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Wasn't expecting Patreon exclusive content but I suppose it makes sense. I believe you plan on proper selling the game after you consider it finished, would this content be in it, or would it stay exclusive to those that have been able to support you?

Either way, love the game, wish I could support it but really not in a life situation where that possibility is available. Hope one day I can cause this is genuinely the one game I most wish I could help out on Patreon.

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All the content will be in the final release!  I really don't like doing Patreon-exclusive content, but with a constant decline in support over the last year, I figured I needed to try something.  If it doesn't prove to be effective though... we'll see how future public releases entail!

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That's fair, overall some Patreon exclusive stuff is a general practice to help drive up support. Hope you keep getting the support you need, both there and in your life in general. I'll also hope I can get into a better situation where I can help out myself, as I truly do love this game.

Can't wait to see what the future brings to the game and hope everything goes well for yah.

I have played early releases and loved them, but unfortunately I am now fully on iOS and cannot play new releases. Would love to see a browser version of this!

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I feel like EcA could do with some minigames here and there, like maybe some tennis themed pong-like minigames, and maybe lil' somethins' for when MC goes to sleep, and maybe a tetris-like one for working with Dwaynes boxes.  Perhaps a minigame where you type the words for when MC is doing homework?


P.S.  Dwayne is best boi and i love him so much <3

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Quite an interesting thought. It has the right to exist, but personally I fundamentally disagree with it. Now I'll try to explain why. 

Firstly, there are already some mini-games in the game. Can't remember exactly where you met them, but there are definitely some QTEs in the game (it seems to be somewhere related to cooking and tennis matches). Although I love QTE, imho they look strange in this game, since the player is not ready for them.
Secondly, the implementation of minigames. To make them on the engine for visual novels, you need to spend considerable effort writing code. Besides that, you need a painter to draw it all. Is it reasonable when, for example, not all routes still have backgrounds? Maybe it's better to spend money and time in order to draw more scenes for some special events? Am I wrong?
And thirdly, the game design. It's a visual novel after all. Yes, you can say that you are "playing" it. But it would be more accurate to say that you are "reading" it. This is not some kind of arcade game. It is just text with pictures to improve the perception of the story. It's like a comic, only with choices in storytelling. The addition of mini-games such as tetris does not fit the genre of  the game.

I will continue the last point with a fairly clear example. I am currently digging into the 14th day of the Coach's route. With no spoilers, you can play various games there such as: basketball, throwing the ball at pins, ring toss, etc. Whoever played will understand what I am talking about. It is the most suitable place for minigames, right? But I like the way it's done right now more. What at first glance does not have a story branch actually does have. It is based on the choices in the past days, which are not obvious, but in fact, very logical. There are also more understandable types of mini-games. For example, tennis matches. You have the description of the situation and have choices to make. And they determine the progression and result of this "minigame". That's what I call a good game design.

TLDR In my opinion, this game can be even better (and it will be for sure). A lot of things can be added, but mini-games are not exactly what it needs. At least in the main story.

P.S. While I was writing this text, I came up with the idea of how it might look like in my opinion. A separate tab in the menu, with mini-games such as blackjack, chess, 3-in-a-row, etc. against specific characters. Or even more complex minigames with unique designs(from QTE to point-and-click) to fit characters personality(such as: dansing, painting, cooking, fixing  etc) And for motivation, if you win, the opponent takes off some of his clothes. Hee-hee-hee. Of course, after completing the main story. We don't want to ruin the first impression of seeing them naked, right?

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After reading your reply, I must say I have to agree with you.  Minigames would seem out of place, like playing a game while reading a book.  It didn't even occur to me that  one would have to make an entire engine for them too, so that would indeed make it harder.  Also, I like the idea of "strip-minigames" for each character, teehee~

The minigame idea sounds fun! :D

I also adore Dwayne, he is so cute & sweet... he will give me diabetes someday. XD

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i made an account just for this but i did every route but dozer and spencer and i finished spencers 2 days ago and i keep crying about how sweet the ending and epouloge is and the fact they where best friends for so longg and always loved echother really made me sob cause its so damn sweet spencer is such a good boy with his colar and i normally dont cry about vn or sad stuff or just cry in general but you wrote spencer so good and after i finished the route a saw a video about them just laying down and it made it so much worse its just such a sweet and heart warming route i cant help but sob so hard

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one of my favorite routes for sure dude ah shish kabobs the water works started up again such a good story

my god if I dont feel the same way. ive come here just to comment how Spence's route was responsible for my current obssesion with Tango and I do not regret anything!! and also yeah that epilogue fucking broke me

and after i finished the route a saw a video about them just laying down

care to share?? :3

so in the galery there's another lock behind chesters special scene how do i get it its the right one next the the two photos of chester sending you his goods with one having a milk carton over it i know you sometimes getting good routes for others may change the day but all of my other saves are on my pc and i only have chesters best ending on my laptop dunno if that has to do anythin with the lock

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i really gotta beat this game ill never live down not having everythin unlocked also i finished chesters route on the best way thing and andrew never unlocked?

Anyone knows how to get the CG on day 16 of Richard's route? I guess it's the one where Spencer and the MC are on a sofa.

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OMFG! That's why I really love this novel! I have found what you're talking about. It's only not on day 16, but on another day. I didn't even expect that there was such a scene! I don't know if it's ok to talk about it, because I have not seen Dyne mentioned anywhere about these features in his game. So next can contain a spoiler!
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So... I find it amazing and mind blowing how the game's story evolves and how the characters' personalities are revealed. I think no one will argue that you can fully get to know the characters only by completing all the routes, because the same characters appear in the routes of other characters and we can learn something new about them. Is it possible to do narrative even better? I thought no, but Dyne fucking managed to do it! In fact, he did not make 7 routes, he did much more. Yes, there is almost no such thing in the old routes, but in the routes of Dwayne and especially Richard, these features are simply enormous! What features am I talking about? When you complete the route of one character, the events in the other routes may change! This is essentially ng+! So, what you are looking for is on the 18th day of Richard's route and is available when you have completed Spencer's route with the best ending and made the right choices in Richard's route previous days.

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wow, that's awesome

I lost my previous saves when I reseted my pc recently and the game doesn't know I did his route

Also, the vn Shelter also has features where some information is carried over when you play different routes

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Hi! First, I just wanna wish you and your husband a fast recovery, I'm sorry to hear about that. I had a question about the game, if I download it, does it automatically update to the newest version by itself or would I have to re-download the game every time? Not sure exactly how it works. Thanks!

Can't say for the android version, but for the PC you just download an archive and unpack it. There is no launcher in the game that checks for updates. You just run the game by exe file from the game folder. To update to the new version, you download the new archive and unpack it as well. In theory, you can do it in the same folder with replacement of old files, but it's better to do it in a new folder. The old version can be safely deleted. The saves are stored in another folder (for windows it is in appdata folder)

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for Android its basically the same - if you want to update redownload, BUT the saves dont save, so unless you manually make a backup you'll lose them upon deletion of a previous build

you can find the saves in android/data/(whatever game)

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omg please take care !! and hope you both to speedy recovery also take your time as much as you can life mean more than whatever on your plate sometimes ... so please do take your time and again thanks for the info im shocked at what happened .... god bless both of you !! again speedy recovery !!

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I sincerely wish you two a speedy recovery, and I hope the consequences of such a serious illness will be minimal.

I, and I'm sure many others, will be eagerly awaiting good news from you, with or without an update.

A month, three or more - it doesn’t matter. If you need time to recover - just take it and rest, please. We are all humans after all

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Thank you so much~

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Don't be silly, @dynewulf. No one can be disappointed by the lack of updates in January. Everyone is aware of the terrible events that you had to go through. And thank you for continuing to update the version for itch.io. Take a rest and let only memories remain of everything that happened to you ❤

And for the curious, updates for itch.io will be probably look something like this:
February 16th - 🦏Richard Day 20 
March 16th - 🦍Dwayne Day 15 + 🦏Richard Day 21
April 16th - No Update
May 16th - 🐃Chester Epilogue 

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covid and blood clot I'm so sorry to hear that my mom had the same thing and my family almost lost her I hope he gets better soon you have my full support. 

 Please tell me what to do if the game crashes after creating a character? (I have an android version)

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I was always waiting on Richard route since I played the first time and after playing a little bit on Dwayne route I felt that it would be my least favorite since Im one hundred percent bottom and he seemed to be too lol, but now that things have developted a little bit more, things have switched it up for me cuz Richard seems a little too into his ex and wanting to fuck my friends while Dwayne wants to see other people having sex with me, and that's something I was for sure not expecting, now I can't wait to finish Dwayne route lol, love this game and the characters, Dozer still is my favorite <3 hope you continue working on games after you are finished with this project <3 

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They definitely made Richard nothing more than a horny washed-up divorcee.

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Does anyone else find Bam a little off-putting? Him always trying to grope Spencer is a bit uncomfortable ngl... Especially after he and MC make things official.

Edit: Also, do Bam and Darius ever meet? I kind of want to see them interact with each other.

And speaking of Spencer getting groped, is there any dialogue option to prevent that from happening? I'm not too keen on watching my (probably) favorite love interest in the game get grabbed by creepy, horny strangers lol. I'd rather have MC do that. I ain't into sharing.

How do you transfer files on mobile..? I don't understand, and I really don't want to lose all my save progress ._.

If you're still struggling, I left a comment a month ago explaining how I did it. I had to plug my phone into a computer to move the save files because Android's newer versions have locked the folder where the save files are stored!

yeah Android's newer versions are a bitch about that, never thought id be glad to have a potato phone

so guys the last time i played this game was before richard route got added (i think?)... i know atleast all the basic routes were done...and now im coming back to finally try dwayne and richard routes. pretty confused about how kitchen works..do i have to replay everything to unlock the content thats suppose to be there?

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Yes, you do. When you were playing, there were no variables in the game that opened access to the Kitchen content. Now they are there and they need to be triggered. But there is a high probability that you will not be able to do this using your old save files. With the implementation of two new routes and massive changes in the beginning of the game (day 3), the old saves have been broken and may not load or will work incorrectly. You should replay the old routes again.

if all else fails: just skip choices until you end a route

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There is truth in it that the writer brings some of his own into some of the characters?happy holidays

I have been really enjoying this vn so far I have noticed something, during my playthrough of dozars route, two images arn't loading, garden2 and resturant_garden, and is just a black screen with the characters in front of it. I thought to mention it here, but so far I really love the vn and will be looking forward to what alse you will do.

Quick question is there a choice to reject all of the following characters or is it a Canon event?

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You used to get a message about nobody liking you, and the game would start over, bahaha.  It's not like that anymore, and you end up on a route no matter what happens.

spencer and the Canon events gave me a rather bland taste since choices just gives different dialog even the event with the 'stabby woman' you're still going to get her to jail even if you slammed your fist on the screen wanting to see what other possibilities happen

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Question ⁉️ Is that Novel for coach complete or still pending coz I got really addicted to the story and want to complete it.

Imho, the Coach's route need some polishing, but it is completed. All 35 days, 3 endings and an epilogue are present in the game.

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i think they meant Harolds book "The Stone" (iirc atleast...) which im also really curious to read in its entirety if its completed lol

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I really love the care put in the stories. My personal favorite is Chester, I feel like I definitely would get along so well with him, plus he's pretty complex so that's a bonus. 

Although MC keeps ruining the mood with his over horniness, I don't really let that stop me from really enjoying the story.

If all characters are as deep as Chester, though, then this game really is amazing and I praise the work put into it!

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"If all characters are as deep as Chester". Dude, you can't even IMAGINE how true you are. You will be mindblown.

I WAS SO NOT READY FOR ZEE BAGUETTE CG!!! 🤣

Zee sir made me drop my croissant!

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Whew, yeah updating on android was an interesting process. As of android 11 (and even more so in 13) file browsing software can't read/write files in the android/data folder, which is where the saves are located. Luckily I got around this by turning on USB debugging and plugging the phone into a computer, then using the computer's file browser to move stuff around.

Interestingly (or possibly intentionally) the new version installed as a completely new app for me (the old one was "EA" the new one is "ExcA") which kept my save files in place making this process a little easier.

Found the old saves in Android/Data/android.build and moved them to their new home in Android/Data/extracurricular.activities.

When I launched the new version of the game my saves were there, but unlockables (extras, the alternate title screen, etc.) were not there. It looks like loading my old saves unlocks them, which is easy enough to do The only thing that doesn't seem to have transferred over is what dialogue I have "read" before, so I can't skip though seen dialogue.

Hope this helps anyone else on Android too!

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Does anyone know how to transfer the save file into the new update ?

android build keeps crushing

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look at this funny spelling error on richards route

can someone tell me how to download the musics of the game, i need to know how to do it to have them as a ringtone

The music library is not available for the public. I don't want to be toxic, but your problem has a lot of solutions. I will not give you specific recommendations, try to come to it by yourself ;)

PS. btw i was in the same spot a year ago when i wanted to add end credits music to my library on the phone to listen to it when i am in a sad mood. That one and the attempt to get a night view on CrestHaven from Coach route in good resolution to place it like wallpaper on my pc. It's funny what in the end it led me to.

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I have commented on this before but felt the need to show the love again. These past several years have been so bad for me. I have been super low so many times. When I was at my lowest and had a literal plan on ending it, I stumbled onto this Novel. I just so happened to do Coaches route first. I don't think I've ever read or experienced anything like how his story made me feel. He literally saved my life, or you saved my life. I have been low many times since then and everytime I get down I always know where to find coach. I know most people will only see these novels as a cute story or as a sexual fantasy, but this is so real for me. I just want to thank the creator for writing it and involuntary saving someone who was on the literal edge. I guess if I had a question, I would be.....is this really the end of Coach Grifters story, or is there any chance of more? 


Thanks again

Adam

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The answer used to be no, I suppose. I think Dyne planned to add 35 days for each route and an epilogue. But now in Twitter and Telegram we see the announcement of a special episode with Spencer and Azaghal. In my opinion, the chance of extra days/special episodes/alternative stories was 0.01% and now its 99.99%. But I suppose it can be an extra extra content and will be only available for the patreon supporters. Like you, I also want more content with Papa Bear. It will always be not enough of him for me.

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Hey, thank you so much for taking the time out to leave this comment for me to read.  It really makes me glad to know that the project has helped you so much like that, and it just adds so much more fulfillment to what I do.

As it stands right now, Harold's route is done. There is more content to come that involves him, but his overall story is finished.

why won't it show anything for harold after you finish his route on extra

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Some characters have problems with this scene. I don't remember which ones exactly, but Harold is definitely not one of them. His item appears on the table correctly when you are completing his route with the best ending. I assume you did not finish his route on the best ending, and just got a neutral/good ending.

Can someone explain to me what does the hotspot indicator do in the game? I tried finishing a route without it and another route with it, nothing happened or changed

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This option is available for some scenes after the implementation of this feature. It show where you can click in interactive scenes. This feature has not yet been implemented for all old scenes. 

Who is the attractive lion looking character in the character sprite pic??? Is he datable????

This whole vn is just gorgeous. I love it!!!❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨

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Since you have already read this vn, then you are definitely not talking about Darius. Most likely you are talking about demon looking cameo character Archibald from another game See no Evil by CaptainGerBear. And like the rest cameo characters, they are not dateable.

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Aaw but he looks cool!!💔💔

Oh well!! Thanks for letting me know!!

I'll have to check out See No Evil! Looks interesting enough 

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I liked the Easter egg: 1-800-273-8255!  ) This is great!  Thank you for your work.  Looking forward to the continuation😉🐻

I love this game so much. But also kinda salty that Spencer get to pull the Azaghal's route and i can't.

How do I pull the Azaghal route?

you can't. 

which guy does the most with musk?

propably dozer - the alligator one, but chester allows you to borrow his underwear

Chester 100%, Dozer is musky but Chester wore the same dirty underwear for days just for me 

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Chester is adorable. I was so sad when his route finished. I still am! 😭

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I hate his bloody route to replay the most because it has the same effect of knowing when yer gonna die. Like I cannot know when life will end 

same

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