I am hard at work creating the backend for the first 1 on 1 scene planned to come in version 0.8. And with such close proximity to the girl, there is a question that needs answering about how we want the MC to behave, or more specifically: if we want him to have a voice.
Unlike the change for giving him a body, which was essential to do and could not be prevented for these scenes to have much better flexibility, I decided to put this one up for a vote and see what the community wants. With him already having a body he might already alienate a couple of players. The intention was and is still for him to be more like a blank slate without a character on his own... since you are the character itself and give him one by your choices in the game.
So adding a voice pushes him a bit more into the specific character direction, giving him something tangible to associate with and thusly removing some of that blank slate design.
However, what a voice is good for is giving instructions that are non-diverging dialog choices. Let's run through an example scene to understand what I mean:
Diverging Dialog
Girl is giving a blowjob
You say "Now spread your legs" or "Now turn around"
Next segment starts depending on your choice
This is fine and does not need a voice. What the MC says (or rather what you choose) directly impacts the next thing and is very similar to a chat choice.
Non-Diverging Dialog
Girl is kneeling
You say "Now open your mouth"
Scene continues
These examples are very simplified but I think you get the point. Here, what the player says doesn't change the outcome and is just there to give more flavor to the scene. This can be praise for how well a girl is doing, instructions on how she needs to do things, etc. And they come with the appropriate response depending on their character and the story path you chose.
In general terms: I try to avoid these. The best example here would be Lydia's "Wet Actress" chat scenario (her masturbation after the acting part), where the final messages are automatically played by the game without the player needing to choose them. Because if he needed to do so, the chat / scene would interrupt and thusly break the flow until the player makes the only choice available. I have changed the design of these since that chat so that these "intermission" or "non-diverging" things to say do not appear in later chats.
So: we need to determine what we want here. We can
Remove the choice all together, changing the design of the scene. This works well as I've done so with all chats after "Wet Actress", but it does remove some flavor. In the example above, the girl would just open her mouth without instruction.
Have the player actively make the choice. The scene will pause but the player keeps full control over the MC.
Have these appear as chat bubbles, not read out load. The system for the visual text element during a scene is still being designed and it is unsure if there even will be one. This choice will have them pop up as speech bubbles like you see when playing a rhythm segment. Whether you read them or not is your choice.
Have the MC speak. No chat bubble, he would say the words out loud and the girl would react to them.
We can also choose to make this an experimental feature where you get both a scene with bubbles and the same scene again with speech and you vote which you prefer after having seen the system in action. If you lean toward this, please tell me in the Discord. I will not add it as a choice here because it would muddle up the option 3 & 4 result.
I want to end this with a more precise example to reiterate on why I want this voted on and why I think intermission dialog adds flavor. Let's use Celine's deepthroat scene as an example since I can see where the results there are headed.
She is giving blowjob
MC: "Come on baby, open your mouth wide."
MC pushes in deeper
MC: "You're such a good girl, I can already feel the back of your throat."
Pushes deeper
MC: "Open your throat for me baby!"
Pushes in all the way
Still a bit simplified than what I am aiming for but you get the point. Without this "flavor", the deepthroat would progress without any intermission, the MC would push deeper and deeper and the scene would progress without and in-between dialog.
Voting ends May 8. I will break ties with my own vote.