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oh no, hopefully you managed to catch up on sleep after! thank you so much for enjoying, it means a lot 💖✨

thank you so much for your kind words! 🫶✨

aww, thank you for the kind compliment! 🙏

thank you so much for reading & commenting! 💖

couldn’t have happened without your support, friend 💖✨💖✨

I feel like the more I want to write about this game, the less I can actually put into words about how this has gripped me down to the soul. An idyllic world like the beach always carries nostalgia, and growing up beside the beach is a state of nostalgia all on its own. The anxieties of life and growing up, the current state of the friendship group, the rushing feeling that comes into your heart when you finally admit that you're home — all of this makes Costa Sul so special. Always waiting for more! ❤️

First of all, I feel so bad because I thought I’d replied to this. My apologies 🙇‍♀️

Unfortunately this seems like a localised issue. I'm thinking that something is forcing it to invert contrast but it is somehow only working for the text and the collapsed sidebar. Looking into it, there could be a few things happening: 

1) Applying dark mode, either for phone or browser. Check your system settings (probably under Settings > Display) and see if system-wide Dark Theme is active and try toggling it off if it is. If you browser has a dark mode, try and change that to Light mode.

2) Ensure that high contrast text is toggled to off, probably under Accessibility settings.

You can also check to see if it looks the same in another browser whether to isolate if it's a browser-based issue or a phone-based issue. Our browser lets us test the Twine file on different devices' displays. I have Moto G Power available, which I'm using here and it looks like this:

Terribly sorry about the inconvenience! Our UI artist is working on a dark mode, so perhaps once that is launched it'll be more compatible.

Thank you, so glad you appreciate it!

And yes, dark mode is in the works! It's just that our UI artist has to re-colour every page element to match, so it's taking a hot minute.

Yeah maybe after TSD is over!! Still a while away, but there's time to figure things out. I feel like everyone needs a little bit more of Gilda and James in their lives, hehe.

I LOVED THAT ASK OMG you're just the sweetest, and I loved your insight into that scene!! There's so much more of that lined up for S, so I hope you enjoy what comes up 🥹🫶

High praise, thank you so much! 

Aww, I'm so glad!! I hope you continue to enjoy this work 🥹🫶

🥹🫶🥹🫶🥹🫶

Could you please provide your device & what OS it’s running? We’ll try and see what it could be related to that. Thanks!

That is really strange, this is what it’s meant to look like. Just making sure, do you have any accessibility features on which modify colours on the screen? Or would this be of any help? 

No omg, saying that you have been a fan of LM! is anything but silly!! It means so much to me seeing someone still remembers it! I’m very sorry that I had to shelve it for personal reasons tbh, but the story is very darling to me. I’m sort of debating whether I’d like to overhaul it someday as an IF, just so that I can finish telling the story at least. 

You’re literally the sweetest, and thank you so much for supporting this endeavour too! I’m so glad that scene has the impact that I wanted it to have. It’s probably my favourite scene yet, so its reception really matters to me. Thank you so, so much! 

gonna try my best, bestie 🫡🫡

Thank you so much for liking the UI! It was designed by MarySueGames, who is also a very talented VN dev herself!

I hope the story can provide company during work downtime, hehe. Your support and love means the world to us, thank you!!

You’re so kind, thank you so much all your praise and encouragement! 

As of right now there’s no configuration for poly options, but I may try and add some on after the main game is done 🥹🫶

Thank you so much for your kind words! 🫶🫶🫶 and for loving all four ROs! 

I'm so glad the dialogue options worked for you! I know it's difficult to land the right balance between having a blank slate MC or a strong character, especially in an IF where the reader shapes the narrative to a high degree. I'm glad my efforts paid off!

HAHA well, I'm not sure if it fits the traditional concept of E2L, but there's definitely potential for something like this to happen. 

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much, really appreciate it! 🫶

Hello! I hope you have this solved — this does seem like a local issue with the amount of storage that the browser allocates for you. Perhaps clearing out your cache, like the other comment said, can help or using another browser altogether. Sorry, wish I could be of more help!

Here to do our bit for the community 🫡

HELP LMAO I am guilty of loving those cookies that taste like disappointment 🥹

But thank you so much, I truly appreciate it!! Hopefully future N content will be like the visuals of Walmart sugar cookies and not their taste 🫶

Of course! We will try our best to add it!

Means the world to me thank youuuuu birthday bestie 🫶

Thank you for all your support!! 💖

Coming from you that means so much, thank you!! 

I see you have an eye for the finer things 💖

Thank you! 💖

You can try it once again, I think I updated it right! If not, it is downloadable through the browser. I’m currently travelling so I can try and see if there’s any other fix once I’m back :)

Chatter, your commentary and thoughts always give me life!!! I cannot thank you enough for stopping by and giving it a try!

Please don't take 'obtumuscent' to heart LOL I really had to go out of my way to find the most obscure term I could 😂 I'm so glad that this game lives up to your expectations and fits in well with the universe we've been trying to create (and yay for tooltip dictionaries and Asian American rep! Fingers crossed I'll get out that dev log about it soon!).

I'm so glad you also enjoyed the relationship between Piper and Julian! Their relationship contains so much nuance and we tried our best to let multiple facets of it show during the time span of this game jam—thankfully, their journey can continue onwards and upwards! Once again, thank you so much for playing our game and letting us know your thoughts 💖

wahhh, thank you so much for playing it!!!

the realest slay is the UI here queen 🙂‍↕️

ily2!!!!!! hard work only feels like hard work if you’re not having fun 😎

Things can only go upwards with you on our team! 

We learn from the best (aka you) 💖🫶

Aww, I hope he meets your expectations! 

First of all, thank you so much for stopping my and enjoying this demo! Means the world to us 🫶

Dev has been admittedly slow, mostly because life has a way of getting in the way of everything I enjoy doing 🥹 with that being said, I’m trying my best to use Bluesky more for dev things, and I feel pretty good to say that development will resume more robustly again for this game once we’re done with our Otome Jam game in the same universe 🫡 Once again, thank you!!

I did not know about this—and you’re so kind to give all this information too! I think we can be pretty hopeful to get this on Steam when it’s complete. I appreciate you so much!