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Thanks! I don’t see myself doing a Kickstarter for this, but I’ll likely do a Patreon once I’ve put out a couple more updates and readers have a better understanding of my publishing speed and the story direction.

That said, if the IF becomes popular I won’t rule out making a visual novel version. I’m a huge VN junkie, but it’s really hard to find VNs that seem written for adult women and I think there’s a huge market for it as all of us who grew up on VNs/shojo beat/K-Dramas grow up and mature in our tastes. 

Once the IF version is finished I’ll probably self-fund a demo VN and see if there’s enough interest for crowdfunding a full visual novel.

Thank you! I’m so glad to hear it’s resonating with readers even with so little content thus far. I think you guys will really enjoy where it’s headed.

Thank! That’s weird about the blog link. I’ll see if I can figure out why that is. In the meantime the url is as follows: https://www.tumblr.com/bride-of-shadows-if

Thank you! ❤️

That's a great idea!

I'm gonna give a really long response, sorry, but I think this could be helpful for other IF writers who stumble across it because you brought up such a good point.

A bit of lore. I applied to Heart's Choice (Choice of Games romance publisher) during the pandemic and got rejected, but I couldn't shake the idea of doing an IF. Meanwhile, I'd been drafting/worldbuilding Bride of Shadows as a novel series in my spare time for a few years. I'd been planning to take a semester off from teaching and write book #1 this year, but in November I stumbled across Arcadie: Second Born on Steam. Until then, it never occurred to me that I could just make an IF on my own and self-publish it, so I started doing research and learning Twine in December. 

My husband was very confused that suddenly I was making a game and I can't blame him because my biggest doubt was that I didn't see other IFs like this. Most of the other popular ones were either smut (which is fun, no shade, I'm just one of those chicks that needs emotional attachment with erotic stories) or open-gender high fantasy aimed at everyone. I probably told my husband like 100 times "this isn't going to go well because you can't play as a guy, there are only two ROs, and they're both guys" but secretly I suspected there'd be at least a small niche for erotic fantasy romance IFs aimed at women because it was exactly what I wanted.

If the response so far has been any indication, there's definitely a big hunger for this sort of thing. Rest assured, I'm thrilled and I have every intention of continuing with the full story, getting new episodes out asap, and ultimately publishing it as a full game. I've purposely structured the story so that it won't become too overwhelming. I think a lot of IF authors get burnt out because they feel like they have to stuff the story with lots of characters, which bogs down the creative process. I also structured the IF so that instead of having to wait 1-2 months for new chapters, I can publish in episodic format, uploading new nights every 1-2 weeks, which imo is amazing for avoiding burnout because you have much smaller goalposts to hit. It's the difference between having a goal of running five kilometers and five-hundred meters. One is a lot less likely to leave you overwhelmed and wanting to throw in the towel. 

tl;dr: I love this format for my story, I've taken a lot of preemptive measures to avoid burnout, and I'm in this for the long haul. Also, if anyone reads this and is thinking of doing a female protagonist erotic romance IF, go for it!

Thank you!! If you've played BG3, I have it plotted so that there are a few different core endings, how satisfying they are will depend on choices you've made along the way. There are no objectively bad endings, but there will be a lot of opportunities to die if you make really bad choices. In that case, you can always abuse the "Back" button. 

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Wow, it's so surreal to think of this as an otome game but tbh you're not wrong. It started as an MMF interactive novel and then morphed into something approximating an otome as I learned to code and kinda went wild. I'll update the tags so they're more appropriate, thanks!

Thank you! As for the question, explaining it would spoil a few plot points. I'll say that as currently drafted you can go either way, but one way is a lot more complicated.

Thank you! I was conflicted about adding a fantasy language, I figured it may annoy people, but I'm such a sucker for that sorta thing, I couldn't resist. I plan on doing a lot more with it once I add the language as a stat and optimize the coding for translations. I'm so grateful for your feedback!