I really appreciate you trailblazing by opening up a CoG Work in Progress thread that led the way to hopefully more community interaction with those authors who are ok with interaction with said community.
I hope you’ll still consider mine after release as I can’t be in the official beta’s.
Can’t wait to date Max for real (and meet the prince and maybe date princy with my second mc).
Most of them, except for the mc, Blaise, Freddie and Karston would be wealthy enough to be princes, as they could probably afford to buy a small kingdom even if they don’t technically inherit one, I guess, being part of the .1% of society.
With my main mc I mainly want to beat the prince (though hopefully not by cheating) so I hope in my Max game princy is up for some friendly competition.
Anyway due to the author giving us leeway with that in the universe of my mc’s the game’s setting is a veritably candy-land of improbably cute guys.
As we’ve all surely noticed very few fantasy and fiction princes ever look like the real deal. I depict prince Rosario to look like a young Enrique.
New beta draft is up, complete with a host of bugfixes, typo corrections, and a bit of additional romance content for Blaise, Delacroix, and Freddie. We’re at about 374,000 words now which is frankly absurd. Hooray!
My head: Okay judging by his actions and pedigree a high poise character will be able to most effectively romance Auguste.
My heart: Stop lying to yourself, you damn well know that you’re itching to sweep that prim and proper aristocrat off their feet playing as dashing rogue delinquent
Gotta say I’m really looking forward to this one! Really excited for the opposites attract aspects of the romances (I’m 1000% going to attempt to romance Max as a prefect and Hartmann as a Starling) + possibilities of rivals → lovers (Blaise I’m coming for you). Also yeah I’ll do my bit to make Gallatin the victors but the Archambault LIs have my heart and soul right now - don’t worry family your kid’s gold digger genes have got you covered
The only thing I’m a bit worried about is the possibility that the Archambault love interests might have less screentime / interactions with the PC compared to the Peers due to them being in a different college? I guess though they’re technically classes as major characters the fact that they don’t have bios in the masterpost makes me immediately label them as side characters
Mostly the Archambault people don’t have bios in the post because the teaser didn’t originally include them! I’d say they are major characters but by the nature of the two schools they are more remote. To a degree they’re a bit of a risk - eg you might want to try and romance a royal but you don’t know them so well as your own classmates, they’re prestigious but not such a safe choice I guess.
But! You’ll get chances to write to them and there are sets of scenes you can have with them that you don’t get with Gallatin students. I hope they’ll feel equally fleshed out, if less cosy than the Gallatin friends/love interests.
Thank you, Dylan is a sweetheart! I have to say, you guys, I love Créme so much I cried in the supermarket after doing a beta play through, so it’s definitely got my approval!
Hope for getting off the cursed queue still holds strong, but I’ll be thirding @poison_mara. Cannot wait to find out how the game’s changed from the demo!
Hi, I was wondering what kind of options there are for careers if the main character wants to work instead of marrying into high society and all that jazz
You can apply to a couple of different universities, two different fancy internships, and teaching work. If you don’t manage to do any of that, you can apply for respectable but less fancy jobs - they involve teaching in a less fancy school, home tutoring, or clerical work. Under some circumstances you can also help found a collective commune too!