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Normally, this wouldn't be so, but @mabbees has implemented some black magic sorcery in the form of spritesheet tricks.

He just put up a devlog about it here: https://mabbees.neocities.org/posts/018-spritesheet-tricks/

Thank you! mabbees will be happy to hear (he made the music)

Thank you! Love your pirate <3

Nya! =^^=

Thank you for playing! 💚

Thank you so much for hosting!

I heard about this jam through my friend - this was such a great group of dollmakers!!!

I replayed this multiple times just so I could leave the MC on a happy ending. Because he deserved a happy ending. I wasn’t disappointed.

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

The emotional honesty snuck up on me - I grew up in a feminist household, prided myself on being a feminist and recently have been (disappointed? confused? exhausted?) with the way people I respect and care about have used the empowering women as a thin veil to cover their own unaddressed gender essentialism. 

On a brighter note, Xinyu calling himself  “old” made me chuckle. Don’t call me out like that!

Devilish~

V spooky!

OMG I love this color combo!

Dannnng this is so cool. And the music slaps. 

This is so awesome. Thank you for making this - I hope more dressup games will be made from this template :>

Noooo my heart
What a good pup

Dignified Weiner Covered in Spiders

(Happy Halloween!)

Yeah!! Same!!

I’ve never seen such an incredible use of bitsy. Beautiful, moving scenes and great dialogue. I loved navigating through the portraits, wondering if their dreams would pan out in the end.

Lovely game. It made me feel things. You should be proud. -CJ

Absolutely, fight the good fight. I’m right there with you.

Read it on your blog but I figured I’d comment here.

It’s really easy to compare to other people who might be more well-resourced, both in time and mental energy, but I think you did really well.

To reframe, in a week’s time, no signal made what Terranova made in its first year. It made more than most indie games do on Steam in their lifetime.

I think this was a solid release! I’m looking forward to you keeping the momentum.

Perfect. Thank you for your patience. Enjoy the butts!

Just tested it on my machine (Mac) — it works! Let me know how that works for you. 

Sorry for the late response; I went on holiday. I figured it out—it's an issue with how I uploaded to itch.io. Let me troubleshoot this and I'll comment again once it's fixed. 

Thank you for the screenshot!

I'm sorry about that. Let me see if I can help troubleshoot.
- What's your operating system and version (Windows/Mac/Linux)?
- Did you download it through the itch.io app or directly from the web?
- Do you have a copy of the error message I can check out?
If you don't want to comment these, feel free to email me at illuminesce@pm.me.

Yay! Thank you for playing the game and I'm glad you learned more about glassblowing!

Thank you!! <3

Yes! Love the bug’s movement on the taiko. It really feels like a boss fight :)

Beautiful fireworks and a tear-jerking story. Such a lovely use of Pico-8!

Excellent! I'll ping you on here (or wherever you prefer) next time I organize.

I love TJ and Amal and Shot & Chaser. I'm organizing an itch.io bundle for an event happening this June called Citrus Con.  It's an 18+ BL and queer media online convention and I'm reaching out to zine, novel, comic, and game creators writing queer original fiction.

Would you be interested in submitting Sweet Abilene?

If so, here's the link for submitting by June 11th.

https://forms.gle/m4yzW9tiKQLzD3Pv7

I love your work and Pipeburn (I started reading it on Slipshine). I'm organizing an itch.io bundle for an event happening this June called Citrus Con.  It's an 18+ BL and queer media online convention and I'm reaching out to zine, novel, comic, and game creators writing queer original fiction.

Would you be interested in submitting this work?
If so, here's the link for submitting by June 11th.
https://forms.gle/m4yzW9tiKQLzD3Pv7

Thank you!

Added this to the interface drama master list!

https://illuminesce.net/interface-drama
This was the first game that recreated interface in bitsy - as someone who has done games in bitsy, this was very well done and a clever use of the engine. Thank you for making this!

I really enjoyed playing this! Very chill, and I teared up a little at one of the endings. I added this to the Interface Drama Master List, which is a list of games that use interface to tell stories: https://illuminesce.net/interface-drama

Same feeling - thank you as always for expressing it so beautifully.

Hey y'all! I tried looking into this, but all I could find was an archived post about the fact that it's probably possible, but has some "issues" with showing bundles on the game page. I'm thinking of organizing a bundle during the same time as another big bundle; I'm guessing that if participants can't register for both bundles or there's weird issues of both bundles showing up I'd want to warn them ahead of time. My question is:

- Can devs sign up for two co-op bundles at the same time?
- Are there any issues in showing both bundles on the game page?
- What, if any, are any drawbacks or restrictions?

Thank you in advance.

Hello! My name is CJ.
I'm organizing an itch.io bundle for Citrus Con's 1-day gaming event, Gayme Gasm. It's an 18+ yaoi/queer/BL games bundle that will be on sale late March.

We're gathering participants from now until March 9th. I was wondering if you'd be interested in learning more? I'm on Twitter at @its_illuminesce on Twitter or email illuminesce (at) pm (dot) me. Thank you for your time!

Hi there! I'm CJ—I'm volunteering for Citrus Con and putting together a bundle for their event on March 22nd, Gayme Gasm. Your games were recommended to me on Bluesky. Couldn't message there, so dropping a comment here. Hope that's okay.

We're gathering participants for the bundle from now until March 9th. If you're interested, send me a message on Bluesky/my email is illuminescse (at) pm (dot) me. Thanks!

Whoa! Thank you! And to the 300+ people who checked out our game, hi!

Thank you for playing!! 
I didn't even notice they were old Twitter links until you mentioned them. Thank you! Fixed!

Thank you for playing!

I played this several weeks ago and forgot to write a comment! I really loved this VN; it has a really fresh take on the fantasy genre.

Some of my favorite things:

1) The art style/fight animations, specifically representing blood. There's a unqiue mix of hand drawn illustrations and expressive photographs that I've never seen in a VN before. It reads like an underground, queer art movie.

2) The love story. From a trans perspective, the final resolution *will* made me cry. Happy tears, but it really tugged at my heartstrings.

3) Using the themes of possession by Selindae and the themes of being "captured" by Lynolell in a very queer, woman-focused way that neither robs them of their agency but also puts them in a very dramatic position. 

If the fantasy genre was more like this, I'd read more of it. Such great work! <3

I really loved the "hook" (pun intended) and fell for the story. Beautiful writing. Been there before, too.