Black Flag
Romance-Focused Sports IF.
Rated: 18+
You're a motor racing driver.
You're a professional.
But besides your recent success, you are far from the finish line.
Now you're busy searching and finding sponsors and signing deals left and right. You're trying to make the right decisions. After all, you do have to maintain a certain image. On top of all of that, your ex is back and climbing the ranks after falling off the grid for five years.
Can you deal with it all?
Or will you crash and burn?
Riley Veluz (m/f): The Mechanic. 27. Southeast Asian. (m): brown eyes and thick, messy black hair that is sometimes slicked back. (f) brown eyes and layered black hair that falls to waist.
Lane Kingston (m/f): The Ex and Rival. 25. Spanish and black. (m) brown eyes, short curly hair on top with shaved sides. (f) brown eyes, shoulder length curly afro.
Ryder Benedetti (m/f): Competition and flirt. 25. Italian, British, and Spanish. (m) hazel eyes, with brown, wavy, tousled hair. Dimples in both cheeks. (f) hazel eyes, wavy brown hair to waist.
Phoenix Justt (m/f): New engineer. 27. Irish. (m) red hair kept in a short quiff hairstyle, green eyes, cheeks and shoulders splattered in freckles. (f) red hair that falls to waist, green eyes, cheeks and shoulders splattered in freckles.
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i dont understand how to save the game. i saved the game but when i open the slot the save wasn't there
Hello! Sorry you're having trouble. It should work. At the end of the prologue, or chapter, save it in any slot. Next time you come and "Load Existing Race", click on the slot and it should bring you back to where you left off. It only works at the end of each chapter. Will implement any time next time I update. I have not had messages about it from others and it works on my end (just loaded two of my files) so it definitely works.
When is chapter 3 coming out? I'm so excited for what happens next!
Probably not for a while as I'm revising both chapters, adding and taking out some things pretty much everywhere based on people's comments and suggestions so I might or might not update that right away when I'm completely satisfied. It will depend on how long it takes me but I'm really looking forward to writing Chapter 3!
I rarely post a review for games but your story was too interesting and characters riveting. Only issue I have so far is the minor spelling errors popping up so far (Probably some coding issues as well). Besides that I had a splendid time and hope you are able to conitnue with this level of polish all the way and give us a satisfying end.
Thank you sooo much!! That means a lot actually! ☺️☺️
If you encounter spelling mistakes or errors (coding issues) please send me a message! I'm more than glad to take a look and fix it as I want a smooth playing experience for everyone. 🙃
Cant seem to send you messages and hope that this does not come off as unsolicited critism but there are frequent issues with gender swapping of characters an example is the one below where gender is swapped for Pheonix mid paragraph:
Another would be the starting in hair choice Im not sure why if you choose the choice of being bald it still alklows you to have hair length. (I was just curious to see whether it was coded to react accordingly hahah). :
I honestly think this are easy fixes that could be left till the end since these things are what a beta testers would pick up anywas.
Thank you for this!! I'll have to double proof next time, but it's so easy to miss when I'm the only one proofreading and testing. I'll probably have to get some beta testers later on when it gets more complicated.
As for the hair thing, I hate it too...but I didn't want to make a whole bunch of passages just for the character customisation but maybe it'll be easier. Harlowe unfortunately doesn't allow some things I would be able to do on SugarCube but I've gotten used to Harlowe and it's difficult to switch now. 🥴
I'm on chapter 2, and so far this game is so amazing, but I do have one thing. In chapter 2, it says that I have blonde hair and it's very short, but in the last chapter I chose something different, so I just wanted to let you know. Love this game so far, excited for the upcoming chapters!! ＼(＾▽＾)／
That shouldn't be an issue since I simply use $hairlength and $haircolour for the variables so it should show what you chose. The only way it could be an issue is that you didn't move forward with your choice and being that it showed "very short" and "blonde" hair which are my first two choices, that is most likely the issue. If it was a coding issue, it would have most likely shown 0 so the fact that it showed you hair length and hair colour could only mean that you might have forgot to change the choices. Let me know if it happens again, but I haven't gotten issues of this so I hope that's the case. Thank you so much for playing! ☺️☺️
OMG THE UPDATE WAS SO GOOD!!!! Ahhhhh I am so excited for this game! The concept is so much fun and the characters are really interesting <3
Aww, that makes me happy. I'm so glad you think so! <3
This is actually good and quite engaging for a racing theme IF! Love it, but damn, I was aiming for and really wanted to go with Phoenix the whole way but then there’s Lane???? Gonna win Lane back as we win the race… 🥺😭 race-conciliation…?!
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When MC was browsing (lurking lol) Lane’s account, I was kinda expecting MC might stumble upon a recent post like Lane with a new lover or something for some angst 💀 But since there’s nothing like that, picked up the option of sending Lane a DM after the follow = didn’t even reply shite lmaooo. Anyway, I do love the snippets and bits of the ROs' PoV (including the reactions we were oblivious of). It was adorable so I hope we get to read those again.
I love this!! It’s so well written, one thing when I click the link for the tumblr blog nothing pops up for me what is the name of the blog so I can follow for updates!
Thank you so much! ❤️
I fixed it!! Sorry about that. Someone told me to fix it a month ago but I only did it on Tumblr and forgot to do so here. It should work now.
Hi hi!! I loved the game and loved all the characters! Ryder and Riley are really great but PHOENIX?? The squeals I tried to suppress. Love him
Speaking of Phoenix, in the later parts in Chapter 1 when Phoenix and MC are finally outside and they're both flirting and whatever- When they talk about Phoenix's looks and Phoenix compliments MC back it ends without the adjective?
Might have something to do with the gender/pronouns you chose. Got the adjective on my end.
May or may not have found a bug? Idk. When you get to Chapter 1 and ask Lane what they’re doing there for some reason it doesn’t let me advance? I don’t know why since it did in my other play throughs. Maybe because this time I chose “Am I supposed to feel something?” When asked how we feel about them. Anyway the game looks awesome! I look forward to more.
Thanks for letting me know. I just fixed it, so it should work. 😊
that background really hurts my eyes, other then that its very good so far i'm looking forward to seeing where it goes
Yeah that background is not great for reading lol
Literally, the game just started, and everything is 14 layers of complicated. Like oh my god I’m over here sipping from my cup cause the tea is piping hot. When Lane approached us at the end I audibly went “👀”. Looking forward for more! :D
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I just updated the prologue and chapter 1. I changed and added a lot of things, though depending on your playthrough, it might not be a huge chunk, but it took me quite a while to get it all together.
I'm glad you're here though! Saves should also work now. Have fun!
Okay, just finished playing. It's quite good so far! I'm most interested in the relationship with Lane thus far - the tension there is pretty nice. 🥰
First wanted to note, it would be nice to have save options, and also a button to restart or go back during a playthrough, rather than having to play thru the whole thing just to fix a wrong choice we made. Oh, also, can we have an option to choose our MC's skin color or ethnicity? I may have missed it but I think it wasn't among the customisation.
For parts that could use some improvement, I do hope that we have more chances to roleplay our character's personality, including the tone of what we say, how we choose to act, & how we feel about different issues that come up.
For example, when all the guys are overly worried about my (male) MC because of what Jacques said relating to Kingston's presence (tbh their reaction was sorta overkill), I would have liked the option to say something like, 'stop acting like goddamn mother hens, I'm not gonna break at the mere mention of Kingston', if I felt it was within my personality-type to reject such treatment. I mean, especially from guys that are around my own (male MC's) age and probably wouldn't realistically be doting like that over MC, who should just be 'one of the guys' to them (at least if a choice/my choices have shown that MC is a more stoic type that's used to handling pressure & internalising or pushing down stresses). Or at least the option to be dismissive, thankful or irritated over their concern on the issue. Just a suggestion, but I feel such options would go a long way to making our MC feel more real and personalised.
It would also be great to be able to determine just how bothered I felt by my ex being my rival in the first place, rather than having our MC freaking out or hyperventilating as the standard when we see or come in contact with the ex. TBH that felt like a bit of an over-reaction for a semi-professional racer in their 20s.
The LI's are pretty nice so far - quite well-written and all of them sound sexy. I'd like the choice to be able to be more or less assertive in interactions with them tho - what we say and how we act. Choosing to lead or to follow in interactions, like when Ryder wants us to go outside with him.
But yeah, I genuinely can't wait to see how this story pans out, especially when the racing starts. The tension is gonna be so good when MC gets pitted against these guys. Good luck with it! 👍
I have read everything you wrote. This chapter was a rough draft so to say. I have been rewriting it and currently just updated the newest version (and hopefully the final before moving on to chapter 2).
In the revision, I wanted to focus on giving the player more of a say, so hopefully the new version is more up to your taste. I did not add ethnicity nor anything that I might not use in the story or be that relevant but if I do see it to work or need it, I 'll definitely add it.
Moving forward, I do want to give the player more choices over their reactions. I'm a newbie to coding and writing IFs so that might be easy to see. I am trying, though, so I hope I can only improve. Saves should be working now, too!
Glad you enjoyed it, and happy you're here!
Haven't read the story yet, but I just had to say that holy f the male version of the LI's are so fecking hot in their Pinterest aesthetic - I just wanna please all of them at once. LOL. 😅
Seriously tho, I am gonna have a hell of a time choosing between them. Guess I'll have to have one playthrough for each of them.
Ahem. Reigning my hormones in now. Gonna play as a male MC, can't wait - I love racing IFs, we need more of them! ❤
wasnt this ready set go
Yes!
Same story, just changed the title and look. 🙃
Really enjoyed the demo!
Btw, is it possible to save atm?
Thank you! :)
And sorry to get back to you so late.
Saves were supposed to work, but it seems I made a mistake so right now it doesn't. Hopefully, I get it to work with the next update. Ch 1 is being revised with more choices, so it'll need to be replayed anyway in order for those choices to carry over. Sorry about that!
Well is is interesting
Wow, I don't know anything (not one bit 😆) about car racing but gosh, these RO'S are simply... *chef's kiss* a-racing (instead of amazing lol) I'm looking so much forward to the next update ❤️🏎
Oh, that's ok. I'll try my best to explain everything, but I'm glad you enjoyed the ROs and hope you have fun playing. 🥰
I had lots of fun 😀
:P
And it's past midnight and you got me up reading. I loved your demo. Dont have a damn clue how to choose between the ROs... they all make it so hard. I know nothing about racing but i am excited to learn and be along for the ride...
get it.. ride??
Ooohkay dad joke out the way I really did enjoy this alot. Now off to stalk your tumblr ♥️
I was up too! :D
I hope you'll have an easier time in Ch 2, but I think it'll only get harder the more you learn about them. But maybe something turns you off which makes choosing easier?
Thanks so much for following. <3