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Greetings, my name is Ze, a developer with around 15 years of experience in game development.

I've done concept art, illustration, pixel art, animation, 3d modeling, animation, and writing.

I'm mostly seeking work as a 2d/pixel artist. Due to financial needs, it needs to be paid work, even if at below market rate, with RevShare to make up the rest. 

Work Sample

Pixel Art Illustration / Character Design

Character Design / Sprite Art

Animation

My writing sample can be found at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1616280/Chronicles_of_Taldun_The_Remainder

I am co-writer, narrative designer, artist, and composer on this game.

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. 

You can find me @zehailiu on discord or artofze@gmail.com

Hey, thanks for featuring our work again. It's so nice to be appreciated, and it's good to see more press for small, obscure games. I hope you get more audience and continue to do what you do!

That got there by mistake. Thanks for telling me!

I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until it gets down. I’m just worried for the people who download it without realising the situation and potentially get harmful stuff on their pc. I guess we as a community are lucky in a way that they targeted a project with such devoted audience so the scammer got spotted immediately. I don’t think the other author whose game they also stole knew about it until I told them. :(

Yeah, I’m really confused at what their goal is. Surely they didn’t think nobody would notice? And thanks for reporting, hopefully it gets down soon. Still no reply from itch, but I’m not surprised since they have a lot to deal with. 

Hello! Yesterday somebody reuploaded your game and is redistributing it for free. I am the creator of the other game they did the same to. Here is the link to the thief. https://mattew-john.itch.io/a-gay-series I already sent a message to customer support about it, suggest you do the same. >_<

Thank you so much for letting me know. I sent a message to the itch support. >_<

I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed our game! As for the Dreams to ashes achievement: you unlock it if you keep the bird letter you find in the grimoire for later. When you return to Ilar the scene where two of you struggle for it ensues and if you are on good terms with them, it results in you seeing the memory together. However, if you are at bad terms with Ilar at that point, something different will happen. Let me know if this helps or if you need a more help. 

Sure! It’s: m x m x f x f x nb amab x ace nb afab

We are so happy to hear you enjoyed our game, and thank you for letting us know how you feel. Made my morning when I read this. ^^ Many hugs. <3

That's amazing. XD Best "marketing" an indie creator can ask for, really. 

Btw our game glossary was originally called Appendix Aleph. ^^

I think in the new version that choice is equivalent to not saying anything (in the spot the guide indicates), so try to letting the timer run out.

For A Gracious Gift

When you meet FP the cat at the desk:

-Scratch xer behind the ear

-You must be really frightened of Aby

For Insolence

When you reach FP who's sleeping in the tree, and you have a chance to input text, input "Ukkhipati".

I hope this works!

Hi, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the game!

Can you give me the original english names for the achievements? I can look into it then.

Thanks!

We do plan to do more with this story, and this world/characters, so if you liked it, follow us on our socials. :)

That's so sweet of you! Thanks, I hope you'll like it all the more when it's finished!

Thank you so much for reading my story. I’m so happy you enjoyed it. 

I really enjoyed your stories. My favourites were Crystalline and Mouth to mouth to mouth. Looking forward to reading more from you. 

I’m so very glad you enjoyed it. <3 Aaaand you are in luck. I’m currently writing another story set in the very same forest. ^^

Hey, no not yet. We have most of the story written and a lot of art made, but it needs to be edited heavily before it's done. 

If you want to keep an eye out on how it's going, and see some wips and stuff, please come hang out on our discord. :)

Ah, these were just some experimenting on our parts. We were inspired by people using different pronouns in ancient China, depending on their caste. But we're still experimenting, so things could change. The story itself will get a big re-write.
Thanks for your comment and interest, please keep an eye out for an update later. We hope it will be a better story by then!

We are so happy to hear you enjoyed our story. <3 Also, thanks for letting me know about the name bug. I’ll make sure it’s fixed in the next update.

Where did you get stuck? I’ll assume it is the new ‘step’ that I added, and it has to do with Hermit. By default you ask eel for help, but perhaps that’s not the only thing you can do. 

Sweet. :)

Sorry when you say the download app, you don't mean the itch.io app, right? Because I've read reports that sometimes the save error happens only when launching the game through the itch app.

I'm also trying to find out a way to fix the game from our end. Can you download this version and see if it works for you?

TheRemainderExpandedEdition-2.03-mac.zip

I found a few possible fixes, can you give these a try?

1. Try to launch the game directly from the shortcut or the app file, and not from the itch app.

2. Make sure you have access privileges to the drive/folder the game is installed on. (for example, if playing on a guest account, you may not have the necessary permission to write to the folder)

3. Make sure you're not running the game in sandbox mode

If none of these work, or aren't applicable to your situation, then I'll dig more into it tomorrow.
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it. :)

Alright, thank you. I’ll look into it first thing tomorrow.

I’m glad you are enjoying it. ^^ Oh, I didn’t know saving doesn’t work! What happens? You are not able to save or it doesn’t load or what?

I just posted a new update (ver 2.01) and now you are able to use up and down keys insted of mouse wheel. I hope this helps. ^^

I recommend waiting. ^^ 

Sure, I'm using Renpy 8.0.3 and I used in game button to start the lint. I apologise for bothering you with this. ^^;

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "renpy/common/00action_other.rpy", line 578, in __call__

    rv = self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

  File "game/custom_lint.rpy", line 196, in lint

    node.what = renpy.config.say_menu_text_filter(node.what)

  File "game/inline_conditions.rpy", line 469, in add_conditional_tags

    raise Exception("ERROR: Closing {/if} tag without corresponding {if}")

Exception: ERROR: Closing {/if} tag without corresponding {if}

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in script

    python hide:

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1131, in execute

    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1061, in py_exec_bytecode

    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)

  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in <module>

    python hide:

  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 35, in _execute_python_hide

    ui.interact()

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\ui.py", line 299, in interact

    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 3377, in interact

    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, pause=pause, pause_start=pause_start, pause_modal=pause_modal, **kwargs) # type: ignore

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 4258, in interact_core

    rv = root_widget.event(ev, x, y, 0)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 1175, in event

    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\transition.py", line 53, in event

    return self.new_widget.event(ev, x, y, st) # E1101

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 1175, in event

    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 1175, in event

    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 743, in event

    rv = self.child.event(ev, x, y, st)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 1175, in event

    rv = i.event(ev, x - xo, y - yo, cst)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\behavior.py", line 1073, in event

    return handle_click(self.clicked)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\behavior.py", line 1008, in handle_click

    rv = run(action)

  File "D:\renpy-8.0.3-sdk\renpy\display\behavior.py", line 329, in run

    return action(*args, **kwargs)

  File "renpy/common/00action_other.rpy", line 578, in __call__

    rv = self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

  File "game/custom_lint.rpy", line 196, in lint

    node.what = renpy.config.say_menu_text_filter(node.what)

  File "game/inline_conditions.rpy", line 469, in add_conditional_tags

    raise Exception("ERROR: Closing {/if} tag without corresponding {if}")

Exception: ERROR: Closing {/if} tag without corresponding {if}

Windows-10-10.0.19045 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.0.3.22090809

CoT:TheRemainder_playtest 0.66

Tue Jul 30 13:06:24 2024

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Hi! I just added the lint files into my project and now I'm getting an error when trying to run lint both from the launcher and from the ingame button. 

Never heard of this game, looked it up, it seems pretty interesting! Thanks for the tip. :)

Hi! Unfortunately, the mac ver is only available here. Also, you don’t get an extra steam key.

Glad to hear you are having fun. ^^ Hmm, I never considered mouse wheel not being available. I’ll try to make a workaround for the expanded edition. 

I am not quite sure what you mean^^; If you are asking if you can change the *thing* that happened, then no. Vyn tried for weeks before giving up. It is what it is. But Vyn does manage make peace with it and they are with a person who loves them.  I would say it’s as good as outcome as one can hope for considering the situation. 

Hi, you're very kind! 

We are working on translating to several languages, All the ones you mentioned, plus a few more. But it is not with a professional translation service, so it's going kinda slowly, but we will make it happen eventually. :)

Thank you! <3