Aaaaaaa! That’s so cool!! I’m really glad you enjoyed it ^-^

I adore rabbits too x3 I really miss having pet rabbits :( I would get more, but the heartbreak of losing our last one was too much for my dad and brother and they don’t wanna have to go through that again, which is fair enough. I personally feel like, yeah, the grief of losing a pet is horrible, but the joy you get while they’re alive is enough to make it worth it :3

I had kind of planned to potentially finish this project and have Blue Blythe’s route released for this year’s Yandere Jam, but sadly, that hasn’t been possible because too much crap has been going on in my personal life for me to focus on writing >.< I wound up making Volume 02 of Yandere Heaven instead for the jam since it’s a bit easier to work on. I might try again for next year’s Yandere Jam to actually finish up with Blythe though!

Thanks so much for checking out the game and leaving such a sweet comment <3

Ahh, haha, well, I’m glad that it does :P Sometimes I wonder if the things I’m writing work in that way or not, haha. Cos even if I intend for that, it’s difficult for me to know if lands with anyone, especially when I’m asexual myself xD I find writing any sort of intimate scene, even if it’s just kissing, pretty hard, haha. It’s a lot of fun, and I tend to just end up writing what I feel is fun at the time, but if I come back to it and re-read it later on, I can’t help but cringe at it x3 usually followed by me thinking, oh, God, what have I done?! 

Yeah, there is no way this game would be the same without the incredible talent of the voice actors :3 Phonobabble absolutely elevated orange Blythe’s character beyond the words I wrote! I often find myself thinking that the only reason I even like the character at all is because I love Lazy Polar Bear’s art so much + Phobobabble’s amazing VA. I kinda have to remind myself that I wrote the words, and without the words, it also wouldn’t be the same, haha. So I’m super happy that you see it as being in perfect harmony ^-^

Thanks so much for playing this one and for all your super sweet words <3 It means a lot!

Aww, I’m so glad you had fun with it! Thanks so much for checking it out ^-^

In the back of my mind, I had sort of hoped I might be able to work on the other route and release it in time for the end of yandere jam this year as a kind of anniversary thing, but I’m probably not going to be able to have the time >.< I’ve dug myself into a bit of a hole with having a few different projects on the go and getting too addicted to taking part in game jams x3 I’m gonna try and get more work done on some older projects this year so I stop feeling guilty about em, and then I guess I’ll come back to this when I can!

Thanks again for playing and leaving such a sweet comment :3

Thank you so much! I’m so happy you had fun with it ^-^ Thanks for checking it out, and I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to reply >.< I kind of just got completely overwhelmed with the buildup to Christmas and then went into collapse x3 I’m only just emerging from the darkness now to resume my life, haha. I hope you at least had a stress-free Christmas and new year!! :3

I had hoped to maybe finish and release the other character route as part of this year’s yandere jam since it would be like an anniversary kinda update, but I don’t think I’m going to have enough time to do that T_T I desperately don’t want to completely miss out on yandere jam though since it’s a jam that means a lot to me, so I might see if I have the time to do another episode of my Yandere Heaven dub instead… even though I’d actually prefer to work on blue Blythe x3 It’s just I know I’m not really gonna get the time to focus on writing in February cos of irl appointments and such >.< Maybe I will try to aim for having it done for next year’s Yandere Jam or something instead! 

But yeah, thanks so much for playing and for your kind comment :3 I hope 2024 is going well for you so far!

Glad to hear it :D Thanks so much for taking the time to play it :3 Not gonna lie, I find it sooooo much harder to write fluff than dark stuff, so I was super scared that none of the fluff was gonna work x3 haha. 

Most of my plans and schedules for my projects end up massively off-track cos of my stupid mental health and other irl stuff getting in the way >.< Like my hopes for having blue Blythe’s route out for this year’s yandere jam as an anniversary update T_T but I’ll get there in the end :3 

I’m very lucky to have the opportunity to work with LPB cos she’s such a talented artist! And the same goes for the voice actors too :3 The project just wouldn’t be the same without everyone else’s talent onboard x3

Thanks so much for checking out the game :3 So glad you had fun with it!

Yeeeeah, tbh, I have literally no idea what causes that bug, but I ran into it myself once or twice during testing, and it's a real bad one because sometimes it can end up showing random CGs as backgrounds when players haven't even encountered those CGs yet T_T It seems to resolve itself upon reloading again, but it doesn't stop it from randomly happening any time you load a save >.<" and once a spoiler has happened, it's happened :( 

I can only imagine it was a weird bug with the version of Naninovel that I was using at the time I made the game because I remember I updated to the most recent version of the software at the time when I started the project, and as far as I know, the issue doesn't occur in older projects of mine where I've used older versions of Naninovel, or in newer projects where I've used newer versions of Naninovel, haha. 

I'm just really really hoping that when I come back to this project to work on blue Blythe's route, that updating to the latest version of Naninovel will fix the bug! Because if not, I have literally no idea how to stop it from happening >.<"

But yeah, despite the stupid bug, I'm glad you enjoyed the game :D And hehe, it's a bit of a pain in the butt coding those extra silly lil things, but it's a lot of fun so it's worth it x3

Hope you get to have happy holidays!! :3

So glad you had fun with it ^-^ And I’m happy you liked the balloon game cos that was soooo much fun to make, haha. And yay for shenanigans :P

Sorry I’m so slow to reply btw >.< Just been super focused on Spooktober Jam, haha.

Thanks so much for playing this one :3

I do have Tumblr and asks are always open, but I’m not very active on there >.< I think I still have a fair few to answer from months ago cos I’m really bad at keeping up with social media T_T There are a few asks answered publicly on there though about Blythe and Castor I think :3 And you’re welcome to ask your own stuff if you want to as well. I’ll do my best to answer when I can, it just might take me a while because my brain doesn’t seem to be built for social media, haha. It’s like no matter what I do to try and keep on top of social stuff, I always wind up epically failing >.<

<3 I have to agree, the voice acting was absolutely phenomenal ^-^ Even though I had to listen to it repeatedly while editing the audio and then again while testing the game, I never got bored of hearing it, haha. 

Thanks so much for playing :3

Yay! That’s awesome to hear ^-^ It always means a lot when anyone who doesn’t typically play visual novels ends up enjoying one because they seem to get a bit of stick as a genre of game, haha. Some people even go as far as to say that they’re not games at all T_T And also awesome that you found it through the bundle because it’s an absolutely epic bundle in general and I’m forever grateful for the fact that something as amazing as it exists :3

I’m really glad you had fun with the game, but at the same time, I’m so sorry you have a similar story with depression :( I sure wouldn’t wish it on anyone! I feel like treatment for mental health in general is gradually improving, but it still has a looooong way to go >.<

Thanks so much for checking it out and leaving such a sweet comment :3

Thanks so much for checking it out and leaving such a kind comment :3 I'm really glad you thought the protagonist was relatable! Yeah, ASD is autism :3 This was my first time writing a protagonist that is somewhat similar to myself, haha. I don't have agoraphobia either, but I do have really bad social anxiety >.< And while I'm definitely not identical to Bunnie, we have a lot in common x3 It was kind of strange in general to write about stuff that's closer to home, but I'm glad I did in the end!

That sucks you wound up with the devoured ending though x3 I can't lie, that's probably one of the least-fun ones, especially since it doesn't have its own CG like most of the others >.< haha.

Thanks again for taking the time to play it and for your recommendation ^-^ If you do plan on checking out my other projects, I would recommend Limbo Line first cos it's my personal favourite and features art from the same awesome artist that did the art for this project :3

Glad you had fun with it ^-^ Yeah, psychological horror is my favourite genre of horror :P hehe. I guess maybe I should answer your question under spoilers :3 Before that though, I just wanna say thanks so much for playing <3

Sort of spoilers

Yup, well, basically, after you meet certain conditions in the game, something happens when you try to quit, haha. It's only short, and it should let you close it down once the event is over, but yeah, it's supposed to temporarily prevent you from quitting the game just so they can have a few more words with you :D I really enjoy putting freaky little features like that in my games when I can x3

Ooo, how cool! Well, thank you so much for that :3 I'm imagining it's gonna turn out that none of them even run >.< and if that's the case, I won't have a clue how to make them work, haha. I just hit export in Unity, upload em, and just kinda hope that they do what they're supposed to x3 Considering they sometimes still run janky for other people on Windows when they run fine on my Windows PC and potato laptop, I feel like getting stuff to work well on Mac and Linux is night impossible!

Spoiler*

And the third one : according to all of the 4th wall breaking Blythe(blue) did we can say that Blythe(orange) wasn't kidding at the beginning of the game.

Woo! Glad you had fun playing it ^-^ Thanks so much for checking it out and taking the time to come here and comment :3 The voice actors are pretty darn awesome :P I really don't know how voice actors manage to bring characters to life so well, but it amazes me every time, haha. It's like magic! And the soundtrack was so much fun to make <3 I've actually managed to upload all the original tracks to YouTube now if you ever wanted to listen to them :3 I can't put every single track there though, only the ones I made myself. The others are asset tracks that I'm only allowed to use within a game, so I can't upload those ones x3 And that scene was especially fun to make, hehe.

I guess I should probably put the rest of my reply under spoilers too x3

Spoilers!

Depending on which endings you got, you may or may not have seen the reveal which is kinda like the 'true'/cannon version of what's going on (it's just something you get to see on the title screen after the 'true' ending, but it disappears if you hit new game, load, or quit, so it's possible to miss it >.<)

Buuuut, even with that there, I don't want it to be like the law or anything, haha. It's more fun to leave things open to theories and stuff! That's why I chose to put that reveal where I did rather than write it into the actual story :3 + since the game isn't technically fully finished yet, I want to be able to leave things open as well to explore different possibilities.

Both of your theories have parts of them that both kind of work together actually with the different thoughts I was having while writing the story :D And I'm not gonna say any of either of them are correct or incorrect because it's more interesting if everyone draws their own personal conclusions and interpretations :3 so there can't really be any right and wrong.

I'd say your first theory leans much more heavily into my line of thought while writing though :3 And the funny thing is, I thought of having it be that everything was actually happening in real life in some form, but sugarcoated by the hallucinations, and also thought of it just being pure hallucinations with nothing happening in real life. I think the first option is a lot more fun to imagine x3 but I didn't want to say for sure one way or the other because it's fun to leave it ambiguous, haha.

And then with your second theory, I didn't intend for them to literally be MC's bunnies come to life (Dandelion is so awesome btw x3), but I did want their pet bunnies to be a big influence in why Blythe appears the way they do. In fact, LPB and I discussed ways that we could somehow show a connection between Blythe's appearance and the actual pet bunnies, stuff like one of the bunnies wears an orange bow, the other has a blue collar kind of thing, and so this is then represented on the two Blythes. I couldn't come up with a good idea for how to show that though or the best place to put it, and LPB said she was a bit stuck on that too, so we left it in the end.

Still not gonna say that's not what happened though because it totally could be what happened :P  

Aww, thank you so much for all your kind words here and in your other comment + for checking out my games in general :3 So glad you enjoy my yandere characters because I love yanderes so much x3 haha.

Thank you for the support and the well wishes :D My work is probably gonna be pretty slow, but I will try my best as always :3

Glad you liked it! And hehe, that was a fun little extra to include :D Thanks so much for playing :3

Honestly, that really means a lot to me what you said about the script making you think back to your own past! One of the audiobooks I've been listening to to try and distract myself while my stupid arm is healing is about the power of creativity and the connections it can create :3 And in it, the author was speaking about how whenever you write a story or a song, or draw a piece of art, when it's out there in the wild, it can become like magic and when someone else finds it and engages with it, if it resonates with them in some way, then it's like forming an invisible circuit of connection between the author, the work, and the reader, and I just thought that that's a really lovely way of looking at things :3

Thank you as always for all your awesomeness and kindness <3

I'm glad you like it :3

That sucks that they didn't work for you either :( My doctors over the years couldn't really explain to me why they didn't work for me, haha. They just kept saying that's how it is >.< and to try a different one. I'm glad you managed to stop taking them even if it was difficult. It's the worst to be on medication that's not even helping you, but have to fight to actually get off of it :(

I'm sorry you were losing parts of your life like that. It was similar for me too. I feel like if you're going to be put on medication like that, it should only be if you have family/friends around you who can keep an eye on you and notice any changes, like you say with your sister telling you about stuff. Because if you're on your own, then it's gonna be really hard to notice if stuff is happening that's weird >.< and if you're on your own, you might end up stuck forever! So yeah, I feel like meds like that are much more dangerous than they're made out to be.

Bunnies are the best :D and Chispita is such a cute name for a bunny! I miss our bunny Spoops a lot even though it's been a while since he passed away. The house was always so much more lively with him around :3 And it was sweet to cuddle up with him and watch TV, haha. He would wait for us to sit on the floor, and then he'd come over and either flop or turn into a bunny loaf next to us and fall asleep, haha. I really wish we could have more bunnies around cos they do bring a lot of joy! My dad doesn't want to get any pets though because he said it hurts too much when they die :(

Thank you so much for playing the game :3 And I know it's super early, but I'll wish you a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY in advance \^-^/ And ooo, I'd love to see it if you do end up making fanart for Blythe <3

Well, that's awesome! Glad you liked it :D and thanks so much for playing ^-^

SPOILERS

Weeeell, I mean, you're not technically wrong about the bunnies! Cos even after the Bliss End revelation, I still had it in mind that each Blythe was one of Bunnie's pet rabbits in a sense :3 And one of the main reasons they appear rabbit-like. We were even going to have the ending CGs showing Bunnie's corresponding pet rabbit laid down with a matching coloured collar or other kind of accessory to link the two! But neither me nor LPB could think of the best way to portray it onscreen, so we just left it out in the end. But I think I had it down in my notes that orange Blythe would match Spoops's appearance and blue Blythe would match Usagi's! 

Thanks for checking out the game, for sharing the video, and for your kind comment :3 

Hehe, yeah, I used to have pet bunnies and volunteer at an animal sanctuary, so even though I'm not exactly the same as MC, I'm still pretty passionate about rabbits myself, so I'd never miss an opportunity to tell people not to leave their poor rabbits in cramped hutches! 

Glad you liked the main menu shifts too cos they were lots of fun to implement :D I'm kind of obsessed with and enjoy little details like that x3

x3 Well, I'm glad you think it looks good :D I mean, any time I get to work with amazing artists like I did with Lazy Polar Bear on this one, it's gonna look a million times better than when it's just me on my own editing assets, haha. This game wouldn't have been possible with Lazy Polar Bear's epic art ^-^

Super happy you had fun with it <3

I think if I ranted much more, I might make people fall asleep or possibly want to slap me x3 

Glad to hear you've been having fun with it :3 Hopefully you enjoyed the rest if you finished playing it :D Thanks so much for checking it out <3

SPOILERS

I don't think I answered that exact question, but my answer is probably not gonna be super helpful >.< cos the reality of that particular situation depends on what you choose to believe, and also whether or not you've seen the 'true' ending as well x3

Sooo, the implication is that Blythe turned everyone in the park into bunnies first as you say, and then to balloons. Bunnie sort of just presumes it's like a fancy illusion, and so Blythe is able to shrug the screaming off as being trick balloons, buuuut, as you see in the CG if you keep playing the balloon game, they're not trick balloons, the screams are genuine screams from the people in the park because Bunnie is running around jabbing/stabbing people, completely oblivious xD So I suppose, in a sense, every balloon is a trick, but the trick is that there were never any balloons in the first place x3 Blythe just manipulated Bunnie's senses to make the people in the park look like balloons, and then sent Bunnie on a killing spree just so they really could have the park to themselves, but without causing Bunnie any stress because it was just presented in the format of a game, haha.

Whether or not you believe any of that after seeing the Bliss ending is up to you though :3

Aww, yeah, caring for rabbits properly is super important, and I can't believe how many people still think it's acceptable to shove them in hutches outdoors and just forget about them >.< same goes for guinea pigs too really! Any bunny who doesn't have space to exercise and play is just gonna end up depressed :( When we had our giant French lops, we made sure they had plenty of space both indoors and outdoors for free-roaming safely :3

Thanks so much for checking out the game ^-^

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Hehe, well I'm really glad you liked it and that you found Blythe to be a cutie :D Always interesting to hear which Blythe people prefer! I mean, normally, I would say that characters closer to blue Blythe's type are the ones I tend to be more attracted to personally, but in this case, I think I'm actually more drawn to the orange version even though they're not my usual cup of tea x3

So glad you love the VA and CGs :3 Lazy Polar Bear's art truly is a wonder to behold ^-^ I honestly don't know how she manages to make everything look so gorgeous, haha. When she sent over the finished sprites, I was just staring at them, swooning, for like ages just admiring their beauty xD

Hehe, well, I mean, technically blue Blythe is the only name the character has anyways x3 Cos they're still just Blythe, but I've gone and made it awkward giving them the same name xD stating their colours is pretty much the only way to distinguish them when trying to talk about them >.< i can only apologise for that, haha.

Glad you enjoyed that little surprise too :P And thanks so much for being so sweet and supportive again <3

Thanks so much for playing! So glad you enjoyed the voice acting ^-^ it's always one of my main motivators for making games because I love it so much, haha.

I guess I'll say the rest under spoilers :D

SPOILERS

To be honest, when it comes to stuff like this, I try to get some symbolism in there that aligns with my personal experiences with certain things, but at the same time, I like to attempt to leave it as ambiguous as possible so that people can make their own interpretations as well, especially with something like this where people's experiences of taking different sorts of antidepressant medication can be so vastly different. Like I said in my rambling in the extras, a friend of mine only ever really had a brilliant experience with them and they helped him a lot, while I have had mostly awful experiences with them x3 So I wanted to try and represent a few different sort of effects that they can have in partly direct, and partly abstract ways.

So I was really intrigued reading your thoughts and interpretations :D I'm glad that there was enough room in the concepts for you to have your own theories and they were interesting to think about :3

You're right that there is absolutely symbolism of addiction, since regardless of whether medication like this helps you or not, you can still fall victim to being addicted to it >.< They never really helped me, but I was definitely addicted to a couple of them even though they only ever gave me negative side effects >.<

Even though both Blythe's are technically the same entity, I was kind of leaning towards the orange version of Blythe resenting the more positive effects of the medication that are somewhat helpful, despite still having drawbacks, while blue Blythe was supposed to be more representative of the negative, more unwanted side effects x3

So the Devoured ending was meant to be a kind of abstract way of representing the fact that antidepressants can actually make feelings of anxiety and suicidal thoughts worse. Blue Blythe still wants what's best for Bunnie, but mistakenly thinks that death, or coming close to it, is the solution. At the same time, they don't want Bunnie to truly die, at least not yet, and so it's more of a metaphorical death so that they can begin again rather than an actual literal death.

And there's a bit of a (not so) funny story attached to the Oblivious ending x3 I once took an antidepressant called Fluoxetine, and it had some really awful side effects to it. It didn't exactly make me fully hallucinate, but it did really alter my state of mind when I was out and about in the real world. It sort of had this weird way of making things feel like they weren't real, as though I was just floating through the space, and everyone around me was just part of a simulation or something.

During an appointment I had with my therapist at that time who had prescribed that particular antidepressant after looking over the ones I'd tried in the past, she asked me if I had any concerns about the medication. I told her that I was having some intrusive thoughts that bothered me when I went to crowded areas. Basically, I would start to see everyone as being NPCs in a video game, and envision what would happen if I were to go around murdering all of them >.< like it was part of some quest and I would get a reward the more I vanquished. Quite horrifyingly, she told me that was nothing to worry about, and that thoughts like that were fairly normal on the medication o.O So that was partly where the inspiration for that ending came from xD

But yeah, regardless of the connections with antidepressants, as you say, Blythe is an illusion for Bunnie, but one that could be perpetually maintained if the medication continues to be taken. Even maintained to an extent when the meds are stopped since it takes time to get it out of your system. And Bunnie is so depressed that they kind of need something like that to survive. But yeah, it's definitely bitter because l, at the end of the day, Bunnie is still stuck and in need of real help of some sort >.<

I absolutely love your theory regarding the player as well :3 It definitely works! That's why it's so fun to leave things a little ambiguous, because then you can make all sorts of interpretations. I know some folks aren't a fan of vagueness in films and games, and while I agree that it can sometimes be a bit disappointing if there's not that much of an explanation at the end, most of time, I much prefer ambiguity! It kinda means that characters can take on more of a life of their own when they can be seen in all sorts of different lights :3

^-^ Glad to hear you had fun with it! Thanks so much for playing!

Yeah, the voice actors really did a tremendous job with the characters :D Glad you especially enjoyed the blue version of Blythe :3 No need to be terrified, blue Blythe just wants to give you your best-ever birthday, same as orange Blythe does :P

And I shall answer your question (sort of x3) under...

SPOILERS

Yes, the bunnies did really swarm and eat you, but not in the sense that they actually caused you to physically die x3 It was more just one of Blythe's illusions to shock you into a state of unconsciousness and make you more suggestible so that they can start over again. It's a pretty mean way of going about it >.< But blue Blythe has a nasty habit of playing different sorts of games with poor Bunnie, some nice, some just plain cruel x3 almost all of them for their own amusement, even if they claim that it's for Bunnie's own good, that remains to be seen!