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Hopefully! And, god, I know that feeling, it's in my knees too, as well as right hand and most of my feet, makes walking really hard ;w; Arthritis runs in my family as well, I don't know if my dad has it but my mother does though she's kept quiet on how it affects her. Meanwhile with me I've also gotten the possibility of Fibro adding to it after my last visit to my RA doc and general doc ;w; Cause since the RA meds haven't done anything to help besides take the edge off, when I told the RA doc that he brought up the high possibility of Fibromyalgia as to why I'm still in so much pain, which just. Was such a severe gutpunch that I spent most of the day crying cause I'm still in my twenties and there's no cure for for it, so. Yeah :')

Yeee, I ended up only using free SFXs, it was just hard finding a cloth sound effect that'd work for grabs XD As for everything else, I honestly just have ALOT of problems finding what I'm looking for unless it costs money, like sprites and backgrounds I've had to resort to DLsite and Booth cause I just don't know where else to look and google doesn't help much XD

Yee, that's true, I just don't know when I can get around to my next project, I'm still needing to buy assets for it like backgrounds XD But I may end up just posting it and making sure to put the trigger warning I put in the game on the page. Nothing really overt occurs, and it's mainly just mentioned in passing, but it's still heavy considering the MC is not in a good headspace. I also am sliiightly nervous to post it just because I didn't realize the terms for one of the artists of the royalty free music I used had a thing where I would need to email him if I wanted to use in a commercial project, which I just planned to make it pay what you want, but since his music ended up being the main ones I used, slight fear cause I'm too shy/socially anxious to email him so it may just end up free with my ko-fi listed in the description XD

Yeye! I only found out thanks to googling the dev and finding out they were still alive after many years of being inactive. I plan to buy it when I'm able cause, ngl, I originally played it via pirating it(Cause I'm poor 99% of the time ;w;) but cause I ended up loving it I want to officially buy it to support the dev. just need to save up to afford it X'D

Saaaame, though my issue is my brain being a twat and not letting me focus on things besides what it wants to hyperfocus on with it severely biting me if I try to focus on anything but that, I have such a large backlog of games I have but haven't played yet it's ridiculous thanks to it ;w;

Honestly that's fair, I don't think I'll end up using those myself, just cause I THINK I tried twine but it was confusing so I ended up dropping it X'D I might just fully write in Google docs and just trust myself to remember things/make big enough notes for route splits, it's just programming tracking what route is being chosen that I imagine I'll have issues with XD

Ye!

Itch why didn't you send me a email for this reply aAAa- Huh! Okay ngl that gives me some optimistic hope for trying to go for a more correct diagnosis, cause I'm suspecting I have Autism/ASD, but don't know for sure and I'm going to need to see someone outside my area to get rediagnosed which isn't fun considering my physical issues. X3 Also that is honestly very fair, I haven't gone to get rediagnosed myself for much the same reasons of not having energy for it yet, plus my RA(Rheumatoid Arthritis) or whatever it is has made most physical movement very draining to do as of recent months.

Hopefully! I ended up having to install a UI theme cause the bright base one made my head ache and the new theme changed icons/layout of things so I had to relearn it, but it seems to work well enough? Though my test VN was rather small and the next thing I wish to do is decently big so I'll be pushing it once I get energy to pick what big project of mine to do. (I have like, three VN ideas, ones new while the other two are old ideas of mine) 

Yeye, the most I'm really willing to do is have that friend playtest my things to catch any spelling errors, otherwise...I'd feel like a burden if she was having to code everything for me as well ngl ;w;

Yeah ngl I think I am cause after I finished that Test VN I want to make more I just need to get so many more resources before I can XD Still heavily conflicted if I'll post the test VN or not(cause wowzie, got extremely personal at the end), but! It's playable from start to finish even if my prose at times did not work with the text box constraints so it looks a bit off XD

Ooo, ngl I'd try combining SFXs if I knew how ngl, I ended up finding some cloth SFXs that worked for my purposes, just took aLOT of looking around. XD

Oh gosh, I completely understand that, it's been hard for me to find the right headspace to properly write much of anything lately X'D It's either really easy or difficult, and I only finished my Test VN after having a very rough day that I just used as a way to finish out one of the more emotionally draining segments and then was able to finish it after that more easily.

Oooo, ye!

Same tbh, I can hardly keep up with the mobile games I play and they aren't nearly as demanding of my time, so stuff like MysMes I can't really return to easily XD

:DD Yay!!! Ngl that makes me super happy cause I've not found anyone who's played Nameless and Dandelion before ^W^ They were definitely among the first PC VNs I've played among like.....ngl I can only remember Princess of Ruin(which I recommend since it got a Itch release recently) cause I played way too many VNs/Otomes back then including mobile ones in the "Shall We Date" series XD But I definitely get preferring Nameless to Dandelion! I loved Dandelion alot cause I played it first, but generally I prefer Nameless due to the characters...that does remind me I want to replay it, oops XD Oooo, that's awesome! :O I don't have any physical merch for MysMes or any of the dev's games cause couldn't afford it, but I might eventually try at some point ^^ And ye, I was the same, I managed to complete all the base routes of MysMes after spending a bit to unlock the "Deep" routes(which I admittedly did at the start cause the route I wanted to do was not one of the free ones), but I wasn't able to keep up with the updates after a point and despite there now being a route for V which I had been wanting(which I would also need to pay for, why), I still haven't gone back besides to reread chats when I have the space XD

Yeee! :D I'm definitely going to need to write in a doc first from this point on, namely cause besides my friend catching some spelling and grammar mistakes(only around four-ish surprisingly but still I was mildly embarrassed), the write as I go isn't going to work for any of my bigger projects, it'd only work for something really short like what I did but not for longer ones XD Especially if I try to have route splits or variable tracking, good god that would be, a big mess XD

Thank you, I hope so too! I'm currently trying to mentally plot out my next project as well as buy the assets I'm going to need, but it's fun to do and I can't wait to make another VN! ^W^

Ye! ^W^

Yea, I can understand that! I tend to put some or alot of myself into my characters, though it varies depending on whomst the level of it, though I don't always know what exactly I have cause I've not been properly diagnosed with anything(Well technically I got blanket diagnosed with BD2 a while ago, but I know myself enough to know my problems are not just that). I just know something isn't right and it does not fall under just one thing X'3

Ooooo, now I'm curious so I'll see about doing that branch when I can then! :O

Yeee, it's been super fun working with Tyrano, even when I've encountered really weird bugs like the Shake character thing repeating when it shouldn't have several lines after it happened XD But it's definitely making me want to do more than I can with it, but I'm going to stick with it until I fully know what I'm doing!

HONESTLY that's REALLY fair. For me the coding side just outright terrified me and overloaded my brain to where I had a mild panic attack as a result when I tried to understand it, and even though one of my best friends offered to learn Ren'Py coding for me, ngl I just want to be able to make games on my own without needing to pingpong my files between me and the friend for her to code in. Not helping matters is my current project a bit too personal to want her seeing it as I'm writing it X'D It's a bit heavy topic wise and if I post it anywhere there's going to be a disclaimer on stuff in it, cause yeah there's some heavy topics discussed at least.

Ooo, ye it does! Ngl Solipsism Reigns is another one of your games I've been meaning to play but keep getting distracted from doing so, hopefully at some point I can get my brain to focus long enough to play it fully! :D And oough, I'll keep that in mind for mine then. Hopefully the last update Tyrano got fixed those bugs? Granted the last update before any updates stopped was two years ago so, HM, dunno X'D

Ngl so far, I think I am getting into making VNs, I just, neeeed to finish my first one before I REMOTELY try to come up with or start other projects XD I have like, two other game projects I've sat on for years cause I kept changing how I wanted to handle them(RPG maker game, then novel format, and just it's a mess), but if this first test VN goes well, I may convert them over to VNs just cause it's a medium I GREATLY enjoy and can do with my usual style of writing. I just need to be able to find terms to use for finding specific sound effects XD Cause so far it's finding sound effects that's been a mild issue(also OST, but I both bought a music album from a user on Booth, "Ruha (Pastel Tone Music)" did with a artist called sasAIchi who I found thanks to playing DD and being curious on who made Castor/ia's sprites, and I know a royalty free music youtuber(granted for melancholy or dark tracks) so I'm fine on that front for the moment), cause I don't know what to search for when I'm trying to find like, a grab? grabbing? sound effect, I know places I can get free SFXs, but finding ones like that is hard XD I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for when Naninovel goes on sale though! Cause I'm really enjoying making the VN I'm working on! Even if it's emotionally draining to write at points XD

Yay! I'm always worried I don't make sense cause I tend to ramble alot and go off on tangents that go everywhere before I circle back to my original main topic, so I'm really glad I made sense! >w< Yeee, I understand that! Ngl prior to your games, I've only played exactly THREE VNs that had voice acting to my memory, and the voice acting was in Korean XD Most other ones I've played only had partial or no VA work in them, though the three I mentioned are big big BIG sources of my love for VNs. One I cannot recommend much cause it does NOT respect your time and is a big mobile game that moves in real time, plus it personally ruined my sleep schedule when I went to do all the routes that were in it at that point, but the other two I do if you don't mind them being rather pricey and very much long games ;w; They're "Nameless ~The One Thing you Must Recall~" and "Dandelion ~Wishes Brought to you~", they're really good and I adore them to utter bits, namely Nameless, even if they're not my top favorite VN I've played, they're close but not quite. But uh, side tangent about those two aside, I get what you're saying! I used to be a bit hesitant of VNs with English voice acting, but ngl I'm warming up to them thanks to your games >w< I'm just not used to understanding what's being said when it comes to voice work in VNs, I feel, but I'm getting used to it!

Ye! :D No problem and thank you! So far it's turning out really well and I'm having alot of fun, even if I'm just writing as I go for the moment instead of writing it out in a document or something beforehand, which is probably not wise but it's at least working for me XD

Aaaah I keep forgetting to comment here even though I've had the page open in my tabs for a while cause I'm not sure how to put my thoughts into words-Ngl I spent my entire night playing this when I played it, and I goshdarn love it! Alot of Saffie's struggles hit me fairly close to the heart, like really close if I'm honest, but overall I really loved it >W<

I've only done one playthrough, but when I get the time I plan to try and get another ending of the branch(branch A) I did and then try the other branch if I can stop feeling a bit guilty due to the choice that leads into it XD

Also, ngl after finishing playing this, I actually got inspired to try making my own VN, not long after I finished SS, I went and bought some sprites and music before loading up the VN program I got for free at one point(TyranoBuilder), and have slowly trying to work on that despite the program being a bit unwieldly cause I can't afford NaniNovel and Ren'py scared me cause I can't read code well XD It's pretty fun though even if my first attempt at making a VN is going to be both relatively simple and linear in concept and rather personal to myself. It's personal enough idk if I'm gonna post it online or not ahaha, dunno yet XD

Idk where I'm going with this or if I'm making sense cause I'm writing this after staying up all night on accident again so I'm kind of all over the place, but I've been following you projects since I found DD, and I'm in love with all of your games I've managed to play, especially since I was a bit shy of VNs with full voice acting until I played yours and found out how honestly pleasant playing them is ^W^ I can't wait to see what you make next as I slowly work my way through your games when I get the time and chance to play them!

Hey there! Just wanted to say the link is dead? it keeps saying invalid link when I click it.