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Thanks so much YUU. Keep yours eyes peeled, Kara will be back 

Thank you so much for the kind comment YUU :)

Mellow-Di will be back soon, keep an eye out for them! 

Hey IrisStudios, thanks for your feedback. It's really appreciated! The good news is, we do have an art book that links to our main title in the universe, Royal Duality, but I agree that we might need to make one specifically for this series. When the final 2 games in the series are released, we'll definitely keep what you said in mind 🤗

Hi IrisStudios, thank you so much for taking the time to review this game. We really appreciate it and we're glad you enjoyed the world building! We'll be creating another story in this series next year, we hope you can check out that story too 😊

Thank you so much for your kind words Cryptid. We always enjoy your playthroughs and comments. May your harvests be bountiful and your cherries sweet and tasty!

This game Universe is already unfolding nicely and you can see the great Panther himself featuring heavily in a new title in December 2024 👀

Hi Chatter!

Thank you so much for the wonderful comment and review! We really appreciated it. You're got some great intuition re:Serpentus and the Panther.

Jake did a wonderful job with the voice acting performance, hats off to him for making Serpentus so reliable. We see this character chanage a lot during the Royal Duality saga (he's calculating in the first game, he's very driven in the audio drama and then...we see him here, a very different and humble deity). I think this game serves as a bit of a deep dive into his character and the fact that he can shed his personalities a bit like a snake sheds it's skin to suit the mood of the time he's in...but in lonely and isolated conditions, he feels very caged (a bit like how people who keep snakes as pets often have them in tanks...that's no disrespect to snake-owners by the way!)

The good news too is that Serpentus and his partner will be returning in a world that's totally different than their own! 

Thanks again for your kind words and have a great day.

Hi Sudachys! 

Thank you so much for your comments. We really appreciate it ❤️

We hope that snake deity can sliver to a better place amongst the stars ✨

Thanks again for your kind words 😊

Hi Meeka, 

Thank you so much for your playthrough. 

We've got an Panther deity based game and a couple more installments of the Deity Machine coming up this year and the next. So plenty of deity lore coming up 👍

Thanks again. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to review YUU! We really appreciate your comments.  

Also, we have increased the colour contrast on the lighter green text so it is easier to read, thank you so much for providing this feedback. It helps us make the game more enjoyable. :)

Thank you again.

Hi DigitalWaveMedia. 

Thank you so much for playing our game! We're always happy to see playthroughs and we're really glad you enjoyed it! 

Thanks again 🫶

Thanks so much for the playthrough Voyia! We'll be making a sequel and something tells me you might get that widdle kiss 🫶

Thanks again, have a great birthday on the 10th!

Hi Goddess-of-Gales, thank you for playing 'The Inbetween' and taking the time to leave your review of the game. We appreciate the playthrough and would like to take this opportunity to explain some of the design choices made in the game that may have caused some of the mixed feelings that the game has left you with.  :)

First, thank you for your compliments regarding the voice acting, Noah did a fantastic job and we were so glad to have him join us on this project. Also, the visual style can be totally attributed to the ‘Hyaku’ part of ‘Hyakuten’- we were happy to see you enjoyed the aesthetics. 

As the writer and game project manager, I am happy to cover the constructive feedback you have (I'm the 'Ten' of 'Hyakuten'.      

I think the key issue here is the length of the game, as that seems to have left some dissatisfaction and much of the constructive criticism stems from the small word count and the lack of explanation that comes with it. 

As a development studio of 2, we both work full time in other jobs and both submitted individual entries into Nanoreno for the first time. So, ‘the Inbetween’ was a small, fun endeavour, making games as a pair as we enjoy each other's company. The philosophy being, the ‘journey is as important as the destination’ - if we had made it longer, we may have strained the capability of what we could do enjoyably and comfortably. But I can understand that as a piece in isolation - it may be brief and sparse. 

We would definitely categorise it as a ‘micro’ visual Novel. We do intend to create a sequel, so perhaps some of your concerns regarding character motivation, lore and world mechanics might be better explained in that game. We had an only one of any asset mentality to develop the game on time and enjoyably, (which is probably more apparent when the context is provided) - which is why there is a significant amount of ‘tell’ and not ‘show’. 

Having no narrator was a design choice that we've made in a couple of our titles. This one, in particular, was to leave the player in as confusing a situation as the MC themselves, it may seem vague and confusing and that is a valid perspective, but that was partly intentional, but we can understand that it may leave some players dissatisfied. In our first major title, Royal Duality, we extensively explained lore throughout the game, and many reviews felt the game spent too long explaining the setting and not allowing the characters to be characters. So we are still balancing and playing with the narrator concept in different games and seeing what sticks. 

As there is a planned sequel, we unfortunately cannot go into details regarding Hellion and his motivations. But rest assured, the scamp has motivations that have been intentionally hidden so far. 

To be candid, we were unsure if there would be any appetite for this game, it is a significant departure from our signature style of dark fantasy which is generally humourless or lacks humorous content, as a title, it was designed to test the waters. We were pleasantly surprised that this was by far, our best performing game - so we feel confident to make a sequel that will, we hope, answer many of your questions (if you wish to play, of course 😊). 

We'd also like to address some of the points made in the video review regarding the punctuation. As the writer of the game, I can truly relate to the dislike of poorly used punctuation - and it is fair to say I dislike multiples of ! and ? being used without any value. But we did, in this title, use them in a playful fashion, there is no specific justification aside from us having a bit of fun! 

Once again, we’d like to thank you for your review, feedback and playthrough. 

Hi MissHC! Thanks so much for giving the delightful dork Hellion a chance! 

We're happy to let you know that Hellion will be back in the future ❤️ so he can try and win hearts over a second time. Who knows? Maybe we'll get that smooch 💋

Thanks again for playing! 🫶

Thank you so much for your kind words Cryptid! He is a dork- actually a sweet boi! The voice acting from Noah was incredible and he brought so much to Hellion's character. It was a nice departure for us, a gentler story (despite the setting), a bright breezy colour scheme and a bit of jazz. 

Don't feel bad about wanting to see Hellion again and...maybe...you will get to see Hellion's adventures (we'll be making an announcement about that soon) 

Thanks again for the wonderful playthrough, it really makes us happy when we see them!

Thank you so much for the amazing feedback Maho_anpu <3 

I think Hellion is such a fun liddle guy himself - despite him thinking he knows all the ropes and can't get flustered (immediately gets flustered).

Noah's voice acting delivery is absolutely amazing too! He's such a great talented guy!

A little slice of niceness in the hottest joint in the Underworld :) Thanks again for your kind words.

Thanks so much for your feedback Chatter 🥹

We had a lot of fun making this one - especially the leading man himself, his whole voice and tone came alive with Noah's voice acting, we're so grateful he was willing to help out. 

We're looking forward to sharing more of Hellion's shenanigans and times with MC in the future 🫶

Thank you so much for taking the time to play ✨

Thank you so much for the review! We're really glad you enjoyed your experience. ✨

We're looking forward to sharing more of Hellion's story with everyone one day

Thank you so much for playing. ☺️

Thank you so much for the comment! We really appreciate it 🫶

No spooks this time, just a sweet demon looking for his life in the big bold overworld. We wanted to try something a little different, dipping our toe into fluff as it were. Noah is such a fantastic VA and brought Hellion to life so well 🙇

So grateful you took the time to play and give us a comment. We're so excited to check out all of the other entries once the jam is over. Rendez-Doug included 👀

Thank youuuuu - Heli is absolutely bowled over <3 - you'll have to come to an arrangement on that wedding unless you want to end up in a casino! The voice is the fabulous Noah Belachew - we'll let him know :)

Thank you for playing!

Thank you so much for playing it (and so quickly as well! A real 'hot off the press playthrough!) - we really enjoyed watching :)

We're hoping that Hellion might be able to fulfil his promise and give you that 'smoocharoo' (his words not ours) when he gets to the surface. Who knows? Maybe we'll see he again ;)

But thank you again for linking to our game and sharing your play experience, we really appreciate it 

Thank you so much for your review! It's really nice to see your comments and really motivates us. You've raised some smiles today :)

The good news is that Blaec not only features in a couple of our completed games (Roses in the Thorns in particular), but he will have a very significant role in 2 of our titles that are currently in production! :)

Looking forward to watching as soon as possible. Thank you once again and have a lovely day.

Thank you so much for taking the time to play our game and leave a comment too ✨

Looking forward to watching your playthrough as always 👀

There are 2 more deity machine games coming in the near future - so I'm sure you'll be seeing the 'good doctor' again soon 👍

All the best - and remember, Mother loves you 🪆

Thank you so much for playing! We really appreciate you taking the time to comment. Look forward to more stories that feature creepy Doctor Dwight 🦊 (2 more currently in production as we speak 😆) 

Thank you once again. 

Thanks so much for the feedback Chattercap! It was so nice to receive such a lovely comment! We really enjoyed the limited assets for the jam and felt it made us concentrate on the intent of the story and graphics even more than usual.

Really appreciate your comments. 

Thank you so much for the comment Yubirutake, we really appreciate it. You will definitely be seeing more of the Vulture Deity in the future. 

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We're so grateful for your review! We hope you enjoy the world of the Vulture and maybe....come again soon? 👀

Thank you so much Tymedust! There's plenty more coming, we're just devving now. We pick up one story thread and 10 take it's place. It's great. 👁️👄👁️

Really appreciate the comment 🙇

Thanks Banya! We really appreciate the feedback. We have exciting plans in the works to expand on the lore, more details coming soon 👀

Hi G.C. Katz. Thank you for your kind comments, we really appreciate you taking the time to play the game! We hope we can tell the story of the vampire and fae war in a future release. 

Thanks again ☺️

Thank you so much! We really appreciate you taking the time to play the game 🫶

Hope you can warm up and get cosy now! 🥹

Ahhhh thank you so much Carrot! Such a lovely review to read, we really appreciate it. It was our first O2A2, so we were a little anxious about how it would be received! Your review really made our day.

We wanted to create an entry that links vaguely with some of our other games but also worked as a standalone, so we're delighted that it was understandable and enjoyable to play <3

Our vulture is name-dropped a lot in other games but we really wanted him to spread his wings...we're hoping to tell his story with the Fae in a future title (if all goes to plan).

Please take care, grab a warm beverage of your time and snuggle up safely :)

Thank you so much for your kind words. We really appreciate hearing from you! 

We're really glad you enjoyed the side stories and endings too! So many costume changes, so little time.

Also, if you enjoyed Royal Duality, it's sequel game will be released soon, with some characters returning. We hope you look forward to that also. 🙇

Thanks again! 

Hyakuten Games 

Thank you so much for the kind words! 

Don't let Kara steal your humanity, even if they're totally radical and cool 🥹

I loved the graphics and music for this game! Also really enjoyed going down instead of up and seeing the easter egg ;)

Thanks so much FuzzyCryptid, we really appreciate your feedback! Fantastic Voice acting and music made this such a fun project to work on! :) 

Thank you so much! We had a fantastic team who all had amazing talent and input! I'm so excited to see all the other entries for this event too! It's going to be a great way to spend a Sunday :)