The First Date Update: Be a Man, Again

Ray Richards
3 min readJan 11, 2021

Romancing the Sun: dating and find love or the sun goes out. Feel life where the world seems close and intense, a bad date can feel like the end of the world and might be.

Step in our main character’s head and (his\her\their) shoes as they make friends, meet people, go to parties, and date!

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The first Date Update is the introduction to chapter 2.

There are two story paths to explore as well as alternate dialogue options. Two routes means there are two endings, other than the game over.

*this kiss does not happen on the first date

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Changelog

  • A cute coffee date
    -Mr. Darcy Path
    -minor grammar
    -around 3,000 words
    -Our first date location
    -Three very special new renders
  • -Bug fix where you con’t play as a man (explained below)

The full chapter two update is coming soon!
-15,000 more words of the story!
-13 more scenes (There is a special bonus scene)
-Continued paths for both route
-Over two hundred more renders
-Green Hair
-Lore! (avoidable)

We were thinking of waiting for the full chapter 2 release but I forgot about Indielift. :P

I had this version of the demo that included more story for the Game Jolt release. (I understand Itch more than other platforms).
I think it just feels a little nicer. Though, the original demo ending on the crisis hook I thought was a good touch and show a bit more variety to the story.
We are three editing sessions and four programming sessions from completing Chapter 2.

Thank you for playing and giving us your time.

Happy New Year!

There was a but with the first date update. You couldn’t play as a man.

Minor bug fix. I turned this “+” into “=”

I, Ray, am the writer. Bee’s Knees is the programmer and editor.

I put the first date update together myself and I didn’t test the new pronoun tags. If you downloaded the .02.02 First Date Update please download the .02.02.1 if you want to play as a man.
I haven’t updated the Mac Version. That should be ready later tonight.

On a related note. I was told about this bug from the Indie Lift Game jam by snowinn. Check out their games here https://itch.io/profile/snowinn. Take a look at the other indie games in indie left, all of which were made durring 2020! https://itch.io/jam/indie-lift-2020/entries

Check out Romancing the Sun

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Ray Richards

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