#as long as i've got queue

[irinou]

the x games ended up being a considerably smaller less relevant part of my life than i thought they would be when i was like 6

[14dayswithyou]

💖 Day 3.5 is now available! 💖

For the last couple of months, only Server Boosters had access to the 3.5 update... Buuuuut now it's available for everyone to play in the 14DWY Discord — and soon itch.io once I'm happy with the QA and state of the game — so please don't feel pressured to join unless you want to!!

The full devlog + even more screenshots are under the cut ^^

What's been added to the 3.5 version?

📺 Streamer Mode!

I've been told that it's difficult to stream and monetise age-restricted videos on YouTube and Twitch, so I added an option to remove the sexual content and strong language used in the demo.

Now y'all can invite Ren into your bed for cuddles without putting your streamer career on the line /silly /lh

This won't affect the 18+ rating or dark themes/elements of the game, however! Although Streamer Mode will prevent you from seeing any "gruesome" CGs in the future, most of the core elements of the game will still be tied to the choices and decisions you make. So you won't miss out on the overall experience by using streamer mode!!

⚙️ Custom Pronouns!

It only took me one entire year to get around to it, but you can finally choose your own preferred pronouns (or use a set of pronouns instead)... At the cost of being able to change them mid-game ^^;

Since the original pronoun screen wouldn't update until a new scene was displayed, I temporarily disabled the feature. But once I find a workaround, I'll bring it back!

💗 Choose how others perceive you!

You can now choose how the cast and narration perceive you! Originally, the narration was kept strictly gender-neutral (outside of pronouns and genitalia picked by the player), but this will soon change in future updates.

For more clarity: you don't get to choose the words specifically, but you can choose between masculine, feminine, and androgynous terms!

📋 Separate top and bottom genitalia!

You can now choose your tatas and pps separately! >:3

Alongside that, you can also choose your preferred body type!

I removed the "both" genitalia option because a few players still assumed it was an obscure version of "intersex". That wasn't my intention and I don't want to mislead anyone, so I took it out for now ^^;

I also didn't want to include a screenshot of the new genitalia choices in action (because it's NSFW), so y'all get the same character menu screen for the nth time instead lmao

📱 Relationship Screen Overhaul!

You can now change your own status for more immersion, and long-term Server Boosters will eventually be able to submit and use their own icon within the game as well!

Stalking finding your friends has now become easier by using "Buddy Maps"; a new app that allows you to see the location of all the cast members!

I want to offer players more incentive to check the relationship screen since they tend to miss the status updates, so hopefully this might help ;v;

It also says it "updates every few hours" so folks don't go overboard and check every 5 seconds to see where Ren is gdsghf (also keep in mind that he's a hacker lol)

🖤 Additional Scenes Update!

Day 2 received a brand new CG!!!!! Originally, I planned on only adding a few CGs sporadically throughout the game, but it didn't feel right to leave Day 2 so... empty... so I added a brand new CG to (hopefully) make things feel more balanced and natural!

If you decline Teo's offer on Day 3, Leon will now call and try to convince you to reconsider. However, players are still allowed to decline, and if they do, they'll reach a dead end.

After listening to feedback on itch, I changed some of the dialogue during Days 1-3 to make it seem more consistent! They're only small changes though, so it's honestly not worth looking for sdgjssga

🎶 Updated BGM and SFX!

I wanted to try out a different style of music to see if it fits the vibe of 14DWY more! The BGM features more acoustics to suit the "beachy" theme of Corland Bay, though I made a conscious effort to include piano elements as well to stay true to the original!!

I figured it'd be better to give players a live example before I make a poll (to see if they prefer the change or not) and publish it to Itch.

Some new SFX have also been added, though it's very minimal and honestly not that noticeable.

How to download and play the update?

(warning: clicking on the following links will open Discord!!) To download the Day 3.5 update, simply join the 14DWY Discord server, verify your age, and visit the "14dwy-updates" channel!

Alternatively, you can also wait until the update is publicly released on Itch to play it as well!! (It normally gets released shortly after a round of QA testing/getting feedback from the server, though I may release it earlier if I feel like it hehe ^^)

Enjoy!!

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should just bring back Wungo Wednesday and start a fandom collective anime rewatch

[cerubean]

sims!

[buglaur]

rufus is learning how to grow his own nectar ingredients, sawyer is bonding with the newest residents, tiny tilly is no longer tiny and mack is taking over horse maintenance duty!

[front-facing-pokemon]

rowlet nose rating 8/10. Volume = 4/3πr³ type creature

IT REALLY IS just a sphere it's great. it's wonderful. idk why i was so negative in the tags. probably bc i knew what was about to come for me in gen 7

nose rater i am so sorry to inform you but

i'm surprised you didn't run out a looooong while ago

YEAH shoutouts to that one anon a billion years ago who killed me like 39487293 times about it. popplio is epic and i will not hear otherwise. here's a li'l sneak peek:

didn't something similar but in reverse happen with lucario in rescue team? or something like that. i vaguely remember there being A Lucario in rescue team despite the fact that rescue team was a gen 3 game. i'm not gonna look it up though

[magicbats]

⚠️ new legacy alert ⚠️

we’re in moonwood mill with hanna for gen 1! she’s a scrappy free spirit who just wants to live in the woods and not interact with society

on day 2 she found a stray pup to keep her company 🌙

[clarabosswald]

hello friends i am still Alive

[pairingbrainrot]

So...

What’s the plan when these two

and these two

(possibly) GET TOGETHER TOMORROW?! 

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

posted with permission from Tomás (cheers lad)

[solradguy]

w/ how much you post bridget I just consider her like sol's adopted child ahfjdjdnf ~pumpkin anon

She might as well be lol I'll defend Bridget to the death. She's kind of in the upper-middle of my list of favorite GG characters but dude there's good trans rep in my favorite series??? I'm ride or die for that. Bridget forever 👍

[cozylittleartblog]

There's definitely a bot tsunami going on rn. And I can't stress enough how fitting that term is, as personally the waters had calmed down: up until a week ago bots had started following me a lot slower, with one every 4 days, give or take, down from the daily follow I was getting used to around January. Today? I got 4 new ones.

If my 8 follower blog has seen a sudden 400% increase in bot inhabitants, makes sense the actual, relevant blogs ones are gonna have it pretty smelly

Also I love your art :>

tsunami really is fitting, i Am a bigger blog and i'd also had, at worst, only a few every day until yesterday. the Lady Bots have found me now too as of a couple hours ago so the flood has Doubled, and they have icons now. we're nearly at 3,000 Bots Acquired, including the 200 or 300 i've blocked already. its abysmal

also, thank you! 💖

edit - i got 34 more in the literal ~2 minutes it took me to answer this

[hzdtrees]

Brackish water

[ghostoffuturespast]

Being a writer is weird.

[cherryistired]

introducing Jack Justice, aka the one and only Spiderman! (spiderverse folks tend to call him Jumping Spider or Jumping Jack, to his incredible frustration)

he was bit by a radioactive jumping spider, so (on top of the normal spiderman powers) he jumps/parkours around instead of webswinging

[coquelicoq]

i finally wrote an xword that i think might be nyt-submittable...i originally wrote it for the local paper though so i now have to go back through and rework the clues to take out the specific local ones and make some of the others harder. i know exactly which day of the week this would run in the nyt (if it gets accepted) because this type of theme always runs on the same day, so at least i know which clue difficulty to aim for, but i'm still finding it difficult to hit that precise level! i'm used to just making the clues as easy as possible because my local paper's audience is mostly people who aren't xword aficionados. i already reworked this puzzle a couple times based on feedback from friends and family but that was all still when i thought i'd be running it in my local paper. i kinda just want to be done with it but i've never had a theme and fill i thought were completely nyt-worthy before!