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haha, I enjoyed the stream despite that! It's interesting to see what someone who wouldn't choose to play female-oriented stuff takes away from the story. Thank you for the feedback!

Thank you for pointing out bugs and other things, that's super helpful! Glad the visuals read well overall.

It is an otome indeed, though I'm also trying to make it a game in its own right! So feedback from non-VN players is very helpful too.

It was with the controller; I think it's just muscle memory from other games with aiming/shooting I play that have those controls! But like I said I think this is the kind of thing a player gets used to as they play a game (and having the option to remap controls will be great) , I just thought I'd mention it.

It's actually not ren'py but a VN plugin for Unity! But similar limitations to ren'py for sure.
I'll add less linear things in the next update! I was trying to convey story stuff and ease the players into features linearly before opening things up, but I do worry it might make the initial first hour of game or so feel boring and make some players quit before things really begin, so I'll probably switch things up some.
Thanks for the feedback!

I like how the tone feels so far! The visuals are quite nice, and the contrast of darker environment/UI with the somewhat silly music and dialogue make the dark humour work well.

I think the tutorials are a really good start, but there's some dumb small things that confused me. Starting room: I tried multiple times to push the cube, it didn't work, I gave up and figured that wasn't the solution, ended up pushing it by accident (it seems only a specific corner of it really works?). I missed the sword chest initially and thought the combat tutorial was bugged, so you may want to stop the player from entering the next room before they pick up the sword.
It would be good to be able to close the equipment and spell menus with a key press, as pressing on the button every time doesn't feel so intuitive.

You'll probably add more enemy types and vary them in future updates; that'll probably make combat a lot more fun, as right now it doesn't feel bad but it is a lot of repetitive clicking without needing to really think. I do like the idea of the enemies getting dazed on the ground and being able to get back up if not killed in time, I think when you add more enemy types (especially some that are faster and the player would more easily get overwhelmed by), it'll make the player have to be strategic with who they take out first.

What I've tried so far worked fine, I got a bit confused with the UI (like how to back out of some menus, until I tried Esc) but obviously that's normal when in such an early state. I did get stuck on a combat victory/rewards screen, not sure if that's me missing an obvious way to continue or was a bug?
Looking forward to seeing what you add in future updates!

Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed the story and setting :)
The quest legend suggestion is great, I'll work on adding that in the next update! And I will likely add more save slots in the future and generally expand on the save system as I get more feedback on it!

The hair dye quest is actually the last main quest and the small quests after that are also the last ones available, so you didn't miss out on any content, but I should have added a "This is the end of the demo" thing in-game for sure!

I like that new equipment unlocks combat abilities, it feels satisfying.

Would be good to have any sort of feedback on "Save adventure", I thought it was broken until I actually exited and loaded. Could just be a sound or "Adventure Saved!" pop up.

Got confused about how to equip the training staff as I misunderstood the equipment tab button (the sword in circle that lets you look at your equipment) to be an actual slot, and kept trying to drag the staff there. You could have feedback there that greys out/blocks off all invalid slots when an item is selected so the correct slot is easy to notice, for clarity.

Really pleasant visuals and I like the atmosphere you've created with both your visuals and the audio. I really like the health bar/collar light thing, the colours convey health level pretty clearly. The music change when engaged in combat also feels really seamless and nice, I didn't notice it upon the first few enemies but still felt the vibe change.

The recoil on the gun feels pretty decent, it's enough to increase tension by making me worried about missing shots but it doesn't feel unfair or frustrating.

Starting camera speed is super fast both with keyboard+mouse and a controller, I played around with adjusting it in the options but didn't really manage to find the right middle point. To be fair that's in part because your QUIT button's area is so big and right under the camera speed slider, so I clicked it a whole bunch of times on accident when using a mouse. Controls other than that felt fine with a controller, I accidentally used the flashlight instead of shooting at times but I figure it's the kind of thing that varies person to person and I would get used to as I play.

Thank you for trying out the demo! I'm glad you liked it so far :)
And thanks for the report, that is indeed a bug! There's one other main quest after that, a side quest and some feed quests. I've fixed it on my end now so I'll post a fixed build soon :)
I'll look into the loading issue some more because it shouldn't be related to this quest issue (unless it only happens at this one point in the game and you were able to load saves elsewhere?); one thing I can think of since you're on Mac is that maybe you need to enable read/write permissions? The game needs to write to a file to save, then read from it to load. If that's enabled already it would be an issue on the game's part, so I'll look into things!

Here's where you can write a bug report! Alternatively, you can use the bug report form that's linked on the game page/in the game's main menu, or use the dedicated channel in my discord.

Please write the following information:

OS: (Doesn't need to be specific, just let me know if you're on a Mac or PC and your Windows version)
Bug description: (try to be detailed if you can! Like "the game freezes when X chara says this line of dialogue (...)". Screenshots are helpful too!)

I'm unfortunately not sure why this is happening :( it works on the (very old) mac I use for testing and it seems to work for some other mac users, so it might have to do with OS versions. If you ever want to try it on steam, you can let me know if it works there! steam solves this kind of issue sometimes

hi! this was specifically made for a jam that's for very short (1k words), complete games, so this project is meant to be a full experience as it is! and I don't have any plans to make this story into a longer project at this time.

Others have said the same and I'm not sure why, sorry! If you feel comfortable downloading the game anyway, you should be able to go into the Downloads tab of your browser and click something like "Download anyway" (depends on the browser, but they should all have the option).

Hm I haven't seen that happen before, sorry about that! I don't know what browser you use but when I use Chrome I can go into my downloads tab and select to proceed with the download despite the warning (if you feel comfortable doing that obviously).

Hi! Email me at manekimushidev@gmail.com using the same email you used to buy the game, and I can send a copy of the booklet!

it's in my to-do list to post in the self promo threads on those subreddits this weekend :) But word of mouth really helps too! I've gotten a lot of new players from other people's posts on reddit so it's always appreciated!

Whatever you prefer is fine! I'm not too bothered about the money, if you'd like to help me out (which I super appreciate!) consider leaving a review on Steam! Reviews are pretty hard to get and Steam only starts giving games real visibility once we reach 10 positive reviews :')

Hi! This is a fix I found for this issue (which I can't fix on my end unfortunately) : https://www.howtogeek.com/803598/app-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/

If this doesn't work, you can email me at manekimushidev@gmail.com (just use the same email address your itch.io account uses, so I'll know you bought the game) and I can give you a Steam key! This error probably won't occur on Steam (I hope).

I think I just released it? Steam's interface is a bit complicated so I'm not sure haha. But it's shown as released on my end, hopefully players can see it too!

It'll be $14.99 (but 10% off for the first week, both here and on Steam).

Hi! turns out I'd mispelled Emrys' last CG's name in the script :') I just uploaded a fix and it should work now!

Hi! Normally itch.io should show you separate buttons for each files that can be downloaded, so you can check if you've clicked "download" for the booklet too. But if that's not working for some reason, you can email me at manekimushidev@gmail.com and I can share the booklet file with you directly!

There's no linux build (I don't have access to linux so I wouldn't be able to test any builds, and I'd feel bad releasing something potentially completely broken), but from what I understand either the Windows or Mac version should work in virtual machines/emulators? I don't know much about linux though, so I could be wrong.

I've been trying to look into the issue but I think it's an engine issue and not something I'm able to fix :/ The only potential solution to try I can think of is to keep your number of saves low in case it's a file size issue (so like, overwriting/deleting your oldest saves instead of using a new slot every time).
Sorry this is happening, and sorry I can't help much!

Thank you so much! I'm planning a game where Silas is a love interest and you get to meet his friends :) The protagonist won't be this game's "buddy", but they'll make a return still.

Thank you so much! I plan to make more games in this setting so it gives me so much motivation to read this, haha

Thank you for playing! Yes, the idea is that there's different degrees of being a thinblood and the blood dilutes with each generation; so the sire is a thinblood who isn't quite as messed up as the protagonist :')

Ah I'm really happy you enjoyed it enough to want to write a comment :) thank you so much!

Thank you <3 I do love VtM!

thank you <3

thank you! I'm so glad you like him haha

thank you! I actually have a future VN planned with Silas as a love interest and other things in this setting :)

I'm really glad :') thank you for your comment!

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts (and don't worry, your English is perfectly clear)!
I'm really glad you enjoyed Emrys's route and that the moral implications of it felt compelling! I hope you'll enjoy Aerona's route as well, she offers a different angle on your past and how to move forward! I'm also glad you like her art, she's also my favourite out of the character designs :)
Thank you for your support and for taking the time to write this comment, I really appreciate it <3

It could indeed be the saves! The game checks for a "DLC enabled" variable to play the DLC scenes, so your saves from the free version would have this variable set to false and would fail to trigger the scenes... Sorry about that!
Have you tried starting a new game in the DLC version and choosing "Start from another chapter" to start from chapter 3? That should let you see the DLC scenes without having to replay chapters 1 and 2!

I'm so glad you noticed all those things haha :') The full game will definitely have more sex scenes that aren't just PiV, especially in Kyros's scenes!
You can indeed romance all three characters or just two, all poly combinations will be possible and have their own ending!
Thank you so much for enjoying the demo and sharing your thoughts <3

Ah that's really weird! If you email me at manekimushidev@gmail.com (using the same email as your itch.io account or attaching your payment receipt so I can check you bought the game), I can give you a link to the booklet!

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

I think those CGs must be the SFW alt versions of the adult scenes? So unfortunately there's nothing very exciting to figure out, they'll get unlocked by just setting the game to SFW mode and replaying those scenes :') I'm considering presenting the gallery in a different way to avoid this kind of confusion!

Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you liked the characters and Wooly in particular <3