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The ideal solution is to make games playable by both genders, and with all romance options. Unfortunately those take much more to make (as you can imagine). However (as you know) I have many in production:
PSCD
Loren 2
Planet Stronghold 2
Undead Lily
etc etc
I should probably have done another dating sim like Roommates, since those can be finished in a more reasonable amount of time than the VN/RPG!

Sylrissa wrote:Now you know how it feels for us women (as well as LGBT people) when so many games produced have a straight (often white) male protagonist.

I dont think its bad that I have to wait, I know the vast majority of WW are woman, so I think Jack is right to concentrate his effort on his main public, as I think is right those company to concentrate on their main public, the straight white males.

The gaming industry is a very risk businesse, one bad game can take you out of the market, great companions doesnt want to take a lot of risks fearing the losses thats why the majority of the games have straight male protagonist.

I do admire when one of them breaks the mold, like Bioware or Naught Dog (Last of Us DLC).

Or were you talking how I feel playing a female protagonist? If its was about it, yes I support anyone who says they cant play a game that doesnt have their own gender/sexuality as the PC.

ValHallen wrote: I dont think its bad that I have to wait, I know the vast majority of WW are woman, so I think Jack is right to concentrate his effort on his main public, as I think is right those company to concentrate on their main public, the straight white males.

I disagree about the white people thing, I always tried to add more variety of people, and even if I got some "funny" comments sometimes in private, I plan to keep doing it
Regarding the public, if you check my poll here: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3425
several people like to play as opposite gender. Assuming I provide both straight AND homosexual romances, the results are:
Female protagonist: 59%
Male protagonist: 41%
So it's not an overwhelming majority, because many people like to play also in other genders (like many women like to play as male for yaoi romances, or many men like to play as female for yuri romances )

Also, it's not part of a plan: it's a pure coincidence finishing a game is so hard and takes so long that there can be periods where people with specific gender/romance preferences will have to wait

jack1974 wrote:

ValHallen wrote: I dont think its bad that I have to wait, I know the vast majority of WW are woman, so I think Jack is right to concentrate his effort on his main public, as I think is right those company to concentrate on their main public, the straight white males.

I disagree about the white people thing, I always tried to add more variety of people, and even if I got some "funny" comments sometimes in private, I plan to keep doing it
Regarding the public, if you check my poll here: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3425
several people like to play as opposite gender. Assuming I provide both straight AND homosexual romances, the results are:
Female protagonist: 59%
Male protagonist: 41%
So it's not an overwhelming majority, because many people like to play also in other genders (like many women like to play as male for yaoi romances, or many men like to play as female for yuri romances )

Also, it's not part of a plan: it's a pure coincidence finishing a game is so hard and takes so long that there can be periods where people with specific gender/romance preferences will have to wait

So you dont disagree with me, because I think there should be racial variety too, my commented was only about the PC.

As the majority of your games have only female protagonist I assumed they were the vast majority, I thought Anne story sold way more then Max story for example, and you are always saying how games with only BxG games sold poorly.

Yes things have changed recently though. While games with female protagonist sells more, even the ones with male aren't doing so badly as some years ago, though in practice in those games now I offer yaoi content, so I'm unsure if it's because of that or not

It's true that BxG and BxB fans won't see anything new for a long time, A VN with all options like roommates would have been great , except for HG(BxB) all the BxB and BxG romances are in the big games(well 2 of them doesn't have them) that we don't know when they will be out.Well with a little luck HG and PSCD won't enter developement hell and we will see them soon so It's not too bad.

For HG the coding part is very simple, so once writer finishes it, won't take long to be released. For PSCD I'll see, I think once I finish QoT skills coding I could start taking a look at it, since is more advanced than QoT and has all romances, makes sense to try to release that one first. The big problem is that I am not sure how long the coding part will take me since the gameplay it's something new, that I've never done before

Another update today:
- Nicole yuri, another 20k words done. Man it's becoming huge !! I want to apologize to otome players since looks like the yuri version will be a completely different thing (bigger & better than the otome)
- Heirs & Graces: more writing, and we're thinking about some extra fanservice CG to add
- Queen Of Thieves: all items description and yuri route finished, the battle essentials are coded, now only need to code two minigames: exploration, and shop/selling stuff and then coding will be mostly done
- PSCD: writer is putting everything in Ren'Py format while artist is finishing the last CGs. After that only cards art left
- Undead Lily: artist finished all sketches and she's finalizing the sprites. Got only Foxy for now but she is awesome
- LorenRPG2 first chapter done (only the base plot though).
- C14Dating: more characters outfits done

etc etc. May was a great month, lots of progress done!

Today's update:
- added Cursed Lands (the CYOA game). Writer wrote 25k words so far and I should get more texts soon. Several more tracks have been done, and I already have art ready for the basic stuff (will need some more for GUI and enemies).
- C14 Dating: Deji finished the boys art, and so there's only the female clothes and the ending CGs!

Who is working on the Queen of Thieves music?