Quality of Life Systems: Preferences (Patreon)

A lot of games of our type offer the ability to pick what content the player will encounter, and that's part of our goal here. These symbols, when paired in a new options menu we'll be added, will allow you to filter what sorts of scenes will play in the game for you. If a specific pairing isn't checked off, then scenes of that nature, and romance paths of that nature, will be turned off as well and unaccessible until you go into settings and enable them. Overworld sex sprites will either, in the case of monsters, be displayed as a jumping haystack, or simply not appear.

Several of our trans characters left us in something of a dilemma however, we consistently refer to them by their chosen gender, rather than whatever physical body they have, by linking them directly into the system without a special designation. Morgan is currently the most obvious such character, and if we loaded her files based on her chosen gender, then we would invalidate the actual purpose of this system, which is about what people want to see. If we went purely utilitarian, then we'd end up misgendering her by having her scene appear in M+M for Evan's and Thrund's scene, and M+F for Eve's scene, which obviously doesn't work either.

So we knew we needed to have a trans tag added in, especially since we'll likely be adding more trans character as we go, though it will, of course, be a matter for patron votes to decide which NPCs get their scenes. So we needed a marker for it. Originally we considered using the trans symbol, and coloring it pink or blue, before realizing for readability's sake in those circumstances, we'd all but be forced to misgender the characters again, while using the symbol meant to be inclusive and prevent those things, obviously a non-starter. For that reason we decided instead to use the traditional mars and venus symbols, but with the transflag colors, making the best of a bad situation, and forging a compromise between inclusiveness and readability while maintaining the purpose of this system. Morgan's scenes currently are linked to the  BlueMars+ and PinkVenus+TransVenus combos in our design docs.

We're aware this is an imperfect solution that'll no doubt tick some people off, but it's the best compromise we could find, and we hope folks will keep that in mind.

The full list of combinations currently in the game or planned for being in the game are as follows:

• M solo 
• F solo 
• M+F 
• M+M 
• F+F 
• Intersex+M 
• Intersex+F 
• Intersex+Intersex 
• TransF+M 
• TransF+F

And more combinations to come in the future.