Thanks for playing, and, uh... sorry about the emotional devastation. I didn't know it'd hit so hard. This was initially supposed to be a much more lighthearted romp with many more characters, but the lack of art assets and some real-life stuff forced me to really narrow my focus down to the parts that I was personally most invested in. And those parts happen to be... a little painful.
Anyways, in your VOD you tried to find my Twitter and couldn't. I don't have a Twitter or anything like that, but I am on Discord, if that means anything.
Luyuu#2800
This isn't my first time writing a story longer than 15 minutes, but it's my first time finishing one. I have several "Chapter 1"s of stories that never got continued, usually because I either went way too ambitious with my plans or doubted myself and gave up early on. With this game jam, I only had time to buckle down and write the thing. Though even still, until now I haven't written anything that was longer than Former Part alone-- even I can barely believe that I wrote all this in two weeks.
Speaking of that, the long wait for release was only there because we were trying to fix an unavoidable crashing bug in the danmaku minigame, and trying to get Kaguya's sprite drawn when all our artists were super busy and/or exhausted. You have my word that over 95% of the writing & coding was done before the deadline. Though I took the extra time to rewrite some lines and extend the Mokou section of the epilogue a little, no new scenes were added.
Thanks on the danmaku patterns, by the way. My main goal with them was expressing the emotions of the story, rather than giving players a challenge. It's nice to know you found them fun to dodge on top of that.
And finally... damn. Watching the VOD gives me a funny feeling I dunno how to articulate. "Thank you" doesn't feel like enough anymore. The closest phrase I can think of is "I'm gonna cry."