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Great.  I thought so.  Thanks for confirming all hand drawn assets. Much appreciated.  

Hi, can you confirm whether hand drawn or AI generated?  From your main Thaena Productions page, I'm guessing hand drawn, but would appreciate the clarity.  Thanks!  

Open itch.io from your browser and you can download the game from there. It's pretty awesome, so worth the extra steps.  https://paleoginstudio.itch.io/one-nighter

Hi, thanks so much for getting back to me.  It's fantastic you offer sprites with mutiple outfits and full suite of face expressions.  Please know you're already doing a wonderful provision of assets and service for indie dev's and I truly love you for it.  It was a cheeky request, but I figured it didn't hurt to ask.   I'm happy you took the time to investigate and I'm honored with your reply.  Thanks very much for you time.  Kind regards, Lila

Hello, would you consider offering an alternate download zip file package with transparent backgrounds and separate .png files?  This would help art newbies like myself who 1. don't have Adobe to open the original PSD files, and 2. struggle with alternate art programs like Paint.net.  It would allow easy "placeholder" sprite art, e.g. sci_fi_captain_uniform_happy.  e.g. sci_fi_captain_nude_embarrassed.  Where there's an upfront level of effort to create the alternate package, it's a once off effort on your part, with huge benefit to your end user.  It makes your offering more accessible, which is more user friendly. This may be more attractive for future customers, and may increase your customer base.  See these assets for an example of my ask:  https://linxuelian.itch.io/charres-wonderland.Thanks for your time. Kind regards, Cheers, Lila

Thank you so much!

So I've realised I need to be more explicit in my ask.  My bad!  Are you ok if I make arrangements for additional Computer Graphic art based on your Wonderland character designs?  Will be exposed male chests from waist up mostly.  I plan to use your sprites majority of game, then good ends will get naked chest/abs.  Apologies for not being clearer before.  Thank you so much!  

Hi LinXueLian,
Thank you so much for getting back to me.  No worries at all, I know you're busy and I'm totally stoked to hear back from you.  
Thanks for confirming you're ok with your assets being used in a not safe for work (NSFW) capacity.  It's always good to double check these things.  
Your art is so beautiful - sprites and backgrounds.  You're such a wonderful person making your beautiful art assets available for others to use.  You're a true inspriation and wonderful contributor to the game development industry.  
Have a great day.
Kind regards,
Lila

Hi LinXueLian,

Firstly, thank you so much for providing free sprite and background assets.  Your work is amazing!

Secondly, question: Do you grant permission for your sprites in a not-safe-for-work (NSFW) free otome game?  If not NSFW, then is suggestive mature content okay?

Thank you so much!

Kind regards

Lila

Hi there,

Thank you so much for your feedback.

I apologise that I cannot fulfill your request this time around. Unfortauntely, my project team members have all moved on to other projects, so this game is frozen in time from a development point of view.

I'll take on board your feedback for future games.  Because the graphical user interface was all custom made, and we only had 2 months for game development, we only tested the "visual" interaction with the main menu and not the "self voicing" component. For future, I'll ensure all components are appropriately named to enable self voicing to find the text and read it out loud.  I'll incorporate self voicing testing to ensure accessibility for my future games.

Would you consider other otome games that may better meet your needs?  https://itch.io/jam/otome-jam-2023/entries

Thank you so much for taking the time to feedback.  

Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.

Kind regards,

LIla

Wow, this demo blew me away. Launches straight in and awesome. The art, character development and story hooked me.  Props to ConcreteParasite game dev, brilliant work.  Shout out to Zack Valence for voice acting and sound. You guys are a great team. Looking forward to your next release.  

Saddle up indeed. This game is so awesome. Love the story, writing, dialogue. The western cowboy setting and pacing is wicked good. The choices were extremely user friendly with hints. Adored all the art - Boo's character sprites and CG's were delightful, including his adorable blush!  I'm roped in and deeply satisfied. Well done!  

Wow, Kiga, love your game. The story and writing has great pace and tension, given the character's (ahem) professions. Love all the art with changing sprites, clever programming with cutscenes - panning and zooming out. Also I had no idea that text within a textbox could move like that - heartbeat words came alive like a real heartbeat, even whimpering. Omg, so good.  You've made this look seamless, but I know how much heart and soul has gone into this.  Can't wait to see more!  Bravo!  

Wow, Sylla. This demo is awesome. The whole she-bang with writing, cocky dialogue, your art style, music, sfx, even programming with the zooming and panning.  Seriously, I'm hooked.  Rock on and keep up the great work!  

Wow, erotic 18+ Horror for the win. There's a lot that's wonderful about Sunny Day Jack - the voice acting is superb, writing on point, art took some getting used to, but I'm now a fan. Yes, yes, yes!  

Wicked clever programming and game mechanic. Love the sprite expressions. For such a short game with restrictions, you really packed a punch. Super impressive.  Thanks so much!  

Aw, that ended way too quickly. Understandable due to being a demo and all. Super sweet characters and art. I'm a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), so this brought back cool memories for me.  Well done!

Absolutely brilliant. The art is so awesome - not just one fixed sprite, but multiple sprites per character and blinking animation too - wow, just wow.  Brilliant writing, story and choices. Rocking sound track.  Well done team!  

Loved this so much!  Fave was Theo - with him being happy where he is and how dedicated he is with family, adore him.  Yes, brilliant touch with greyed out menu art that gains colour with their good endings - bravo!  Fave moment - loved all choices, the CG moments and programming side panning and full size view of CG was lovely interlude to gameplay.  Well done to Centibel for sprite and CG art - lovely!  Very cool writing and choices - especially in real life with the bar, as well as via dating app. The scope and choices are so wonderful.  Well done on a brilliant game!  

Aw, adorable. Chose Kujo first and was pleasantly surprised. Beautiful writing, art, music. Wonderful! 

OMG, this game is amazing. If you're in the mood for romance and you love massive multiplayer online games (MMO), this is perfection.  The voice acting is superb. Love the character sprite art. The story and writing is on point. Bless you for the hints, I probably relied on them too much, ha ha ha. Only played Chris's route so far, but absolutely loved it and what a ride.  I'm already excited for Nathan and PossiblyImpossible too.  Well done!

Absolutely loved this! The writing and story pacing is on point. Love the MC and applaud her excuses for bring different. Love interest wise, I want to turn Lewis's frown upside down, and pinch Cedric's cheeks. The art is gorgeous from sprites to backgrounds. Bravo! 

Super sexy. Loved it! The scene with Tom was superb. Looking forward to future releases!

Gorgeous art.  Spoilt for choice with many love interests. Awesome MC and best friend. Love the story premise and writing. Well done!  

Aw Gabe is a sweetheart. MC rocks.  Awesome writing and story premise. Beautiful art.  

Xenos is hot. Love the CG art. Quite enjoyed the writing with soulbind spell. Well done!

Wow, blown away by how awesome Heart Cage is.  All yandere love interests, huh? Oh man, all three of detective Luke, landlord Dane, supposed chemist Enox, are super hot. If you had to twist my arm, I'd try Luke first, but they are all intriguing. 

Love the spicy computer graphic art, as well as the writing with romance, mystery and how each love interest is so unique. Rock on with the music by Asurababy, Hong Kong indie metal band with those original theme songs. Thrilled your Kickstarter was successfully funded.  Even sweeter that both G# and Sid's routes unlocked too.  Simply cannot wait for more updates.  Bravo. 

Dear Yourkhaleesi,

Wow! Thanks for your positive feedback. I'm so happy you enjoyed playing Nuts - A Dark Romance game, specifically Red the Squirrel route. Despite him as the bad boy villain, he was a delight to write, his art is just amazing, and the voice actor for this character is incredibly talented.  
Sharing some fan art as a token of my appreciation for your time and making my day.
Kind regards
Lila

Dear Lostsoul07,
Wonderful news! Sorry you had to resort to family member computer and transferring files over to yours. Sounds painful for you, but I do admire your determination and dedication!
I hope you can now enjoy playing the game!  I'd love to hear who's your favourite love interest?
Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.
Kind regards
Lila 

Hi Lostsoul07,

Apologies for the delay, work has been crazy busy.

May I please ask a few clarifying questions?

1. Can you confirm which operating system you're using?  From the screen shot, looks like Mac?

2. Can you confirm which sections of the game are impacted?  Are you seeing this weird three part body split for Red and Don for the whole game, or certain sections?

In the meantime, a couple of suggestions below:

A. Uninstall the game completely.  

B. If not already using the app, try using the app:  https://itch.io/app.

C. Follow Mac instructions:  

On Mac, to open the file, please right click/CTRL click on it and open it that way to add the app to your security exceptions, since this build is unsigned. You may need to do this twice.

D. Failing all the above, review the itch FAQ:  https://itch.io/t/305278/help-cant-run-games-on-my-mac#:~:text=A%20lot%20of%20people%20on,system%20is%20just%20blocking%20it.

Also: https://itch.io/docs/itch/integrating/troubleshooting-guide.html.

Good luck!

Lila

Oh this jazz music pack is wicked good!  Feel this jazz is the absolute best!  Love it!

Dear Hikiyami Moriko,
Oh my goodness, this is the cutest fanart ever!
Look at Hazel the hazelnut in the top right with her farmer hat, you even got her overalls design!
O the Owl in bottom left with his monocle!
And Red the Squirrel in bottom right with his cheeky smile!
Oh, this totally makes my day!
Thank you so much, Hikiyami Moriko, you are the best!
Love, Lila xx. 

Ha ha ha ha!  Thought you might like that.  Originally, I considered Soccer Wolves (Lupi di calcio) as was trying to find Italian animal names that could be an "animal" reference for a soccer team name, which an animal that's near and dear to Italy as a country.  But then horse images and videos were throughout the game, so decided on Soccer Horses (Cavalli da calcio) instead :) as this is more consistent with your story and animal theme.  Awesome game, Wander!  Well done!  

Dear Wandering Artist and team,

Well done on successful release for Haunted Club Manager 88!
Horror is not usually my "go-to" genre for games, however I hold Wandering artist in high regard as he's so professional in audio composition.  

* Story, writing - just the right amount of angst and unease.

* Music - Wandering Artist is an amazing artist as music composer. He's so professional, delivering quality music composition at a fast pace. The main menu theme music for Haunted Club Manager 88 it totally 80s retro with drums/80s synthesized sound, electric guitar, slap bass, sax, brass. It was also clever to re-use this main menu theme and add the destructive effects are added to create uneasiness. Very clever and bravo!

Awesome work!  Well done!

This game is absolutely brilliant. I'm starved for erotic, female protag games and this ticks so many boxes.  The sheer amount of computer graphics is amazing and endless and extremely satisfying. Bravo!  

Dear Hikiyami Moriko,
Wow! Thanks for playing Nuts for 3 hours, that's so epic!
You've got such a great memory too! Blair was cool with re-using soundtrack assets for Red the squirrel as antagonist villain track :). 
Sorry you didn't like the suitors, but I'm glad you liked Owl and Ester!
Fair point about the interludes, I'll look to improve in my next game and improve with even more polish. 
Agree with you, may there be more godly chiselled Owl abs in the world.
And I'm so happy you liked the tumbleweed :)
Rock on!
Lila

First impressions:
* Confession: I have a thing for Ing, and that thing is "adoration". I remember seeing Ing post updates during Otome Jam with GUI and Logo, and I knew from there, this was a game to be played!
* GUI = masterful. There's a sweet "swish" when the sub menu opens and the sub menu name appears on the lower part of the circle like a wheel. So awesome.
* Logo = Gorgeous. On point with being a poison-dealing romance with the leaves and flowers to boot.
* Story and writing = Intriguing. Secret squirrel and engaging storyline with poison dealing romance. Super keen to try out more!
* Voice acting = Brilliantly casted.

Overall - amazing demo! Download now!

Dear AlecNightfall,
Thanks for your question about Android. Unfortunately, the game development team is geared for Personal Computer (PC) deployment, so Mac, Windows and Linux only.  Sadly, we're not geared for mobile devices or Android deployment.  
However, there are other Otome Jam games I can recommend that do have Android as an option.

Here's some games that are popular for Android:
* Horror romance? Try Karamu.
* Comedy fantasy romance? Try Silhouette. 

Otherwise, please consider: 
* Check out my Twitter post that credits Notafish for their awesome summary of all 73 games in Otome Jam 2023.
Unfortunately, no call out for Android specific, but if you feel motivated enough, I'd consider "borrowing" a loved one's computer for a night or two or three or the whole week, access your itch account and fully "Go Nuts" with downloads and have the time of your life.  

Thanks for your interest in Nuts!
Kindest regards,
Lila 

Wow! Nicely done!

First impressions:

* Video trailer = Impressive! Professional anime look and feel. Very classy and I'm totally blown away.

* Story = Intriguing. Love a lower caste with magical potential. I like to root for the underdog, so the story premise I already love.

* Programming = Cool! Love the highlighted character so you know who's talking.

* Art = Beautiful. From title screen, logo, character sprites, background.

Hey Kristi, 
Here's what I love about your game:

* Character design and art - Peppermint adorable, puff sleeves and puffed shorts. Even main character lying on her bed at the start of the game and her expression changes are very cool.

* Background art - awesome! Reminds me of an edible gingerbread house. * Story premise - very cool! Otome Jam had an optional reincarnation theme, so nice to see a game entry that actually

* Story premise - very cool! Otome Jam had an optional reincarnation theme, so nice to see a game entry that actually fulfils that. Relate to MC situation - time & effort in game reward, so you want to protect your investment at all costs!

* Voice acting. Wonderful! With Max as Peppermint, you're grand!

Overall: An adorably sweet romance game. Got a sweet tooth? Kristi has got you covered!  Can't wait for more!  xoxo