A gay story is certainly something I’d be interested in (as should surprise no-one who’s ever read a previous post of mine 
). I guess I’m wondering a bit about the plot, as the synopsis isn’t really telling us much…
I was certainly feeling it by about 7/8 (although I did repress it during my teen years… 
)
Sounds amazing! I cant wait to read it 
Good good. Next matter at hand is we need a silver fox, preferably this one.
Huehuehuehue.
(There is starting to be a trend in my comments… hmmmm)
Hellooo! I, for one, love the idea of an all boy romance line. Like they say in my hometown:
FREE THE LGBTQ+
Now that we got that out of the way, I just have a few questions based on your plot.
Apologies if these questions are too over-bearing, I just want to see how deep the plot runs, so I can give out any ideas I might have 
If the mc will be underage can he even get in a nightclub?
A gay mad scientist you say? That’s exactly my jam
Oh, yeah I’m always game for well-written gay stories with cute guys. My only concern is that the mc here is gain a bit young for an explicit romance game.
It seems I was late to the party, for me the realization only sunk in when I was about 12 or so. In retrospect I may have been abusing my reputation for clumsiness as a child and teenager to bump into cute guys at a (much) higher rate then I used to bump into other things and people. 
Then I guess I was fortunate I didn’t have to enter the don’t ask don’t tell stage until I started working. On the professional level I still don’t advertise it but I will answer truthfully to anyone who has a legitimate reason for asking.
This should be exciting 
I’m all for specifically LGBT-related games 
(By the way, if you’re here because you’re interested in gay-themed games and haven’t checked out this poll, you may want to make a vote for The Beast Within Every vote counts!)
With regards the MC’s age—is this the sort of thing where there might just be a time jump? 
Like, if you want the main character to start dealing with these feelings around the age of sixteen, but then be eighteen by the time more explicit stuff is happening? I don’t know what kind of time frame you’re looking at
Yeah, I don’t think I really felt any attraction to boys until I was about 12, and even then it was pretty mild until puberty hit more around ages 13 and 14 I really just hadn’t developed the interest yet before then.
And it wasn’t until I was 17 that I actually started acknowledging these attractions… so yeah, teenager figuring these things out would be very close to my experience 
(I bumped into a cute guy once knocked the wind out of me, to be honest. Was less pleasant than one might hope )
Maybe we were “delayed” because we lacked older siblings and were only children. I only got into gay advocacy and thus formally out of the closet when I became a political aide, so that was at age 19/20. Due to my not so great health during my youth I didn’t actually become sexually active until 26, a year after the celiac’s diagnosis, which also markedly improved my overall health. So in a reversal of what I most often hear I was out before I was active.
Also it seems in my case I never really needed to hide as practically all of the people around me knew I was a bit different, though moreso due to my lack of interest in girls or sex at all then due to my gushing over boys, which only my mom used to be privy to.
For the longest time I actually thought I was a gay-leaning ace, when it was actually celiac’s stealing my libido.
I am neither gay nor a male, but count me in! I like playing homosexual guys in IF games :D.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how can a 7 year old know their sexuality if they do not know what sex is? Not trying to be rude, just wondering
Hmm, I can’t imagine that’d be that unusual At least, I found it simple enough to come out at college, but really was not finding boyfriend material… I suppose it depends what you’re looking for 
He’d probably explain better than me, but I think it’d be more small-scale attraction, like “this guy is cute” or feeling 
y around him rather than something quite as sexual at least, if I think about my first guy crush at ages 12-13, I definitely thought he was cute and had feelings about him, but it was still pretty chaste.
Well it was unusual in the political and gay advocacy circles I used to move in. People having been in the closet but nevertheless sexually active with guys long before they ever (dared to come) came out was way more typical. Maybe it’s one of those European/American differences.
I think it may also have to do with me having been very sheltered 
and the fact that the LGBT circle I was running with was specifically a college club 
Yeah, after I let myself be bullied out of college the first time around I jumped right in on the deep end, though in all fairness I never thought my volunteering for local elections would almost lead to a political career (I’d likely still be in politics if my health hadn’t really taken a nosedive that last year). 
I basically just skipped the whole youth wing portion of politics too, plus growing up in a pretty rough neighbourhood (by 1990’s Dutch standards) meant I pretty much got the opposite of sheltered.
More like “I like looking at men but have no strong feelings about looking at women”… That said, I probably did know what sex was at about that age, at least in a scientific sense (I don’t think I even knew gay sex was a possibility for many years, though… 
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It isn’t necessarily a sexual thing! At 7 you might notice guys are cute, want to hang around guys more, some things that just feel “different”. You might feel like you want to do /something/ but not know what that something is. When I was 7 I rationalized my attraction to guys as girls are gross and guys are cool they had cooties
I realized I was gay in my twenties and the first thing my sister said was “I know already” and I can’t believe she didn’t just tell me so I could have figured it out sooner. Could have enjoyed college more then lol
Oh, yeah, as a kid I also had no attraction to adult men—I only got there once I was in my late teens—which contributed to making it harder to realize I was gay and I also do often find women pretty—just not sexually—so I was easily able to interpret those feelings as me being “straight” even though they really were a different kind of feeling. There’s a lot of ways for denial to work when you’ve been primed to expect that you would be attracted to women
Same The main thing was that I hadn’t realized it was supposed to be fun rather than just “one of those things serious adult people do in their serious adult lives 
”
It’s pretty interesting to hear how some people already knew since they were little!
As an asexual, it took too long for me to figure it out because…nothing ever came. You get no signal. And the whole “just a phase” or “haven’t met the right person yet” makes a lot more sense.
But i am on board with this game as long as it has an interesting plot! Because plot is everything to a story 
I have few thoughts about that
I think it all depends if you want to publish it officially and earn money from it. If not, then you should write it anyway, but if you do want to profit from it then…
I think that if you want to succeed with this game, then it would have to be one of top 5 games of this type that exist, or at least it would have to be well above average.
Where was the study that said only 3%-5% of the human population is gay cause I think you might have the wrong one buddy
