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no it hasn't 😭 many many many people have asked me this over the past year. i'm currently working on a dlc for my first game and that's been taking up all my time. kurou connect was a project i made for my undergraduate thesis, so i've been letting it sit since i graduated, especially since i can only handle one project at a time as a solo dev. i talked about all of this stuff in an faq i posted on tumblr back in october if you want to check that out!

hi!! the dlc is actually going quite swimmingly, i'm writing the last scene of the prologue at the moment, so i'd say i'm about halfway through with the writing. after that, i'll need to do all the illustrations and whatnot, but often times what takes the longest is all the writing because it's so much, hahaha. i'm thinking that the dlc will release by the end of the year if all goes well!

things have been going a bit slow at the moment, but you can see most of my progress on my tumblr or in the afterparty dlc development channel in the discord server :-) thank you so much for your continued support!!

here you go! it's called take a hint :-)

thank you so much for playing <333!!!!!

no, it'll shift to pc + mac downloads :-) it'll be playable on browser up until the full game is done though

probably not— optimizing a game like this for a smaller screen is pretty difficult! if enough people want it though i'll see what i can do

hiii :-) i'm currently working on a dlc for cryptid coffeehouse, but after i finish up with that, i'll be diving into kurou connect dev! i hope to finish the dlc during the first half of 2025, then i plan on creating a small patch for kurou connect that will mostly involve some art updates... that will be released most likely sometime in the late summer/early fall. 

the full game is going to take quite a while since the script i've planned is relatively sprawling, but i plan on releasing builds of the game as i finish scenes & routes. i'll probably make some paid patreon tiers ($5-$15/mo i'm thinking) to upload those builds on as making this game will cost a lot of money ^^; but the demo will always be up for everyone to play!

if all goes well, i'm aiming for the full game to be released in summer of 2026. i work on these things by myself alongside my day jobs so we'll see if the timeline changes o_o but i appreciate your patience and support in the meantime!!! :D <3

yes, but with a couple of edits!! the storyline depicted in those texts is story for the "true" route, but i've edited quite a bit of smaller details to make it more streamlined. there are going to be other routes aside from the true route and things will change as i write it naturally, but for now you can take those messages as a rough outline of what's going to happen :-) if you have any more questions about it, i'd be happy to answer them in a more longform way on my tumblr :D

thank you!!!! so happy you enjoyed playing :D<3

ahhh prikarin, you've been here supporting the game for so long and it means so much to me. thank you so much for your kind words and thank you so much for being so awesome and holding artemis & their friends so close your heart. i hope to keep seeing you :')

thank youu!!!!! <3333

thank you so much for playing!!! it means so much to me <333

I DO IT ALL FOR U VERONTORE!!! artemis is very happy to be welcomed into ur arms once again <3

this is a stunning brilliant question LOLLLL... well... i'm currently working on the final final final version of cryptid coffeehouse (version 3.1), and after that i have a silly dlc that i'm going to be writing for cryptid coffeehouse as well. once that's finished, i'll be locking in full time on kurou connect soo.... i hope to get started on that by mid-2025? cryptid coffeehouse has taken me about three years to make to completion, and i hope that kurou connect won't take that long lol sooooo....... hopefully full game will be out 2026? there will be ways to play in-progress demos though. i've got a lot brewing over here :-)

aww thank you so much aster ^-^ you are so sweet. thank you so much for playing and for being so kind :^)

HAHAHA omg you know this is actually a VERY common sentiment. people love odina so much and so do i!!! i've been wanting to make a game about her for a while and i have a pretty good idea for one soooo :P we will see hehehe

wahhh thank you so much!!!! thank you for being part of my game dev journey and thank you for looking out for my new things <3! i wont let you down!

artemis loves you and i love you for playing my game & enjoying it so much ^-^ <3

AWWW thank you so much!!!! you saying that it's one of the best that you've played is such a high honor :') thank you so much for playing!

thank you so much for playing!!! i appreciate it so much <333 and hahahaha omg no way, its always so fun to see when people recognize the scenes in the game hehehehe

omg no i swear its not the end HAHAHAH it was going to be when i first released this update, but i'm actually in the process of writing three new story events that FINALLY close out the game :^) those events explore u and artemis' relationship as a couple which is super cute LOL but i won't spoil too much hehehe

wahhh im so happy you felt this way!! ^-^ i've worked so hard to not only make the slow burn feel natural but also to make the player character someone that a lot of people would be able to understand and relate to. it's always so insanely satisfying to know that i've succeeded hehehehe. and thank u!!!! im actually in the process of redesigning all of the sprites from the game for the new 3.0 version i'm creating so hopefully u feel the same about artemis' new sprite :P <3 much love!!

thank you so much for spending your time playing my game [watery eye emoji] it means so much to me!!!! <33333

thank you so much!! TT-TT 你的艺术很美!!!! <3

awwww :') thank you so so much. i'm so happy that this game brings u so much joy and this comment brings me just as much joy!!! i will be streaming ur playlist hehehe i've already shared it with the discord and i'm sure a lot of other people will be streaming as well :P<3 much love!

thank u so much <3 they love u very much as well hehe

thank you omg!!!!!!! im so happy everyone loves the custom pronoun options :^) it makes me so happy that ppl are feeling included becoz like... i struggle so much with not having multiple pronoun sets in games and i really wanted to eliminate that with cryptid coffeehouse. and HAHA OMG IM SO GLAD YOURE A MORDAG FAN shes so underrated thank u for giving her the love she deserves <3

wahhh no thank YOU!!!! <3 your playership means so much to me and the fact that you've played the game multiple times really warms my heart :pleading_emoji: i'm so happy that the game resonates with you and feels realistic, it's always so wonderful to hear that. thank you so much!! <3

oohhhh i actually don't know :( is this still happening? i don't get very many bug reports so often times these issues are one offs... let me know!!!

im so happy you liked the game omg!!! <3333 i definitely do plan on making more games like this hehehe ^-^ i have one more update planned for cryptid coffeehouse (hopefully coming out sometime this spring/early summer), and then after that i've got a very exciting kurou game im going to be working on :P by popular demand HAHAHA

HAHAHA THANK YOU SM!! im so happy u liked them :^) i know that they like you a lot too... they told me themself ;]

[watery eyes emoji] thank you so much :') i am gratefully accepting ur forehead kiss!!!

i know i chatted with you a little on twitter about your thoughts abt the game but WAHHH even so THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! your sweet words when it comes to this game are so so nice and i really appreciate the time you've taken to write such a kind and thoughtful comment <3 

thank you so much!!! <3 i'm so happy you enjoy the game so much to want to replay it, that means so much to me [wiping tears from my eyes LOL] trust me... i am actually planning to write some friendship stuff with kurou and kolia but don't tell anyone though... heheheh :P

and actually no there isn't! i coded the game so that artemis would always lose, but a lot of people have asked me if it was possible for them to win... so i think when i finish up the new update i'm creating i'm going to make them have the ability to win :O i wasn't expecting so many people to be curious!!

hahaha it kind of sucks you in doesn't it? sometimes i replay it and i end up playing for like 5 hours straight, and i'm the one who made the game LOL :P thank you so much for playing and leaving such a sweet comment!!! <3

awww thank you so much! i'm so happy you enjoyed the game <333 ^_^

no there isnt! you'd think there would be since on itch it's free/pay what you want and on steam it's paid, but nothing between them is different. it's just part of my game dev practice to provide accessible options for players, and i know that some people don't have the resources to pay like $11 for a game or something. i've noticed that paywalls often times discourage people from playing certain games and i think it's really important to be able to provide players the ability to have the experiences games provide regardless of if they can afford to pay for it or not! so this game has a free option and a paid option :^) you can choose whatever works for you the best!

i've also noticed that a lot of the people that play my game in particular are a lot of young queer people and i know that it's not exactly easy to ask your parents for money to buy a queer game... it's easier to just remove that roadblock so they can still have the game's experience without having to have uncomfortable conversations that they're not ready for yet ^_^

apologies for the long winded response hehehe but i've actually been waiting for someone to ask :P hope you have a good time playing the game!!! <3

im kissing u gently on the forehead rn... MWAH!!!!! thank you sooo much, so happy that you liked the game and all of the elements inside of it <3 warms by heart!!

FOURTH OR FIFTH PLAYTHROUGH?!? omg im so flattered!!!! wahhh!!!!!! but on the note of trappin naruto... i will have to find the picture that i was referencing because i swear dude i swear the shirt exists in real life

GAYMES!!! so true oh my god, so happy that you like it so much <3 can't wait for you to see all the cool new things i'm planning on doing with this gayme hehehe