Dammit, I was meant to just play the two games, like them, and move on, not let this become my latest hyper fixation... :(
Now with my rambling... I LOVE this game! Like, a lot! I loved all the characters but I swear I am so torn between Vincent and Ashton. I always liked Ashton since I knew his character more (my pwecious widol yanbaby), but VINCENT my precious crossdresser you... I don't even know how to describe how much I love him djfdjij
Also, I actually kinda like Ashino! Just a little tho (Idk I just like evil mfs at times). Although at the same time I REALLY need him to cash in his chips, especially so since ik he's a liar (can't say how I know due to spoilers)... he can bullshit the others BUT NOT ME GRRRRRR
That's all! One thing's for sure, I'll definitely play the full game once it's free!
THANK YOU so much for playing!!! I'm so glad you like my boys! Vincent's story and development was the most fun to write, and I'm always so glad and surprised when people actually LIKE Ashino! I made him to be the opposite of Ashton but even I'M starting to like him too! (did you try and go on a second date with him to see a secret scene? ^_^)
This game will be done very soon, I've just been busy with my youtube channel mainly, and yes it will remain free!
a few days ago i lost my laptop and had to painstakingly search for all the games i played again. and i found 99% of them except this game. i couldn't remember the name and it was stressing me outttt. i didn't even remember ashton's name properly (thought it was allen). i only remembered what ashton looked like. but i didn't want to give up because i remember loving it so much. i finally found it haha YAYYY so just leaving a comment to let you know bc PPB rotated around my head for a few days i couldn't find it!! even though i forgot his name i love ashton so much i promise </3
I've been following this game for almost 2 years now, I replay it every six months, it's a masterpiece!!! Ashton is such a cutie tho...... I love your work, thank you so much!! ♡♡
BTW.... will the full game ever be available for free or will it be only for Patreon? :(
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Seriously from the bottom of my heart that means so much to me!! I'm sorry that development is so slow, my youtube channel usually takes ALL my spare attention and energy, but I think I can finish the Reboot THIS year!
Yes it will be free, both PPG games will stay free here on itch.io. The only downside is there's no MAC or android version, nor a STEAM version (I've been trying to figure out how to upload on steam for years!) Seeing people enjoy my game and make fanart, and head canons has been amazing, and I'm so very thankful!
just played this game!! its a banger! Played for Ashton, when i saw him in a video, there was only the first date and i assumed it was just one of those dating games with no real connection with each character not continuity and just one of those games where you just skip date after date, have a little lore and move on, but once i realized Ash freaked out when i was about to leave, i was a bit surprised until i saw the whole thing, i documented this WHOLE game, or atleast a big part of it, to my boyfriend, still nervous to do the other guys as i am very loyal to my Ashy ash ash baby, might, might not, might watch a video, idk, but i can't find the survey in the WWW folder! anyone can help with that??
Thank you so much for playing!!!! Yup these two games are directly attached. Reboot is a way to get more lore about the whole world as well as the events after the first game and how it affected the other guys, with a way to find Ashton again♫
SPOILER
The "Baihr_survey" should have popped up from the first Picture Perfect Boyfriend game, it's a simple .txt file that's the last "part" of Ashton's consciousnesses. HOWEVER if you can't find it or don't want to replay the whole first game over, you can create a simple .txt file and name it "Baihr_survey" (i don't think caps matter but the underscore is there) and plop that into the www folder of PPB Reboot, just pretend it's from Ash, hehe. And Red eyed Ashton's true ending would need to be gotten as well♫
I have already played the original game and had enjoyed it immensely but this is on another level. I got caught up in the story and the whole time I was like, "Where's Ashton? Who the fluff is this guy?!", lol.
I appreciated the lore behind the main plot and the history of the characters, how they are connected. Although I love all the characters Ashton has a special place in my heart. I feel the same way about him as you do about John Doe, basically: he's disturbingly sweet. xD
Chapeau, brava!🤍
Forgive me if I made grammatical mistakes, I'm italian. - -"
Thank you so much for playing my game! I feel very happy when people are surprised by the Ashton with red eyes, (we call him Ashino as in "Ashton in name only" haha). I hope you got to unlock the real Ashton by putting the letter he gives you from the first game into this game. I am very proud of the date you can have with him, it feels so sweet even though I wrote it. I think I will be playing this game on my YouTube channel this Saturday in a live stream♫ Thank you again for playing!♫
I’ve finally played the full game (got it off of your Patreon hehe) I’m gonna be very vague just for the sake of spoilers. I started crying at the end. This game has helped me through rough times, and gave me things to look forward to. It’s been a solid what, 3 years now? I’ve been following this games development since day one! First game and all. So in the end, of course I’m gonna be at least a littleeee bit emotional. Thank you for creating these silly characters I love so much, especially ash :) (and Ashino, he deserves love too.) looking forward for the full game to come out on here too!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Man has it been THREE years?! My baby boys have grown and changed so much from a little game based on YB to having their own lore and arcs, and I'm beyond excited that people love my boys (even Ashino♫) I'm glad you got to see the ending, I can't wait for more people to see it, I look at the final picture and tear up a little myself. I appreciate it so much that you've followed my game!
just finished the game and OMG!!! it was so interesting??? i was so invested in the lore and stories. Like how vincent and john had their own interesting story while kadsey is having an existantial crisis. i actually dont dislike ashino like how i did from the start. and the 4th wall breaks were so interesting?! i hope theres not a single bits and pieces left for me to dig through ^^
i love the backgrounds too, like how it made the characters stand out more. It also reminded me of John Doe! with its abstract bg. I also think the sizes of the characters should match since they were cropped differently and our boy ash looked so big compared to the others. that all, just me yapping...
Cant wait for the finished ver and see the pictures, rly excited!! Great work <3 its criminally underrated. the story and mechanics r super well for a vn dating sim lol
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I loved giving the boys actual lives and traumas of their own, even Ashino developed more AS I made the game, I actually didn't intend for him to be likable at all LOL, and games breaking the 4th wall is one of my favorite tropes♥
I have worried about the sizes of the sprites, when I made the first PPB it was only Ash who is rather tall, but in adding John who is supposed to be taller and Vincent who is the shortest, I didn't think how they would look all on screen. Though I'd have to do a ton of redrawing/resizing which would really burn me out so it will be swept under the rug. At least it's a lesson learned if I make another RPG Maker VN.
I often suggest PPB in tik toks about Yandere VNs so who knows, maybe Ashton will be in those edits with Sol, and Ren, and Mychael some day♫
So, I played this game immediately after playing the first picture perfect boyfriend. (Though I waited to write a review until I finished playing through all of the game as it allows me to.) I very much enjoyed this demo, I love how well written everyone is, especially John and Ashino, though Ashino irritates me sometimes; I still love his character. But honestly, I was immediately smitten when I saw Vincent. I love his character the most; he’s just so adorable and my favorite character in this game, tbh. Man, his route got me emotional, especially the part when he reunites with his (Spoiler). Anyways, I can’t wait to see this game completed soon
Lmao maybe one day, me and Vincent could wear matching maid fits and clean the mansion together. Anyways here’s a random drawing of my initial thoughts while playing Vincent’s route since I don't really post my art on social media and I get pretty nervous
It's funny, I feel happy when people say they dislike or are irritated by Ashino, it's what i intended but he's actually become kind of popular LOL! and Vincent was one of my favorite routes to write (teared up while writing it and while playtesting it!)
This game was so sweet and adorable. I teared up a little during Vincent's reunion with his (Spoiler)! I really enjoyed meeting all the characters, my favorites are Ashton & Vincent. I hope in the full game, we get some more moments with Ashton, he's such a sweetheart! I just wanna smooch him all over with his squiggly peanuts smile awww ^o^
2) I kept getting this bug where it would speed through text at random, it would usually happen once during a date with any of the guys. It would usually come up whenever the guys explained big story moments with lots of text.
Thank you so much for playing!!! I too teared up while writing and playtesting Vincent's story, as it's really tragic both inside the game and out of it♥
The full game is almost finished so I don’t think there are many more private moments with Ashton (hopefully you got to go through both his date locations♫)
Most of the backgrounds are actually real photos that I manipulated to look "cool", funny enough the ones with the swirls ARE real photos! (sourse:https://unsplash.com/s/photos/dungeon ) but there ARE a few made with ai when, at the time, it didn't bother me to use them. I wanted all the backgrounds to look "realistic" as opposed to my artstyle and it was near impossible to find specific photo-realistic backgrounds to match the ones I already had (I even attempted to go into random cafes to take pictures but I chickened out LOL). John and the “rabbits” is probably the most glaring AI image, and Ashton’s room too but I kind of like how messy it looks since it shouldn’t be there and should look like it was wrongly generated by an Ai.
But seriously thank you for the resources! I want to try to either make or source my backgrounds whenever I make a new game, and I truly have no idea where to look. I’d love to make a video or post about free resources that aspiring game makers can use.
About that “speed through glitch”, I know with RPG maker that you can speed things up by holding down the LEFT mouse button, Z, or SPACE. Also, it’s just a guess, but maybe the program starts to run slow and then speeds up to compensate? I’ve seen that with some other games out there but not with RPG Maker, but it’s likely. If there’s any more you can tell me about that, I would greatly appreciate it, can't have you all play a game that speeds through important stuff!
THANK YOU SO MUCH again for playing!! I’ve been so busy with my youtube channel that the PPB boy’s get a little left behind, but I HAVE finished scripting the whole game, I just have a bunch of art and CGs to draw. But this is probably the biggest game I’ve ever made and I’m so very proud of it!
You're welcome! Oh okay, thank you for telling me about that! Ohh I get your understanding about Ashton's room, though I still think human creation of a messed up AI generation room is more genuine and creative than an AI creating that. And Ya that would be a great video idea ^o^
Weirdly enough, I got the speed through glitch when not touching my mouse or keyboard at all. I knew about Z key and used it often when replaying the dates but yeah, the speed glitch happened when I was clicking normally when experiencing the story for the first time. I've seen that slowing down and speeding up thing happen in ren'py games cause I've played other amare games that would freeze for a few seconds and then crash. I had this problem with A Date with Death a lot, it would crash if I had Google Chrome running or my wallpaper engine running so I would have to close out everything just so the game runs smoothly. When I was playing PPB, the only other thing I had running was Discord, and the game never crashed on me, just did the speed through glitch.
Yay, I can't wait till the full game comes out, I've been subscribed to your YouTube channel for a while now and I love your videos. I always have them on while I'm drawing ^o^
i finished this in two days it was soo fun i'm so excited for the ending and the missing pictures!! i love what ashton did to kadsey for what he did to us LMAOO well deserved..
Spoilers:
i love that you,yourself pop up on the screen during ashtons and ashinos last fight cutting them off LMAOOO i managed to get ashtons route by myself by connecting the words i really did end up loving them but i think my favorites are josh,vincent and ashton himself
10 Stars OMG amazing! I need to find your patreon so i can finish the game! Also I believe I spotted an Ashton shirt that needs to be added to my closet for fan girl time!
Espoir Du Vide and everyone who worked on this game I haven't enjoyed a game like this in years! Thank you all so very much for your hard work, time and the courage to turn this into a game to remember!
Spoiler Alert-
Seriously Spoiler alert This is a vent at a character in the game
lil therapy...
Come on like you've never yelled at someone on the screen?...
You were warned...
... Kadsey... I knew you had feels for Ash boy and I was going to say we could be Harem mates but I don't think so anymore! Go play with Trashton, the boy is mine. ;3 :P Doing what you did was not ok, ok?! Do you know how long it took for me to figure out how to get that last photo because I am nice and believe you deserved something of his too?! Fluffing FLUFF! None for you!
LOL! If you haven't seen it yet than all I can say is that Ashton gets a little revenge for you after what Kadsey did hehe. Thank you so much for playing! If you need any help with something please let me know (i'm still working out the bugs)
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Dammit, I was meant to just play the two games, like them, and move on, not let this become my latest hyper fixation... :(
Now with my rambling... I LOVE this game! Like, a lot! I loved all the characters but I swear I am so torn between Vincent and Ashton. I always liked Ashton since I knew his character more (my pwecious widol yanbaby), but VINCENT my precious crossdresser you... I don't even know how to describe how much I love him djfdjij
Also, I actually kinda like Ashino! Just a little tho (Idk I just like evil mfs at times). Although at the same time I REALLY need him to cash in his chips, especially so since ik he's a liar (can't say how I know due to spoilers)... he can bullshit the others BUT NOT ME GRRRRRR
That's all! One thing's for sure, I'll definitely play the full game once it's free!
THANK YOU so much for playing!!! I'm so glad you like my boys! Vincent's story and development was the most fun to write, and I'm always so glad and surprised when people actually LIKE Ashino! I made him to be the opposite of Ashton but even I'M starting to like him too! (did you try and go on a second date with him to see a secret scene? ^_^)
This game will be done very soon, I've just been busy with my youtube channel mainly, and yes it will remain free!
a few days ago i lost my laptop and had to painstakingly search for all the games i played again. and i found 99% of them except this game. i couldn't remember the name and it was stressing me outttt. i didn't even remember ashton's name properly (thought it was allen). i only remembered what ashton looked like. but i didn't want to give up because i remember loving it so much. i finally found it haha YAYYY so just leaving a comment to let you know bc PPB rotated around my head for a few days i couldn't find it!! even though i forgot his name i love ashton so much i promise </3
I've been following this game for almost 2 years now, I replay it every six months, it's a masterpiece!!! Ashton is such a cutie tho...... I love your work, thank you so much!! ♡♡
BTW.... will the full game ever be available for free or will it be only for Patreon? :(
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Seriously from the bottom of my heart that means so much to me!! I'm sorry that development is so slow, my youtube channel usually takes ALL my spare attention and energy, but I think I can finish the Reboot THIS year!
Yes it will be free, both PPG games will stay free here on itch.io. The only downside is there's no MAC or android version, nor a STEAM version (I've been trying to figure out how to upload on steam for years!) Seeing people enjoy my game and make fanart, and head canons has been amazing, and I'm so very thankful!
just played this game!! its a banger! Played for Ashton, when i saw him in a video, there was only the first date and i assumed it was just one of those dating games with no real connection with each character not continuity and just one of those games where you just skip date after date, have a little lore and move on, but once i realized Ash freaked out when i was about to leave, i was a bit surprised until i saw the whole thing, i documented this WHOLE game, or atleast a big part of it, to my boyfriend, still nervous to do the other guys as i am very loyal to my Ashy ash ash baby, might, might not, might watch a video, idk, but i can't find the survey in the WWW folder! anyone can help with that??
Thank you so much for playing!!!! Yup these two games are directly attached. Reboot is a way to get more lore about the whole world as well as the events after the first game and how it affected the other guys, with a way to find Ashton again♫
SPOILER
The "Baihr_survey" should have popped up from the first Picture Perfect Boyfriend game, it's a simple .txt file that's the last "part" of Ashton's consciousnesses. HOWEVER if you can't find it or don't want to replay the whole first game over, you can create a simple .txt file and name it "Baihr_survey" (i don't think caps matter but the underscore is there) and plop that into the www folder of PPB Reboot, just pretend it's from Ash, hehe. And Red eyed Ashton's true ending would need to be gotten as well♫
I have already played the original game and had enjoyed it immensely but this is on another level. I got caught up in the story and the whole time I was like, "Where's Ashton? Who the fluff is this guy?!", lol.
I appreciated the lore behind the main plot and the history of the characters, how they are connected. Although I love all the characters Ashton has a special place in my heart. I feel the same way about him as you do about John Doe, basically: he's disturbingly sweet. xD
Chapeau, brava!🤍
Forgive me if I made grammatical mistakes, I'm italian. - -"
Thank you so much for playing my game! I feel very happy when people are surprised by the Ashton with red eyes, (we call him Ashino as in "Ashton in name only" haha). I hope you got to unlock the real Ashton by putting the letter he gives you from the first game into this game. I am very proud of the date you can have with him, it feels so sweet even though I wrote it. I think I will be playing this game on my YouTube channel this Saturday in a live stream♫ Thank you again for playing!♫
I’ve finally played the full game (got it off of your Patreon hehe) I’m gonna be very vague just for the sake of spoilers. I started crying at the end. This game has helped me through rough times, and gave me things to look forward to. It’s been a solid what, 3 years now? I’ve been following this games development since day one! First game and all. So in the end, of course I’m gonna be at least a littleeee bit emotional. Thank you for creating these silly characters I love so much, especially ash :) (and Ashino, he deserves love too.) looking forward for the full game to come out on here too!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Man has it been THREE years?! My baby boys have grown and changed so much from a little game based on YB to having their own lore and arcs, and I'm beyond excited that people love my boys (even Ashino♫) I'm glad you got to see the ending, I can't wait for more people to see it, I look at the final picture and tear up a little myself. I appreciate it so much that you've followed my game!
just finished the game and OMG!!! it was so interesting??? i was so invested in the lore and stories. Like how vincent and john had their own interesting story while kadsey is having an existantial crisis. i actually dont dislike ashino like how i did from the start. and the 4th wall breaks were so interesting?! i hope theres not a single bits and pieces left for me to dig through ^^
i love the backgrounds too, like how it made the characters stand out more. It also reminded me of John Doe! with its abstract bg. I also think the sizes of the characters should match since they were cropped differently and our boy ash looked so big compared to the others. that all, just me yapping...
Cant wait for the finished ver and see the pictures, rly excited!! Great work <3 its criminally underrated. the story and mechanics r super well for a vn dating sim lol
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I loved giving the boys actual lives and traumas of their own, even Ashino developed more AS I made the game, I actually didn't intend for him to be likable at all LOL, and games breaking the 4th wall is one of my favorite tropes♥
I have worried about the sizes of the sprites, when I made the first PPB it was only Ash who is rather tall, but in adding John who is supposed to be taller and Vincent who is the shortest, I didn't think how they would look all on screen. Though I'd have to do a ton of redrawing/resizing which would really burn me out so it will be swept under the rug. At least it's a lesson learned if I make another RPG Maker VN.
I often suggest PPB in tik toks about Yandere VNs so who knows, maybe Ashton will be in those edits with Sol, and Ren, and Mychael some day♫
So, I played this game immediately after playing the first picture perfect boyfriend. (Though I waited to write a review until I finished playing through all of the game as it allows me to.) I very much enjoyed this demo, I love how well written everyone is, especially John and Ashino, though Ashino irritates me sometimes; I still love his character. But honestly, I was immediately smitten when I saw Vincent. I love his character the most; he’s just so adorable and my favorite character in this game, tbh. Man, his route got me emotional, especially the part when he reunites with his (Spoiler). Anyways, I can’t wait to see this game completed soon
Lmao maybe one day, me and Vincent could wear matching maid fits and clean the mansion together. Anyways here’s a random drawing of my initial thoughts while playing Vincent’s route since I don't really post my art on social media and I get pretty nervous
AH!♥ Thank you so much!!! I love your arts!!♫
It's funny, I feel happy when people say they dislike or are irritated by Ashino, it's what i intended but he's actually become kind of popular LOL! and Vincent was one of my favorite routes to write (teared up while writing it and while playtesting it!)
Thank you so much for playing!!
This game was so sweet and adorable. I teared up a little during Vincent's reunion with his (Spoiler)! I really enjoyed meeting all the characters, my favorites are Ashton & Vincent. I hope in the full game, we get some more moments with Ashton, he's such a sweetheart! I just wanna smooch him all over with his squiggly peanuts smile awww ^o^
Two things though: 1) The AI Art backgrounds really took away from the experience because of the weird swirls and shapes. There are free background assets online made without AI which would make this awesome game even awesome, here are some websites I found for free assets !: https://itch.io/game-assets , https://noranekogames.itch.io/yumebackground , https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31476&sid=d54a04e6c592ed285d27...
2) I kept getting this bug where it would speed through text at random, it would usually happen once during a date with any of the guys. It would usually come up whenever the guys explained big story moments with lots of text.
Thank you so much for playing!!! I too teared up while writing and playtesting Vincent's story, as it's really tragic both inside the game and out of it♥
The full game is almost finished so I don’t think there are many more private moments with Ashton (hopefully you got to go through both his date locations♫)
Most of the backgrounds are actually real photos that I manipulated to look "cool", funny enough the ones with the swirls ARE real photos! (sourse:https://unsplash.com/s/photos/dungeon ) but there ARE a few made with ai when, at the time, it didn't bother me to use them. I wanted all the backgrounds to look "realistic" as opposed to my artstyle and it was near impossible to find specific photo-realistic backgrounds to match the ones I already had (I even attempted to go into random cafes to take pictures but I chickened out LOL). John and the “rabbits” is probably the most glaring AI image, and Ashton’s room too but I kind of like how messy it looks since it shouldn’t be there and should look like it was wrongly generated by an Ai.
But seriously thank you for the resources! I want to try to either make or source my backgrounds whenever I make a new game, and I truly have no idea where to look. I’d love to make a video or post about free resources that aspiring game makers can use.
About that “speed through glitch”, I know with RPG maker that you can speed things up by holding down the LEFT mouse button, Z, or SPACE. Also, it’s just a guess, but maybe the program starts to run slow and then speeds up to compensate? I’ve seen that with some other games out there but not with RPG Maker, but it’s likely. If there’s any more you can tell me about that, I would greatly appreciate it, can't have you all play a game that speeds through important stuff!
THANK YOU SO MUCH again for playing!! I’ve been so busy with my youtube channel that the PPB boy’s get a little left behind, but I HAVE finished scripting the whole game, I just have a bunch of art and CGs to draw. But this is probably the biggest game I’ve ever made and I’m so very proud of it!
You're welcome! Oh okay, thank you for telling me about that! Ohh I get your understanding about Ashton's room, though I still think human creation of a messed up AI generation room is more genuine and creative than an AI creating that. And Ya that would be a great video idea ^o^
Weirdly enough, I got the speed through glitch when not touching my mouse or keyboard at all. I knew about Z key and used it often when replaying the dates but yeah, the speed glitch happened when I was clicking normally when experiencing the story for the first time. I've seen that slowing down and speeding up thing happen in ren'py games cause I've played other amare games that would freeze for a few seconds and then crash. I had this problem with A Date with Death a lot, it would crash if I had Google Chrome running or my wallpaper engine running so I would have to close out everything just so the game runs smoothly. When I was playing PPB, the only other thing I had running was Discord, and the game never crashed on me, just did the speed through glitch.
Yay, I can't wait till the full game comes out, I've been subscribed to your YouTube channel for a while now and I love your videos. I always have them on while I'm drawing ^o^
i finished this in two days it was soo fun i'm so excited for the ending and the missing pictures!! i love what ashton did to kadsey for what he did to us LMAOO well deserved..
Spoilers:
i love that you,yourself pop up on the screen during ashtons and ashinos last fight cutting them off LMAOOO i managed to get ashtons route by myself by connecting the words i really did end up loving them but i think my favorites are josh,vincent and ashton himself
10 Stars OMG amazing! I need to find your patreon so i can finish the game! Also I believe I spotted an Ashton shirt that needs to be added to my closet for fan girl time!
Espoir Du Vide and everyone who worked on this game I haven't enjoyed a game like this in years! Thank you all so very much for your hard work, time and the courage to turn this into a game to remember!
Spoiler Alert-
Seriously Spoiler alert
This is a vent at a character in the game
lil therapy...
Come on like you've never yelled at someone on the screen?...
You were warned...
... Kadsey... I knew you had feels for Ash boy and I was going to say we could be Harem mates but I don't think so anymore! Go play with Trashton, the boy is mine. ;3 :P Doing what you did was not ok, ok?! Do you know how long it took for me to figure out how to get that last photo because I am nice and believe you deserved something of his too?! Fluffing FLUFF! None for you!
End Rant...
Yes, I feel better...
LOL! If you haven't seen it yet than all I can say is that Ashton gets a little revenge for you after what Kadsey did hehe. Thank you so much for playing! If you need any help with something please let me know (i'm still working out the bugs)