Reina.miyu
Feb 27, 2014
LOL, weirdly enough, I kinda like the title "Digging You"
Sounds archeology-ish and romantic at the same time (and weird) xD
mizu_ki
Feb 28, 2014
I usually stay away from GxB games cause I feel weird trying to hit on a guy, so I will wait for the Yuri version. Looks great nonetheless.
Unless I misread it, from the tweet posted above I think there is going to be at least one GxG route in the base game.
Oh, I was going off the info of the reveal it being an otome game.
From last week's blog comments:
admin says:
February 22, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Well the yuri version will come, just need to wait 
Miakoda
Feb 28, 2014
The blog post is correct when it was stated that a yuri version would come later mizu_ki.
Then there was a later response which said there was going to be a hidden GxG route in the otome game (I think it was on the blog, but then changed). However, the writer's twitter (the one I briefly quoted, but didn't attribute to her) said this:
KittyKatStar @kittykatstargal · Feb 22
Cat's already outta the bag for the GxG route. Be open about it, ppl complain there's only one. Keep it secret, ppl wish for at least 1. XD
Legendzerox
Feb 28, 2014
We better keep it a secret.
abnaxus
Feb 28, 2014
This must be the very first game ever to take place in Belgium.
thesleepykitten
Mar 01, 2014
Haha the reason we tried to keep quiet about the GxG is because it's a smaller route and tied into another character.
And more games need to be located in Belgium. It's a beautiful country. <3
Maelora
Mar 05, 2014
Bear in mind in your Roommates poll, the fans voted overwhelmingly in favour of preferring the gay option...
thesleepykitten
Mar 05, 2014
Hence the yuri version after Spirited Heart 2 =) (And SH2 will have 12 girls.) The GxG route here won't be advertised or mentioned much, and it's closer to romantic friendship. It's a bonus route I wanted to do for fun (and it can't be transferred to the yuri version due to story reasons.)
Miakoda
Mar 05, 2014
Bear in mind in your Roommates poll, the fans voted overwhelmingly in favour of preferring the gay option...
Although I don't think they would be such runaway hits if there had been more than one love interest :D
Hence the yuri version after Spirited Heart 2 =) (And SH2 will have 12 girls.) The GxG route here won't be advertised or mentioned much, and it's closer to romantic friendship. It's a bonus route I wanted to do for fun (and it can't be transferred to the yuri version due to story reasons.)
Well, I won't complain
My hat's off to you, though. It can be tough to pull off a romantic friendship (since all too many people would say the couple must either be in a romance, or friends, not really the two).
Oh, and for those who are curious, if you go here about the announcement:
http://www.winterwolves.net/blog/2014/02/c-14-dating-casting/
And click on the pictures, you can see a larger jpg of the revealed cast (so far)
http://static.winterwolves.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/melissa2.jpg" style="max-width:100%">
And you do realize I was trying to read all the writing on the whiteboard ^_^
jack1974
Mar 06, 2014
Bear in mind in your Roommates poll, the fans voted overwhelmingly in favour of preferring the gay option...
Although I don't think they would be such runaway hits if there had been more than one love interest :D
Yes the statistical value is somewhat screwed by having only 1 gay romance in that game. If you check Loren's, is more balanced. But anyway, I know what users want so don't worry. I am still planning some yuri/yaoi only games in future as soon as I'm done with current batch of games!
SholtoMaru
Mar 06, 2014
Bear in mind in your Roommates poll, the fans voted overwhelmingly in favour of preferring the gay option...
Although I don't think they would be such runaway hits if there had been more than one love interest :D
Yes the statistical value is somewhat screwed by having only 1 gay romance in that game. If you check Loren's, is more balanced. But anyway, I know what users want so don't worry. I am still planning some yuri/yaoi only games in future as soon as I'm done with current batch of games!
I know myself and many others would love a yaoi only game. I always play the BxB options first. I blame you all for designing such compelling male characters!! (Don't worry, your female characters are wonderful, too!)
jack1974
Mar 06, 2014
Thanks
will do my best to do some cool yuri/yaoi only games in near future!
Miakoda
Mar 06, 2014
The final title will obviously be up to you all, but only speaking for myself, I would find myself drawn to looking at something with a title like C-14: Love in Ruins, or C-14: Digging You.
Guess I'm saying I would definitely like to see you keep C-14 somehow in the title, and one of the other appellations you came up with :D
Maelora
Mar 06, 2014
I'm happy to see games that give us a choice, and Winter Wolves do this better than anyone else out there, even Bioware.
And personally, I like the archaeology pun on 'Dating'!
Not a big fan of 'romantic friendships' though. That's 'gay-lite', and it happens waaaay too often in games and series.
Will this one have a proper GxG relationship version later (like Nicole) or will it just be 'friendships' a la Heileen?
jack1974
Mar 06, 2014
No will have a proper GxG, the friendship thing is only in the otome version as bonus/secret route.
thesleepykitten
Mar 06, 2014
I'm including it because I'm actually in a romantic friendship with the artist working on the game. ^_^; So it's something we both wanted to convey together. (I'm sorry it's gaylite and not proper, it wasn't my intention. =< )
As for the 'friendships' in Heileen... It's been so long, but if I recall correctly, the artist wasn't comfortable drawing the female characters kissing or engaging in intimacy. (But Heileen did love Juliet and/or Ebele romantically.)
And Spirited Heart 2 had that incident where we lost the original artist because he wasn't comfortable drawing female sprites for a yuri game. ><; Fortunately, Riva hired Deji and she's comfortable with drawing GxG.
jack1974
Mar 07, 2014
I'm including it because I'm actually in a romantic friendship with the artist working on the game. ^_^; So it's something we both wanted to convey together. (I'm sorry it's gaylite and not proper, it wasn't my intention. =< )
I think it's cute
I can understand if people want to wait to play a "proper" GxG version of the game though.
As for the 'friendships' in Heileen... It's been so long, but if I recall correctly, the artist wasn't comfortable drawing the female characters kissing or engaging in intimacy. (But Heileen did love Juliet and/or Ebele romantically.)
Yep, exactly. She was fine drawing sexy girls, but not kissing ones
And Spirited Heart 2 had that incident where we lost the original artist because he wasn't comfortable drawing female sprites for a yuri game. ><; Fortunately, Riva hired Deji and she's comfortable with drawing GxG.
Luckily there's Deji to save the day! Haha I remember when I had that news I was pretty desperate... redoing all the art from scratch
DejiNyucu
Mar 07, 2014
Hey, C-14 artist here.
(I'm sorry it's gaylite and not proper, it wasn't my intention. =< )
You don't apologise for that ¬¬
And Spirited Heart 2 had that incident where we lost the original artist because he wasn't comfortable drawing female sprites for a yuri game. ><; Fortunately, Riva hired Deji and she's comfortable with drawing GxG.
I must make clear, though, that all the GxG (and BxG, for that matter) in both C-14 AND SH2 will be tame and sweet, not passionate and sexy. Think The Flower Shop and Winter in Fairbrook, both games I illustrated. Kitty and I believe that romantic love does not need to be sexual in nature and that's what we plan to convey on the games we work on together.
If you'd rather play a sexier game, feel free to play one of the other WW games illustrated by other artists that have plenty of sexy stuff =P
jack1974
Mar 07, 2014
Yep is good to have something for all tastes
But I think what Maelora meant was something different, not super sexy CG images. In Heileen, the lesbian relationships were really more friendship, not even kissing the person. I understand completely romantic relationship, but in Heileen there wasn't even that. There weren't two girls kissing, holding hands, hugging, conforting each other, etc etc.
So as you said, CG images like the one you did for Flower Shop but with two females (or two males since there's also BxB
) are absolutely fine and I think is what Maelora wanted when she asked
thesleepykitten
Mar 07, 2014
Mm, there'll still be tons of kisses in the romantic friendship. ~_^
That's what I enjoy about WW games - not only the LGBT-friendly content (and we're striving to include more. Even this otome game, despite focusing on GxB, has a variety of characters and relationships) but also the writers, artists, and coders here. I've had the pleasure to meet/talk/become friends with them, and we got a number of people with different orientations (straight, bi, pan, asexual), backgrounds and from different locations. (US, Canada, Malaysia, Philippines, Chile, Italy, etc.)
It's totally okay to not be interested in a type of game or relationship within the game. So this won't be directed at anyone, but remember there's people behind these games, probably engaged in the very relationships we're writing about. Let's do our best to be respectful regarding all type of relationships (romantic, romantic friendship, queerplatonic... and Amber's Magic Shop will even feature a polyamorous route if one so desires.)
(haha yet another reason why I wanted the hidden route to be hidden, was worried people would consider romantic friendship not a proper GxG ^_^; Oh boy, really didn't anticipate the focus on the hidden route, so I apologize (SORRY DEJI I'M CANADIAN) if the route disappointed people. There's a lot of hand-holding and kissing involved, just like all the other routes. =) )
And no worries, Maelora, it wasn't your intention. I didn't mention I was in a romantic friendship... with the artist, lol. XD
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