Behind the Scenes: Free day choice poll! (Patreon)

So I mentioned there would be a poll regarding how free days are planned to work out in the game and see how everyone feels about it's possible change.

Let's get into it. Everyone has a good idea of how the 1st free day plays out and a little preview of how the 2nd one is like in 0.06. But when combined with the new changes to the chapter system becoming more in terms of day to day feeling. We're looking at the long term for how we'd like to handle the girlfriend route focus in the game without taking away from the main days and without making things too complex on top of everything else being considered for it's end goal.

This leads us to the ideal plan in mind: Before the 4th free day begins, the game will ask who you'd like to make your girlfriend. Leading into the 4th free day, instead of being able to openly choose. "Hey I'll go hang out with Miki today in the Morning, Bridget by Noon, etc." This goes away and instead Morning, Noon and Afternoon is completely linear to your girlfriend. This lets us give each girl a deeper focus leading into higher sex acts and their personal stories. You would still be able to see the other characters during main days, but of course it's part of the natural flow of the game. While there could still be branching choices in the main days like "Hmm.. I can go hang out with Rachel or Nova." To help put more focus on select girls, it won't be very open like free days of course. This also means that affection will unlock special sex acts in main days while you have a girlfriend, giving you a sort of harem feel. But more of a reverse NTR (cheating on girlfriend) feel. If you choose to that is!

Of course the above is our ideal focus for how to handle the girlfriend route and I know it takes away that open roam feel for free days before the 4th one comes around. But I want to know how our supporters feel about this, I can't promise things to change from this ideal. But there might be another way around doing this. The only thing I can think of doing but it won't give the girlfriend route that deeper focus (because it'll have to consider Morning/Noon/After noon as if you're simply friends). But it's possible to continue keeping free days how the 1st one is like, in the Afternoon if you have high enough affection with a girl. You'll unlock added stuff to get some sexy stuff out of it. But it can run into some issues and get more complex.

While I'm not trying to shut down the second idea offered, it's something to consider in terms of engine and written issues with being complex. Below to sum it up..

(1) 4th free day = Begins girlfriend route focus, linear focus for her only. Deeper sex acts and really feels like she's become your girlfriend. (still has option to do nearly everything for sex acts in main days with other girls if affection is high enough or choose not to.)

(2) Free days stay the same = 4th free day you have you're girlfriend but still allowed to hang out with others. By hanging out with your girlfriend in Afternoon, you can unlock special sex act scene. (downside your girlfriend's afternoon still has to feel like you're only friends leading up to said unlocked scene. In less we're to do 4th free day (friend version of events & girlfriend version of events.) meaning over 30+ sections to make for one day of the game.. Kind of not our ideal focus needless to say.)

I'm leaning more towards (1) option, but please don't be afraid to speak your mind with your votes. If you have opinions, concerns, issues, etc. I'm a very open kind of person, I'm very accepting of opinions and consider everything. I won't dislike anyone any different for their likes, dislikes, etc. :)