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Same :D My bedroom is kinda buried in Amuse animal plushies in various shades of pastel xD And I totally don't have a lilac alpaca-themed outfit with matching alpaca backpack... <.<”      “>.>

Aheh, I think we might have my autism to thank for my ability to complete game jams x3 I doubt I'd be able to go into hyperfocus mode without it, haha. But it's as detrimental as it is useful because it means I work extremely unhealthily. Even though I'm aware of it, I don't seem to be able to stop it from happening! A couple of years ago I mentioned to a therapist about making a game in a month, and at first she was impressed, but when I told her that I was working on it for 13+ hours per day most days during that month, she then became understandably horrified x3 The weirdest thing is, outside of game jams, I often lose the ability when I no longer have a deadline. Then I kinda just float around trying to get as much done as possible most days, but with nowhere near the same level of progress made compared to jam mode.

Lazy Polar Bear's art really is quite stunning :3 The character designs are 100% hers. All I said was let's have an androgynous bunny person, haha. And then later added that maybe we could have a dark version of the original one to make twins. The moment I saw her sketches I immediately fell in love, as always when it comes to her art, haha.

Hehe, yeah, all the voice actors were absolutely phenomenal, but I have to admit that Phonobabble's line delivery made me cry at one point while testing when I heard it combined with the music and the sprite for the first time x3 I don't really know how but it was like a proper gut punch, haha. Getting to hear a character portrayed in differing ways with different actors takes on them is probably one of the most exciting things about casting multiple people as the same character :3 It's always a lot of fun for me to listen to when I get lines sent in!

It means a lot that you think I struck the balance decently with the sweet and the sinister :3 I was a little worried that I'd gone a tad toooo squishy with orange, haha. I mean, my plan was to write a much softer yandere this time around because I thought it would make for a nice change and a fun challenge, but I had my concerns that they might end up accidentally coming across as a bit boring x3 I think that's where the voice actors really helped elevate the character in my eyes, because I wasn't much more than 50% happy with the script, haha. But they all played their parts so perfectly. I was more concerned about orange than blue, but the anxious yet upbeat energy the Vas gave in their performances made the character play much better than it did on the page! I feel like words alone just can't give off the vibe that can be achieved with adding great voice acting :3 It was thanks to their voice acting and LPB's art that orange went from being a character I wasn't all that keen on initially, to transforming into one I now hold most dear, haha.

And it also means a lot that you thought I dealt with the subject decently :3 I can't lie, there's a lot of me in Bunnie, haha. And while my experiences aren't exactly identical to theirs, I did wind up putting more of me into it all than I planned to. It's funny because I was originally intending it to just be this sorta cute and casual piece, but it wound up becoming really quite personal, haha. So glad that stuff made sense and that you thought my intentions were clear in the end :3 I really struggle when I'm writing to know if I'm even remotely getting across what I'm trying to say xD I think I even said to the team several times when I was working on Dawn of the Damned last year that I had no idea if anything makes sense anymore, haha. Like, I know what I mean, but I could not for the life of me tell if anyone else would get it or if it would just read like the ramblings of a mad woman x3

Yay for the soundtrack love too <3 Honestly, I cannot tell you how happy making music makes me, haha. I thought I wasn't even gonna have time to make a single track for this, but I kinda went rogue anyways and started working on some before I even began coding properly >.< I kept beating myself up about it, saying, jeez, woman, you've spent hours making music and you haven't even got a game to put the tracks into yet! You need to stop, get some coding done, and then you work on the darn music. Didn't make much difference though cos I was having too much fun making tracks to stop x3

Much love to you for noticing the expression timings as well ^-^ Doing all that takes soooooo long xD but I will never stop because I love it, haha. Felt like I was going insane while I added them cos it always seems neverending! And then, of course, once they're in the code, doesn't necessarily mean they will match up with the VA, so then I have to go test and edit it all when the VA is in, haha. It makes me die a tiny bit inside if I see someone stream my stuff and they change the text reveal speed to instant reveal xD I mean, I could put a bunch of forced waits in there to account for that, but then that would make it a pain in the butt to use the skip function effectively on repeat playthroughs >.<

Probably gonna have a bit of a mini-break so I can play through the other games submitted to the jam, and I also wanna make some progress on some of my other projects, but I definitely wanna give blue Blythe their much-deserved full route at some point ^-^

Thank YOU so much for taking the time to play through it all and type up such a lovely comment <3  
PS. Sorry for rambling so much x3 I just realised how horrifically long my wall of text is, haha.