Hello again! It’s been a while, but that’s just cuz we’ve been hard at work taking feedback from the demo into account as well as working ahead in the story. Very recently, we were able to finalize the details on one of the more drastic changes the feedback has given us, so we wanted to share it today.

So basically, when we were designing the groundwork for the VN’s story, we didn’t want Oliver to be a likeable character. Obviously this ended up working quite well, but the results were TOO extreme. You guys loathed him, to the point where we couldn’t actually expect his character arc to matter to the audience. Thus, we were faced with a dilemma: we need to keep his character the same, but make the audience like him more. After a bunch of failed attempts to find a happy medium, someone on the team proposed an idea as a joke: make Oliver a girl to pander to the yuri crowd. We brushed it aside after having a laugh, but the longer we sat on the idea the more it slowly started to make sense. So we did a quick mockup, changed some small things around and pitched it to a closed group and the results were super positive so we ended up sticking with it.

So here’s our big announcement: Oliver is now Olivia. Not the most original choice of names, but no point in trying to complicate things. This affects very little outside of the protagonist, and the VN should stay mostly the same. The biggest change and really the only change that should be apparent to you is that Caprice and Mekki are now lesbians. Unfortunately due to how the story is structured we did end up losing some planned concepts (we were planning a Hayley route, but the story requires her to be straight so we had to cut it after finalizing Oliver’s gender swap) but please believe that any of these cuts will be worth it. We hope you’re as excited as we are to fully embrace the PUREST FORM OF LOVE.

We haven’t fully decided on a solid design yet, so here’s a few different concepts:

Finally, some of you remember that lewd week was mentioned a little bit back in a Paper Trail post. While that’s not quite ready, we did want to leave you with a preview after waiting for so long, so here’s a picture of one of our Olivia concepts (click the thumbnail, the full version is nsfw obviously):

See you next time!