Hello everyone! I'm here to talk about the survey I put up in the last build and all the responses I got. There's some good information in there so let me go through most of it. You can read the full results here.

But first, I want to mention that the Test Build for Day 2 of Owen's route is now available for all Blooming patrons. If you want access to that, consider becoming a Blooming patrons here.
Warning, there will be spoilers for Act 1s of both Kamil's route and Brendan's route here. Also, it's highly recommended you read the survey results while reading this blog as I'll be going in chronological order with the exception of one question I'll mention later. Anyways, let's get on with the survey results.

There are 42 responses in total and only 13 submitted their online handles (Okay it's actually 11. 2 of the responses are just what device they use.) I like knowing who exactly enjoys my stuff but it's understandable considering they might want to be anonymous or maybe they didn't think their handle was anything worth mentioning.

Most people found my game through itch.io. That's not surprising considering itch.io gives great visibility to many games on the platform and I haven't done much marketing outside of itch.io. But not everyone said itch.io so it's worthwhile to get the word out to reach more people. Almost 30% of respondents are patrons. Seems like my patrons are more engaged with my work than my non-patrons. Makes sense, but I'm just saying, if you non paying fans want to get into my good graces, you might want to double down on the engagement. I'm joking, most of my fans are in my good graces.

Over 40% of respondents have played one of my other VNs while another almost 40% have at least heard of them. I don't have much to say other than that it's good that there's still interest in my non-furry work. When asked about what made people actually download the game, a lot of the responses can be grouped into several categories. They like FVNs, they like beefy furries, they like beefy bottoms, they like a good mystery, and/or they like me. Two people actually said they read this VN because of Minoh's review of the game, which is pretty sweet. But yeah, a good amount came because there were bottom love interests in the game, so I definitely consider it worthwhile to include the sexual positions document in the itch.io page. A couple of people mentioned Brendan or Kamil specifically.

As for what people expected, we got a variety of responses. A lot of people were expecting a simple (maybe even generic) slice of life furry dating sim while others were fully expecting a murder mystery. One person said "BEASTARS with big beefy bottoms." which is amazing. A decent amount said they didn't know what they expected and even more said they were (pleasantly) surprised at what the VN offered. For the most part, this VN is a mix of dating sim with mystery, so I'd say I did a decent job conveying that through the itch page and the thumbnail.

There were a lot of VNs mentioned in this survey. Of note are Burrows (7 mentions), Lustful Desires (6 mentions), and Killigan's Treasure (5 mentions). Also Small on Top got 3 mentions despite not being a visual novel. 6 people said that BYH was their favorite which is always a delight to here<3. Other than that, 5 mentions of Minotaur Hotel and a variety of other answers, though I do want to mention the two mentions of Killigan's Treasure being their fav. As for who followed who, you can check out the answers for yourself as they go with the previous two questions.

Most people liked the VN, with 1 third liking it a good amount and 2 thirds liking it a lot. Pretty good if I do say so myself although keep in mind these are just the people who took the survey. For favorite main character, Brendan takes the lead with 19 votes! He was always a fan favorite and his following is still going strong. Rex and Kamil aren't too far ahead being tied in second place with 15 votes. Makes sense considering Rex is the protagonist while Kamil has gotten his route updated. Everyone else has 5 votes at most with Vlad having only 2 votes. As for why people liked these characters, there's not really a common answer other than "they're hot". That being said, people who said they liked Rex tend to note his endearing himbo protagonist tendencies while people said they liked Brendan for his kind personality and Kamil for his relatablility.

For the side characters, Wyatt and Yousef easily got the most votes, with Fiero being a distant third. Kyle and Dai also got a decent amount of votes. A lot of the things people said about Yousef was that he got involved with Kamil's route and was able to guide Rex into confronting Kamil about his homophobia. Meanwhile, people said that they were curious about Wyatt and want to see him grow after Tucker's death.

Most people did Brendan's route first, not too surprising considering what we just discussed. Surprisingly more people did Connor's route first than Kamil's route. I've been told that Connor's route feels like the "canon" one, and this might be one reason why. Most people have done both Brendan's and Kamil's routes, while Owen's and Vlad's had less than half of people reading. This next one's interesting. Although it's mostly even, more people prefer Kamil's route over Brendan's. It was actually leaning towards Brendan's early on which had me concerned that I didn't do Kamil's route justice. Thankfully, that's not the case, as far as I can tell anyways. For the reasons given it's not really consistent so I'll just gloss over it for now.

For favorite scene, the most common response was the bathroom scene with Brendan for obvious reasons. Again, the other answers vary a lot, but many of them come from the more serious parts of Kamil's route as well as cuter moments from either Brendan's or Kamil's routes.

Most people like the art but there were a bunch of comments saying that would like more detail in the art, as well as pointing out some oddities, and the the desire for more expressions. I am aware of those points but I don't want to redo my art too much so that's why I haven't changed it so far. For the writing, a lot of the issues mentioned are quite variable and don't have a lot of overlap with each other so let's move on to the next point.

First impressions of Kamil range from "wow he's super hot" to "omg he's so nice" and to "wow he's kind of an ass." At least one person said they thought he was homophobic at first glance which is pretty funny. A lot of people's favorite things about Kamil are his pecs and ass (seriously, look at the responses), his kindness, his efforts in making his friends happy, and how relatable his issues are. What people didn't like his homophobia, the fact that he was taking steroids, his tendency to avoid conflicts, his association with mean people, his habit of being a pushover, his frequency of him yelling at Rex, Oh. Okay so there's a lot to not like about Kamil but that's just the kind of character we got with him, take it or leave it. Day 6 overall improved people's opinions of Kamil although a considerable amount were pretty neutral about it.

Yousef's definitely the most liked football team member while Dai and Liam are easily the least popular. Everyone else are generally liked with little variance. That's pretty on par with how I expected people to react to the football team as a whole. Fiero is also generally liked with a good amount being neutral of him. I'm glad people like Fiero as I've mentioned before. I'm going to skip forward just a bit and mention that most people really like Rex with only 1 person giving him a 2 out of 5 in rating.

I'm not going to talk about any of the theories mentioned or how people expect the story to continue because I don't want to accidentally give away what will happen. So all I will say is that there are some very interesting responses I've gotten.

Around 2 thirds of respondents hugged in the shower and/or touched Kamil's backside. As you'll notice, less people said they touched his front side even though you have to do that in order to get the back scene, so I take it people assumed which end result they got rather than everything they did. Making Kamil ejaculate is the rarest option because that is the hardest scene to get in the game so far, and it has its own variation that's possible to miss if you didn't do the proper things beforehand (I've seen people get that scene but miss the variation). So it is impressive that around a fourth of respondents got that scene.

I don't really have much to say about what people want to see in the NSFW scenes because it really comes down to taste. That said, a lot of people want to see more Brendan, Kamil, and bottoms. As for what people suggested to improve the game, again the responses were quite varied, with a bunch saying that the game is fine as is, but I will a few. One person said to make some love interests not alcohol or homophobic which is pretty funny. At two people have said they'd like more indications on what route they're on. Getting every possible variation is intentionally hard because there's just a lot of choices to be made and some character actions only make sense if Rex does specific things. We can include scenes that subtly nudge the player which branch they're on but that's about all we can do really.

People are asking Owen's route to be less dramatic and more wholesome compared to Brendan's and Kamil's routes which I find hilarious. Other than that, people do think he's going to be the cute/sweet one of the five and are curious about his louder side. I hope you guys enjoy his route when we get to it.

Funny joke question.

Anyways, the last question I got a lot of love from the responses. Thanks for all the kind words!

That's it from me! I hope you guys enjoy Owen's route next month!