#longstory turkeyhawk

[theshadowrealmitself]

In the middle of Abby and Hanniferjane arguing like

[bloomdigital]

Happy Holidays

Hello, again, everyone!

This year has been a wild ride, yet somehow we reached the end! ( …Of the year, the wild ride, or our stamina - who knows?!)

For the next 3 weeks, Bloom will be taking a well deserved holiday break. We’ll be back at work in the second week of January. 

Before we go, we wish everyone great holidays! Stay tuned to our socials though, we’ve scheduled some brand new (and amazing) holiday art.

Look forward to our announcements next year! There’s some good stuff coming up!

Oh, and our games Holiday Sales are almost here! 

Nintendo

Europe

Sale date: December 16th ~ December 29th 2024

50% discount all Bloom games, including Cribbage Club

North America

Sale date: December 23rd ~ January 5th 2025

50% discount all Bloom games, including Cribbage Club

Steam Global

Sale date: December 19th ~ January 2nd 2025

50% discount all Bloom games, including Cribbage Club

Bloom Gumroad Store

Sale date: December 27th ~ January 8th

30% discount in all merch and Bloom games, including Cribbage Club

Use: HAPPY2025

Oh, yeah, and do not forget to wishlist LongStory 2, coming 2025!

Wishlist on Steam

Happy Holidays and see you back in 2025!

[shelandsorcery]

Twelve hours remain -- it's your very last chance to preorder LongStory 2 on kickstarter! We're fully funded, and everyone who preorders is getting both our original LongStory and LongStory 2 games as a thank you for helping us make this game come to life! And we've opened up add-ons for all those who want to make sure they don't miss out on our Turkeyhawk toque* or washi tapes!

Thank you so much for all the love and sweet messages while this KS has been running! This game means a lot to this team, I'm so grateful we funded, and I hope when we get it into your hands that you'll love it as much as we do.

* a toque is a beanie if you're outside of canada

[henloyoustinkychiste-blog]

LSTIEN LONGSTORY IS A SOF LGBTQ+ DATING SIM IT’S CUTE AND SWEET AND CHARMING AND OH MY GOD I LOVE THESE KIDS SO MUUUUUCCCHHH @longstorygame

[choose-your-own-url]

Just a quick sketch of the best LongStory character.

[skeletonboner]

Im playing Longstory and Im dating Turkeyhawk. I dont think there are any other dating sims that let you date a school mascot.

[lezbat-moved-blog]

What's up I'm M, I dated a turkeyhawk in longstory game, and I too am stuck on mobile

[theshadowrealmitself]

I got a bit over 20 minutes in the game then promised to hang out with Nora during the weekend without realizing it would be during the thing I promised Turkeyhawk I would attend and I had to delete the save file and redo it so I didn’t have to bail on one of them 😭

[bloomdigital]

What does turkey hawk face look like

[bloomdigital]

turkeyhawk is a boy, girl, fluid or non binary? or they're something bigger and impossible to comprehend?

A feather flutters Swift as misty summer rain-- Fall; do we not, too?

(Is there not the heart of a poet that beats under all those feathers? Can we comprehend the heart of a poet? A paradox, my friend, a poet's heart is at once elusive and eternally bared raw.

But in answer to your question, DEFINITELY something bigger and impossible to comprehend...)

Play the free demo, the full first episode of LongStory 2, and perhaps the heart that is Turkey will do something like emerging from their feathery chrysallis.

-MJ

[bloomdigital]

Guess why the game is taking forever to come out

Hi, everyone!

This is Alan! I’m taking over Bloom’s social media (And if you’ve checked our latest newsletter, you probably knew that already)!

I’m dying to let you know about all of what the team is working on, buuuuut, I still cannot! ):

What I can definitely let you all know is that there’s a few projects we’re working on and soooooooon we’ll be announcing them! (Keep your eyes peeled! (Also, follow our socials - Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky!))

Speaking of which, have you seen Turkeyhawk’s takeovers? What do you think about them?? Let me know your opinions!

Coming up next, it’s Alex taking over! And I’m sharing the video here a few hours before, so you all can see it firsthand!

I bet everyone’s super excited to get their hands on LongStory 2, right? Soon we’ll have info on release dates!

Meanwhile, what are your craziest theories on why it is taking so long? Let me see if anyone can guess.

Oh, and in case you missed it, here’s a pic of Chester in his Halloween outfit:

See y’all next time!

-Alan

[bloomdigital]

Maybe the true turkeyhawk was the friends we made along the way

[petitions to have a Turkey plushie put into mass production]

WHY IS THIS SO CUTE?! 😭

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[theshadowrealmitself]

I haven’t finished it yet but I think this is a game that doesn’t take too long to finish (I remember it being longer but then again I could only play it in small amounts at the time, thoughts so far) Longstory spoilers ahead:

• You can pick she/her, they/them, and he/him pronouns, but when you choose your appearance unfortunately there’s only what’s obviously a boy or a girl model so that sucks

• Also I think the they/them pronouns were added later? I don’t remember them from when I played as a kid and also the game just doesn’t fully acknowledge it?

Like, so another character shows up with they/them pronouns and there’s a conversation about the pronouns they use now, the locker room they’re gonna use, etc, but no one acknowledges that the player character also goes by they/them pronouns and there’s no convo about what locker room the player uses

• It’s more story style than game style, the choices don’t seem to affect too much? And you’re also not really given choices that could take you away from the predestined plot, so that’s not really bad, I like those types of games, but it’s a little bit of a let down if you go into it thinking your choices matter

• Because you don’t really get those choices tho, you get quickly dragged into middle school drama and can only pick choices a middle schooler would pick, so it’s frustrating in a fun way, screaming at them “make better choices!!” while they don’t, it makes me feel like I’m being stressed out by memories of younger me, it’s fun in a weird way

• It keeps giving you the option to try and romance almost anyone else at any point, I don’t know what happens if you try to do that while being with someone else, I live and die by the Turkeyhawk

• This is somewhat scratching the itch for a romance game I’ve been craving, Turkeyhawk is so sweet, but again, not really an actual “choices matter” game, so I’m still gonna have to find another game so I can go back to happily farming afterwards

• I have so much nostalgia for this game oh my god, I never made it up to the point where you actually meet Em and there’s a line about how “it’s nice to finally meet you” and you don’t even know Em, I waited something like 10 years to meet you, I’m glad you’re okay

• I haven’t fully explored it yet but I have a creeping concern that there’s no fandom for this game 🥺 which sucks

Anyways there’s still stuff going on, still playing it, but if you want to once again experience middle school drama that somehow feels like end of the world drama, I definitely recommend this game!

[bloomdigital]

Love the game, can’t wait to play, but I am curious. You have mentioned a few times how the gaming industry has not been to inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community, which is very true and as someone who is the fact that more are coming out is great. You seem to only concentrate on Marcel’s storylines which is great, but it’s the same as everywhere else every other LGBTQ+ show movie or game. It’s all about the gay male characters you can find hundreds of things for them. When it comes to lesbians it’s such a small percentage so I’m just wondering why?

Is Marcel the most popular option or just who’s easier for you to animate?

That's a good question with a few different components, let's break it down:

Marcel is definitely a fan favourite in terms of the dateable characters. There's a lot of fan love for Marcel in terms of requests, fanart and marketing, with Hanna as a close second, then Turkey and Nora, then Colin and Abby being the least discussed. Doesn't mean he's the only one we focus on in-game, he's 1/5 dateable characters in LongStory, and there was such a strong demand for her that in LongStory 2 players have the opportunity to date Hanna if they choose to, you can play the demo to see what a date with Hanna is like! So the breakdown for dateable characters ends up being three girls, two boys and one Turkeyhawk, plus a crush on enby Em if you choose! We're pretty happy with that.

Marcel never actually identifies as gay or queer--see what I wrote about bringing sexuality and gender variables into LongStory 2 for some more info on that! A playthrough of the demo shows that he doesn't really know what he is dating a boy player character, which is a very real experience at any age, questioning or curious. There's only a couple of characters that really outright state they might be queer, bi or pan. In LongStory, Abby states very upfront that she's into guys and girls, and Nora admits that she has a crush on one of her guildmates, a girl from Australia. Colin, on the other hand, isn't bothered one way or another about dating a boy, girl or enby person. Turkey just has a big heart and a lot of love to give to anyone. Human sexuality is huge, diverse and amorphous! No two people date for the same reason, or feel the same way about the person they're dating, that's an experience we very much want to capture.

Choice is the name of the game in LongStory. Kind of touching on what I wrote in that variables thing, every single player is going to come to a dating game with different expectations, and different reads on the characters, both the player character and who they want to date. Since we let players choose their gender presentation and pronouns, we wanted to make sure players could access the story of whatever character they were interested in without getting bogged down in "she/he/they wouldn't date you because--"

With our other game, Later Daters, we tried something different, our characters do have canonical preferences because they're older and have a history. For LongStory the philosophy was that younger people would be a bit more curious and open to different experiences in dating.

But don't take my word for it! Play the game for yourself, you can very much be a girl who dates girls! But be warned, if you date Hanna there will be an itinerary and an exit survey.

-MJ

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[bloomdigital]

Therapist: Turkeyhawk in suspenders isn't real they can't hurt you

Turkeyhawk in suspenders:

Okay, but going back through some old LongStory concept art... Turkey in a bowtie, tho?

-MJ

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Hiya everyone! As promised, we thought we’d share another character concept drawing of one of your favourite characters, the one and only Turkeyhawk. Safe to say their looks have changed slightly since then ;) 

PS. We’ve got lots to share so if you’re interested in any other specific characters let us know! 

[bloomdigital]

Happy THANKSGIVING!

A friendly reminder that we have lots to be thankful for. Primarily that LongStory is launching on STEAM in 14 days!