Fried spiders taste pretty good though, it makes me hungry so maybe you can put some you-know-what scenes into the game 
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Wow; I havenāt tried this game in a whileā¦ 
It looks like itās come a long way since then. 
I only got through the prologue, but I did get this error early on when trying to exit the stat screen using the āBack to realityā button:
choicescript_stats line 1767: Non-existent variable ādreamingā
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A bug that I got is that if you are on the personality page when choosing your sections name, you canāt go back to the main stats page
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@feather_light Iām glad you like the update! 
Iām interested to hear more around them! Hehe.
@Manaxaggd Maybe not spiders, but the group will definitely get the chance to eat some weird food!
@ParrotWatcher Hey, thanks for stopping by again! 
I hope you enjoyed it.
@q_riley Thanks for the bug report!
Iāve recently restructured the stats screen to be cleaner, but randomtest doesnāt cover the stats screen, so be sure to save first before going to the stats screen in case thereās more errors. Iāve fixed the two errors now though!
Survey Results
So I just did a small update to the demo to include the survey results. Itād be too long to post here, so here are the most interesting ones:
- 64% of players have INT as their highest attribute!
- Precocious points grant extra INT points, so Iāll have to monitor how much that affects things.
- Only 8% chose to have a complicated relationship with their twin.
- Iām actually glad this one isnāt popular though. Thereās also a low percentage across the board who chose to have a starting negative relationship with each group member.
- 44% of players wear glasses. I totally didnāt expect this one!
- 78% of players are Follower Twins. This is consistent with the previous data, but itās still a little surprising to me for an interactive story.
- 1/3 of players have Acts of Service as their love language, with Physical Touch at 1/4.
- Now I feel a little bad that it barely gives any bonuses so far, so Iāll try to remedy that. Physical Touch is OP, man.
- 75% of players are supportive, but only 58% like sharing with their twin.
- Iāll have to see if these two percentages get closer, since Iām considering combining the two into a single variable.
- 77% of players like the Fantasy Genre, as expected. The lowest is Superheroes at 32% which was unexpected.
- 0% of players are Enneagram Type 8.
- No one wants to rule their own kingdom, apparently.
- 0% of players punched B, while only 3% whacked them with their bag, and 17% cried to get their locket back.
- Iām glad no one likes being violent, but I might as well not have written that choice! Hehe.
- 80% agreed to have the deal with B! 80% also told their twin what they did, while only 26% want to tell the group.
- I guess everyone wants to know the mystery, huh?
- 48% of players have the Romantic Trait. Yup.
Iāve also heard the feedback that the Tagalog parts are confusing, so Iāll try to lessen their frequency going forward and stick to the extraneous bits. All the characters arenāt actually speaking in English like 90% of the time, and the MC is only translating it in their head.
I wish people would be more vocal about this. Thereās almost no feedback regarding this and I would never have thought to adjust it had I not created the survey.
This is actually slightly plot-relevant, since later in the story you can talk to your friends without the other characters you will meet in the story knowing what you are talking about. There might be a universal translator later, so until thenā¦
That said, there are other issues I want to address and talk about, but thatās all for now!
Thanks to everyone who have submitted their code so far!
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Mmmm,ā¦ well, I punched B so ā¦
Are you sure you submitted your code? I just checked it and thereās no data showing that.
Well, yes, I didnāt submit the code ( I didnāt know we can submit it ) , I guess I gonna replay again for submitting
i admit it was fun having trying to get Ryan whack B with his bag (and failed due to the penalty). Despite having the goal of wanting to help everyone, Ryan can beā¦violent.
Here are some of the errors i found from both Remy's and Ryan's playthroughs.
the missing me
Should be āmaking me moreā
wrong bag
Ryan has a backpack though. The following scene gives the correct bag though.
Missing Rosie Stats
This is the relationship stats from when the Twins and Wayne meets up with Rosie before she went back to get what she forgot.
odd period placement
i think there are a lot of these in Lilyās encounter. Just a heads-up.
mispelt word
ālittleā was mispelt here.
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Was this from earlier? I fixed some bugs earlier today and I canāt remember if this was included since the label is there now. Iāve checked it manually, but itād be nice to get confirmation. I also found another inventory bug, but I just fixed it too right now (along with the other things you pointed out).
Thanks again for the reports! 
Update: I updated the demo to v2.13.
- Pronoun pin is now optional due to request.
- Fixed more bugs and typos.
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They were from yesterdayās playthrough, before you announced v.2.12 so some of them may have been fixed. Should have mentioned that, sorry.
Here are some of the bugs and errors i've encountered in my latest playthrough (from v2.13).
B's Gambit Quest
Shouldnāt this at 0%?
Line breaks
Happens when the Twin intervenes with the MC and Bās talk.
Tell or not to Tell
This happen when i choose the option to tell the Twin about Bās encounter later or not tell him at all. i still ended up telling him about Bās favor.
Looping Scene
This happens when the MC chooses to tell their Twin about Bās favor. i keep getting the scenes on whether to trust Lily and to tell the group or not thrice.
Extra Quotation Mark
Happens when the MC calls Wayne a āmommyās boyā.
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This is one thing I did notice: the āsharingā stuff seems less about sharing possessions, and more about personal space. I would certainly not say that an eleven year old who doesnāt want to share a bed with their opposite-sex sibling is āselfishāā¦ I suspect that this might be related to the difference between the two numbers.
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Ah, thatās a good point! 
I should probably just turn it into a sharing a bedroom variable instead of a ātraitā since the only place I can see it having much of an effect is at home, and there wonāt be many opportunities to showcase the twins sharing possessions.
Thank you for the insight!
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Smol update, but still on my birthday! Thanks for this great proyect. Please keep wrting; I canāt wait to get more
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In a similar vein, I personally would like to be able to be ridiculously close to my twin as the āGenerousā trait already is, but without necessarily being generous to others. Like āwoo sleep in the same bed!ā, but selfish about anything/everything with anyone else. That said, I donāt know if thatās already possible with what you intend; to me, āGenerousā implies itās in general (pun not intended) which isnāt fitting for my character/me.
Donāt feel pressured to add even more customization and options because of me, you already an obscene amount that allows for everything I could every want and I fucking love this for it despite being an edgy, rude, cynical, pessimist bitch who shouldnāt love something so damn cute.* I was heartbroken with the fight then giddy after the makeup. Excluding that and the really obvious thing, I was fucking grinning through the entire thing. I donāt feel giddy. I donāt grin. I barely know what happy is, but I guess this causes it or something.
I doubt any of that is even vaguely feedback and I doubt anyone cares, but I really wanted to say how I felt. This is fantastic and I love it and I cannot wait for more.
*That sentence was hella long.
Also, I played through basically for the first time (I played an early version of the original forever ago) just barely after the update but before your post with the survey results. I am, without being influenced to be so, the sole ruler who submitted >:)
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If you donāt have the Romantic trait, are you locked out of having a romance?
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Youāre locked out of any romance if you picked the Aromantic ones. Having the Romantic Trait can unlock certain interactions but your MC can still crushes and puppy love without it.
Just to throw it out there, i'm aware that this established in this game takes place in early 2020.i'm just curious how the rest of F6E, B, Patrick, Russ and Rayne (the twins for the debug) would deal with the pandemic.
i can see Remy trying to help with the chores while Ryan would hole himself in this room, playing games especially MMOs and video chat with others.
How about everyone else?
Did a playtest for all four paths (having Lily as a messenger or not + telling the twin about B's favor). No errors or bugs as far as i can see.
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@TheSleepwalker Hi! Belated happy birthday! 
I hope you enjoyed the update. Is there anything in particular youāre excited for?
@ElliWoelfin No worries! I just removed the Generous/Selfish Traits, but you can still share bedrooms no problem. Thereās a special interaction with your twin if you share bedrooms, actually.
And wow, I definitely didnāt expect that comment. I uh, I guess Iām glad I made you feel that way? I donāt know what to say.
And yup, I can see thereās only one submission with that choice. 
That said, if youāre willing to give more feedback, I just posted some follow-up questions over there in the first post. Iād love to hear more about your twins too.
@OtherGrimm Yup, as @Abe has said, youāre not locked out of having a romance as long as you donāt have the [Not Interested] or [Cootiephobe] Traits.
Is there someone youāre currently interested in? Iām open to more questions!
I just looked it upāfieldtrips were definitely suspended as early as February, so they definitely live in another reality. To be fair, I set it in 2020 before it even happened, but mostly because it needs to be on a leap year.
Should I still make a quick reference to it during a news segment while watching TV? Maybe the day of the fieldtrip? 
But yup, theyād probably video chat and play games with each other, and the group meetings will still definitely be a thing. And I imagine Maggie would be contacting the twins slightly more often. The story would still happen, but it will be very different if the fieldtrip gets suspended.
Update v 2.14
- Removed Generous and Selfish traits.
- The choice will now only determine whether you share a bedroom with your twin.
- Slightly reduced frequency of Tagalog words/phrases.
- This is just the first pass, but the remaining ones should have enough context clues surrounding them.
- Fixed more bugs and typos, including the looping locker scene (hopefully!).
I also updated the first post! I have some follow-up questions regarding the survey.
I have also been planning for a while now to create a Tumblr and a Discord server in the near future, so please tell me if thatās something youāre interested in!
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I have the theory choosing a type of ending wonāt affect only the story we write. I also canāt wait to see the branching from choosing genre. The degree of customization of both the main character and the story itself is amazing. I could go on. but I just want to say this is my favorite WIP so far and canāt wait to see more of it
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For theories, i have a few.
About JM and Bās Feud
- A competitive relationship gone wrong? (Based from the MCās claim of saying that B is jealous of JM being more successful).
About Maggie
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i think Maggie is a dimensional traveller and has travelled into several worlds. She was supposed to stop and settle back into her home dimension when she had the twins. However, it changed when she somehow got a message from probably a friend (or the father???) that they need to her help back into the twinās world/genre of origin. What she hoped would be a simple mission when wary when she got captured by the bad guys.
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i dont know why iām also liking the idea that Julie (and if Robert was their friend growing up) was a part of the dimension hopping group but decided to retire early due to other responsibilities
As for the Discord and/or Tumblr, i admit that i've been waiting for them and i don't mind waiting a bit more if you need more prep time.
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I donāt think so, B confirmed that the reason is not jealousy, they might lie but Iām pretty sure the main reason wouldnāt be that simple, besides, MCās claim is based on what the group told us and we knew they didnāt tell us everything. So jealousy might be a sub factor but clearly isnāt the main element
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