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Hi! I was just going through itch.io games and the thumbnail looked pretty interesting, so I jumped for it (especially after realising it had yandere themes). I liked it so far, the VAs did a pretty great job as well (especially in chara)! I don't mind it taking time at all, it was a good one.

Also like how you introduced the tws was extremely good imo. Like you went step by step into it instead of it being 1 pg. Sure, more longer stuff, but I think it was pretty good anyway. I do want things to move as soon as I click the enter button (not for the Voice Acted parts but mostly for the TW parts) but otherwise I have no qualms. Maybe a bit of designing as well because the Arabic type font doesn't seem to fit so far but maybe that part is just me as it's a stylistic choice (I hoped that there was a bit more blue because Winter Wish and something akin to more classical-English type font idk, like ingame there could be more royalish English but again that's just my preferences). Story wise, it unfolded very nicely and I have no issues there as said. Hope to see more soon :D

melancholicmarionette@gmail.com324 days ago

Oh, that's so cool that you thought the thumbnail was interesting! I never know whether I've done a good job of making those look attractive enough, haha, and DD's one is one that I've always felt needs improving x3 I'm glad you had fun with what's there so far anyhow :3 Thanks so much for checking it out!

I still need to tweak a lot of stuff to do with the UI to be fair. I think there's a way to make the trigger warnings go faster, but I can't remember what it is since it's been quite a while since I put all that together x3 There's a key that speeds it up somewhere though, haha. As for colours and fonts, with any luck, it will make more sense and look more suitable once more of the game is available :3 Because the genre of the full game is kinda more like fantasy/sci-fi/psychological horror I guess. There's gonna be some clashing of ancient stuff with technological stuff. The Winter Wish part was actually specific to the game jam this project was originally submitted to (the Winter VN jam + the Secret Santa jam) and actually doesn't have a whole lot of relevance to the full game that I'm planning (aside from it being the title of the game that Castor/ia is from, of course) because Castor/ia is just one character in part of a bigger project where you'll be able to choose other character routes too :3

Sadly, there aren't likely to be any updates soon for a whole bunch of different reasons that I've mentioned over these past few months in posts and comments, but I'll get there one day, haha. If only there were more time in the world x3

Mike322 days ago(+1)

Yeah, the thumbnail was pretty cool, can't object to that. The coding thing makes sense, it's not a major issue! I don't create games so I (of course) will not know it firsthand, but I can imagine how stressful it would be to create all of this and with not much (if at all) monetary returns, especially when you hire a VA. I'd love to hear more updates because it feels good and I don't mind having just one route out of a billion to play if the plot is great, and in this case, it is! The Voice Acting part is an addon because I usually don't listen to that but I realised that it brought out more things about this man only to see how well it suited him. Take your time, I'll be around if it gets updates :D

melancholicmarionette@gmail.com312 days ago

It is indeed a lot of work, haha. Sometimes it’s a bit of a chore trying to do different aspects of it by yourself when it’s tasks that you don’t find particularly enjoyable x3 Like for example, I’m not really a coder. I hate coding. I use the software I use because it cuts out having to write proper code and lets you use a simplified scripting language instead, so that’s a big help, but it’s still like writing thousands of lines of code and it’s something I find extremely monotonous and highly unenjoyable, haha. It has to be done though if I want the game to work, so I just have to suck it up and get on with it xD It must be nice to be part of a permanent team where everyone has different roles covered and everyone gets to do mainly tasks they enjoy!

Voice acting was actually one of my main motivators to start making VNs and still is now :3 I just really love it, haha. To me, if I know I can’t get VA for a project I’m working on, it really kills my motivation to work on it at all cos one of my favourite parts of making games is getting to hear the characters come to life with voice acting x3 As a player, I guess I’m kind of the opposite to you because I generally won’t play a game if there is no voice acting included, haha.

Thank you for your support :3 It means a lot.