we're finally notdotq anymore

Four days ago, I released v0.01 of this “Visual Novel” called CCY-senpai wa 17sai. v0.01 was a text-only playable demo with one three choices to make and a measly 1600 words of text, tutorial included. The next day, I released v0.02, a massive improvement with background images, more characters, and twice as much total text. Now, I bring you v0.03, featuring almost 100% more text, a new background image, six or so new menus, and a new character!

Right now it seems I’m prioritizing my work on this over more serious writing, so please reward my efforts with helpful feedback :)

So yeah. Please, download this and test it out. Even if you’ve played previous versions. There’s a lot of new content, save games from previous versions should still work, and Skip Mode should remember what text you read in previous versions (it does for me).

Major change not already mentioned: there is now a big warning below the the first menu. It should properly instruct players of the importance of the first choice. I added this message because a lot of people seem to have been clicking “Dude, you’re gayer than Baka-Raptor” button for the lulz. These people then complain about how gay the game is. With this menu, you select CCY’s sexuality.

Download whichever build floats your platform:
Mac: .zip, 7.1mb
Linux: .bz2, 3.8mb
Windows: .zip, 4.6mb

Anime bloggers featured/referenced thus far:
Baka-Raptor (mentioned)
CCY (male)
CJ (female)
Jason Miao (male)
lolikitsune (male)
Marmot (female^[1])
Mike (mentioned)
Omo (female, genderbent)
Owen S. (male)

Known features which seem like bugs:
- none!
- “Help” button bug fixed, button is now properly hidden

Again—I don’t have character art, and I likely won’t ever if someone doesn’t contribute it. There will be credits. There probably won’t be payment. I want this to be an open “resource” for the aniblogosphere. So that people can say “I see what you did thar” and make their own VNs. Yeah.

Art? Contribute it.
Music? Contribute it.

I’m focusing on writing, and throwing in cop-out backgrounds where I can.

Random Thought: should I begin producing more organized changelogs? ;)

Footnotes

1. genderbent?! [↩]