#litg matchmaker

[mrsbsmooth]

if fusebox imports seasons 1-3 onto the new app do you think they will use the original sprites or use the matchmaker counterparts? i know a lot of people hate the s1 redesigns but i actually didn't mind them much (or at least when they were idle). also iirc there were a lot of changes in the s1 script for matchmaker (tim, rohan, cherry and allegra being romanceable but no sammi even tho she's in the game files???) so i'm curious what script they'll go with

Oh good question.

Honestly I have no idea. I like some of the matchmaker sprites (JASPER! LEVI!) but some of the others just look odd. Jake is a little too smooth if you get what I mean? idk. He looks a little more baby-faced than I picture him.

@longbobmckenzie tried pulling out the Matchmaker scripts and I couldn't believe how much was glossed over. There are dozens and dozens of scenes missing from the original, and most of it is the magic that mae S2 what it was-- the side chats. The little conversations about favourite barn animals or guys who won't take no for an answer? I don't remember specifically but it was about 1/4 of the length of the actual episodes.

So realistically I don't mind which sprites they use as long as the scripts are the same as the original.

[cxhleel108]

The way I had this post ready in my drafts in case we couldn’t find a loophole for this whole situation.

[ravenadottir]

hey i was wondering if you could make a guide on how to get with allegra in matchmaker??

you know, i have never got around playing matchmaker after i lost several brain cells on my first attempt. it was just so many mini games i couldn't really force myself to try it again. i did though, research this and found someone that posted this on reddit.

username: DaughterOfSappho

here’s the guide (which also goes for cherry)

“I’ve been asked this a few times so I thought I’d make a post!

To get any of the female love interests, you must romance Talia. You can do this by saying you slept with someone of the same sex at Never Have I ever which is right at the start and then continuing to flirt when you meet her in the bathroom, talk to her on the roof terrace, talk to her at the pool etc. You cannot take any one star options or it locks her out as an LI and you need to tell her you want to couple up at least once (you can do it twice) I’m pretty sure. If you do not get a scene brushing your teeth and Talia comes in - then a scene just after where Talia comes over to your bed following the boys’ choice recoupling - you have done something wrong. From this point on, you will be locked out of Talia’s route - and therefore all female love interest routes - so you should restart.

If you succeed in getting these scenes, you will have unlocked either Allegra or Cherry’s route. To get Allegra, you just need to have an okay relationship with her, don’t blame her for Cherrygate and don’t have a high relationship with Cherry. To get Cherry, you need to have a good relationship with her (two star options at least I think), blame Allegra for Cherrygate and have a bad relationship with Allegra in general.

Whoever you unlock, she will visit you in the kitchen around scene 180 and she will start acting weird before she confesses to liking you - she will backtrack no matter what so don’t worry when it happens, you’re still on her route. It should be okay to take 2 star options here (I took two 3 star options and one 2 star option) but do not take any one star options here. Then just carry on flirting with her: I haven’t finished it yet but I will keep you all updated. Have fun guys 🥰🥳”

none of this information is mine, but since the post is really old i thought copy+paste was safer. here’s the link, give them a shout out for the angelical help 🧡

[ariendiel]

To no one's surprise, turns out fusebox really is quite a shitty company.

This article in the Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/love-island-game-fusebox-app-b1896025.html) finally gives us some insights into what happened to cause the staff to leave en masse earlier this summer, and it's pretty damn bad...

Matchmaker and the restructure really did cause the main rift is seems, although the management sounds like it was already pretty shitty.

"[A matchmaker] storyline caused great distress among a number of Fusebox’s staff, many of whom are part of the LGBT+ community, employees told The Independent. They said they had been told their concerns were taken on board and the storyline would be removed, only for it then to be available on an international version of the game.

An open letter sent 24 May and signed by 31 members of Fusebox staff, warned of “problematic content” on Matchmaker: Puzzles and Stories despite issues being raised with bosses, while they described the decisions of management as “destructive” to their teams and fostering “confusion, worry and fear, and … risk of burnout”."

So yeah, not great, and I very much recommend everyone to read the whole thing. It's the creators that were the ones to give us the game we love(d), and it honestly feels a bit like a wonder that despite a rancid upper management we got a game and consequently fandom that's so fun and lovely – and we can thank the writers and game developers for that.

They deserve our support, while fb can go fuck right off.

[longbobmckenzie]

Thoughts on LITG Matchmaker

Posted this on the Fusebox subreddit here if you’d like to upvote/comment, but thought I’d share my thoughts on tumblr as well.

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Don't download it. Don't play it. Definitely don't spend money on it.

I know it's tempting, but just don't - unless you really like match-3 games and don't mind a diluted version of the same content you've already played.

If you download it, FB will see how many people have downloaded the app. If you play it, you'll be watching ads, and Fusebox will earn ad revenue.

Money talks, and the only way to get Fusebox to understand that we want full seasons of LITG content (the game we're really here for) is to boycott Matchmaker and just not give them what they want.

Look at all the time and hard work that was poured into LITG. Even if we don't like S3 or different aspects of the other seasons, we still recognize that a lot of hard work was put into it, and the people who worked on it have been treated unfairly by Fusebox. They've been laid off, and the work they've done - the art, the characters, the story - has been outsourced and turned into a stripped-down version that forces you to play a bunch of puzzles just for a few lines of dialogue. All so that Fusebox can spend less and earn more.

The regular game is what made this fandom what it is. We get angry at it, but we still replay it over and over. We discuss it, we tell others about it, we write fanfiction about it, we bond with others over it. Do you think we're gonna be doing that for matchmaker? No. If Fusebox doesn't create more real content, this fandom will die. The game has its issues - lots of them - but it was unique for its replayability. The characters are what make the game, and that's just not going to be compelling enough in a match-3 game.

So delete Matchmaker. Go back to the real game and replay S1, S2, CMM, even S3. Let's show Fusebox what we want, since they won't listen to our complaints.

[cheesybaconflatbread]

I’m playing matchmaker and

Chelsea babe

What made you bring back Felix?

[gossip-sneezer]

matchmaker bobby: exists

me:

[lethia-killua]

What. Is. This. Shit. Now I cant even choose kassam? Bro...

In Matchmaker you can just choose to boy you said you would want to switch to at the recopling. I had no kassam there. So no kassam for me now...