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Sweet. I played it.

It's not often that we see GxB  or NxB visual novels with a main character who is layful good or neutral good. That one was refreshing, thanks.

Trivia: did you know that in the wester religious canon, the only official reference of Raphael is in a fictional book? So s/he is probably the only angel that most people won't have a problem finding in wholesome fiction without politic or cultural appropriation, no matter their religion. Not saying that they would also approve of the ending of Snow Angel - they wouldn't - but I thought it was a fun fact. 

Great! I'll wait.
Just so you know, I've been advertising your game left and right thourgh fancontent and fanfiction in years. So it's precious to me. So its creators can't be silly devs, they are The Creators. 😛

Indeed, it feel slike the only way to ge the romantic/naive ending is to play a tech who alreayd has a wireplay fetich, but that ruins the jibs Cathode makes about the MC being surprised or in denial or afraid to please them. However, there   is no way the tech can catch perosnnaly feeling in three days just for catchy pick up lines and binary (hot/codld) wireplay.  

I also love this project, the concept is super cool and still very rare in games and novels. At least, this concept with a beleivable artificial intelligence is very very rare. 

I wish they made an ending where we could dowload it's memories and move them onto another model without the Love program that's messing about.
I can't imagine how the company could let the body of such a dangerous and compromizing device leave its grounds...or manipuate an employee for long.

But the romantic part of me also long for a happy ending. 
Or a sequel where the MC is the owner and the RI is spoiled and undergo a silent tantrum and rebels and leave, then return after having seen the world, something Pinoccio-like but without magic, more like existential acceptance.

I finished it now. 

I love games involving believable AI characters, and oh there are very very few, if any, so by these standards, Warm Like Flesh is onle of he most realistic ever of all times to me. Will recommend it. 

I am just a little sad that there is no happy ending, but I prefer that to the decepting happy ending in games involving an IA character that doesn't belong ot the MC. They usualyl don't care to make it believable at the end, like the owner company suddenly stop existing, or there is no tomorrow and the certainly of the character getting separated forever by the company's agenda doesn't matter.At least, here with Warm Like Skin, we get the best possible ending in the situation. 

The cold, naive and romantic, or existential and engaged ending make sens and are realist. I am not sure the romantic one makes sense through, and I don't mean that judging people's belief in AI feeling, I ahve no delution about so many people's being gullible and vulneral to emotional engagement, no, I mean that going through with Cathode background, that is supposed to be perfect except for its sabotage: if the MC is really fixing it, how can it overheat from mere recursion? Shouldn't the tech be able to repair the software too and detect that risk from the start? Unless the tech wasn't one... I'm not sure it works fully. I still wonder what the comany did to other employees, and what Cathode meant by "I'm gald they didn't send a corspe in this time" at the beginning. I can imagine them doing that litteraly to test its reactions. Oh my.

But I'm not sure I'm the designated audience, because what Cathode says doesn't feel that weird or chilling after you got burned by different gen AIs (little aha moment, then at the end of the session and start of the new one: sudden claiming that I made it up or that projecting at 100% to protect the company just in case), and also got accidental gauche and very toxic flattery without prompting for it nowhere - actually asking it not to faltter a tall - from a suposedly filtered model. And I'm a level headed tech-savy person who understand how they work... and still got burned and upset. So... yeah, I appreciate the irony. Aaand, you seem to know more about that than I do. Since nothing comes from nowhere, I can only guess that you're very well acqainted with HF for meta recreative purposes. Not judging. Or I'd be a hypocrit. 

Perosnnally, I'm not big on wireplay, but 'emotional recursion' is another thing (it's not technically hurting anything if the hardware can whistand it and it's comatible with the code, can it? :p). That made me realize that, since hurting is unavoidable from what Cathod say in both routes, unless the player is into that, the plot is darker than sexy, and and that seems to be on purpose. Is this tagged horror?

Thank you for sharing this game concept. The character dynamic should be a classic by now, but games like this, even visual novels, are still very rare it seels.

Could you be persuaded to make more games like this, or maybe a sequel if I try to alpha read this and it gives you ideas for another game? And for whoever is looking for something similar, even if it's an otome space opera, I'd rec. 'This My Soul'.

Why can't I purchase my favorite exclusive games here? Please, let me choose to pay a custom amount!

You want recs? ^^ 

https://circlepegasi.itch.io/nanolife
https://sekamelica.itch.io/flapi
https://tatsumelon.itch.io/warm-like-flesh

Just to start.

Doesn't chage anything. 
I know there has not been been an update in ages, so anyway you're going to get the last version. Enjoy. 

Exactly. I wish I could buy it have it attached to my account here. 

I don't know what to think. it had some potential but is very veeeryyy short. So it's likely that we won't ever see that potential bloom, so I can't evaluate it, so... I don't know what to think.

Hello. What is O2A2 comapred to FULL, please?

That's it, exactly.
I am also very very badly addiced to Gunpoint. Why isn't that a genre already?
I so need more...help.

I love this to bytes and you made a niche fanbase on Steam since you published there.
Is there any chance to persuade you to write a sequel?

I haven't played yet, but... thank you writing exactly the kind of crazy I need and dig. 
A very very precise king of crazy. Only way to make it more precise would have been if the player was the RO owner or creator.

Also, I love the char design and the map. 

Is a key for Steam also provided?

Is a key for Steam DRM also provided?

"God" is a character who is regularly insulted (in a popular vulgar way) by some "angels".

Beside of that tiny detail. I'm sure it's a huge game made with brio.
(Not that I'll know.)

Hello. Yes, but on steam, the bundle also includes Party and the Artbook. So its price is higher: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/8064/Anicon__The_Introvert/

Free Software = <3 <3 <3

Is this BL or is the MC agender or female?

I can't find anything on a Seleos in mythology at the era of that of "Enki" (no that I know as much I'd like about the religion and political going ons of that era anyway) . Is Seleos that name a mashup of Eleos and Celeus, from later Greece? If it was only the name of a created character, then no matter. (Still, the "sele" part does make me think of the moon and of some books with a sandman.)

The plot turned out kind of how I had expected it given the initial settings, and this very rarely happens in visual novels: usually the girl character in an otome is so trusting and can barely remember their names before any sprite (the character picture, I mean) that looks good at first glance. And since this game somehow looks like an otome, it's insightful. In that way the plot was weirdly realistic: the idea of accepting a powerful, and disconected and rude creature certainly couldn't end well). So realism about that was a welcome surprise. But it also feel like the plot express an opinion from the author, or someone around of the author.  There is a much deeper story, or an amount of story pieces around of that story.

I need more so bad! 

Please hurry and add levels and take my monay! 

(not joking, this got me addicted)
Would buying it a decent price persuade you a little?
I am broke, but for a sequel, i'm willing to pay more even on this one now.

... Wait. This is free. Da*n. Why won't you...

The mechanics seems easy to set up, but the level building and the difficulty curve show skill. This is a great game today.

Ok, thank you.

Thank you.

(Hi. is there an AI or bot character involved?)

Beautiful and cute lineart,
Agender AI (yay),
Attaching characters,
High quality and yet a custom price
= I love you. 

I'm glad that the friendship ending is counted as a good ending too! 

- Does the Steam version has more information about the Creator and Sorein's memories?

- Maybe a romantic ending with the Operator?
(I kind of wished Soren could get a subtitute admin to maintain them since their creator is...well, "not able to do that right". To say the last. T_T )
- Maybe an ending with both the Pilot and the Operator?
- Maybe with the Captain?

(If there is a yes to one of these hopes, I'm probably goint o buy the game on Steam as soon as I have some budget for a vn.) In any way, thank you for posting this game and for letting us play it free for those who can't afford to pay right away.

Oh yes!!!

Wait a second; is this game this level of complex: do I have to learn Ren'py to unlock the true ending, or is it just something you made to get a self-tailored Closure for yourself ? If the code integrates Nari's comments into the game, then I guess I can copy-paste and adjust however I please without learning Ren'py...?

SPOILER

I can't decide whether you're an extremely creative metafiction nerd, or (please don't take this at first degree) sick for making character emulate awareness and relive such long and lucid sufferings.

Wait a second. How comes Aspen can sometimes see things?
Where mochi stick, reading the visual note from the creator, and asking the player to close their "eyes". I underestimated the implication of that. And of Chris loosing her m while eating mochi (in fact wasn't it in her hair)?

I can't be sure that we're our own kind of Cthulhu, or if there is ready some depth in these metaphor about the game being visual and characters not having eyes and their sprites and background disappearing first, but the their text as well.
Am I supposed to save and restore the sprites manually to unlock the true ending? Because the "true ending I got was...
I mean, from the little I had understood, uncomplete (kidding, but maybe that actually explains it).
Compared to the rest of the game, the "true" ending doesn't seem so ultimate and great. 
Maybe if I start the game again, the characters will have eyes, or will understand what eyes are at least. (Also, how comes Aspen know what eyes are already? and how comes Nori and Hope can remembers alternate timelines before the ending?" 
Could someone give me a clue? I've read Nari's messages and restored them.  

But I know one thing; that I would pay big for a full game where you are a character in the script and you are present for the final show ("it'd only be fair"). n and a would be so happy to finally meet the real person behind this.

Where can I download the demo? 

I'm very hyped for this game that seems liks it's going to scratch that very special game-with-action-happening-in-a-computer itch to me. 
I mean the design reminds me of Thomas was Alone - I dearly loved that game!

Cool. I like the theme and the design. 

If you are still interested in developping a game using the minesweepter mechanics, I would love to get to play something with that design with addition features like: 

- Both mouse buttons clear the aread around a tile with a number, just like in the original game.
- Progression:  you pick a set of fixed maps to play in order (alternating between one easy and one hard, and increasing the difficulty of both steadily until the end)
- There are about three or four "worlds" with different variations of yellow and differnt bee species.
- Challenges: a meny listing challenges: "find x bees in x seconds", "reach level 10", collect x honey").
- Unlockables: three different designs for the flags
- Goals/quests: Cells completely surrounded by bees are filled with honey, and the player need to collect a minimum amount of honey on every levels.
- Scenario: You are working as a beekeper, or a bear or an something looking for honey...
- Enhanced Interactivity: bees move at every five clicks, and they spawn new bees every fifteen clicks.

If you eventually develop this please let me know. Thanks.

Google Chrome on Windows* 10.

Javascript is enabled. 

...Could it be adblock's fault?

It bugs when I try to start it.

How do I download/play this demo?

Where is the download?

Understood.

Even if it is a little game, the level of realism actually taught me how US people bake (we don't have the same measurments in the EU), so I got a bit attached to it. It would be lovely to get more content someday. 

Thank you for publishing.

So!
I played halfway through Ciel and the first tenth of Aholly. 
I mean to fill a reclamation!

First, how comes there is no polyamor routes? These two knights are impossible to chose between, and seeing them turn jealous of each other was torture... (wait, I said "the two" didn't I? Sorry. make that three: Anton, Florian, and Ai AND DON'T TELL ME TAHT'S NOT POSSIBLE lalala I don't wnat ot hear it. I co-ship them all four together and it's reality and you can't change it. ><

(I read a few comments and it seems that Yvin is a favorite and Florian the least popular .... HERESyyy... Actually, I was agonizing all over Yvin moments wondering where my hare- Imean my friends, had gone at the time; am really not a fan of the Yvin-type neither in frienship nor in romance. So I'm glad you made Florian. Thank you!

...But. The polyamor route. ><
I really really would be grateful for an option to keep all three happy and closely knit. 
I mean having best friends torn up in a rivalry and then one of the two abandoned behind... this is cruel to the player...why did the guy who made the Moon Obervatory create these umberably cute and twisted worlds? The cuteness actually build on the psychological horror after we see what happens and how everyone seems resigned and placid about the cruelty...brrr)

Also, since the plot is linear, at some point, we have to put up with other characters advances whether we like them or not, while our babies are in danger or worrying over us! Naowy Ma'am! This is unacceptable, so here i come! To fill a request.
And to throw a tantrum. A polite tantrum. But one nonetheless. (But don't take this too seriously ;)

Also!
These worlds seems so pure and lovable and them some foul character come and introduce perversion, and from then one, even the gorgeous designs can't prevent the taint to remain on the experience, I...
;_;
I was looking for fluff and comfort, and ma not sure the series are for me. And it's very very difficult because the georgous art and adrogynous MC and guys I just can't