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A (second) more informal poll

While I'm polling people, I have a more general something I'd like to throw to the crowd. Note - this post and poll involves spoilers from the prologue (which were already given away in another post!) - that said, if you want to avoid it entirely, probably stop reading now.



So I've been going back and forth on this, and wanted to get some community feedback. In the prologue the MC proposes, and she accepts. Obviously we all know what will happen that night. This is my conundrum. I'll note by stating 3 things: #1, they're both 18 (and stated as such). #2 - the entire prologue is essentially a flashback, as the entire game happens 2 years later. #3-it's the same night they graduate high school.


Now in my original script I included the scene - I even wrote it. It makes total sense, it's EXACTLY what would happen. I may have made the mistake in Alive of including very early gratuitous scenes just for the sake of including them, but that's not the case here - it perfectly fits with the story, to the point where it'd be weird if it DIDN'T happen. HOWEVER..... I then started thinking about Steam. Steam has been known to outright ban games that include any sort of scenes like this involving high school students (They've graduated, but they're technically in high school that same day - at least their last day of it), and this scene would definitely be towing the line as far as Steam goes. While none of the game breaks any of their rules (But this one scene could be considered borderline, depending on how they're feeling on that particular day) the closer I got, the more worried about it I got. Eventually once I got to that point in the renders, I simply skipped it entirely and went past it.

At first I was going to do the entire scene, but fade to black before you see anything - but as I got to that point, it seemed pointless to do that, since at that point it's just implying what happens anyway so the entire scene got scrapped (referenced by characters, but never actually shown). Now that I've moved past it, a part of me still wants to do it though, mostly because it just feels weird not having it. 


This isn't any sort of formal or binding poll, I just wanted to get some thoughts from others what they think in this situation. 

Comments

Have it skipped for Steam, but have it included for Patreon supporters. Just my two cents.

Commander Paco

You have it skipped for now. What if you keep that and maybe have the scene, but for the Steam release you can remove it? Edit it out for Steam. I have no idea how this could or even if it would work. Also, maybe down the road they relax something like this. Could be that you get to keep the scene.

wulftattu

I think a single early scene, and a very predictable one at that, is not worth the risk of not having your game on Steam. As I understand it, Steam is usually the main income for AVN developers and having your game there may very well help you in making great AVNs in the years to come. So my recommendation is to skip the scene and just make strong indications of what happened, that will have to be enough.

Callisto


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