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Thanks for the recs! And yeah I am all too familiar with the fem vs masc clothing issues. It's easier to figure out sizing for masculine clothing, but the options are soooooo limited. I have like three button ups, a nice suit, and a few band ts. That's it. Meanwhile I converted the second bedroom in my apartment into a walk in closet- so that tells you how many fem clothes I have in comparison! Not for lack of want, just lack of options.

Lol, I tend not to go for the darker LIs myself, but I have friends who eat that uuuuup so I'll probably send them some of your recs. I'll thank you for them in advance lmao!

The Shitty Gal Jam is running now. It's ending soon so there's already submissions posted for it! Here's a link to the jams page if you wanted to check it out.

I don't have a laptop unfortunately. Just a PC! Wish I had a laptop as well, but my car has been having issues for years, and is very much on it's last wheels so to speak, so saving for that is the priority over saving for a laptop. Medical debt unfortunately took out all of my savings and I'm still paying off the last $2,000 of it. 

Lmao my parents dog is a super hyper, not yet trained, energetic beast haha! She's still a puppy. A big puppy- but still learning. I love her, but I've got my work cut out for me. She doesn't sleep. She wants either constant cuddles, or to be running around a park at mach 10! 😂 Going to have to be running from one end of the house to the other every hour or so because I have to bring my cat with me and spend equal time with him as well of course. Azzy, my cat, doesn't like other animals, and Dolly, my parents dog, is still being trained and very excitable, so they have to be kept very separate lol. 

Eh hard disagree. Plenty of smart cuties! I think we just infantilize cuteness, and thus those who exude it a lot. Like irl I know plenty of bubbly people who are wicked smart, caught up on current events, all that. BUT to each their own!

Yeah I know Misa is smart, like I said she figured out who Kira was before L, the world class detective! I just think they didn't really do anything with that part of her character. 

Yeah, that's why I said mall goth. A lot of her stuff looks like things you could buy at hot topic (you can even get death note merch there sometimes lmao). I don't know what I would do without hot topic. Probably have a lot more basic wardrobe since I don't really have any other stores that sell that kind of aesthetic around me lmao

Oh dear, you have my condolences lmao. At least there's always online shopping? 

Yeah a lot of games don't work on browser anyways, and you have to download them. I don't know what I'm going to do without my extensive game library while I'm house sitting lmao. The week shall be rough indeed (joke),

Exactly what it sounds like! Lmao it's called Shitty Gal Jam, and the main rule is that a main character needs to be a 'shitty gal'. Could just be mean, or could be a murderer! Full spectrum. Mine is blackmailing the mc lmao.

I getcha I getcha. That would all be epilogue and after story stuff. I don't plan to change this game away from being a chat sim after all! They're one of my fav VN genres lol.

Nah it's fine! Like I said, I don't plan to change it away from being a chat sim. I appreciate it though!

💯 Both times I've participated in a jam work picked up and I got stuck with house sitting duty at the same time lmao. I'm cursed. Always having to cut things out of my game jam projects because of it haha!

Whatever your preference is! I think I'm a cute blonde ;P It's just still winter so I'm not getting enough sun to keep it that way, and the pink I put in has since grown out lol. 

I just wish they had stuck with her being this genius as well. I mean, she found out who Light was BEFORE L! But after that they made her kind of a dumb blonde and never really utilized that part of her character imo. I preferred L anyways though. Love a gremlin.

Nah they say Misa is goth Lolita, but I'd say she's more soft goth, or mall goth. She only wears lolita style clothes once that I remember. Hot topic is basically the only place you can get things more that style in person, so that's where a lot of my clothes have come from throughout the years, so I'd be considered a mall goth. I don't like the gatekeepy origins though. 

Lol, well it's for the Shitty Gal Jam, which runs until March 7th so I'll have at the very least a demo out once that's over. Fair warning- it's another chatsim lmao. Has more video calls though.

Huh odd. I'd recommend just completely uninstalling and reinstalling it with the itch.io app, but obviously you know your problem better than me!

He's not coming out for awhile lol. The second LI for Lost and Found that I'm working on is more workaholic business man with a coffee addiction who is a bit of a mother hen with people he cares about. But again- mean goth lady game first. ;P

Yeah, that was the plan buuuut cuts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What can I say? Too much overtime at work.

I'm pretty sure I have the steam version of a Date with Death. I don't think there's any differences. 

With A Date with Death you do see him in person at least once. The thing with Lost and Found is that the only reason the MC and LI are even talking is because MC has their phone. If they met up really early there wouldn't be much reason to keep chatting. I could see Grayson maybe exchanging numbers, because they're a sweetie, but characters like Knox and Arturo (the other two planned LIs from the original concept) not so much. I'm sure I could figure something out though. It's worth putting on the games corkboard.

That's very sweet to hear. I'm glad you had fun.

Lmao oh no we hate the tech curse. I find that I don't have as many issues if I use the itch.io app instead of downloading it directly. Less chance for me to make an error along the way lol.

I'm glad to hear you're looking forward to future updates! Hopefully you'll enjoy them. I occasionally post updates on my BlueSky, so if you wanted to see things like Nova (the mean goth lady LI lol) I posted a first draft of her sprite over there. There are changes I'd like to make buuut I'm house/dog sitting and away from my PC, so my jam time has unfortunately been slashed lol. It's not bad though.  

Lol, I used to. Not blonde anymore. Whatever floats your boat though! 

Lmao if you want it to, totally! Cosplay doesn't have to be big expensive pieces, or fancy prosthetics and props. My first cosplay was Misa Amane because I was blonde and had a lot of goth stuff on hand lmao!

Ah I'm sorry to hear that. At the end of the day everyone's different, and people who participate in a hobby are still people at the end of the day- all unique in their own ways! 

Lol thanks

Oh I definitely plan to! I already started and got a first draft of an intro for a second LI, and started mapping out some concepts for expanding on scenes already in game, buuuuuut then I saw a game jam I really wanted to participate in, so that's what I'm working on now. Sorry boys- the mean goth lady game gets priority lmao!

Lol Knox is more grunge/punk than goth, and I'm sorry to say, not a yandere. More blunt and blushy tsundere if I had to pick a trope to shove him in. If you want a satanic emo boy though I'd recommend looking into Killer Chat! Goreboy fits that to a T and it's a great game imo.

Lol it was meant to be a call back to him saying he liked that kind of thing when talking about love languages. Grayson just wants to relax and snuggle with his sweetie and his demonic overlord lmao

Huh, I've played through all the routes and didn't have that issue. Maybe it was a glitch that got patched out? Basically the entire game takes place on a totally not discord server so maybe you're thinking of a different game?

You might like A Date With Death then! It has traditional VN elements on top of the chatsim segments, and you can get dlc that adds nsfw content. I'm certainly not opposed to spicy scenes myself lmao

Yeah no I totally get it! Like I said, pure chat sims aren't for everyone! And yeah, I plan to make the epilogues actually playable like a traditional VN in the future. That was the original plan for them, but I didn't have time to code them in, make the ending CGs I wanted to, etc. I figured I'd leave them until I had time to do them properly, but then the year was ending and I still hadn't found the time, so I decided to just put them in like that instead of letting what I wrote for them go to waste. 

I'll stop yapping your ear off (eyes off..?) now lmao. Thanks again! I do appreciate the feedback and the chat! 

Lmao I cosplay, and so do some of my friends, and tbh it’s always a toss up on who wears over the top everyday outfits and gets all done up and gorgeous, and who wears the plainest tshirt and jeans in their day to day. One of my besties practically lives in a plain black oversized hoodie! 😂 Totally get what you mean that it could have shown off who he is more! I designed him in like an hour and just went with it because I got a bunch of work at my irl job dumped on me the same day before I could finish. Definitely a lot I could’ve done better! Looking at the sketches I did for the three original LIs I planned you can definitely see which one got to his second phase of design and which two didn’t haha 😂 

Lmao yeah the early endings aren’t meant to be taken too seriously. They all have some dash of silly. It was going to be even more over the top originally because you can’t just stumble into it, but I decided to tone it down a bit. It was silly enough as is lmao. The main three are the ‘real’ endings. 

No, he’s an only child. One of his best friends has a cat though! Not the one who’s getting a route out first though haha 😂 

That’s sweet to say, thanks! I like the limitations, time limits, and community with game jams, so I’m still doing them, but I do plan to update this one to make it more what I wanted originally before the cuts had to come in. Going to work on it a bit between work and other jams. I will say though it’s a chatsim! Think like Blooming Panic, Killer Chat, etc. I don’t see it changing to a traditional VN with actual dates and stuff outside of in epilogues, sides stories, etc. It’s just the genre. Better ‘video calls’ would be on the todo list for additions though! Another of my regrettable cuts.  It’s one of my favorite genres of visual novels, but I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea! 

And aw thank you so much again! 

Thanks for the feedback! It was for a game jam during a busy work month for me, so there's a lot I couldn't include, and as much as I would have loved to include cgs to show his cosplaying, his hobbies, etc my art isn't the best and time constraints meant some things had to be cut out. Definitely something I'm considering down the line since I plan to update this game after I finish my next game jam project though!

There's three main endings- the endings you get at the end based on your affection score with him, and then five early endings. I posted a link to walkthrough I made in the first dev log so if you wanted to get the others that's available! It's not too hard for most of them but one is ridiculous so it's a bit harder to get without a walkthrough lol. Most of the early endings are really short.

Thanks again!

Works fine now! Like I said it happened to me too lol. Figured I'd save you the twenty minutes of googling I had to do before lmao

Heyo! Just wanted to let you know that it wont let me install the game through the itch app. It says there's no compatible versions, but it looks like there is a pc version. This happened to me after one of the updates for my game when I forgot to tick the box saying what each version was compatible with when I uploaded a new build, so it may be that again! Just thought I should let you know! Figured posting here was better than clogging up your comments on the game page. Can delete if you want! Regardless, I'm looking forward to playing this over the weekend. It looks so fun!

I am now sad. Five stars. Would divorce again. 👏

Oh my gosh itch didn’t tell me you replied! This is so sweet genuinely thank you so much 💜💜💜 It’s lovely. I really appreciate it! 💜

Aw that's sweet of you! Since you relate to Gracie I hope playing could give you some comfort. Always remember that you're not alone, and you deserve to be happy. 💜 

I'll remove the cameras, but only if you let me know when you decide to dye your hair purple. It's destiny now. 😜😂

Jokes aside! I'm glad you liked my game! It was my first project and definitely a lot as a solo dev, but it was so much fun to make! I'm really glad to hear you had a good time with it. Tell the bunny I love them!

Aww I'm so glad to hear you liked it! Thank you for letting me know 😊 My day has been made.

Okay that makes sense! I'll send a message later today. Thanks again! 

Oh dear, I had both of those, but I never got an email. Just checked to make sure and the only emails I got were about the survey and a link to the discord server saying it was to stay up to date on the news for the next jam. Nothing about my game being removed. Could you send me the email again, or let me know who to message on discord for the link?

My game Lost and Found was removed from the submissions and I'm not sure why. I checked over all the rules and don't think I broke any. I have screenshots, it's tagged josei, and I started working on it after the jam started. I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain why it was removed so I can avoid doing that again if I participate in another jam in the future. 

I did update the game recently to add more to it that I didn't have time to before the jam was over (pronoun selection and epilogues), and then about an hour ago someone let me know I forgot to check the box next to one of the files to say it was mac so I updated that, but I didn't see anything saying I couldn't do that on the jams page. This was my first time participating in any jam, so I'm sorry if I did something wrong, or if this isn't the place to ask this. I just wasn't sure where else to go and didn't want to make the same mistake again in the future. 

Fixed it! Sorry about that. Originally when I uploaded I marked the files as 'mac' and 'windows' but upon updating it seems I forgot to check the boxes. If you were downloading from the website it would have worked fine, but the itch app didn't know which files to pick! So sorry for the mistake, it should be all fixed now!

lmao please do they need it 😂

Hello! I'm glad I was able to answer all your questions, and I'm so happy to hear you had fun playing! Thank you very much for letting me know! Made my day.  😊

Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know ☺️

Hey! Just letting you know the update is out! Hope you like it!

Glad to hear it! I’m hoping I’ll make more progress on it tonight. I’ll put that walkthrough together at the same time. 
Just made a twitter and followed ya! Not at home right now so my pfp is just Grayson cuz that was what I have on my phone lol. @CorvidsCauldron

lmao the coffee choices was a joke because I asked my friend group their coffee order to put it in and they had a very large response 😂 I wasn’t even sure if I’d finish the game at the time so it was just something for us all to laugh at. To be honest I had forgotten that was there. 🤣 I’m working on an update that adds epilogues and pronoun selection, so I’ll chop a few of those out before uploading that. 

I can work on an ending guide! Most are pretty easy to get, but one is definitely a challenge since it requires max affection. 

I pretty much only use reddit and just to lurk in the otome and Ren’Py subs lmao. It would literally make my day if you did though! I don’t mind making a new account wherever so just lemme know what you use. 

Aw I’m glad you liked it! And yep, it’s my first one! 

PLEASE SHOW ME IF YOU DO! I would cry. TwT

Anywaysies I'm so glad to hear you liked it! I hope you had fun and thank you for playing!

That's sweet of you to say. Thank you again!

Hi these are super cute and genuinely perfect for my game! Idk if I could have finished my project in time for the game jam without them. I made sure to link to you in the about page. Thank you so much for these!

I'm glad to hear you liked it! It's a solo project and I'm tone deaf myself, so I had to use premade assets for the soundtrack, but I think DavidKBD made some lovely pieces, although I could have definitely utilized them better. Something for me to think about while I work on the update to add epilogues! Thank you for the feedback, and again for playing! I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed it!

You're literally so sweet for saying all this. Thank you so much! I'm glad to know you're looking forward to the update. I have a long weekend currently so I'm hoping to make some good progress on that over the next couple days. Funny enough working on stuff like this is how I like to rest lmao. I really am so happy to hear you liked it. Genuinely thank you for letting me know! 

Oh my goodness thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. You made my whole day with this comment!

I'm so glad you love Gracie! I tried to make him a more realistic character and love interest. He's a sweet guy but has his flaws and baggage like everyone else. 

I had to cut out a lot of things I wanted to add to get it submitted in time for the jam, so I'm glad the game didn't suffer for losing out on that. Think more ways for the mc to express themself, custom pronouns, as well as epilogues for all the endings! I'm hoping to add them in in the near future but this is still a completed game as is and I'm really so happy to hear you enjoyed it. Genuinely thank you for leaving this comment! I'll be riding high for the rest of the week lmao

Glad you liked it! It was a lot of fun to make as a first project. I love chatsims too so when I found Nightens code to make the phone in renpy I knew what my project for the jam had to be!