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Thank you for taking the time to explain your concerns. I understand that, as hosts and judges, you need to make sure submissions follow the rules, and I respect that.

I would like to clarify a few things, though.

Regarding my previous jam submissions, I understand your concerns about whether my games fit the requirements. I did not intend to disrespect any jam's rules or submit games knowing that they were outside the requirements. If I misunderstood a jam's theme or interpretation, that was a mistake on my part, not an attempt to disregard the rules.

Regarding Behind the Smile, I understand the distinction you are making about the character being a trans woman rather than a male crossdresser. If I used the wrong terminology, I acknowledge that and will correct it. The game itself is intended to portray her as a trans woman.

Regarding the AI-art suspicion, I want to be clear that the artwork was not AI-generated. I understand why you may have concerns based on the appearance of the art, but I would appreciate it if this could be treated as a concern rather than an established fact. I can provide work-in-progress material or other evidence of the artwork's creation if that would help clarify this.

As for Do U Dream?, I understand your interpretation that the game is not explicitly queer enough for the jam. My intention was to explore a relationship between a human protagonist and Eva, a robot whose identity and understanding of herself develop throughout the story. The protagonist's gender is intentionally left unspecified, allowing the relationship to be interpreted by the player rather than defining the protagonist's gender myself. I understand that this may not meet your interpretation of an explicitly queer game, but the intention was not to submit something unrelated to the theme.

Ultimately, I respect your decision as the hosts and judges regarding whether the game meets the jam's requirements. I just wanted to clarify my intentions and the points that I believe may have been misunderstood.

Thank you for hearing me out.

Why did the host remove my games when I followed all the rules and uploaded 3 games, there was nothing in the game that I couldn't upload more than one and all of them had mixed media and queer themes and no ai content,  so this is very unfair to me. please let me compete.  At least leave me with one game 

I have used real background in Do U Dream and let's talk about queer angle that I have not specified the gender of the protagonist because I have shown the relationship between human and robot and not gender.

I have used real background in Behind the Smile and talk about the queer angle, the gender of the protagonist is male and the other character is also male but is a cross dresser, there is talk of a slight gender change in him but at the end he is a male.

Yes, I admit that in my game Let's Talk Until Dawn, I didn't portray queer relation in it, but I did use mixed media in it, but I made this game for some other jam, so I thought I should submit it to that jam too, sorry about that

And I made 'Behind the Smile' and 'Do U Dream' during the jam's timeframe, but 'Let's Talk Until Dawn' was made for my other jam, which I have submitted to you again. Any issue should be with the one  game, not all.

 For my third game, 'Let's Talk Until Dawn', no problem if you had removed it—I would have understood and accepted it as my mistake—but you also removed my other games. That is unfair

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This game is really good, the story and visuals matter more, that's what I really like, the way you have used the real background is amazing, I won't lie, it is really much better.

I liked it overall but it was good that the story was not kept too long.

what a beautiful narrative, the story felt like an professional story rich movie and the way mixed media were used is also very good.

Thank you so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! I wanted the dialogue choices between the Princess and Commander to make you curious about all the possible interactions, so hearing this really means a lot!

Yes, your understanding is correct!

You’re welcome to reuse your own previously made assets — including sprites, backgrounds, music, code, etc. — as long as you own the rights to use them. The important part is that the game/project you submit should be a new work created specifically for this jam.

As for an existing universe: yes, you can also create a completely new story set within a universe you’ve already established in another project. The existing worldbuilding/lore can carry over, as long as the actual game/story you submit is a new work made for this jam.

So you do not need to create a brand-new universe from scratch. Reusing your own creative assets and established worldbuilding is allowed; the new jam entry itself should be the new part.

Hope that clears things up, and thanks for asking beforehand!

Thank you, I’m really glad that you played my this game too, and I know your game got removed from that jam so you didn’t get a chance to showcase it, but I've played your game and I can say for sure that it will do pretty well in this VN. good luck and thanks again

No worry, thank you for understanding my point and replying to it, by the way sorry, I also did not fill anything in that section because it was written optional there.

I had uploaded my VN game and followed all the rules, I did not break any rules, then I don;t know why my game is getting removed again and again from this game jam without any notice, please tell me is that glitch

Well done. congrats to all of you guys. i really enjoyed

A simple story and concept without unnecessary things, just a little twist, I liked it a lot, amazing, keep it up

I really liked the game, but the visuals impressed me a lot. Such a great game

It was a really good game. I didn't see any faults or what was wrong because I'm not a professional VN developer, but my expectations were pretty low. I thought the game would be huge and have useless dialogues, but honestly, the game turned out way better than I expected. I often try games from popular game jams which are usually overrated. Your game wasn't that big, the narrative was really good, the sprites were great, and overall my experience was excellent. Keep Doing

Thanks for these words. Btw i play ur game its good so why did u remove that from jam

I didn't want to play the game at first because I didn't understand the character or the visuals. But I downloaded the game and played it because I'm a VN fan. The narrative and overall experience was really good.

Ahh thats so good and the visual is the one who made me want to play this game

I really love it, ending, story, narrative, and specially the visuals that gave me classic vibe that help me to attach with the game! Well done

Thank you, I paid a lot of attention to your words and understood them. I will always try to improve myself by taking feedback from people because it is difficult to improve your work unless someone points out the flaws in your work or praises it. I felt good to see that I am doing the right thing and whatever, I will improve them. Thank you for giving your feedback.

I'm glad to see that you liked it.

Hi team,

I uploaded a new Ren'Py phone system asset a few days ago, but it doesn't seem to be showing up in the search results or browse feeds when logged out.

Could a moderator please check if it's stuck in the automated spam/review queue and help get it indexed?

Here is the link to the project: [https://nxt-maru.itch.io/kentas-renpy-phone-system]

Thank you so much for the help!

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