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This project is on ice, I'm afraid! Various reasons why I stopped developing it, including the current state of the franchise under Square's leadership (they also seem to have shut down some fan games in the past); especially as it was a solo dev project (assets like visuals and sound were used with permission. commissioned, or donated but that's a lot to ask as it is). I did write the entire narrative out in fictional form, however! You can read it here:
All Wounds - Destiny_Smasher - Life is Strange (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

My energy is better spent on other projects atm, though it'd be fun to revisit this story for a 10th anniversary epilogue near the end of this year...

magdakowalska4832 days ago

Thanks for quick reply lol but im gonna reply with meme. Reading? Aint no one have time for that

Destiny-Smasher24 days ago

My sibling in Arceus, what do you think the primary element of a visual novel entails doing? 😑

If you truly care about the story, it's there, it's finished, it's been done for years. I will likely add an extra epilogue to it late this year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of LiS1. This project was exceedingly difficult to work on from top to bottom and to have some stranger wander in, demanding I finish it (y'know, for free, as if I'm just some freely dispensing content creation sludge machine) and then to disgrace my primary craft -- writing -- yeah, that don't feel great. This shit isn't magic and I made multiple hours of content like 90-95% on my own which took a long time to do.

Take what's here, and read the rest in prose form, or don't. I made what I made.

magdakowalska4823 days ago (1 edit)

your words 23 hours ago " to have some stranger wander in, demanding I finish it (y'know, for free, "
my words 150 days ago "finish the game please"
i cant see the word "for free"

and also keyword "visual"

Destiny-Smasher19 days ago (1 edit) (-1)

I can't see how tf you would interpret a FREE FAN GAME (do you see a price listed here anywhere?) would somehow not be free? Especially when it's a fan game, and charging money for that kind of thing gets into legal issues real quick.

Key word, "visual"?

Try key word "NOVEL".

A VISUAL NOVEL is primarily about READING. That is the core 'mechanic' to it! You read text. What makes it different from a standard novel is that yes, there are visual AND audio components to enhance the experience. Often dialogue choices that can alter what you READ next. But it is still entirely about READING.

You told me to finish it, I told you it's already finished, in purely novel form. You turned this into an attack of sorts by insulting my years of work writing the story, on top of insulting me with a blunt "finish the game" when, if you'd already been paying attention to what content is here, you'd know I've already finished what work I was capable of doing on it.

Take it or leave it, fan content is not owed to you.

Looking at your itchio comments, all you seem to do is leave, short, blunt, negative remarks demanding things from people. You clearly have no idea how difficult things like this are to make and distribute.

Do not reply to this, please.

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