This is such a great game! I especially like the sprites, plot, the writing style and the video editing. I see that some of the assets used creative commons and since there are different artists, hence a lack of overall cohesiveness in the graphics. BUT! It is amazing how you're able to tie them all together to form a great horror-romance visual novel in such a short time. I really had fun playing and finishing this. I love Schrat's voice acting ;D <3
Thanks so much for playing and for your kind words <3 It means a lot that you say you like the writing style since it's something I've never had much confidence in.
And also, those video scenes were such a pain in the butt xD Basically, none of them are actually video files. They're all just made to look like videos, but they're actually all a bunch of commands in the code. All because when I first put a video background on the title screen of one of my older games, some players said that it didn't play. They just got a blank screen >.< And blank screen = they couldn't proceed with the game T_T That was with mp4, so I tried changing it to an ogv file instead, which fixed the problem for some players and broke it for others who had previously had no issues with the mp4 version! >.< Ever since then, I've tried to just use commands to create fake videos because I figure there's less chance of that causing issues for people, haha. But yeah, it's a massive pain in the bum x3
Yeah, we had 4 different artists on the team for this :3 And I edited a hell of a lot of backgrounds from a big pack that I got on sale from DLsite. I just didn't want anyone on the team overworking themselves on my behalf because I remember during the jam last year, the artists were still up at like 4am same as me, and I felt really bad >.< I know everyone tends to work their butts off during Spooktober, haha, but I just feel like if I'm gonna be on teams and drag people into my madness, they shouldn't end up suffering for it x3 I'm fine with forcing myself to stay up each night and get very little sleep, but I don't want others doing it if it can be avoided :3 So I just thought it would be nice if we could manage to split the work up evenly between multiple artists so that hopefully, no one would overwork or injure themselves by the end of the jam x3
I think with the sheer number of backgrounds I wanted to use to try and tell the story, even if I had teamed up with a dedicated background artist, they probably would've slapped me through the digital aether if I asked for that many backgrounds in 1 month xD
I still need to download your game on my proper PC so I can try and get past the bit I got stuck on with my stupid potato laptop! I need to see the end ^-^