Ooh how wonderful! So looking forward to this!
It nice but you should probably do an later update telling the difference between the contrasting stats
Oh, neat! Looking forward to it.
I better prepare my royalcore vibes for this, looking foward to it.
Oh cool. I like a âcapes et dâĂ©pĂ©esâ (cloack and dagger in english?) flavor story. What am I saying. I LOVE it.
7â sea is by far my true love tabletop rpg, I devore the three musketer, the comics of cloack anf teeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, captain fracass, the hunchback⊠Iâm a huge fan of Mylady too.
Congrats for your game ^^ we need more like it.
Wish i have cash earlierđ
If this is your style, you might also enjoy Belle-de-Nuit
OH MY GOSH!!! Was this inspired by Julie dâAubigny??? Her life was FASCINATING! I am so pumped for this game
Yes, Iâve got my eyes on it ^^
Remy is on board. Single & ready to mingle. 
Remy sharpens her sword & her tongue expectantly. 
Why is it not possible to play as a straight male ?
Since these games are so heavily romanced centered, itâs much easier to get an indepth story if the PC is gender locked.
You can read more in the Hearts Choice General Discussion thread >>
Yes as Sochi says and I said a while back, romance driven stories where gender is likely to be described more in depth if more sexual content occurs make it difficult for most to work with all genders, and the consensus by the current writers on Hearts Choice for the most part is that F/M and both M/M and F/F content is more needed and writable than M/F. (Even though M/F is really just writing F/M from the opposite perspective and not necessarily âjust pornâ.)
Nope, not true. There is no such thing as âthe writers on Heartâs Choiceâ and this made up group of people does not have some consensus. Heartâs Choice, the company, is Choice of Gamesâ partners and staff. The writers⊠are writers⊠who are contracted to write for it and are not a decision making body of any kind. In fact, the forum here is the only place I know of that Heartâs Choice writersâwho like most writers work entirely alone, siloed from one another âwould have an opportunity to interact with each other. And they have not all come together and formed some consensus about not writing M/F games. No.
As I think Iâve explained before, we can only publish the games we are pitched. What that means is that writers come to us, seeking a contract to write a game for us. They pitch us F/M, F/F, and even gender variable games like Jazz Age and Dawnfall. Gender variable means you can play them as male romancing female. So far we have only received maybe two pitches that are genderlocked M/F, and we accepted one of them. Itâs under contract, being written.
No one on staff, or as far as I know, amongst our authors thinks or has ever said that M/F romance is âjust porn.â
My gay heart is happy, canât wait to read it! 
Thanks for the clarification! I was under the impression that it was that way since it had been said before that Hearts Choice entries werenât open to everyone like Hosted Games were, but maybe I was mistaken. But I am glad to see thatâs not the case. 
Hmm, it still sounds like youâre a little confused about how our games get published.
For Heartâs Choice and Choice of Games, people must apply to write for us. That process is outlined here and here
When they apply we look first at their CV. Are they a writer? Have they published work in the past? If so, where? Has it been paid or self-published? Have they won any writing awards? Do they potentially bring a unique worldview or voice to their work? If the answer to some of these questions is âyes,â we then ask the writer for a writing sample. Once we see the writing sample, if the team agrees the prose works for us, we will ask the writer to come up with, on their own without input from us, three ideas for potential games. These are called âconcepts.â
Then we look at their concepts for games. Do they seem to grasp how you construct a compelling interactive game with multiple possible endings? Does the genre fit our current needs? Do we think the concept is marketable? If the answer to some of these questions is yes, we then ask the writer to write a 15 page chapter by chapter outline of their game.
This outline goes through several rounds of revision with a Choice of Games/Heartâs Choice editor. At that stage in the process we are generally not giving a lot of heavy handed âmake your game this/or that.â Weâre not saying âyou must write this as genderlocked F/F.â Weâre explaining how stats work, how to construct compelling choices, how to use secondary stats to create delayed branching, offering advice about what our players expect to see in a game, sometimes we will make suggestions about ensuring the gameâs NPCs are diverse. But at no point are we telling an author who has pitched a game âActually you should write a completely different game for us. Sci fi doesnât work, make this a medieval fantasy.â
Hosted Games we donât do any of that. People can submit a game to us, completed, of at least 30,000 words in length that has undergone a forum beta. Weâll review its content, ask for certain adjustments if needed, and publish it.
So I donât understand what you mean when you say
By âthat wayâ do you mean we havenât published M/F games in Heartâs Choice yet? Despite Heartâs Choice not âbeing openâ âŠwe canât make writers write a game they havenât decided to write. We can decide âno, these concepts donât work for us, we wonât proceed with an outline,â or âthis outline doesnât work, so we wonât proceed with a game,â but we canât say âTurn this game into something else.â
We are not, by the way, rejecting a FLOOD of M/F games being pitched to us. As I mentioned, I think weâve received maybe two pitches for genderlocked M/F games, and weâve gone to contract on one.
That makes sense. Sorry for the confusion, I was aware that both core COG and HC used the same system of applications but I didnât know the specifics, so thanks. 