You dab their wound with a napkin, swipe it with an alcohol swab—you came prepared—then cover it with a band-aid before pulling their shirt back into place. As if it never happened. You know how to clean up your messes.
Wtf, I never thought of this before and now I wish everyone did it. What a considerate vampire!
That was so cute, I loved the “You make me remember.” line about the royal being commonfolk. I just sat there and stared at the screen like DANG !!!! Awesome visuals too, I like how the screen scoots over when we go in the corner!
holy moly i Did Not Sleep and played this in one go. All the interactions were so fun; I went for Rylan and Arion. 10/10 content, i laughed a lot at so many scenes. Very excited for future updates!!
This is fantastic!! I was equally enthralled by Liam, Sebastian, and Rory. All of the characters are lovely and it's a blast to get to know them. I ended up playing nonstop for over 3 hours... Sorry to hear Life(tm) has been rough, but I'm happy to know this project still echoes in your brain! Looking forward to further updates and thank you so much for making such a great experience!!
So cute!! Love the art and music. Such fun banter too. Awesome job, I was rolling my eyes so much at their antics LOL. I love how Arley's actually pretty wise and Hayden can be sly when he wants to be!
Harold Ludicael and Hawley Faraday! Stars of the epistolary visual novel!
"You write like a gentleman, but there is something wild in your way of thinking."
"It is a wondrous thing, to hold a secret in one's heart, and, without uttering it, to hear it reflected back through the words of another."
I LOVE both of their reactions to "...the one I wish to unravel is that of your preferences." and "You great and incomprehensible ass, Of course I will forgive you." HAHAHA
"my surgical duties include regularly dislodging your head from your posterior."
"I myself" ... "have a friend" GOD I felt that
THE REVEALLLLLL 1st of MID-WINTER 1905 OGH MY GOD AWW THE UPDATED TITLE SCREEN TOO :'))
And it was all a prequel!! Awesome, love it. I was so interested in the supernatural lore. Well, supernabiological. Fantastic work, I would love another game like this. Going to check out The Case of the Serialized Killer soon!
THE OOC DISCUSSION AT THE START LOL. I love it. It's a game in a game.
"FANTASY COPS"
"Well, I'm a godless heathen and there's plenty of meaning in my life. I'm sure you'll be fine." hahah
I love how Connor's eyebrows lower at the mention of Corrupt kings, evil cults and deranged necromancers, but then his expression softens when Flora says she couldn't stand that that was who her father's market demographic was.
THE TODD SLANDER LOL "Remembering and making drink orders is one thing his dumb lizard-brain is good at" Jesus, Narrator!
The bartender and the mustache scene hahaha
"THIS POTION IS SO STRONG, IT COULD KILL A DRAGON, LET ALONE A MAN!" Maybe we should have become Potion Sellers....
"Alright, don't touch anything unless I say so." (Both Connor and Todd freeze in the middle of attempting to touch things.) LOLLLL
Connor is a sweetheart. The endings CGs were so good. I love the different dynamics with each character. Such a fun and entertaining little game :D
Aww. Got xyx Bad End. Wouldn't have changed my choices though; I was completely myself. Such a shame it had to end that way. I wish there were more chances, more wiggle-room to be authentic and still get his Good End. For example: I truly didn't know whether or not he wanted to join the zine. If he told me privately that he REALLY didn't want to, then I would have spoken up for him. (Also, I tried going into the bot channel and typing the /hypebot pause thing myself; I wish that actually worked!)
Sal was very nice too, I wish I could have had a one-on-one conversation with him just to get to know him. I wanted to be friends!!
As for music, Logging_Off is my favorite track!! Awesome vibes, love the sweeping violins contrasted with the electronic feel.
Genuinely felt like I was in a Discord server. Great job on the UI. The "save" and "load" buttons could be a bit more clear; I kept clicking on the wrong one haha. Also, the voice acting on the video calls really surprised me, awesome job on that!!
This is awesome!! Fantastic art, great music, wonderful ambience. Had a great time meeting all the characters, especially Leander! I will absolutely buy the full thing!!
Wooo just finished a playthrough or three of this and here's my early thoughts! I know there's lots to be added later, so just take these as very very initial impressions. ^^
This will be so immersive with sound effects! I can already imagine how spooky the full version might be—footsteps down the halls, impact noises when people get hit, whooshing of movement... even as a demo I was able to sort of "hear" and expect these beats in my head.
I would love some ambient noise as an alternative for background music during scenes where it's just Chris and James walking around. Even a low drone or something would be enough to draw me in.
This one is just a preference and idk how viable it is in different engines, but this would be great with dialogue blips. There are so many unique characters that I bet you can do a lot with this type of "voice."
(Below are my reactions during my first playthrough!)
These backgrounds are pretty and well-chosen to fit the vibe!
"I mean, that's a seven year old, what's she gonna do?" LOOOLLLLL
Chris is pretty headstrong! Really wasn't expecting that, he seems more reserved at a glance. It makes for interesting interactions. :P
LENA IS TERRIFYING
HOLY CRAP THIS STORY IS DARK AND VIOLENT??
JACK IS SCARY.
I like the speed up or pitch-up of the music when Jack gets angry! I am too tired to know which one it is right now but it made my heart rate go up LMAO
The fade-in of the stars was super cool!
I love the baton scene with James a lot.
Wow that is indeed one tall boi!
cute end card! <33
and shoutout to your uncle; he's a real one.
BUGS & SUGGESTIONS
Typo 1
"James *peaks out the door to make sure the coast is clear, then they both make a break for it."
*Peaks should be peeks.
Typo 2
"Two countries are trapped in a cold war with one another. It *effects every other country on the continent too, but as they are, they're all too weak to do anything about the two warring powerhouses."
*Effects should be affects.
Bug??
After having completed a playthrough, when I reach the Title Screen and hit "New Game," James' name has already replaced the '???' at the very beginning. After the scene switches during the first encounter with the Doll, then it goes back to ??? as it should be. Weirdly this only happens with James, and not Jack. Jack still gets his '????' intro. At first, I was kinda excited because I thought this was a built-in feature! I thought there was like, second-playthrough bonus content. Would be cool to have something carry over like that in the future. :P
All that said, I love the cast of characters so far and I hope to learn more about them as the game develops! Wonderful art style and such a cool concept!! :D
I go in mostly blind when playing itch.io games, and I was surprised that we were playing as Seren and not Dex! Dex has such protagonist energy haha; it was super cool to have it switched around.
I really enjoy the amount of expressions and care put into making them relevant with the dialogue. The comedic beats were perfect. I love the small under-the-breath text too.
Super cute romance route. Thank you for the neat NB representation, even though it is a struggle to get people to use the right pronouns sometimes. :P
Pretty fun game! The camera movement was a little jarring though; I also got stuck in a wall but that was mostly my fault for spamming the dash haha. If the camera transitions were smoother this could be great! Nice art!
This looked super interesting! The major problem for me was that the Food button got stuck and kept flashing a lot very quickly. That could be dangerous for some people who have more sensitive vision. Apart from that it looks like the game has a lot of potential!
Pretty cool! I thought the "blip" sound when cars passed by was very satisfying. I don't know if it was just me but I experienced some pretty significant slowdown and only got a few frames per second after a couple levels. Overall good job on the audio and art ^^
I really enjoy this idea! The final level was difficult. I found that the best way to handle things was to trap the guy as soon as possible haha. If this were extended and developed into a longer game I would play it!
Oh man, I was excited to see the title of this game! I definitely feel you. Lately, it's been so hard to remember things. Every time someone asks me what I did yesterday I can only say that I "worked". And even that's a lie sometimes lol. I barely feel connected with conversations anymore.
I thought it was very accurate & clever how it's easier to put things off for a bit by chucking them in the Recycle bin. I let the dark thoughts get too all over the place and it was almost impossible to put them in the trash with it jumping everywhere.
Thank you for making this! it was interesting to see how other people think day-to-day. Wishing you the best. c:
This game is hilarious. I really enjoyed the meta humor of it! I caught myself sending friends screenshots of a couple conversations just because of how ridiculous they were, haha. I'm totally gonna play this through with one of my friends when the full version is released (if it's early-mid Feb I can probably count it as a birthday celebration). I also had to include this here, which might be my favorite exchange in a dating sim so far:
Roy: "Are you on drugs?" MC: "Why, you want some?"
Interesting! This was pretty fun to play. At times, I felt a bit too disconnected from what was going on, though. The whole Nai (I think? it's 1am forgive me) situation threw me for a loop. I really liked this exchange too, made me laugh:
Another cute game from nami! I managed to get all four endings (couldn't decide whose was better between Jam's and Baezel's honestly). The music was adorable, and I really like the characters. It always makes me super happy when something new comes out. ^^ Thank you for making this!
I just finished playing both routes. This game combined with the somber soundtrack feels like taking a stroll outside in a place you'll never be able to come back to. I don't really know how to describe it, but the lingering sense of hopelessness brought these characters together very nicely. It definitely gave me a lot to think about. I think it was paced pretty well, too.
I'm sending this game to a couple friends; hopefully they'll take it slow as I did and get to experience what the story for what it really is. c:
This was super nice! I love the little twist to the story, and the writing wasn't bad at all. I had some Incompetech music playing in the background to fill the scene better. Congrats on submitting for your first game jam! I had fun. :D
This is such a fun game. I wasn't expecting to like Morwenna as much as I did, and a bunch of parts brought a smile to my face. I love how cute Alicia is and how Nigel does everything he can to support her. Those action scenes got me hooked! Great choice of music for the scenes. I've been a fan of dinos and space since I was a kid so this was a wonderful experience. ;-) Recommending this to a couple friends!
The artwork so far has been phenomenal. I love the little sneak peeks of the characters so far; this game is very promising! Apart from a typo I encountered (http://i.imgur.com/amgFrKv.png supposed to be character's, not that big of a deal I just wanted to point it out) the demo is lovely. I'm super excited to back it on indiegogo, and I wish you the best of success with this game. c:
