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I hope this gets resolved quickly, i cant donate much but i still want to support a great game developer ;)

jeez, im shocked that this is still happening. Im glad it worked out though!

Fortunae Virgo

After some fiddling, I got payment working again. I dearly hope everything returns to normal ASAP, it sucks that this happened

I just dont follow this. The character is included as a villain. I'm not relying on her for positive queer representation because I feel like there's a ton of that in the more central parts of the game. I think it's reaching to say that I'm using she/her pronouns for her due to my being afraid of it being gay, when the game is almost entirely super gay. I mean, HC is also a girl, so this really feels like the much gayer option... It's true that I didn't include examples of anyone struggling with pronouns, but that was intentional. I'm tryna make a game that will make trans people feel represented and happy and horny and excited. I'm not tryna make Dysphoria Simulator 2019. I don't know if your friend is trans or cis but I hope she can understand why her misgendering my character is shitty.

Fortunae Virgo

Oh, that is an character archetype in porn. It has a really stupid name if you ask me. But its like "the old mentor" in a story. And that archetype is usually extremely offensive to pre-op FTM trans. At least all others I've talked to. Since it encourages people to misgender them. I took some time to read her review to flesh a few things out. It got that name from "the dude" in porn. (Like, the pizza delivery guy, that comes in all "Who ordered extra sausage?!") and well, the fact they have breasts. Hence, it became "dude with tits". And refers to in general: one note characters who's sole defining feature is that they have a (generally oversized) penis. Which often is their entire "personality", and how they are entitled to be pleasured due to having the largest penis. But also, like said: They have breasts, and are therefore are always female. I'm not sure if the archetype is to blame for people disrespecting FTM trans. But a looot of people use it to dunk on them. I've had friends try to tag FTM as male, but people (and sites, such as HF) refuse to address them as such because "they have tits, therefore they are female, no exception. End of discussion." (usually with the terribly added excuse of "They HAVE to be addressed with female pronouns, otherwise it would be gay.") That said, I can't say if they intended to use it as a slur, or simply used it as the archetype term. But I hope it at least shed some light on it. She is really crude and to the point though.

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The game has a cast of sensible, trans positive characters, and they keep pointing to this girl that doesn't even have a name or her own scenes, other than a few miniscenes: the contest champion girl. Your friend refers to them repeatedly as a 'dude with tits,' which as a trans girl, really bothers me.

Fortunae Virgo

Alright. I'll let them know. Out of curiosity: Which character was it?

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Yeah, I've been thinking about what your friend wrote, and I strongly resent that they have aggressively misgendered one of my characters in their review, so i've decided not to follow up.

Fortunae Virgo

Just double checking if you saw this post. Since they haven't heard anything from you yet.

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Omg that's a big question!!! I'm trying super hard to get the cafe system ready for this month, (which is why the content poll is so late.... it'l be up in a day or 2, promise!!) and do more miniscenes, so we can have a more consistent, less grindy feel to the whole wandering around part of the game. Beyond that, I dunno! Or its a secret! Or something! Also omg, thank you so much for your support!!

Fortunae Virgo

so, whats next?, i wanna keep helping this game development D:

Excuse the slow reply, irl stuff. And sure. I'm gonna assume you're asking for my friends contact info. She does have discord, Kattlarv#2157 or if you prefer mail, she has kattlarv @ either live.se or gmail.com

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Wow, there's a lot here. I feel like it'd be helpful for me to know some details for some of this stuff. Is there any way we can do that in some kind of chat client? I've got like, discord, or gmail chat. Even good ol' emails I think would be a bit more convenient.

Fortunae Virgo

Welp, this was meant to be posted over on itch, but the customer support there apparently sucks ass, and it took them over a month to fail to correct a "We are unable to process your request at this time" issue when my friend tried to post the review. So, instead they gave up and just asked me to link it over here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/19DG0sH7uEIoP5PTcIegylNf1BlIT0RJiUGlZqvmFVVM/edit?usp=sharing

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I'm male and don't find it sexist whatsoever. This is a beautiful game with loveable characters.

I've passed this along. Thanks for your time~ And I can personally say: That does sound quite nice. I am not as invested in 18+ games, but I have noticed that in all games I've played that had a character with "feminine body+penis" it was ALWAYS the "dude with tits" archetype. It did get really tiring to see every character just be a "So, what is their personality? - ... they have a huge dick?" Does sound quite neat about the cis females. Likewise as said: Only really been archetypes there as well to what I've seen. It kinda gets extra dumb when you have games where a cisfemale is genderswapped (via magic or whatever) into a "feminine body+penis" and they have a 180 personality swap. Often going from sucking off 10 guys without wanting any reciprocation, to wanting to get their dick pleasured unconditionally 24/7. Or, something I as a writer notice: People doing like, 12 paragraphs talking about each characters penis. Then turns to any character with a vulva, and just goes something among the lines of "the vagina was wet." as the entire description. Like... descriptive xD And hm... well: lack of variation shouldn't be a huge issue as long as they are relatively similar quality if you ask me. I mean...most 18+ artists fail MASSIVELY at this. With stuff like: 4+ hours into each penis, but on average taking 30 seconds per vulva. It gets pretty stupid, fast. And yeah, they were planning to try it. They just wanted to be sure it wasn't "another one of those". They've been a critic in the 18+ community for over a decade. And are generally pretty unpopular for telling the truth. With the whole "shooting the messenger" culture we have going on. And they just wanted to be sure it was a game they would want to review, and not something they'd just tear into for being number 845 that uses the same identical tropes. But, if they do look into it, would you want their feedback on it? Not quite sure where they'd send it but xD

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Good questions! So, hardcoded is about a trans girl and her friends, who's identities range between trans girls, nbs, and cis girls. I am a nb trans girl, and I've written these characters specifically to reflect my experience and the experiences of my friends w trans / gay culture, and to fight porn game stereotypes of girls w dicks. The cis girls are also not written as passive, one-dimensional personalities. I'm pretty proud of that stuff to be honest. For that last question though, there's actually not that much variation in genitals I don't think? But we havnt seen everyones junk yet, so theres still time for that. Thank you for asking this stuff! Also, if your friend is super curious, they can always try out the demo :3 <a href="https://yoplatz.itch.io/hardcodeddemo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://yoplatz.itch.io/hardcodeddemo</a>

Fortunae Virgo

Feels like Patreon could have handled that better, but ah well. And alright, I'll try to cut the questions down in size: 1: Are the "girls with dicks" actually "girls", or are they the classic "dude with tits" archetype that seems to occupy 97 % of ALL porn. (Let me know if you are unfamiliar with the archetype) Ie: Do they actually have personalities? or are they only about talking about dicks? 2: Similarly, for the girls with pussies: Do they have a sex drive+needs? Or do they take the classic route of their entire personality being exclusively about wanting to pleasure dicks? In similar percentages as above, porn wise. 3: While this one might be hard pixel wise: Is there any genital variation? Most games today seem to feature only hyper dicks. Along with 50+ species of dicks, while barely having ½ a simplified pussy. Those were the main ones. Butchered them a bit, but should be coherent I think.

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yeah aha, i guess, sure, thats fine

Fortunae Virgo

I take it that patreon requires that you follow someone to DM or? I guess I could relay their top two questions here, even if a bit messy way to communicate.

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o wait nm lol

Fortunae Virgo

okies no worries, lemme DM you real quick

Fortunae Virgo

Neither of us has a twitter. And I would DM, but don't think that option is available unless you're a patron. At least not what I've figured out. I'm kinda new to how the site functions.

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yeah you can totally DM me here on patreon, or my twitter DMs are open if your friend wants to ask me personally <a href="https://twitter.com/hardcodedgame" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hardcodedgame</a> :D

Fortunae Virgo

In short: A friend of mine have a question regarding the game, and, finding no contact information whatsoever, they turned to ask me, ask you on patreon. They are very interested in the game. But have a few questions about it not answered anywhere to what they could find. So, yeah. Wanted to know if it was okay to ask a few things here, in PM or if you actually have somewhere to ask.

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I took a bit of a hit but i think things are back to normal :3

Fortunae Virgo

Did everything go ok for you in the end? I never really saw much of an effect but have been wondering how things were going for others in the same situation.

Black Fox Lingerie

this literally is happening to me im crying

Good

agreed

Fortunae Virgo

I just hope everything will be fine next month ;_;

Offshore - Adult Games Developer

:3

Fortunae Virgo

all mine went through@

Nikephouros (Xion)

thank you so much :3

Fortunae Virgo

Got the alert and fixed it! hope you get your payments :3

nice, good to know

Fortunae Virgo

Didn't get any alerts. I'm with Citizens bank.

Willow B

thx, kelly :3

Fortunae Virgo

I fixed it! You should get your $

Ivy Michaels

That's really encouraging, good to know, thank you.

Fortunae Virgo

It was an easy fix for me to just verify with my bank that it was a good charge and not fraudulent. I have Wells Fargo so I got a text this morning asking me to reply Y if I acknowledge the following charges blah blah blah. So once I did and then I hit retry on the payment and it went through. It shouldn’t be a big issue for most people to over come relatively quickly.