First of all, I wanted to apologize for making you wait so long for the game. My health problems and death of a family member caused me to become hospitalized, deeply depressed and simply unable to finish.
Fortunately, Y Press took over. I've recently felt much better and finally gave them everything they need to finish Sentimental Trickster, so please be patient for a little while longer. I know I'm asking for a lot, but I promise everyone will get their KS reward and itch preorder as promised. As for the refunds, sadly I'm not able to deliver them as all the funds were spent on game assets such as graphics, writing and initial programming.
Hi guys! I'm terribly sorry for the lack of updates. My health hasn't been the best and (without going into painful details) I haven't been able to continue working on the game as fast as I'd have liked. Right now I'm looking for someone who could partially take over so that this game can get made. I put so much love and work into it already, so it would be a shame for it all to go to waste. That said, please contact me if you'd like to cancel your preorder. Once again, I'm sorry to have kept you in the dark for so long!
Hello! I'm not giving the release date anymore because I don't want to disappoint anyone in case it gets postponed again. I'm sorry :( Me and my artist are working hard to bring the game to life though. I'll keep you updated if there are any major developments!
Hi :) Yes, Renpy is a lot better for my purposes than Unity! Also, please don't be worried, I'm still working on the game^^ It's a lot slower since I have a day job now, but the game will be released for sure.
Typhon013, thank you very much for writing on my behalf!Violette, great idea with the deluxe edition, I made it available as well :) I'll make an official announcement tomorrow because I want to change the main page a bit before that.
Hello! Thank you so much for the words of encouragement :) I'm always extremely happy when someone enjoys the game. It gives me the strength to carry on^^ And if you wish to receive information on the game, you can send your email to sentimentaltrickster@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter. Those who contributed $30 or more during the Kickstarter campaign are going to be testing the first route soon, so I hope to release the full game this year, or at the beginning of the next :)
Ooh, thank you for such kind words <3 I'm honored that you want to be friends with me! Do you have Skype or Steam? We could chat there^^ If you don't want to write personal information here, please send me an email: sentimentaltrickster@gmail.com, or you can follow me on Twitter (I'll follow you back): https://twitter.com/Haru_Trickster
I'm sorry you're experiencing problems! The demo was made in Unity, but not on mac, and I noticed some mac users can't launch it. I made a movie that helped a few of them:
Thank you so much! I'm very happy you enjoyed playing the game. Yes, making it is so much fun! I love writing dialogue and drawing the characters^^ It'll come out before the end of 2017 and it'll be quite a long game. I hope you'll find some time to play it them :)
Yes, some are based on people I know. E.g. Haru's mom is based on my own mom. She's always been very supportive of me, no matter what I did. I've always felt a lot of love from her. I want to show this good relationship in the game, that is, between Haru and his mom. Also, Haru's insecurities are partly my own. I read that "you should write from your core wounds", so I'm trying that out now. As for the other guys, they are partly influenced by many anime series I've seen and partly by me being tired of the usual anime tropes :)
Hi! Thank you so much for the kind words :) The game will come out before the end of 2017 for sure. It grew during the development and I still have many things I need to implement/finish. I might even try to get the funding for voice acting^^
