Weekly Devlog

I just noticed that I pasted some of the lines in the wrong order 🙈. I guess there should be a saying, 'don't edit while sleep-deprived'. But hey, I figured it out. At any rate, Reed's route will be uploaded tomorrow, I simply can't look at it any longer. 😂😅

Some things to bear in mind:

I remember saying that the 'angsty' options will lead to a good ending, but I changed my mind (kind of). Working on this chapter and the growing popularity of Perfumare made me worry about... well, not disappointing anyone. I struggled a lot to the point of hating everything I wrote, especially after seeing several offhand comments from some of the Otome genre players that made me delete the 'Otome' tag from Itch.io. Apparently there are 'rules' of what a VN should include, and I decided to adhere to them this once. Now I regret it, because it made me hate what I do. Still, I decided that any future projects will be done the way I want them to be done, and I will steer clear from the 'Otome' tag in the future. So everyone who hoped for a good ending after choosing the 'angsty options' will be disappointed, and I am sorry about that. As a silver lining, I can say that there won't be 'dead' ends in the game proper nor in the Sequel. Since Perfumare is my first ever project I test a lot of things on it, like I tested the 'dead/neutral' endings. Well, this is a demo, after all, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

The second thing I wanted to add. The spicy scene (Yellow+) is again written in a way that makes MC's body ambiguous, but I don't quite like doing it this way. In the future projects, so in the IF/Sequel I'll have 2-3 versions with optional mentions of MC's genitals that could be skipped (of course the genitals won't change the preferred pronouns and will only be mentioned in the spice.) It can be disabled for a less explicit version too. I took me ages to think on a way that will (hopefully) satisfy the player and me, so, here we go.

And last but not least, the new chapter will go public next month, sometime mid-April (or later, we'll see). On the first of April, though, I'll upload the Android version here, so you will all be able to try it out first! 

That's all from me today, I hope you're doing well. ❤️ Take care!