Consolidated Gender Lock Discussion Thread

I feel as though this has been addressed elsewhere on the forum but I apparently need to say it again.

Romance novel readers are largely women. Heart’s Choice aspires to engage that audience, and bring female, romance novel readers to the world of IF and our games. Women who enjoy visual novels will also be part of the audience we hope to attract.

That said, our romance line is designed to include a broad spectrum of sexualities. We have gender variable games (play as any gender, romance any gender), we have games for women and femme n-b lesbian, and we have games for gay men.

We do not YET have a game under contract written exclusively for straight men. We have not received such a pitch for a romance game. We don’t assign pitches, and we don’t tell writers what to write.

That does not mean we won’t publish such a game, and your imputations about what our perceptions are are wholly incorrect and in your imagination, not the function of anything we have said about or hold to be true about Heart’s Choice.

The more you complain about how much Heart’s Choice wasn’t designed for straight men, the less patient I become. We have said as much about it, and we still are not purposely excluding content for straight men. We’re frontloading the line with games for a variety of sexualities and PC genders. And two of the first five games will allow you to play as a man, romancing women.

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