
52: Barking Up the Right Tree with Lucy Morris (Best Friend Forever)
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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Dating Sims: The First Game I Played
Zach: I was trying to get a sense of what people who play dating sims are looking for and like what the genre is about. We never marketed ourselves as a standard dating sim either, so you would always look at our content be like well that's a bit weird," he says. "I'm not going to expect stereotypical content from this but it's been an interesting lesson on player expectation" The game received two negative reviews after its launch despite having no CGs or kissing scenes in-game. Zach has worked with games such as Toki-miki memorial which have things like time management CGs in their games.
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