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When the save slots are just barely enough because there are too many saveable moments. 100% the perfect game to play while stuck for hours in a plane, bless you for making an APK of this!

I really liked how persistent vars loops were used for story progression and the plot branching felt very logical despite the huge number of endings, so I was able to reach all of them naturally without trouble. Loved the cultural references and the variety of endings, didn't expect how daring or tragic some of them were. 

The art is beautiful (can't wait for the next update with the new CGs!!!) but the writing really shines in striking the right balance between allusion and description, progressing the plot efficiently while still carrying emotion. This cat knows how to cook a good story, and the resulting rice is very fragrant. 

Thank you so much Cat, everyone on the team will be super happy to hear it 🙈 The combined power of the char design + VA is too strong XD

Thank you so much Cat!!! Such is the fine line between love and hate 😂

The names are my favorite part as well! A pity some players never get to see them, because you have to start a new clean run from the main menu, and not through loading a saved slot 😅

Oh no, what part of him was likable? He is just a...

Thank you so much, glad that you liked it! Everyone on the team did so well on it. It was fun to make the different routes so that you can go full survival mode, stay oblivious to it all or embrace the crazy XD 

You can find the walkthrough for all endings here. 

Hi otome.com, thanks for the message. I sent you a reply just now!

The MC is gender-neutral, they can be anything you want! In the script, all characters directly talk to MC so the player is always referred to as "you".

Hi otome.com, thank you for reaching out to us! You can contact me at arghbulous@gmail.com to discuss about it ^^

Yes, it's there in the devlogs section, but it might have gotten buried under the other ones: Walkthrough link

Not me answering 2 months later... I didn't get the notification since it was an edit to your original answer.
Transition was done via show screen inside a regular label + renpy.pause to wait for the doorslide animation to end + hide screen after. You can perform ATL inside the screen.

Thank you for playing! Working on the (slightly) longer version rn... Still need to add VA and translations along with some extra art and then it will be ready (crossing fingers it will be for next month, if not it will be for the next)

Hahaha I loved that drama too! Queen is so funny. Although if you want other drama recs along the same vibes as this game, I'd say Love between Tiger and Rose is probably closer (it's also historical comedy if you haven't watched it yet).

Whoa congrats! Impressive, if you didn't even look at the walkthrough and got it first try, you're too talented XD 

Thank you for playing! Glad to know you learnt some things along the way too, we tried to make the trivia interesting ^^

Thank you! I just uploaded a new patch update to add audio/music + extra art. So if you have played this game before and it was silent (as in only the same music from main menu all throughout), you can check this new version too!

Thank you! I just uploaded a new patch update to add audio/music + extra art. So if you have played this game before and it was silent (as in you only heard the same music from main menu all throughout), you can check this new version too!

Awww thank you so much! ^^ We got a new mini update out earlier this month with voice acting, new SFX (you can play music with the menu buttons now XD) and translations. We've also been working on the longer extended version with more endings and achievements, hopefully we'll be able to get it out soon!

Hi momo, depends on what aspect you're interested in specifically?
For the lantern sway on main menu, it was a custom shader by yours truly. Actually, for a previous project (The Man of my Dreams), I had already coded a custom grass sway shader. So the lanterns swaying was basically taking that grass shader (top moves, bottom of the image stays fixed) and reversing everything. Formula consists of quite a few cos and sin strewn around and playing with them until it looks right.

For custom menu buttons, it's about replacing textbuttons from default menu code by imagebuttons and adding actions to them depending on how you want them to react (cf official Ren'Py documentation for the syntax).

He's a tricky one, isn't he... Hope you managed to defeat him eventually!

If you are still blocked, the guide to get all endings can be found here: Walkthrough guide in the Devlog section of this page

Awww, he is indeed despite it all XD Thank you for playing, the whole team was great!

You can find the guide to get all endings here: Walkthrough for all endings in the Development log section of this page. Hope it helps! As a general tip for ending 3: be mean and cunning, make him hate you, poison him without getting caught :)

Hahaha thank you!!! It was too beautiful not to post 😂

Thank you so much Grey!! ^^

Hahaha MC is just done with him at this point 😂 Thank you for playing!

Thank you, we will try to add a Chinese translation in future updates, please follow us for announcements and future releases ^^

Thank you so much for the kind words! It wasn’t easy given the short timeframe but we’re glad we managed to finish it in time and see it appreciated by so many people! ^^

Hahaha, glad that you liked them too! 😂

Thank you for enjoying our game! ^^

Hahaha we also laughed a lot when giving him all these names. Originally we had even more names planned for him, but had to cut down the number to fit the jam’s word count restrictions. We may put back some of the names which didn’t make the cut in the extended version. I’m glad that you had fun playing it, just as we did when making it too ^^

Thank you for playing despite the language barrier, we’ll try to add a Chinese translation in the next update if possible ^^

Yes, he’s a tricky one, isn’t he? Hope you managed to survive in the end! 😂

Congrats for getting it so fast! You must have good intuition and survival instincts 😂 Thank you for playing! ^^

Thank you so much, glad that you managed to find one of the safe endings by yourself and congratulations for surviving the ordeal! 🥳

Thank you for playing and enjoying our game, we will do our best for the next update ^^

Thank you so much for the praise! 🙈 It was definitely worth it to spend time on it to make it work. I guess all the things we couldn't do ingame due to the jam's limitations, we ended up overcompensating it with the GUI 😂

Thank you so much for playing and battling through the endings and the devlog! 

You'll see in next week's devlog how the character designer artist really went out of their way to design everything meticulously even if it sometimes ended up barely visible in the finished sprite... Definitely a lot of interesting design tidbits to say about it!

Hahaha his face is really deceptive, bringing so many unsuspecting players to their downfall with just one kiss! I've seen some also really like to give him fish on repeat each run for some reason, even though they're sabotaging themselves unknowingly 😂 

We were also like this when coding his expressions in, except when it sometimes turned into a horror movie when debugging and his arm flew around or his eyes blinked into the void of space 😂

Thank you, everyone in the team was awesome! We were really glad to have worked on this while having so much fun at the same time!

You can look at the walkthrough published on this page just above comments section to help you. Hope you will find your path to Fujun's thorny heart!

Awww thank you so much for playing and enjoying both, as it was really a work of love ^^ 

It is also planned to release an improved version of The Man of my Dreams with improved backgrounds and animations, new custom music and new CGs for SunoFes too, so the team is also working on it as we speak. 

The extended version for ACoE would basically cover all the text we wanted to have in it but had to sadly cut due to the O2A2 1k word limit, with some new ideas along the way too.

If it does well, we could also plan for an even longer version long-term (as in full game with several other scenes and mechanics). But nothing is set in stone yet since we're taking it step by step.

I'm glad you enjoyed this devlog, hope the rambling wasn't too much! Please stay tuned for the one coming out next week, because that's where we will see the beauty of Fujun WIPs all over the page XD

Thank you for bringing a smile to our team's face with your comments! May you also find other great games to play in the future and spread joy and positivity to them too ^^

Thank you! We are currently trying to see all the remaining loopholes and filling them in with other endings so your comment comes right on point ^^

Yes, the ending where MC survives but Fujun died was originally the outcome of ending 4 (you poison him but he doesn't poison you). However, we changed it to what it is currently since we thought of Fujun feeling petty enough in his last moments to bring MC down with him too. 

The addition of this outcome could work though if we split the case where Fujun dies of being fed the wrong dish from the case where he dies from the poison in his cup.

For word count reasons, we had to fuse these cases together into the same ending 4 unfortunately at the time. But extended would be free of these constraints, so definitely something worth to consider!

Beware of spammers putting suspicious links in comments - the only official version of the game is on this page

Congrats for making it through finally! 

Good luck! You can do it! Try to remember all the little infos you gained from previous runs and go towards different directions/mindsets each time. It's pretty ironic that you often end up at ending 2 when it's the one most people usually struggle to get. The fact that you always end up at 2 or 4 may mean you're too good at changing his mind. Try harder to get hated :)
We'll get out a walkthrough soon once it's ready!