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Heya... I'm working on my first visual novel, Nightingale Manor, and I wanted to post somewhere that the recently-released demo is fixed, because the first night I uploaded it, I didn't add the whole zip file (working while tired). It's fixed and totally playable now; Nightingale Manor (Demo)

I'm also trying very hard to make the MC as "drivable" as possible. I wanted her to be a fixed character so I can do a lot of custom art of her in the story, but the choices in the game will determine her attitude, bits of her backstory, opinions, age, likes, dislikes, etc. So, while Zariah is very much herself, she is also very much "you."

My transparency tool also ended up giving the sprites something of an outline, but I ended up liking the way that looked, so I'm just gonna leave that be. I enjoy how it looks. Don't know why, but I do.

Hoping to take this game places, and I'm having a lot of fun making something in this medium for the first time. I'll be posting updates here whenever I possibly can (if, God willing, I remember to).

Thanks!

Hello, my name is Konspiracy (pen name Ginger Davies), and I'm currently developing my very first visual novel game. I've done a LOT of mangas, some of them published through a small press called Free State West, others free to read on sites like ComicFury - but I've never made a visual novel before now.

Nightingale Manor revolves around a girl arriving to a mysterious and isolated mansion for a new live-in job, befriending a man and his son and helping to lift their spirits after a recent family tragedy. The story focuses on her building a relationship with them - but there's something off about the place, some dark, unexplainable presence that she can't quite put her finger on. To call the Nightingale 'haunted' wouldn't even begin to cover it all.

The main character is Zariah - and while I wanted the MC to be a fixed character (so I can do a lot of custom artwork of her), I am also trying to include as many choice-making options as possible, just so the player can make Zariah their own. Choices in the game will determine bits of her backstory, her general attitude, likes and dislikes, and her age. So, while she is Zariah, she is also very much "you."

My transparency tool also gave my character sprites a bit of a physical outline in the game, but I ended up liking the way it looked, so I'm just gonna be making all the sprites that way from now on. Lol.

Anyway, if anyone can offer me a bit of feedback on the demo, it would greatly help me work on the rest of the project, and the full game will HOPEFULLY be released before Halloween of this year. Just remember that I do not have a team, and I'm still learning as I go - so it will take some time to release the full game.

Thanks so much for reading all this if you did, and here is the demo for Nightingale Manor; Nightingale Manor (Demo)