very true!! and gosh, i don't know if it's more fun, but it definitely does make a difference in things actually getting made. when i pushed to finish my text game last year i was doing weekly sprints and meetings with my dev team and without that, i certainly would not have finished it by the deadline, especially since i ended up cutting it very close anyway!! i think it's interesting that, in my experience, "forcing" art vs making it when you're really inspired doesn't actually change the final quality all that much. the only way to set yourself up for making something low-quality is, in my opinion, refusing to experiment or challenge yourself regularly and/or settling when something doesn't feel quite right
there absolutely is!! honestly it's a very grounding truth that's very easy to kind of skirt around with excuses like "I'm just learning" or "I'll come back to this." makes me want to pick something out of the backlog and really commit to finishing it. even projects that i've been pretty passionate about just have too much of the "work" part and i drop them in favor for lighter, faster projects. part of that it's not my job (sadly) so it's a lot easier to treat it like a hobby. but the singular major project i've actually committed to finishing is the thing i'm most proud of so gosh, maybe i should try treating it like work again and force myself to ship stuff!!
gosh, so exciting!! the content, I mean, not you being killed. It's pretty amazing that you can keep yourself motivated on one project for such a sustained period, honestly!!! I can't work on the same thing for more than a few weeks without it feeling dreadfully stale, with one notable exception. how do you not chase every hot idea that passes through your mind??
very exciting! It sounds like this one will be the biggest in the series, content-wise, on launch? will it still be split into a few releases like the previous entries were? I hope this release date lets you work at a realistic steady pace and still gives you time to relax and play games and stuff!!
wow!! I checked my substar account and there was somehow no payment method attached!! I still got a receipt from earlier in the month though so I'm not sure if that was part of the problem
Thanks so much for playing!! Can I offer you any help finding any scenes you missed?? It was tricky to find a balance between exploration feeling meaningful and quests having enough clarity!!
Thanks so much for playing!! Currently, not really planning any expansions to this. I wanted to release something that felt complete when it came out and I think I succeeded in that!! I'll still be writing more and definitely making more adventures like this in the future, though!!
thanks for playing!!! gosh, i was originally going to make some sort of gallery/bad end checklist thing, but it ended up being way more cluttered and less flavorful than the final quest log design. maybe for future projects!!
in act 2, if you're a vampire's thrall, there are a couple opportunities to seed vampiric control of the town, by converting its most devoted defenders!! (two different questlines!)
Amazing game! Nice variety of scenes, hot character and enemy designs, and really fun and interesting gameplay. Everything you'd expect from this dev team, really.
Definitely worth the price and makes me even more excited for a potential sequel or whatever else this team has in the works!!
What an amazing project - an unbelievable word count, a daring idea even in concept, and outstanding execution through and through!! I know you've already inspired me and at least one other to take up or continue similar projects just because of this astounding and well-earned success
Hell yeah indeed!! I loved this. I just wish the loss scenes were longer or had more variety! Especially the game overs. Still, the concept is amazing and the execution is delightful. Wonderful!
It's for if you have a second monitor positioned vertically above your main. When it's checked, you can throw her upward, watch her arc gracefully through your upper monitor, and then see her land back down on your lower one. A little niche but I think it's pretty fun and adds a bit more compatibility!!
Weird! Is she still walking around and doing stuff like normal, just with a black box behind her? Can you give me any steps to recreate this? Also, what OS are you on?
I am SO excited for this, gosh. Hotter than ever, in concept and in art!!! I can't wait to play this and I'm happy to support it for as long as it takes!!!
