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so introduce yourself and I'll shout you out! I don't actually know if any of yal come here

Link: https://kinit.itch.io/brother

I finished my game, Brother, after years of working on it in bits and pieces as I learned how to use RPG Maker. I know my maps are too big, and I found one or two superficial bugs playing it myself. I've only gotten feedback from one person, a family member, but they loved it enough to complete it right away and were constantly sending questions and feedback, and want to help me develop a wiki for it! So basically, I'm confident in the story, and I know the puzzles and such can be challenging but still solvable without my help. I just haven't had luck getting more people to try it out :( I'd love if a couple more people gave it a shot! 

Quick summary:

- It's a survival horror with puzzle elements

- You play as a little girl trapped in a dangerous world with only her imaginary friend who looks like her recently-deceased older brother to protect you

- I think it's about 4 hours to beat? I feel like I did the bad ending in 2 hours

- There are multiple endings based on player choices and hidden items/scenes

- It was my take on creating a game similar in theme to Witch's House and Ib

I'd love to know:

- If the beginning is interesting enough to hold the player's attention

- What to change if I redo the game (Map sizes are at the top of my list)

- If you beat it, which ending did you get? Would you be willing to replay for the other ending?

- Do you like the music? It's clunky but I made it all myself (except for one song near the end I somehow forgot to replace) and I'm curious if the repetition gets annoying

- Any other questions/comments!!

I have merch!?! I had a request for a t-shirt design a little while ago and I just put it up on TeePublic! My Justice for Tristan design comes in shirts, tank tops, buttons, and like mugs and notebooks and pillow cases and stuff for the heck of it but really it's all about the tank tops IMO 

Apparently they're on sale for 2 days too so that's cool! Hope yal like the design! 

Link: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/5851792-justice-for-tristan?store_id=239243 

Brother

Click on Tomoya! He's the piece leading the small force on the left! You'll need to push him toward the fenced off path, but be careful of the other pieces! You can use pawns from Tomoya's side to block the other pieces from advancing! 

\ o / Download button is temporarily down while I tweak a couple things! It will be back soon and I'll have patch notes!

Bug Fix: Clicking on the oven in the kitchen will result in a missing asset popup. This is fixed in the new download file, but if you have the previous file you can avoid interacting with the oven and it won't affect the rest of the game.

\ o / If you're stuck, ask me a question here! I thought about posting a FAQ/Gameplay Guide, but folks are so smart, I feel like yal might not need my help with something like that unless I screwed up some programming somewhere. Let me know if a guide - especially for finding secrets, achievements and easter eggs  - would be helpful! 

I really don't know what I'm doing, I just wanted to give yal some stories and puzzles and scares! If you run into any bugs, or weirdness, or the vibe gets ruined for you, I'm incredibly sorry - please let me know about it so I can try to fix it! I think this is what this community board is for? I guess I'll find out!