These images certainly rekindle warm reminiscences in both heart and mind of the wonderful story and characters of "Christmas Eve". That is in no way meant to imply any reservation on my part concerning originality or future success.
For should that even be the case, we all know by now that we can surely expect no less than another totally enchanting and irresistibly endearing story, expertly and lovingly crafted by a creator already proven to be immensely talented and relentlessly dedicated to his art, his craft and most assuredly, the satisfaction of his audience.
I feel absolutely sure that in "A Siren Song" Jonesy will be setting sail, with all of us, I feel sure, once more eagerly crowded aboard, on a markedly different voyage of discovery to that upon which we all originally embarked aboard its illustrious predecessors.
I therefore look forward unconditionally to what our maestro is once again composing for us all, hopefully too, as intended, in good time to make next year's St Valentine's Day even more memorable for us all.
Falco Falcone
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Dear 3DRComics,
It's good to know that you are pacing yourself(ves) and not rushing, unnecessarily, to meet deadlines. Sure, we'd all love to have an update every two weeks from you, but we aren't the ones faced with the creative and productive workload alongside a real life with all that living in these, at best, unless we are wealthy, trying times entails too.
Besides, for me, all that you've produced thus far has been, and I am quietly hopeful will continue to be, well worth any waiting on my part. That, in itself, in conjunction with keeping us all up to date with developments and any obstacles, more than compensates for everything else.
I love all your girls and I am really enjoying the intrigue of the story itself, the emotional drives, physical urges and conflicts among significantly different personalities, experiential histories and individual circumstances. I find it very pleasing that you are, very successfully for me, trying to analyse and interpret the psychological aspects of these young womens' lives and viewpoints as they grow and transition from girls to young women, especially with the previously unencountered introduction of serious male contact and, of course, "interest".
Please do not spare anything in maintaining the very high standards and intense interest you continue to create in this seriously absorbing and exciting story.
Thank you so much for all your effort and commitment to, clearly, your labor of love, and in voicing all that I have here, I feel confident I am speaking alongside the vast majority, at least, of your audience.
Good luck to us all in the future.
Yeah, I already had my Part 1 added and installed to my Steam Library. I just didn't expect Part 2 to be added in as DLC, but no matter.
All's well that ends well, as I believe some famous playwright once wrote.
Hopefully these notes will save ViM some time if anyone else checks in here with the same issue in future.
Anyway, I'm glad we all got it sorted. Have fun everyone!
My opinion is for goodness sake please don't worry yourself, especially on my account, about fulfilling timetables and adhering to schedules...
The very prospect of such spontaneity at work here is absolutely thrilling to witness and be a part of, if only from the outside looking in, and, already knowing from experience how exceptionally wonderful the outcome will be, I can certainly wait patiently to see where Daye, just like Eve before her, will end up taking us all, including, of course, you yourself!
Good for you, Jonesy!!! Please keep up the sterling work!! I feel confident in saying that all of your devotees, especially myself, sincerely appreciate all that you and your sublimely beautiful and adorable characters are doing to entertain and thrill us all.
Thank you for my Steam Key. Having established itself as the "Amazon" of video games and, increasingly, adult visual novels, there must surely be no better shopwindow than Steam in which to expose your wares to the widest possible potential audience.
As an existing, fully converted devotee of "Thirty Days", I therefore wish you the very best of good fortune in selling this undoubted (by me at least) masterpiece through so immensely popular and highly esteemed a channel.
A fantastic story this!!!
If it makes it easier for you guys, according to my Purchase History, I, Falco Falcone, purchased my edition of "Thirty Days" through itch.io on 2023-05-16 04:03:21.
I'd love, if possible, to be able to add a Steam copy to my Steam library, both for ease of access while in Steam and also to keep my Steam Library as up-to-date and complete as possible.
Thank you!...regardless, of course, of whether or not a Steam key happens to come my way 😉 😁.
Oh boy!! I can hardly wait!! That's a birthday weekend for me, so it will be my gift to myself and I guarantee that though it will be my only gift, having already experienced the warmth, the joy and the pleasure of "Christmas Eve", I just know this will be the very best gift imaginable.
To me, Dayton is every bit as vivacious and beautiful as her sister and no doubt different in personality, temperament and inclination too, adding both freshness and nuance to this latest wondrous experience of your unparalleled skill and artistry.
I have two questions to ask, if I may, and I hope this isn't the wrong place to be asking them. Firstly, will Episode 1 of "New Year's Day(e)" be individually purchasable on itch.io? Or will it be available only by means of a Patreon subscription? Secondly, have you decided upon a minimum price you intend to charge in exchange for the precious fruits of your most exceptional labor?
Thank you very much.
Hmmm...I've just realized my previous comment typifies what a fanboy usually sounds like to me. I can also therefore see the need for me to modify my own attitude and be more empathetic towards and respectful of these intensely over-enthusiastic and effusive devotees, as I feel I have spontaneously demonstrated myself to be here.
Thanks for keeping us informed of developments. It all sounds intriguing and, of course, exciting. It's great to see that you're not allowing yourself to be pressured by a specific deadline. You have more than enough pressure upon you maintaining the stellar quality of content we have now, from experience, rightfully come to expect from you.
I am so pleased and impressed to find your characters continue to be so unwaveringly delightful and enchanting and thankfully not in the least bit "cheesy", overly precocious or, indeed, contrived. It is a very narrow line to tread here, but your writing, characterization and illustration is simply impeccable and, believe me, I am usually far from drawn to...no, attracted...to this type of character or scenario, but my-oh-my these girls and their story are something else!
So I truly do appreciate being treated to the overwhelming warmth and wonder every one of your girls brings to my heart through their fearless curiosity, irreverent mischievousness, brazen self-confidence and most critical of all, of course, your imagination and creative skills, both narrative and visual.
I feel privileged to be a part of this and I shall support as much as I am able during hard times in return for all that you do both for me, us and, of course, yourself. All that you create is a monumental testament to you and the artistry of you and all creators gifted enough to portray such unerringly accurate human observation in so positive and sensitive a way for we who can only sit in awe as your stories unfold before our disbelieving eyes and hearts.
Many who have not (I sincerely hope yet) savoured the fruits of your labour will think I exaggerate, but for me that is hand-on-heart, truly not the case. I've absolutely no reason to sing praises that I've neither felt nor enjoyed so deeply before. I just believe in sincerity and voicing admiration where I believe admiration needs to be shared which is why I am here...
The guy takes an absolute age to produce each update. It's worth the wait, but the wait each time can be interminable. I find I almost have to go back and replay the game to remember what stage parts of the plot have reached.
This is a really desperate shame because the story and the characters, especially their personalities, interactions and their reactions to circumstance are second to none and make for a very special, amazingly engrossing and immersive experience.
Make no mistake, this is a really standout AVN. Though cruelly unheralded, in my opinion, this is right up there alongside the very best in the genre, but you have to have a tremendous amount of patience. In and of itself, Halfway House, aside from the long "intermissions" is absolutely worth every single penny.
You can't hurry genius. Never set specific dates because you cannot foresee the future and guarantee delivery. and if you yourself create an expectation it is not so unreasonable for people to get pissed when you don't meet it.
So please take whatever time you need to make Chapter 4 the absolute best you can make it. That's essential and all that I, personally, ask of you. I hope I'm not alone in requesting this.
Chapter 4 is your finale too, so I sincerely hope we are going to go out with a bang (so to speak!). There must surely be avenues for a spinoff with Evie's sister clearly (from what has been said over the phone) conniving with her sister in this situation.
In my opinion, you can't, and indeed you mustn't even try to, rush genius. So irrespective of deadlines or any other expectations, please just be sure to take all the time you need to give us your absolute best. That's all I ask and I hope all of my fellow devotees and followers here will agree. I feel sure that whenever the next episode is finally ready it will be worth far more than its "wait" in gold.
I must admit to have been amazed so early on by the unexpectedly high quality of this story and its characters. At the end of Chapter 1 the story is well laid out, the characters introduced, the style easy-going and extremely pleasant to both the eye and the brain and the pace, thus far, very nicely measured. The dialogue and characterization is very well written and both "behaves" and flows naturally and for a college environment comfortably avoids the usually overly pretentious, wacky, madcap, sometimes nauseatingly cliched excesses and behaviour as well as the juvenile often crude language and conversations.
I really like the way I'm allowed to choose the girls and thus the paths I fancy exploring going forward. I've been able to meet and get acquainted with a couple of the leading girls and laid some sincerely romantic foundations. I'm also very, very pleased (and impressed) to be able to say that I've not been forced into anything unnaturally premature in terms of intimacy. A fully clothed kiss and a fondle would be the best one would hope for in the very first chapter and leaves everything to play for and to hope for with these beauties moving forward.
I also really like the fact that the guy I'm playing is level headed and unpretentious and the main girls I've encountered, Elly and Natalie, and indirectly Sophie, none of whom are, as is so often the case, spoiled, pointedly vain or unnaturally self-obsessed, well Sophie is a little bit, I guess, but by no means obnoxiously so. They all possess honest, open and really nice personalities and are absolutely drop dead gorgeous to look at. So I'm very excited about being able to develop and engage with them further as the story progresses. With regard to each girl's stellar looks, as if their figures weren't already breath taking enough, their eyes, in particular (something which is happily clearly and intentionally focused upon in the visuals), are simply mesmerizing. In fact, all of the visuals, which are obviously pretty critical to the success of any AVN are fantastic; well angled, crisp and clear whether at relative distance or right up close and personal. I especially like the way with the latter shots you really feel like you're as close to their face as you would be in reality. Close enough in fact to actually kiss the character yourself. It's a thoughtful and highly effective touch.
So although I've only now completed Chapter One, if you're reading this I already feel fully justified in wholeheartedly recommending, if you can, supporting this project. It is, in my experience, even this early on, already a significant cut above the average AVN title and I see no reason why that should not continue and improve as the story unfolds and, being an AVN, of course, the characters become closer and, with time, more intimate.
I'm really looking forward to Chapter 2 and beyond and I honestly and sincerely recommend that you give "A Shot In The Dark" a fair chance and check this title out. I feel sure that far from regretting it you'll be very, very happy to have taken the time and perhaps trouble to do so.
With me, criticism or praise is generated purely on merit and to the degree to which it strikes me. Both are always earned, never volunteered, no matter what the benefits or inducements.
Anyway, as I said before, for whatever reason, "Christmas Eve" has totally spontaneously struck a profoundly resonant chord in me, presenting as it does, a brilliant and joyous validation of two of my own deep-seated, personal beliefs;
Firstly, that "the heart knows no bounds" and my own (here shared) assertion that, behind closed doors and exclusively between indisputably consenting adults, it should not be required to either, regardless of human society's futile artificial attempts to restrict and suppress it.
Secondly, that in the very best of novels, story and characters are so well crafted that the latter, within the confines of the story structure itself, can, to a great extent, actually influence and dictate their own actions, interactions and reactions thereby effectively writing their own dialogue too.
So, I'm really, really looking forward to future developments (no hurry...quality over speed always) with both fascination and, of course, no little excitement and by that I do not mean solely THAT kind of excitement. I am equally encouraged that you seem to be very relaxed in your approach. I think ideas and innovations flow more freely when the mind is relaxed, open and positively engaged rather than closed and narrowly focused and thereby pressurised predominantly, if not entirely, by expectation of results and their associated deadlines.
So, please do continue to "Keep Calm and Carry On", as my tea mug reminds me every morning and I'll continue, with each subsequent chapter, to donate what I can to help support this, my current favourite, cause.
The whole story is amazingly enthralling and heart-warming and, courtesy of delightful little Evey, completely and utterly enchanting in every aspect. In particular though "The Glimmering" movie night scene was, for me, the most brilliant of all the brilliantly done scenes. To be able to and then to actually succeed so convincingly in conveying such tenderness and sensitivity, both in your writing and, in particular, the way you have not only rendered everything, but most notably of all, Eve's breath taking eyes in the firelight as she sat in her Dad's lap has been a truly rare and, in my own personal experience, unique feeling for my heart, for me and hopefully for all who are fortunate enough to discover you and this absolute masterpiece. This is a truly amazing accomplishment.
You should be so very proud of your creativity, imagination, your capabilities and, above all , your sensibilities. You simply MUST, I implore you, follow through on this story to the very end. I am not a wealthy person, but I paid $30 for the pleasure of Chapter 3, because this, for me, is all I can afford to pay for a gift which, in truth, is, to me, absolutely priceless. This whole story will be, I feel sure, an experience I shall cherish and subsequently cherish with each new chapter right to the very end of this already pulsatingly heart-warming tale.
Please do your best to remain energised. Please continue to write all that your heart is clearly telling you to write and with the exact same warmth and sensitivity you have done so inspiringly thus far and please, please, please do continue to illustrate it, at the very least, to the stratospheric level you have already attained or perhaps if possible (although I have no idea how you might achieve it) even higher. There is no sky left to limit you, Jonesy...
Discovering this been the biggest juiciest, sweetest, most succulent cherry on my Christmas and New Year cake. Thank you so much, (Mr?Ms?) Jonesy for blessing me, and of course, us all, with Evey at Christmas! Stay happy, stay healthy and, please, stay focused, keeping that magic wand and spell book at your side at all times...
Happy New Year and, of course, roll on Valentine's Day!
The whole story is amazingly enthralling and heart-warming and, courtesy of delightful little Evey, completely and utterly enchanting in every aspect. In particular though "The Glimmering" movie night scene was, for me, the most brilliant of all the brilliantly done scenes.
To be able to and then to actually succeed so convincingly in conveying such tenderness and sensitivity, both in your writing and, in particular, the way you have not only rendered everything, but most notably of all, Eve's breath taking eyes in the firelight as she sat in her Dad's lap has been a truly rare and, in my own personal experience, unique feeling for my heart, for me and hopefully for all who are fortunate enough to discover you and this absolute masterpiece. This is a truly amazing accomplishment.
You should be so very proud of your creativity, imagination, your capabilities and, above all , your sensibilities. You simply MUST, I implore you, follow through on this story to the very end. I am not a wealthy person, but I paid $30 for the pleasure of Chapter 3, because this, for me, is all I can afford to pay for a gift which, in truth, is, to me, absolutely priceless. This whole story will be, I feel sure, an experience I shall cherish and subsequently cherish with each new chapter right to the very end of this already pulsatingly heart-warming tale.
Please do your best to remain energised. Please continue to write all that your heart is clearly telling you to write and with the exact same warmth and sensitivity you have done so inspiringly thus far and please, please, please do continue to illustrate it, at the very least, to the stratospheric level you have already attained or perhaps if possible (although I have no idea how you might achieve it) even higher. There is no sky left to limit you, Jonesy...
Discovering this been the biggest juiciest, sweetest, most succulent cherry on my Christmas and New Year cake. Thank you so much, (Mr?Ms?) Jonesy for blessing me, and of course, us all, with Evey at Christmas! Stay happy, stay healthy and, please, stay focused, keeping that magic wand and spell book at your side at all times...
Happy New Year and, of course, roll on Valentine's Day!