Thanks for checking it out! I see where you’re coming from and there’s a good discussion to be had for and against gender-locking. This thread has an excellent discussion of the idea: Gender-locking ROs and importance of gender in relationships. My personal preference is to write a character with gender in mind so that I have a better picture of them in my head. To me, when a character’s traits are dependent on the player’s choices, they feel less like a fully-realized character, like their purpose is to be a love interest first and a character second.
That being said, I’m happy to have a conversation about it. I had considered making one or more characters non-locked, one of the reasons I hesitated to do so was that I didn’t want to ask the player directly about the MC’s orientation. I find questions like that awkward and I wanted to keep all of the flirt options open.
And the demo is short because that’s all I’ve written so far, but I will be adding more soon, I promise 