Hi hi! Yes I'm always happy to help people learn about Godot especially if they wanna make VNs in it ^_^

The overview of it is that we used Godot 4.2 (and now I use 4.3 so the latest releases are all good) along with the Dialogic 2 plugin which helps us manage the dialogue. Dialogic is also a helpful plugin for people who are just getting started with Godot since Dialogic can handle your dialogue, your backgrounds, the audio, sound effects, sprites, etc. 

We didn't actually use Dialogic for anything more than the dialogue and saving some save file variables, so in Good Lord! The music and all the visuals run on a separate system that I coded from the ground up because Dialogic doesn't have the full range of flexibility we wanted for animations and music cues. Fortunately it's very easy to get all that connected and it was a pretty smooth process!

I also coded another VN demo in Godot if you want to take a look at a very different style of VN too (BDWA Radio). OH! Also I'm giving a talk about this at VN;Conference on the 25th too so that talk will be recorded up on their youtube after the fact too if you can't make it.

I'm glad you all enjoyed the game too and feel free to reach out if you have any questions too!

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! We're really excited about the upcoming vignettes and the additional stuff we're adding in the full version so please look forward to it :3

Aaah thank you so much! 💜 The team has done an amazing job and I'm really proud of how it's come together.

Hi kittyrancher! I'm looking into this now and it looks like there's an issue preventing the opening animation that reveals the main menu from playing. The game is still running, but for some reason the screen never gets revealed so you never see the main menu. If uninstalling and reinstalling the game + rebooting your computer doesn't help, this may need a small patch to resolve - I'm still hunting down the exact bug that could be causing this and just wanted to let you know that we're still working to get this resolved!

Please let us know if you have any luck and we'll let you know as soon as we get a quickfix patch ready!

Thanks so much! We're working on getting a lot more of the game together, including a lot more Reb and Zinnia sprites ^_^ Please look forward to it!

Delightful, cathartic, perhaps with an unexpected dash of workplace reality I didn't expect.

This game has so much soul. In fact it has a distressing amount of soul, maybe an amount that is starting to strain the seams and make ghosts leak from my computer. 11/10.

Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

I'm adding saving alongside several other updates in a patch coming soon. I'm hoping to have all of those posted early next week though I might also drop them in stages - Saving and more Chira animations are the first step though!

This is such an evocative game, the visuals and writing and even the sfx when you advance text fit together into such a smoldering sort of melancholy. Really efficient and effective, and I think it gave me a sympathetic heartburn.

Thanks! I'd like to put my latest game up for consideration: 

https://runa-liore.itch.io/77-oleander

Thank you!

The game is, at present, more of a teaser we created for a game jam and so it finishes up when you click on that hatch to the basement. Nothing is wrong with your game - that's all intentional. We hope to revisit this someday and build a lot more onto it but for now, thank you for enjoying what we have here!

YeaaaaAAAAAAAH!

This book is so slick, I love the way you've got the boss and encounter mechanics set up and there are SO many different kinds of stories I can already imagine for this system. I cannot way to find a reason to whip this out and use it as the basis for a campaign. Good Work on this!

Oh wow, I'm so glad you enjoyed the game so much! This is such a lovely review and it makes me happy to see that the game's themes landed so well!

77 Oleander - Full version now available!

On July 21st, 2022, a single investigator entered the abandoned home at 77 Oleander Avenue. Two hours afters after her arrival, she lost contact with the outside world. These are the events of that night. These are the remains of a ghost story, told for the sake of a Ghost.

77 Oleander Avenue: Ghost House Investigation is a Horror-Mystery Visual Novel in which you accompany Tabby, a paranormal researcher, through an abandoned home as she tries to find her missing wallet, keys, and phone - After all, she can't leave without them. It doesn't take long for her to meet Evie, a ghost, and this greatly irritates Tabby on account of she was hoping to just grab her things and get out of there quick. The Larkspur house on 77 Oleander, however, is not Evie's home. It is not the site of a bittersweet tragedy. It is not the skeleton left behind by a family's unexpected death. Tabby will realize this too late, and then, when she's finally ready to heed Evie's warnings, she will forget.

Features

• 9 endings and multiple routes for you to explore
• A complex and insidious mystery, something horrible that may be watching you at all times, dozens of opportunities to flirt with a ghost, and more!
• 5 hours of gameplay, over 60k words
• Multiple routes and dozens of very unsafe haunted rooms to explore
• A unique system for selecting your final route: Your beliefs and theories about 77 Oleander will determine the ending you reach.
• Terrifying and Surreal environments, experiences, and injuries
• A Real Dog* that you can pet
• Full soundtrack, available for free with each copy of the game
• Non-linear narrative that shifts based on your belief and conclusions
• Orb Interaction
• And More!

*Dog is real, dog is not composed of fur or flesh.

https://runa-liore.itch.io/77-oleander

https://runa-liore.itch.io/77-oleander-avenue-ghost-house-investigation

I love this crab. The walking animation is extremely cute and the grabby claws gameplay feels really fun and hectic in a nice way. 

This was lovely, the design here looks great and I really enjoyed talking through things with the different ghosts!

https://runa-liore.itch.io/an-oath-in-kind

Hello! Thank you so much I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

By all means please feel free to draw fanart! I would love to see it.

Warm Winter Evening will be out hopefully before June, a number of things both life and COVID related have hit me with heavy delays but, everything is all lined up for it so as soon as I get a little more time, I'm going to make that my top priority!

Thanks!

The game is fully released and by the end of the year I'll be releasing an update with a free bonus chapter. At present that's all on the development schedule beyond fixing any bugs and typos that I notice!

I'm sorry you're having trouble with that!

I'd definitely try both going through the itch desktop app and a browser to see - the files are just zip files there so it may be worth checking out https://itch.io/docs/buying/already-bought or contacting support if the issue keeps happening! 

Please let me know if you're able to fix this and I hope you can enjoy the game soon!