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When your best friend invite you to spend the summer with her you thought it would be a relaxing and fun experience. After all, she's been working in the biggest and best film studio in the country. Well, you were wrong. A dramatic event will force you to investigate the people you just met and try to find out what dark secrets are hiding. During this investigation you will meet A-list celebrities, directors, producers and the rest of the crew in the studio. Some of them will be nice but some others... well, not so nice. They are suspects, can you trust them? Are they playing with you? Will you fall in love with any of them?

"From the Top" is a Gay Visual Novel where we will explore different aspect like coming out, dealing with acceptance, self empowering and finding love. All of it based in the glamorous environments of the show business, red carpets and parties (and their dark sides too).


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Updated 2 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Android
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(110 total ratings)
AuthorMadJubal
GenreVisual Novel
TagsBara, Dating Sim, Gay, gay-visual-novel, LGBT, lgtb, Queer, Ren'Py, Romance, Yaoi

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Anyone else having error code "game/dates_part03.rpy" Line 6600. its right after you speak with Mr. York at his home. on Mac if that helps any. 


Thank You

Hi is there any  possibility how to have somethink more with Oliver. 

for the strip poker how do i get the other cgs? the version where blake is behind

I really liked the new update, I wanted to know when we will see the next update, we will see the next update before the end of the year

Most probably :)

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I just played this game again last night.  At first I was thinking if I keep Donta at bay I could not fool up with him, I was after Blake and Oliver.  As I kept playing I realized that all dates are included in the storyline. I love the bit of mystery you have added to the game, I so want to know who is behind putting the drug in the drink and where that door leads...MadJubal you are doing and amazing job with this game! OMG Gabriel is hot!!! I'm a sucker for him...My (MC) is in love with him.

Yep, all the dates are now part of the storyline, but is not required to do the naughty things with them if they are not your cup of tea. It's just easy for me to remember paths and dialogues that way.

I'm always happy when people love Gabriel, he needs some love too!

Thank you for playing the game! X

Did I do something wrong? The only available dates for me is from Gabriel only.

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all the dates are include in the storyline, except Gabriel's date because it's still out of continuity.

getting this error message when trying to extract the game,any help to fix it?

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Hi, how to oil Blake's body? Tried to do all part 2 (even more, but not to avail) times, but I still can't do it. Is there some kind of scheme how to do it or is there some kind of order with his lower part?

star with the less intrusive parts like feet… and get going until Mc says he’s done with that part and needs to move one. Leave the inner thighs for the last one. Good ending is Mc fainting

hey, I started playing this game today and liked it a lot. It's like the best and the most interesting and hot game but there're a lot of bugs since I don't have pc . Could you please fix the bugs on android cause I really love your game?😭😭

What kind of bugs? I thought they were already fixed 😔

It keeps taking me back to when the main character has the first sex with Gabriel ( when he took the main character to his house ) or is that the end of the version? And characters which aren't main are not appearing on a screen. I love your game so much. The story line is pretty interesting and all characters are so hot!!!! I enjoy your game a lot even tho there're some bugs. I can't even wait for the next updates😭

v0.28 is the rework of Dante date, you know, poker night, theme park... after that, in case you want to play the missing date it offers to play Gabriel date.

Not sure if that answer your question... :)

Is the story is finished?

not yet :)

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Hey MadJubal, any chance of a guide.  have never made it to a date with blake yet.  was hoping there might be an official guide.

I've just posted a walkthrough on the discord server. I'll try to update it with every new update

that would be amazing mate. Thank you

will try to find it tomorrow.  Which tab should i look through

is there any newnsfw scenes with oliver yet and if so how do you get them??

Oliver will take a little bit longer, sorry. Trust me, I want to see those scenes too!

so what are the nsfw scenes we can unlock in the routes???

Hello, I just wanna say I'm loving the game so far and am always looking forward for the next updates! :D I do have a question: Where can I find the save files on macOS? On windows it's usually under ~/game/saves, but I can't seem to find them on macOS. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Sorry for the veer late reply, you might have found it already, but just in case someone else is wondering...

Your Ren'py save files on Mac can be found at this path: ~/Library/RenPy/

To access the above path:

  1. Open up a Finder window
  2. Press COMMAND + SHIFT + G
  3. Paste/enter the path (~/Library/RenPy) into the text field and hit Go

whats new?

Lots of Oliver scenes! A few  Dante, Gabriel and Blake scenes too!

Enjoy!

Sooooo.... i tried updating the game on my android hoping the bug was gone.... and it said again "app not installed as package appears to be invalid" im sad 🥲

I’ll look into it. Sorry!

Sorry to keep bringing it up 😅. I just really liked when i started it and now it wont let me enjoy your awesome game. I guess i'll go touch grass in the mean time. *Cue dramatic fall on the couch*

It seems impossible to me to unlock the route with Blake, I played a good amount changing several choices and I can't go ahead with his route

have you done the mini games properly? 

I think what he meant is that he can no longer even choose to go on a date with Blake. From the last update, the menu after the save warning was removed and now it is more linear. The update took you through Oliver's and Adam's dates, but then ends after you tidy up Hailey's room. There is no Blake or Dante date anymore, or at least that's how it seemed.

oh! That… yeah, i made a mistake and i forgot to include the loop to access the resto of the dates. Sorry!

I just wanna know if the bugs are already fix for Android?

in v0.28 the textbook is fixed. in v0.30 choices textbook and saves lots thumbnails will be fixed. 

Updating already!! Do I need to restart the game again because my last update is V27 and I also have saves there. 

I dont know. I always try not to make people to replay from the beginning, but sometimes renpy works in mysterious ways and is beyond my control.

Hey there!! I've been trying to get to Blake's date yet it seems to always comes to Oliver's route? I tried replaying the game and trying to only make Blake choices yet it still comes back to Oliver's route. I read somewhere that Blake's route should start after Gabriel and I went to work together but it still not working and keeps on going to Oliver's. While there still no response, I'll try a couple more times again. Thanks!

Don't know exactly what you mean. At this point, the dates are being reorganised, the order will be Oliver-Adam-Day off-Blake-Dante-Day off-Gabriel.

v.028 Will be end of the first Day off. I believe there's a loop at the end of the update giving access to the dates that haven been reached yet

hey, is there a way that I can chat with you 101? cause i have some very specific doubts. Maybe an email would be ok.

Discord!

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I just wanna know if the bugs are already fix for Android?

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the writing in this VN is so good and fun i feel like i am watching a soap opera, thank you for doing this i really  hope to be alive to see the end of this visual novel

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Its sad coz I've been missing some important dialouges on most of scenes because it is purely black I can't even read the important parts 🥺 I'm already whipped with the story so I'm still continuing even I'm missing some important parts. Hope this will be fix. Love the game though ❤️ I'm using Android.

is still happening in v27?  🥲🥲

Yes. There are still missing black parts can't even read the dialouges so I'm missing important parts. Having a hard time also reading the texts since the background is black

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its weird cos I changed the textbox for Android. Until very recently I didnt know Android needed a diferent textbox, hence all the trouble until now. I’ll try to fix it again just hang on for a little bit :)

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Yup. Not just the text box but there is also black like this one. This is what I'm referring too that has a missing parts I can't read the texts because it's pure black

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oh! That must be when the background is black. Never thought of that… android gives sooo much trouble 😅😅

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I think android only forces MC to date Oliver and Adam respectively after trying for a while. I have played on PC before and the turning point they can choose one date and I think that's the intended version so if you could look into that it'd be great. Thank you for an amazing game by the way ❤️

isnt the new version a new day after Adam’s date? Maybe there is something wrong with the android version in this update 🤔🤔

yeah that's like the last part after Adam's but the thing is I cannot choose Blake, Gabrielle, or Dante. The game will play Oliver and Adam then the bewer part. It might be a weird glitch. 

oh i believe i messed it up in that update and you can access them anymore, until next update, sorry.  

oh ok I thought it was just android thing lol. Keep up the good work~

not this time 😅😅

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I cant play in Android 😭

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You can download it from Lewdzone too 

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I don’t post links in that website, if there’s/will be any problem with that version I’m not responsible 😅😅

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Oh that makes sense my apologies then 😁

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same as I reply before:

“Android version always giving trouble 😅😅

I’ll see if I can do a port of the game for android, though I’m not good at that”

sorry!

Thanks . I really enjoyed the game though 😉

"App not installed as package appears to be invalid" - for androis when i tried updating my game.

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android version always giving trouble 😅😅

I’ll see if I can do a port of the game for android, though I’m not good at that

Please dooooo 😭 i dont want this game taken away from me, ive been decent all year ( i dont have another device to play on)

Hello, i was just checking to see if this was tweaked? 😅

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Sorry guys, for the late reply! Had some issues with the email I use for getting notify and I wasn't getting your messages! Sorry!

Hello! The game stopped when i went to the park at the back of the building to meet oliver after i stayed at the hotel with adam, are you planning on updating it anytime soon? Love the game btw, im invested!

If I’m not mistaken that’s the end for this update. Next one will be once it’s ready 😅

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The words are black on Android version. Love it though just lighten the box or words.

Yeah,  as I said before, I wasn't aware that android version needed a different textbook, hence that problem. It should been fixed in this new update. If it still happens, please let me know. I can't test Android version, so it's a bit of trial and error to fix things.

First of all thank you for all the work you do to offer us such a quality game.

"Une ombre au tableau": I can't get sound. I've tried the audio files in the game directory, they work, but the game is still desperately quiet no matter what I do. 

It's sad.

I searched all over the internet if I could find any solutions to this problem and tried some suggestions but nothing helped.

By any chance do you have a solution?

Yeah, there is no sound in the game. It's something I want to do but... I'm very bad at choosing music and sound and the few times I've tried, I couldn't figure out how it works. 

Sorry!

Sorry to ask but, i see there was mentioned that there was some sort of walkthrough. Where may i locate this walkthrough? I keep feeling like I'm doing something wrong on Android.  Also sorry to say that i am not able to access the menu like some others on android to go back to menu, just stuck on the save screen as default.

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The walkthrough is up to the date part. 

I have to say I don't know how Android works. If you care to explain what is the problem I could try to help/fix it

Thank you!

so the issue i have is while im playing the game, there is no option for me to return to the main menu, in case i want to load a different save. I would have to close the gane completley and restart the app to open up a different save.

which one is oliver again

This is honestly so amazing! I can't wait to have more :) 

I'm glad you are liking it so far! 😀

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So far (v0.24) the game is stunning! Everything here is excellent: crime and love stories, MC and "love interests" are really hot and not effeminate and it is all gay without straight or bisexual content. Exactly my kind of game. I'm looking forward to play the rest of it :)

Oh thank you! I'm very happy you are enjoying so far! We are going back to some investigation after it got a bit delayed because the dates, but of course there will be some s3xy scenes and romance! 

X

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(Android version)

Game is awesome but it will be good if you can fix a few problems like----

1 .text is in black colour and lot of time BG is also in Black colour so text is impossible to read .

2. Once you start the game you can't go back to the main menu and you can't load your save game . you have to quit and start the game again to load the save game. when ever you want to load a save game you have to quit which can be annoying.

 And I hope you can complete the missing art.  

Thanks for creating  this amazing master piece.

Keep up the good work.                                                    😄

Yeah, Android.... 

As I said before, I think I can change the text and black colour. Until recently I didn't know android need a special textbox. But you won't see the change until a couple of update in the future (v027, probably)

The other problem is something new to me. Is just you or for every android user? Nobody has said anything before. I'll look into it, though.

Android is something I can't test, so whatever I might think I accomplish it might not work in the end.

v027 has already a few art finished and I hope not too far into the future I'll be able to finish all.

And thanks to YOU for playing the game! <3

I love your game so no matter what  I'm gonna keep playing it and thanks for  replying i very much appreciated it .😇

My pleasure!

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are there any sex scenes with blake? 😣

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There're some naughty scenes with him. Try to make all the mini games properly if you want to see them 😀

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How to do when 'an exception has occurred' pop up when I press on the Blakes bed?😭

I'm enjoying this game.  Encountered an issue where the dialogue is repeated (In Blake's trailer with Dante and Naomi, the dialogue repeats).

On my first playthrough (I don't remember who I was chasing), Dante's confession seemed to come out of nowhere and left me dumbfounded.  He's always so flirty with everyone, I never gave him a second thought... or a first one.

On my next playthrough, trying to confront Blake with what he said about you is an exercise in frustration.  Ultimately, you never get to confront him about it until it's forgotten and the route just continues as if it never happened.

As for Oliver, I swear I want to give him a swift kick. LOL.

Out of curiosity, is there an opportunity to get with Connor's brother (he seems a tad more aggressive than Connor)? Or is he the straight guy in that family?

Anyway, looking forward to future installments (and what the hell is Fiona's damage? At first, I thought she was just an ass with everyone, but found out it's somehow personal. The less I have to deal with her, the better - same with that brat that is her mini-me).

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Fist of all, thank you for playing the game and let me know those things you encounter. 

- I'll look into that, some bad coding probably on my side xD

-Dante is flirty by nature, with everyone. Not something everyone likes, so it's fine not to like him, I dont take it personally (neither does Dante xD). We know Hayley has been talking about MC nonstop to everyone and playing as a matchmaker, so it's normal that some people can be more... intense after meeting that person and liking him. That's just the way he is.

- I believe he did confronted, maybe again, due to my bad coding abilities it gets blocked from the choices you make. I'll look into that.

- Poor Oliver!

-You think I would include a character like Connor's brother if we wouldn't have an opportunity? 

-You don't like Fiona? You hate her? Then, I'm doing a good job writing her, cos that is exactly what you should be feeling about her xD

You *are* doing a good job.  Each character has a distinct personality and they each have layers.   That's a good thing. 

Don't get wrong, I do like Dante.  Just that his confession was such a surprise to me given that he's flirty by nature all the time so I never took his flirts as serious.

And I'll look forward to Connor's brother then .:D  (Btw, I never gave any thought about what it might be like to work on a movie set.  This is an interesting premise and something of a learning experience for me.)

And my reason for wanting to kick Oliver is how that route ended. LOL  He's adorable in his own way but maddening too.

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Like I always say, you dont need/have/must love every character, it's fine. You've never have a friend saying suddenly 'I fancy you' and took you by surprise? Doing that in the game was to show that even being a player, he still has his heart and can easily fall in 'love'. Could have been written better? Probably. 😀

yeah, we really need to see Connor's brother again, right? Let's see how he reacts next time we see him.

Oliver! Oh I know! It was very hard for me ending it that way, believe me! But I don't think the character was ready to give the next step.

Why in a movie studio? Well, I always wanted to work over there, it's what I studied after all!But life takes you down different paths. This is my way of make peace and say thank you 

to that part of my past of broken dreams and failure! 

Few things: 1. Unfortunately, I've never had a friend say that to me.  Actually, no one has said that (or anything close to it) to me.  2. You and I are definitely on the same page about Connor's brother. :D  3. It's alright about Oliver.  I've actually met a couple of officers just like him over the years.  Their career is much more important to them then their personal life.  Curious that it seems to be in law enforcement where that attitude seems most prevalent.  4. I don't consider your not working in a movie studio a failure.  You came away from it with experiences and knowledge that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise and now you're using it in a creative way.  Granted, it's not the way you intended but it's still being used.  Never know, you may still use that knowledge in other endeavours - such as sfw creative writing?  Anything is possible.

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Well, take it as a good think that it hasn't happen to you. Unless is a both-way love, it can be very difficult and it can get weird. So... well done! xD 

Ohhh, you know officers? give them my number! for research purposes of course! xD.  

And thank you for the lovely words, much appreciated <3

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Hi, when i play the subtitle and textbox black i can't see it sometimes it's happen when the mc say in heart pls fix it i ply on android

I see some people are having the same problem lately. I'll look into it and try to fix it, but I'm afraid it won't be in this or next version, as I can only fix things in the current version of the game I'm working (v27 or 28)

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