of the character based on what you answered, each rank answer gives a different notification so it's "easier" to know when you answered something very good or stupidly bad. 

Thanks for enjoying the game, don't forget to share the version here toe everyone else, and hey if you ever feel like supporting the game, Teir 1 members get their names on the game permanently and also get early public versions. Right now, Tier 1 members can access to early 0.58 build of the game, while by the end of this year (December), the game will be updated to this version only in December, while by June  Tier 1 patrons will already have the build 0.63 available. Tier 1 patrons will be exponentially more updated than the public in that regard. 

Thanks, this is a big step for the project, and it took me the last five months working nonstop. There are some kinks but they will eventually be fixed over time :)

I played through the Kyouji route and it makes me wonder how Soutarou routes will go together with his now.  But I have to tell: if you guys are re-writting all end routes then I have high ropes for some of the old ones I thought could have been better written. Kyouji's route is extremely emotional and well done, apart from Hiro's silly behavior that makes me believe he's still in his 15's sometimes, the jump in quality once Act 3 happened just flat out impressed me. 

It's very rare for a route to make me think of it for so long, the last time I had such a strong impression on a VN reading was on Knight's college's plot twist. What I mean is that you guys were able to create something extremely tense, well written and good overall with the lack of cutscenes, which shows how strong the writing is.

The NSFW parts are also very well-written too, I think Kyoji went from my bottom to my top routes and I hope once cutscenes are done that you guys give us some few scenes for Kyouji's route, especially the most emotional ones, in the locker room and later at the festival I think those are very good places to make cutscenes, but when Kyoji goes have the talk and asks Kouya to take him to the place he needs tobe, that scene is also very powerful. You guys have a gem there if you want, this can easily be one of the most interesting and well paced routes in the game.

Like, really, this is the first time I play this game and I wish we had a DLC with Hiro coming back for Winter to spend a week or two with the boyfriend he chose if he did a perfect route ending. 

I can't wait for Tarou, Kouya and Tora's routes :)

Not hard to find the info, but yes. It is still in development.

It's easier to just do everything first and then add the scenes, art is expensive. XD

That's because there are no popups to show this information yet, at least not in the current public version.

The next version to be released in February for Patreons is on a new engine and already has this feature. :)

There are guides, but they are Patreon only, so if you want a guide, you should consider becoming a tier 2+ patron. =)  Thank you for your time. 

Thanks! :)

Sorry for the insane delay mate, work is being hard on me.

Android DO have .zip and .rar software, you can unpack the files in your android by installing an app to do that for you first, then you can run the .apk file.

That depends on the characters. But Aiden is Switch, so to the very least you will be able to choose if he tops or bottom with one of the characters. :)

Okay, you were closer, Wagner is 30 years old in the plot of this game yes. 

Hello, sorry for the delay. The zip file should be unpacked if you download it with the app of itch io on PC, if you're downloading it directly, you should be able to open it with Winzip or Winrar, if you can't the file has corrupted, and you should download it again.

Since this project was born from the need of the people who never could have his and Soutarou's routes back in the 2000's, Both Souratou and Torahiko routes will be the last to be released.

I'm pretty sure their schedule will be to release all routes that already exists on the original with their original text, then leave us without updates for one or two years until they have Tora and Sourarou routes completed WITH the artworks and sex scenes too. Which means, we will only experience the full Tora route by version 1.0 of this project.

And I'm fine with it. Creating a game takes a huge ton of time and this project is free. I'll patiently wait for it. 

I hope you can enjoy it. I'm working on an update in engine that will make the Android (and the PC versions) way better looking, so for now I hope it's good enough to enjoy the story. Just know that since the money I'~m making with Just Friends is barely the minimum wage here and it's the only job I have right now, it's being very tricky for me to buy more art for the project. Still I hope you enjoy the content! 

It's NSFW however there is no actual porn right now in it, first because Just Friends is designed to have all the porn as a reward at the final two days in-game, and second because I need to make more money producing the game to buy more art for it. However, in some S-class segments, there are some very lewd descriptions here and there.

So to the very least, read it while you're alone for now. :)

Weird. I can always upload the file as the pkg file, but I would recommend your trying to use a PC to unpack the file first, sometimes android can be finicky to unpack zip files. @_@

I think it's smarter too, because everyone who's here, wants a Torahiko route, since his route never existed in the original.

Which means once they finish his route, it's probably the end of the project, the interest it gone. They can't monetize with Morenatsu but no one wants to work on a project that people lost interest. And that interest is lost as soon as Torahiko's route is done. 

Hello there, I'm deleting the previous commend and adding an important update here for you: 

Just Friends Visual Novel is now available for Android.

The build have some kinks on Android, for more information, read this post:  https://yekkusu.itch.io/just-friends-visual-novel/devlog/801772/just-friends-is-...

If you enjoy the game and want the android build to get better and to work better on a phone small screen remember that only Tier 3 patrons can vote on what I should work monthly. And fixing/enhancing the Android build experience is one of these features they can vote.

Thank you so much for wanting to check on Just Friends!

Hello there. IT's specified in this page over bold letters, but here's the answer: The current Build fo the public is the 0.49.0.35, the next scheduled public build is scheduled for December, and it will be the build 0.53.0.35.

Said build, is already available for Tier 1 Patrons, and in November, Tier 0 patrons will also be able to download the next public build earlier before it's put for the public in December. 

Patrons have access to monthly updates, currently Tier2+ patrons have access to Builds 0.63.0.35 and this month is scheduled to release the build 0.64.0.35.

I   hope that helped you somehow. 

We all are, don't worry xD

This looks like a mod, an older version or an alplha build.

I don't think it's an older version because they only swapped models twice, and the older models were awful compared to the ones in the image, so either this is a mod, or is a build that was never released. Sorry mate I doubt you'll find it here tho.

They should give us an update soon, follow them on their discord server.