We're thrilled to announce Boyband Hell has received the Qweerty Gamers Android Port Grant! 

Huge shoutout to Zejbo, a beta reader and fan who recommended the grant to us! 

 Our team will release on mobile with improved and extended storylines and branches, more delicious teasing banter and a total ✨glow-up✨ We’re giving wisecracking Dixon, broody Aero, sweet but guarded Blue, and mysterious El more time to shine! We'll also look into including Superfan points for bonus unlockable options, rewards/achievements, and getting Foodbot to play a bigger role. 

 Of course, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the future of Boyband Hell! We're already working on improving the gameplay experience and we’d welcome more honest feedback.

If you want to provide✨glow-up feedback✨, you can try our jam version of Boyband Hell right from browser. 

You can consider this an alpha build!

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Demeru will be adapting our UI for the port! They're our incredible CG artist for Boyband Hell and director/UX designer for Satan is an Astronaut (which ranked #1 in UI for Spooktober)! Demeru has already started with some mockups and we’ll have more updates soon! 

 Here’s some of our moodboard ideas.

Afuera will be our programmer for the port. She has worked with Demeru and I on Chiamour before and already took a deep look at our code base! She has professional experience adapting apps for and releasing on the Google Play Store, which is the requirement of the grant. Alex, our main programmer for the jam has given us his blessing and bade us good luck! Afuera has started reworking the phone modes, researching ways to implement achievements, and made our jam build accessible for web!  (This is major, as our previous team have tried and failed to do multiple times due to number of file/size constraints.) 

 I (Jaqui) will be revising the script to account for a more readable mobile VN word count (18 words per line) and working with beta readers + editors for an extra scrumptious delivery with new goodies. Next, I'll be coordinating with voice actors and hopefully get this fully (or mostly voiced! Majority of licensing contracts and invoices have been sent through (after swimming in paperwork and several bank headaches haha)! 

Lopson will continue to support QA (lucky they have an android phone already), and Qweerty Gamers will be sending Afuera a temp android phone so she can regularly test while building. Rafe who has also worked with the rest of the team is another set of eyes that will help me manage production! Matri our original sprite artist will be adding new poses for the boys, and Noisy will help with polishing. 

We’re all excited to go on this journey with our fellow grant recipients, the Heavy Thought team. 

Their VN The Office Type has a short demo on itch and steam! I never knew I wanted to date a calculator or a stapler until I played XD

Thanks for being a part of our journey, and we’d love your feedback on the Boyband Hell jam build!

If you just want to stay up to date with news, you can sign up here and check your preferences! We might just share a sneak peek of the new and improved Boyband Hell for the chatsim jam with some of our glow-up updates! 

 P.S. In other fun news, I just went through a transformative learning experience programming Angelblood, a sapphic vampyric VN for the Queer Vampire VN jam! Take a look for a sneak peek at the level of polish and ATL we’d like to add to Boyband Hell too. ^^

P.P.S. I’ll also be attending GDC for the first time from Mar 18-24 with Qweerty Gamers, our grant organizers. Shout out to Dames Making Games Scholars program for making this possible!