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Thank you Bocky!! Always happy to hear you enjoyed playing :)

Thank you for playing!!

Thank you!! I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed it :)

Thank you so much for playing and for the kind words!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Thank you so much for playing!!

I had a really great time with this piece! I loved the way you incorporated the theme into telling a story with three different perspectives. I thought it was really cool how each perspective clarified some part of what was happening in one of the other perspectives. The character sprites were really lovely as well.

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Thank you for playing and for your feedback!

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Thank you for reading! I'm happy you enjoyed it.

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Thank you so much for playing!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

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This was fantastic! I went in thoroughly unprepared and would have it no other way.

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed the narrative and the backgrounds :)

Thank you so much for the kind comments! I'm really happy to hear that you enjoyed it.

Thank you for playing! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the music and art :)

This was really great! I adored the setting and getting to learn more about the main characters. The atmosphere was very well done. I felt so engrossed throughout the whole thing that I jumped at some of the surprises that came up in their discussion.

Thank you so much for playing! It makes me happy to hear that a lot of what I was going for with the atmosphere and tensions in the story came across.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for playing! I'll be sure to keep that idea about changing the style of the narration text in mind for the future :)

Thank you so much for playing!! I'm happy to hear you liked it :)

Thank you! I'm glad you found it affecting.

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This was really good! I loved all of the different endings and how they all managed to have a different emotional impact

Thank you for playing! I'm glad the atmosphere I tried to put together came across :)

Thank you so much for playing!! I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed the music and look of the the VN :)

Thanks for the comment! I've definitely heard some pretty good things about reddit from other developers, I'll definitely have to give posting there a try in the future. 

I remember seeing people talk about posting to steam vs itch on twitter as well. While I think the time investment would probably be worthwhile, the last time I checked steam has a flat fee of ~$100 to publish a new game on the site. I don't think this is a huge deal for the vast majority of commercial games that could make that back in a few sales, but I think that price sounds a little bit steep until I have some plan to make that money back.

For making art, I did happen to publish a short thread on how I did some of the REPEAT IT BACK TO ME paintings on twitter, which you might find interesting. I have a lot of speedpaints on youtube as well (I'm a sucker for watching these kinds of videos from artists I like and learning about their process.) I think Ctrl+Paint's free video library is one of the most comprehensive and straightforward resources on digital painting. Other channels I've learned a lot from over the years include Sinix, Sycra, and James Gurney.

For writing, itch has a really huge library of narrative heavy games that you can search for using tags like the "story rich" one. I recommend playing through as many of these as you can and keeping a journal about the things you liked and the things you didn't like. When you find a game that you find to be particularly compelling, I think it's a good exercise to break down what's going on scene-by-scene. Ask yourself questions like "What makes me want to know what happens next?" about the games you enjoy and I think you'll start to gain a better understanding of how to make your own players want to know what happens next in your own stories.

Thank you so much for the kind words! They really mean a lot :)

Thank you!! I'm excited to share new things soon :)

I will keep at it o7

Thank you! I'm glad you had a good time with it :)

Thank you! Working on putting together a postmortem for this project soon :)

Thank you!