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the updated visuals, UI, and those CGs in the April 2022 demo??? I am reeling. I knew Malik x Arihi was gonna end me but I wasn’t prepared for Inaya’s routes to hit me like they did. This game is setting the standard for mature character forward VNs. The fact that this demo is free and so full of content is so generous of the devs too, hats off to team Validate! Looking forward to the official release!

Hey Kat,

we're looking into this and it's on our list of bugs for whenever we release an update for the demo. Thank you so much for letting us know! Unfortunately, due to us being a very small team with limited resources, we won't be able to address this for a while, at least until we have time to dedicate to the demo  over the game itself... I'm really sorry and very grateful for your report and patience!

hey hivehum!

Sorry for the late reply, but we haven't been able to find the time to update the demo right now. The game is taking up all of our resources and time but when we do update the demo this is on our list of fixes! Thank you for letting us know and sorry for the trouble!

hey hey Marimo! This is a bit unusual but I'm alex, the creative director on this game and I'm Lebanese hehe born and raised! 

This game is so important to me and I wanted to infuse it with every facet of my identity and that of my loved ones, blood family or found family. You are correct that the demo doesn't get to showcase any of that, but we're working really hard to make sure the game does. It's not gonna be an exoticism view on it so it'll just be in the setting, the backgrounds, the plants, the objects, you know? It's hard to explain through just the endless mode... I thought I'd share a little concept art one of our artists did for the game. I gave them pictures of my grandma's house I took in Beirut for inspiration, and the result kept making me cry... I can't show the final yet but I can show you where it started, and hope you see yourself reflected even a little in the final.

Thank you for trying the demo! <3

Inshallah na3mel 2a7la game w t7ebbouha, w inshallah ntalli3ha bel 3arabi kaman.

Love,

Alex 

thank you for this! I'll make sure to look into it, can you please let me know the specs for your mac? Is it intel or M1 chip? What OS are you on?

no plans as of yet but it is our dream to have it on console, so we're gonna try our best!

LOL that's amazing and we had no idea!

"Iskandar" is also an old man name in Lebanon, where the creative director is from and the setting is inspired! It's the Arabic version of "Alexander"! He's supposed to be Arab, but that's a very interesting note, thank you for sharing!

we hope so too! Hopefully next year!

You will! So many of them! Just gotta keep some stuff in store for the final game...

how did you make it work??

https://softnotweak.itch.io/spirit-swap-lofi-beats-to-match-3-to

the final will be on Linux too! :D

I love you!

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turns out we checked a wrong checkbox... Should be back now! Apologies!

thank you so much :)

Hey Naomi! Thank you for the feedback, we're considering a chill mode for the final game but can't promise it right now! Not sure if we'll be able to make a Linux build of the demo with only 7 days left for the Kickstarter but we will if we have time! The final game will be available on Linux for sure.

hey Shining4ace! Thank you for all that, and we'd love to hear more of your feedback, there's a demo feedback channel specifically in our Discord if you'd like to join it? https://discord.gg/pSYhWbq2J8

looking into it! Please let me know if you notice something in particular before it crashes, it helps us narrow down the issue :)

Ok, we're looking into it! thank you :)

Anything else you may have noticed happening right before it crashes?

thank you ;u; <33333

Thank you for playing! Which platform/OS are you playing on?

that is so weird! What platform are you playing on if you don't mind me asking?

the dev team looks like that too haha that's all

hey DanDev, I'm really sorry to hear that! What system and OS are you on, if you don't mind me asking? We can look into it!

I can ask the programmers, but no promises right now as we're trying not to burn out working on the demo while managing the Kickstarter...

thank you so much! ;u; we'll do our best to entertain fellow Panel de Pon fans!

we're hoping endless will mix several tracks through its progression in the final,  so you're absolutely right! :D

Thank you for playing!

thank you for playing it! :D

Thank you Vinny! :D

Yeah, all of that stuff is planned for the final game: more characters, more polish, etc etc

Thank you so much! Our artists worked very hard!

hey this is a lovely initiative! Our game is just a demo though and it links to our Kickstarter at the end... possibly not the most relevant to you? let us know!

We've been looking into it, this is weird but can you tell me the make/model of your Mac as well as which OS you're using, please?

aah are you on Mac or PC? any details on what happened? Will look into it!

it does! :D We love PDP, so you nailed the inspo!

The game's soundtrack will be sold by the composers on their bandcamps because we want them to make money off their work too!

A small 3 song Spirit Swap EP is out right now, by our lead composer meltycanon, check it out if you like, it's 3$!

https://meltycanon.bandcamp.com/album/the-match-3-ep

thank you so much for playing PrincessLuna! You are very cute and your rainbow wings are adorable! :D

tysm! :DD