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YEAH. I'm so glad, really love tkmiz's work and specifically Shimeji Simulation. Haven't read many things that address the two sided drive for connection and fear inherent in it in quite the same way. Thank you for playing and I'm glad you liked it.

This kicks ass. I love the maximalist visual style used to convey the feeling of things going off the rails, your art is stylish as hell. I also liked using this repressed disaster girl as a lens to talk about the kind of hedonism inherent in daydrinking. 

Maybe it's poor form of me to say this unsolicited, so feel free to disregard me entirely, but I don't think there's any need to put yourself down over the "missing" art in the 1.0 version of the game. The art that's in is really good and there's a lot of it! It clearly took a lot of work even as it is, and I don't think it detracts from the experience.

All that said, I hope this wasn't too stressful to make, and I'm looking forward to seeing it finished for noise jam. Liked this a lot, thank you.

I like how intense this was able to feel for what came across as a pretty grounded scenario. Really appreciated how the plushie stuff was worked in too. Feels so steeped in malaise and dissociation. Thank you for this.

God damn this is good as hell. I really liked Giselle's inner monologue, everyone's history and inner lives are fleshed out very convincingly, all of which is constantly reacting to create some great tension. Loved the visual style too. The rancid vibes of big family weddings/functions really did come through. This woman has to put up with so much shit and deals with it like a champ, dear god. 

Great story, thank you.

Woah, this is crazy ambitious for a one month jam. I do like the world building and the basics of the game work pretty well for what's there. Congrats on submitting, pretty neat little project.

Really fun and cute story. There's a light but innescapable layer of anxiety hanging over the whole thing. Adelaide's thoughts read a bit like a panicked animal of some kind.... it's very cute how she didn't want to be thought of as a cat but came around it in the end wahhhh.... I also liked Eva being so persistent in coaxing her out, they're both weird in the right ways for each other and I thought the tension came across well there. Thank you for this...

Raw as hell, I like the Information Attack aspect of it. Really cool.

This is neat. The sheer banality of being in this kind of long term isolation really came through, and the worldbuilding helped with that. Cool little experience...

Cute......... Drinkerbell has a hard life people should be nicer to her u_u

Rlly cute. Loved how the beginning and ending wrapped around. Thank you for this gay animal story.

It's uhh. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

Oh god. This feels so drunken to play. I love how much you're dropped into an unworkable, inscrutable situation. The mechanic of playing cards more toward either side felt appropriate for a narrative about managing the emotions of rancid bastards.

Had a great time with this one, really fun play on the theme. Thank you.

This felt so drunken and painful to read. Beautiful and wonderful.

As I was reading I felt it was maybe less of a "good time" in the way that loner_dog is despite its subject matter, but I actually think that works in Dog Days favor. Everyone is a prisoner to the past here, drowning in meaningless cruelty, misery and every substance they can get their paws on. It feels like the other side of the coin; where Loner_Dog puts you through it and tells you there's still hope and beauty in life, Dog Days is not so "kind" to the reader. It demands you find that same meaning in persisting on your own terms. You're never handed some grand meaning to it all.

But despite the more fatalistic tone, it manages to feel hopeful, in a way that wouldn't hit as hard without being familiar with the figurative despair basement these characters have all either been in, are trying to escape, or are wallowing in.

Loved this one a lot, thank you everyone involved.

Dear lord, this was sex. You created sex.

Was a little taken back by how intense you managed to make it feel despite the straightforward premise. This really does feel like a porn doujin in VN form. Everything comes together wonderfully, like a dream, like sleep paralysis, you can't avoid it.

Indulgent and fun, had a great time with this one, thank you Kyou and everyone involved.

Dear fucking lord. I feel like I've been trapped in some kind of nightmarish hall of mirrors. Wonderful. Thank you Reyla.

I smiled at Marylin trying to feed the deer whiskey. Cute...

Paraphrasing comments posted elsewhere but I liked this. Compelling exploration into the sort of bitter, defeated entitlement you might see in the kind of person David is, while remaining humanist about it. The story wraps up its characters in a good way. I also like your use of colour in describing scenes...

Scrapping old stuff is hard but sometimes necessary.... if you're not feeling something it can be better than pushing through. I like these portraits, hell yea.

Hello I added honorable mentions to make sure cool entries get a prize. Yay yay yay.

Really liked this. The text presentation is wonderful, I liked the split colours for each character's internal monologue and how it flowed between dialogue. Really sold how lonely voice calls can be when you're going through it, even with someone you share a connection with. Love these two idiots. Thank you.

This is from yesterday but I'll start; made a concept sketch for a character in the game I'm working on.

This thread is for sharing what you worked on today to help with motivation. It can be a sketch, it can be as simple as "I wrote a few paragraphs for a scene".

A couple rules:

• Please keep posts in this thread SFW. 
• Try and keep it relevant to the project you're working on (e.g "I went out to take some photos for backgrounds" is fine, just try and keep it dev focussed).
• Commenting on others work is encouraged, but please avoid criticism unless specifically requested by who you're responding to.

For completely vibes based reasons, you now have an two extra weeks to compete for an extra $100 in the prize pool bringing the submission date to the 3rd of May and the winnings to $150, $90, $60 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Q) Why?

• Lots of people joined, that makes me happy. I think it would be cool if you had more to work with.
• I like the theme and I probably won't do it again so it has to be good this time.
• Funny.

Good luck out there play nice everyone.

Since I don't have a centralized Discord or anything, I figured I would share a few things here that I've learned or have been shared with me in the gamejams I've participated in. I might come back in to update this at points.

1. BACK UP YOUR WORK. Seriously. You don't want to be in the situation where your hard drive dies and kills everything you worked on. It can and does happen. Having an external drive or syncthing to automatically keep things on different devices are good approaches.
2. Eat and sleep and take care of your basic needs. Your ability to work will rapidly go down if you don't do these things. It's not a marathon and I'm not expecting everyone to submit some grand epic. Take your time, go at your own pace.
3. If you're writing something with a script, consider having it all written down and organised separately in whatever writing software you choose. I recommend Obsidian, which can also be used in conjunction with Syncthing to go between desktop/phone/laptop or whatever you like.
4. If you're hurting for inspiration, try not to worry too much. You might need to do a little research or look at some body of work for inspiration, or you might simply need to take a break.
5. Kill the perfectionist in you. If you succumb to it, you'll burn energy driving yourself in circles. There are a million little things someone could say to get better at writing or creating in any medium, but I truly do think there is no substitute for simply making the damn thing and having it done.
6. Kill the cop in your head. Develop a vomit fetish.

If anyone has any specific questions about the jam or wants advice they can ask here. I can't guarantee I'll answer because I'm very lazy.

Good luck everyone.

Can't release here, you can't make money on adult games on itch. I would have already done so if I could.

Working on a Steam release. No idea if this will be possible. Will update here if it works.

Love Bug, I feel like she'd get stuck under the couch and you'd only find her after like a few hours when you hear her faintly mumbling to herself. 

Really wonderful little VN thank you.

So wonderful. Cute little diorama for lovesick bitches. Thank you.

Thank you.... Gosh, yes this is kind of how it felt to make it. So I hope it feels that way to play it too hehe.

Thank you so much. Happy it resonated with you that way.

Ehhehhee thank you Kyou.... I also still think about that comment, that's more or less what i was going for. Glad you enjoyed...

WahHHhhhh thank you so much Mala ;_;
Happy you enjoy both characters, I think a lot about Millicent and that type of entity too so I'm glad... Everyone stares at Ember anywhere she goes so it's ok, that makes it fine... Mill will protect her now....

Thank you so much for your lovely fanart also, was really excited to see it, your art is wonderful. Really liked Meat Girl, I need to get around to playing your other games ksdfghkdfskhg. Tysm ^^

Thank you..... a little bit of pain is important... like eating your veggies

Ehehhehe thank you very kindly. I'm happy it came together for you.

Thank you kindly, happy it hit for you

Much appreciated..... I'm glad people enjoy Mill hehe

Thank you, glad to hear it ^^

Yeah.