A BL dating sim with reversible roles. Explore town, enjoy stories with lots of CGs, pursues 5+ guys and build career as a voice actor.
The creators, meyaoigames got in touch with me and gave me a heads up on this ambitious BL game they are making! Do check them out, support their Kickstarter campaign and play their demo!
Title: Seiyuu Danshi: English BL / Yaoi Dating Sim / Visual Novel
Started by: meyaoigames (meyaoi.com)
Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/1X3RYCo
Deadline: 20 Mar 2016
Goal: US$5,000 (FUNDED! Now for the stretch goals)
Estimated release June 2017
Platforms: PC, Mac
Official description (info below edited from their kickstarter page/screen grabbed from their game demo):
What is Seiyuu Danshi?
Seiyuu Danshi is a Japanese-style Visual Novel / Dating sim (whichever you prefer) with voice acting as its main theme. In this game, you’ll play as a newbie voice actor who strives for the Seiyuu Award. On his way to reach his goal, though, he will still live his daily life and YOU get to make the choices on how he should spend the days.
Do you want him to take on extra lessons in order to reach the goal faster? Or, would you like to go on a romantic date with the guy you accidentally met at shopping mall? It’s ALL your choice.
The game is highly interactive and there’s no usual restriction in plot that you get in ordinary VNs. If you don’t feel like working, feel free to slack. If you feel like being single for the rest of your life, yes it can be done (why would you do it in a DATING sim, though?). Just keep in mind that ALL your actions matter and will decide how the game ends!
Wanna try it out firsthand? You can play the demo NOW!
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Disclaimer: All parts of the demo are still subject to changes. The final build of the game may differ from the demo, but you get the idea on how we want this game to be.
The demo contains only the first two weeks of the game. Some features are still disabled in this demo, but you get the rough idea on how we want to approach this game. Notes: The demo has NOT been proofread, so there might be some grammatical mistakes here and there. However, we want you to know that the final game will be thoroughly proofread by professionals, so don’t worry.
For the full game, you can play as the main character for around 1 year game time. There are 5 love interests + 1 secret character that are woo-able. The estimated completion date is Summer 2017. It might sound far away, but we don’t want to make promises that we can’t fulfill. This estimate is a worst-case one, so there’s a chance it might be released sooner than that.
Story:
You’ll play as a newbie voice actor, who’s also a runaway, who’s on the verge of being kicked out from his agency. Going back home is not an option, thus begin his journey to become a good-enough-voice-actor-to-not-get-kicked-out-of-the-agency! Join his journey and woo some guys on the way!
- REVERSIBLE ROLES In Seiyuu Danshi, you are able to choose whether you want to TOP or BOTTOM. Even better, you are NOT restricted to one role in a relationship and can freely choose your preferred role in EACH intercourse!
- FOREPLAY MODE Are you tired of those intercourses without preparation? In Seiyuu Danshi, you have to go on “FOREPLAY MODE” and prepare your partner before the actual intercourse! Each character has different preferences in what parts they want to stimulate! Don’t forget to keep your role preferences in mind when stimulating your partner! (To-be-added feature: Flipping the guys. Do you want to see his face and abs? Just toggle the “front view”. Wanna see his bum, instead? Ask him to flip over by toggling the “behind view”)
- DRESS-UP SCENE Before going on a date, you can choose which clothes you want to wear. Each of the guys like different types of clothing, so keep that in mind! Psst, you may get additional affection bonus when you “accidentally” wear the same clothes as your partner! There’ll be 500+ kinds of clothes consists of casual, preppy, funky, elegance and sporty.
- ROAM THE TOWN Our game features the clickable town map that you can travel through. Spend time with your love or spend your own sweet time in the nearby cafe… it’s your choice.
- LOVERS LIFE Unlike other dating sims, in which the game ends after the main character gets a lover, in this game you can still play even after you get a lover! Not only experiencing the intimate moments, you also get to argue and fight like actual couple!
- JOB SYSTEM In this game, there is a unique range of voice acting jobs, starting from anime gigs to BL game works, whether to accept them or not is your choice! Keep in mind, though, that you have to go on an audition first before you get the job!
- WALLPAPER SYSTEM Your phone has a wallpaper that will change depending on your level of relationship with someone! When you have a crush on someone, your wallpaper will be that of your crush and when you get a boyfriend, your wallpaper picture will be that of your boyfriend and you!
- DATE SYSTEM On weekends, you can take on the guys on a date on various date locations. Spend your time and energy carefully so that you can increase the most affection!
- CG GALLERY & SCENE REPLAY SYSTEM Every dating sim will not be complete without these two features. This game will have a CG gallery where you can view CGs that you have obtained and replay the scenes!
Characters:
About the creators:
Meyaoi Games is comprised of a very small team, consisting only two sisters who love both yaoi and games.
Stretch goals and Voice acting:
If the voice acting stretch-goal is met, the cast will be decided by backers voting (those with [Complete Digital Pack] tier and above) via private forum.
Social media promotion campaign
Any tweets containing #SeiyuuDanshi hashtag will be counted towards reaching the goal! Once the goal has been reached, additional contents, which is 4-koma chibi manga and childhood pics of the characters will be created.
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I am struggling opening up the game, it shows its opening up but nothing is coming up on my screen .-. now Im confused on what to do. Idk if its because I have a Mac it could be though.
@ponytale: Ahhh this game looks so awesome!! I haven’t played bl game in so looong, but this looks so good because of all the new stuff~ I would love to play it!*V* Finally something different.
@kitsunebi: Where is this new nitrochiral game??!*o*
I think the only rpg type bl I have played was Oujisama 1/2 lol *my first BL game I ever played sniffles unfortunately I didn’t get far because of language barrier and no guide for it at the time (2007). lol;; The drama cd’s I loved too! 0///0 I was so big on drama cd’s back then (begged friends to burn them for me then).v< ahh~).
@Dandycorsets: yeah it’s cute :D go try the demo! As for N+C’s new game, its currently codenamed as “slow damage”. Artwork is done by Yamada Uirou this time :)
http://www.nitrochiral.com/game/slow-damage/
The next issue of Cool-B mag will have the inside scoop it seems. I’ll update again when I get it.
Ahhh! That’s so awesome that Yamada is doing artwork for it! She’s mostly been doing ad and promotional works N+C for good long while now.XD (actually still have one of her poster calendar up on my door still…it’s out dated lol, but I really like the art.)
I can’t imagine what slow-damage would be about. It kinda remind me of a mash of Togainu and Dramatical for some reason.; With all the games coming from independent makers now big company’s like these have to be more creative.So i’m excited to see what story is about!
Been looking up stuff and found this:
http://nichegamer.com/2015/07/26/get-gender-bent-in-witch-boy-magical-piece-now-coming-west/
Old info but It looks so good too! It remind me of that one anime with magical boys that I could just not get past epi 1!XD The art is nice and different.
Oh and I looked at the video for Seiyuu danshi on features, and the four-play feature remind me a lot of a old bl game I played long time ago *had just remembered when I saw it! XD Oujisama 1/2 isn’t the first BL I played it was a Fan created game by Inma based on Yami no matsui. I played it back in 2002-2003!;;; XoX How could I forget; Basically there is a part in the game where you use mouse to undress chara~ (I don’t think this game is still available now? If it is you should try it sometime~ it’s short and cute.Very retro! XD my first exposure to BL sim game. As for regular sim it was Thousand arms for PS1back in the days. So fun~ ;v;)
I will definitely give this a try. I like it when Dating Simulations are not just bookreading+questions.
I`m still looking for a good RPG one. Till now I often had the problem that good/interesting system+good character/relationship development is something really difficult to get.
It´s great how nowadays nearly everyone can make their ideas come to life through this platforms.
I also like how more and more Dating sims come to Steam, will be released outside Japan.
Finally Fans can show what they want and will be heard.
Thinking about BL games…
Did you see the Teasersite for Nitro+Chiral`s new game?
I hope you post some information on it when you find something.
I`m so exited somehow…\(^o^)/….although I don`t know anything about it…”^^
Finally I got my hands on Lamento. I always wanted to play that one but couldn`t afford it.
@kitsunebi: :D yeah! More options for independent creators are available nowadays so its great!
I’ll definitely post updates when more I find more info about the new N+C game. It’s kinda sad they don’t do the specials for valentine’s day, white day events anymore :( But hopefully they work on something for April Fools!
Lamento has quite a long playing time, so I think you’ll get to spend lots of time with the cat boys :D
Thank you for sharing this =)
This BL game seems intriguing, and I really like Kazunori Toru, cause he’s cute and also looks like Akashi Seijurou from Kuroko no Basket.