Loved this game since I bought it three years ago, but it's a constant pain that it's been in production so long. I get that you've probably got other things going on, and other things you've been working on, but it really sucks to have to wait so long for the game I've been waiting for since I saw a Manlybadasshero video on this game and bought it for myself. I'll take anything, even just a small update at this point, pleaseee
i love love LOVE the demo so much!! i would happily wait as long as needed for the full game but i was wondering if it's gonna be paid if you could answer :3 edit : just saw the FAQ that i somehow missed while reading the page...very sorry about that :c i do hope your situation gets better tho! remember we're all rooting for you!!
I dont know about the other versions but one windows version has a trojan malware in it. tested it on virustotal and it detecter a malware from 14 different anti viruses, so its definitely not a false acuse. it would be great if i could download game without downloading a virus, thank you.
Not if it was downloaded direct from the game page here on itch. The only way that could possibly be true is if someone managed to hack itch.io and replace my original uploaded files with their own infected ones.
I'm an established developer. I've been making games for over 5 years now. If there are any viruses in files, it's because they were downloaded from dodgy sources elsewhere. None of my uploads contain viruses. So if one of my games was downloaded legitimately from my game pages on itch and a virus scanner is saying there's malware in it, it's just a false reading.
I'd like to think most people could tell the game is an actual game just by the sheer number of comments by now.
But cheers for posting bollocks on one of my game pages while I'm ill! Just what I need right now.
Thank you so much :3 That honestly means a lot, and I'm sorry it's taken me this long to say so. I read what you wrote on the day you left the comment, and it cheered me up so much <3
I probably shouldn't have replied so snappily to the person who made the daft comment about malware, but I was being a big ol' grumpalump at the time >.<
I didn't even mean to click on itch that day, but I did, saw the notification, read the comment, and it just made me even more miserable than I was already feeling at the time.
I figured I better type out some sort of response to it asap with it being the most recent comment on the page in case someone happened to see it and thought it was actually true! But I didn't have the energy to be more composed and understanding, so I feel like maybe I came off a bit harsh >.<
But yeah, I really appreciate that you took the time to type out something kind like you did :3 It made a big difference on a bad day! So just thank you again, and I hope that you're having a magnificent May so far <3
I'm glad you decided to check it out despite its demo status :3 and even more glad that you ended up enjoying it ^-^
Unfortunately, development is gonna be suuuuper slow since it's not even currently my active project (Lovestarved is), but also just my life has been a shitshow in general lately so I haven't been able to do much of anything xD
Really appreciate you taking the time to play and comment <3
Unfortunately, there are apparently sometimes issues opening itch games on Mac :( I don't have a Mac, and I don't know anyone personally who does, so I can't even test stuff on Mac >.<
Thankfully, enough Mac players have spent time on itch figuring out different ways to launch games from here though! So I put together a post of their advice, which you can find here :3
The tactic that seems to work for most people is to download the itch.io launcher, then download games through that and launch the games from the launcher.
There are other methods on the list though, so, with any luck, you'll find one that works for you :3
Hehe, oh dear x3 Well, going by the next few segments that are written but not currently implemented, things will get waaaay worse than being stabbed if you continue on the sinister path :P
Unfortunately, there won't be an update to this particular project anytime soon though :(
This project is on pause while I work on finishing another project of mine called Lovestarved.
But development on everything has been paused recently cos I've been out of action in general and unable to go on my PC thanks to a mixture of burnout, followed by illness, followed by injury >.< haha. I've been having a lot of bad luck so far this year x3
But I will eventually be working on this game again at some point :3 I just don't have a specific time as to when.
Thanks for taking the time to check out the demo and leave a comment though! <3
Sadly, development will be super slow since I've been through a real bad patch lately and not been capable of doing much work on anything at all >.< Add to that the fact that this isn't my current active project, and yeah... it's gonna be a while before I get around to adding to this T_T I'll get there eventually though!
<3 It means a lot that you think so :3 I'm so glad you like Castoria cos she sure as hell loves you :P
Sorry it's taken so long to reply >.< I've been going through some stuff lately that has basically made it so I couldn't go on my PC much at all these past few months :( So yeah, not much progress with anything, sadly.
I'm hoping to be able to get back to working on projects sometime in June/July though :3
Thanks for taking the time to play some of my games!
AHHH 😭 Haven't played this game in a while, but I still love Castor ♡♡ he's my number one bbg still love the story tho, hope future updates will be good too!
I can only apologise that the development of the project is so slow >.< It's been on pause for a while and will continue to be while I prioritise finishing other projects first just because this one is so damn long, haha.
It makes sense for me to finish stuff that's shorter and/or already fully written, so I'm trying to finish and release Lovestarved first. That's what I'm currently working on.
Then there's one more project after that that I wanna tackle and release before I get back into working on this one x3
Sometimes I wish I had a team to work with cos it sucks how long it takes to do stuff solo >.< I appreciate your support though!! And Castor will never stop loving you, so he's just patiently waiting for the moment he finally gets to spend more time with you :D
I remember playing this game so long ago and it definitely still holds a soft spot in my heart. I absolutely adore the art(I could stare at Castor all day) and I cant wait to see how this games evolves into something absolutely amazing! Keep up the great work and don't forget to take breaks and get ample rest!!
That means a lot that you still even remember it if it's been a long time since you played it :3 I can only apologise that development has been so slow for the project >.< I still intend to work on and finish it at some point, but I've just had to prioritise a mixture of irl stuff and other projects for my own sanity, haha.
Right now, Lovestarved is my main project that I'm aiming to finish since it's much shorter than this one and is already fully written + has almost all of the voice acting delivered :3 Hoping to finish it sometime this year after life got in the way of finishing it last year x3 And then there's one more old project I wanna go back to and finish before finally getting back to working on DD again.
Your patience is beyond appreciated though :3 Seriously, it means so much to have support like yours!
I have a bad habit of putting a lot of pressure on myself, and sometimes that is made much worse by the odd person here and there also adding pressure on me to finish or work on something they're waiting for >.< Maybe they think acting that way will motivate me somehow, but it does the opposite x3 Whereas kind words like yours absolutely encourage me to keep going :3
Thanks so much for checking out the demo :D I can only apologise that so many things currently lead to dead ends x3 I probably should have made the demo a lot cleaner, but I was in a rush to try and show more clearly that there would be other routes available in the future. In that rush though, I kinda wound up making the demo a mess T_T haha.
Once I’m actively working on the project again though, I will probably try to tidy up and re-release the demo :3 Jus gotta finish some other projects first before I come back to this one x3
So glad you like Castor though! Thanks for playing <3
It’s nowhere near finished yet, but in the full game, I plan for story branches to go all over the place :D I did a rough drawing a long time ago which is a complete mess, haha. But I will clean it up once I’m working on the project properly again.
But yeah, I’m hoping to include a loooot of choices :3 Some where they have an instant impact, and some where you won’t see the result of them until much later on.
Testing everything is gonna be a nightmare I think, haha. One thing’s for certain is that there will be plenty more dead ends cos I’m a total sucker for bad endings xD
I love the art, va, and the stories. I couldn't take my eyes off from both of characters so i played it 4 times, 2 with Castor and the other 2 with Castoria. they both are adorable :3
Aww, I’m so glad you ended up liking both of them! I have more of a soft spot for Castor (sorry Castoria T_T) but I try to treat them both equally, haha. Sadly, the VA is probably going to be different once the full game is eventually released because there have been some issues that will mean I need to recast >.< but I’m sure the new VAs will do an awesome job too :3
Thanks for checking it out :3 I hope to eventually have all my games on Steam someday, but that $100 fee per game is a real killer >.< That's why itch is so helpful, cos they don't charge devs to upload their games here :D
Yeah, it sucks >.< haha. I think you can claw the money back from them if your game manages to make X amount of sales, but that doesn’t help devs who are releasing stuff for free because they will never make anything x3
omg this game so good, i love the cover, the font and the art! i mean the character is good too, i hope this game will have more notice. thank u for made this <333
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Loved this game since I bought it three years ago, but it's a constant pain that it's been in production so long. I get that you've probably got other things going on, and other things you've been working on, but it really sucks to have to wait so long for the game I've been waiting for since I saw a Manlybadasshero video on this game and bought it for myself. I'll take anything, even just a small update at this point, pleaseee
i love love LOVE the demo so much!! i would happily wait as long as needed for the full game but i was wondering if it's gonna be paid if you could answer :3 edit : just saw the FAQ that i somehow missed while reading the page...very sorry about that :c i do hope your situation gets better tho! remember we're all rooting for you!!
Love this game so much already! excited for the full game!
This is a lovely demo, looking forward to the full release!
I dont know about the other versions but one windows version has a trojan malware in it. tested it on virustotal and it detecter a malware from 14 different anti viruses, so its definitely not a false acuse. it would be great if i could download game without downloading a virus, thank you.
Not if it was downloaded direct from the game page here on itch. The only way that could possibly be true is if someone managed to hack itch.io and replace my original uploaded files with their own infected ones.
I'm an established developer. I've been making games for over 5 years now. If there are any viruses in files, it's because they were downloaded from dodgy sources elsewhere. None of my uploads contain viruses. So if one of my games was downloaded legitimately from my game pages on itch and a virus scanner is saying there's malware in it, it's just a false reading.
I'd like to think most people could tell the game is an actual game just by the sheer number of comments by now.
But cheers for posting bollocks on one of my game pages while I'm ill! Just what I need right now.
Ignore that person trying to put the blame on you for their mistake, your work is incredible and I hope you get better soon.
Thank you so much :3 That honestly means a lot, and I'm sorry it's taken me this long to say so. I read what you wrote on the day you left the comment, and it cheered me up so much <3
I probably shouldn't have replied so snappily to the person who made the daft comment about malware, but I was being a big ol' grumpalump at the time >.<
I didn't even mean to click on itch that day, but I did, saw the notification, read the comment, and it just made me even more miserable than I was already feeling at the time.
I figured I better type out some sort of response to it asap with it being the most recent comment on the page in case someone happened to see it and thought it was actually true! But I didn't have the energy to be more composed and understanding, so I feel like maybe I came off a bit harsh >.<
But yeah, I really appreciate that you took the time to type out something kind like you did :3 It made a big difference on a bad day! So just thank you again, and I hope that you're having a magnificent May so far <3
We all have bad days once in a while, it's nothing you have to apologize for. =^.^=
We all have the right to be a big ol' grumpalump every now and then. <3
I LOVED IT!! its a shame its a demo:( but i still love it!
I'm glad you decided to check it out despite its demo status :3 and even more glad that you ended up enjoying it ^-^
Unfortunately, development is gonna be suuuuper slow since it's not even currently my active project (Lovestarved is), but also just my life has been a shitshow in general lately so I haven't been able to do much of anything xD
Really appreciate you taking the time to play and comment <3
I LOVE IT SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH OMG 🤧 NEW OBSESSION
<3 Thanks so much for checking out the demo!!
I'm on mac and I unzipped the file, and it says "The file can't be opened" T-T did I do something wrong or is the file broken?
Unfortunately, there are apparently sometimes issues opening itch games on Mac :( I don't have a Mac, and I don't know anyone personally who does, so I can't even test stuff on Mac >.<
Thankfully, enough Mac players have spent time on itch figuring out different ways to launch games from here though! So I put together a post of their advice, which you can find here :3
https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/darling-duality-winter-wish/devlog/227880/...
The tactic that seems to work for most people is to download the itch.io launcher, then download games through that and launch the games from the launcher.
There are other methods on the list though, so, with any luck, you'll find one that works for you :3
i started to freak out when Castoria stabbed me ;( but yeahh, i was being sinister soooo.... waiting for an update soon
Hehe, oh dear x3 Well, going by the next few segments that are written but not currently implemented, things will get waaaay worse than being stabbed if you continue on the sinister path :P
Unfortunately, there won't be an update to this particular project anytime soon though :(
This project is on pause while I work on finishing another project of mine called Lovestarved.
But development on everything has been paused recently cos I've been out of action in general and unable to go on my PC thanks to a mixture of burnout, followed by illness, followed by injury >.< haha. I've been having a lot of bad luck so far this year x3
But I will eventually be working on this game again at some point :3 I just don't have a specific time as to when.
Thanks for taking the time to check out the demo and leave a comment though! <3
I really love Castor TwT
It will be on my wishlist!
<3 And Castor loves you too! :P
Sadly, development will be super slow since I've been through a real bad patch lately and not been capable of doing much work on anything at all >.< Add to that the fact that this isn't my current active project, and yeah... it's gonna be a while before I get around to adding to this T_T I'll get there eventually though!
Thanks so much for checking out the demo :3
i'm so jolly your game are so good sobs , i adore castoria auhsiauisa love her, but the game is also really good ! I hope for futher updates :3 !
<3 It means a lot that you think so :3 I'm so glad you like Castoria cos she sure as hell loves you :P
Sorry it's taken so long to reply >.< I've been going through some stuff lately that has basically made it so I couldn't go on my PC much at all these past few months :( So yeah, not much progress with anything, sadly.
I'm hoping to be able to get back to working on projects sometime in June/July though :3
Thanks for taking the time to play some of my games!
AHHH 😭 Haven't played this game in a while, but I still love Castor ♡♡
he's my number one bbgstill love the story tho, hope future updates will be good too!And Castor still loves you :P <3
I can only apologise that the development of the project is so slow >.< It's been on pause for a while and will continue to be while I prioritise finishing other projects first just because this one is so damn long, haha.
It makes sense for me to finish stuff that's shorter and/or already fully written, so I'm trying to finish and release Lovestarved first. That's what I'm currently working on.
Then there's one more project after that that I wanna tackle and release before I get back into working on this one x3
Sometimes I wish I had a team to work with cos it sucks how long it takes to do stuff solo >.< I appreciate your support though!! And Castor will never stop loving you, so he's just patiently waiting for the moment he finally gets to spend more time with you :D
I remember playing this game so long ago and it definitely still holds a soft spot in my heart. I absolutely adore the art(I could stare at Castor all day) and I cant wait to see how this games evolves into something absolutely amazing! Keep up the great work and don't forget to take breaks and get ample rest!!
That means a lot that you still even remember it if it's been a long time since you played it :3 I can only apologise that development has been so slow for the project >.< I still intend to work on and finish it at some point, but I've just had to prioritise a mixture of irl stuff and other projects for my own sanity, haha.
Right now, Lovestarved is my main project that I'm aiming to finish since it's much shorter than this one and is already fully written + has almost all of the voice acting delivered :3 Hoping to finish it sometime this year after life got in the way of finishing it last year x3 And then there's one more old project I wanna go back to and finish before finally getting back to working on DD again.
Your patience is beyond appreciated though :3 Seriously, it means so much to have support like yours!
I have a bad habit of putting a lot of pressure on myself, and sometimes that is made much worse by the odd person here and there also adding pressure on me to finish or work on something they're waiting for >.< Maybe they think acting that way will motivate me somehow, but it does the opposite x3 Whereas kind words like yours absolutely encourage me to keep going :3
So thank you <3
i did infact play every route and im jolly. i love castor. YAHHOO
Thanks so much for checking out the demo :D I can only apologise that so many things currently lead to dead ends x3 I probably should have made the demo a lot cleaner, but I was in a rush to try and show more clearly that there would be other routes available in the future. In that rush though, I kinda wound up making the demo a mess T_T haha.
Once I’m actively working on the project again though, I will probably try to tidy up and re-release the demo :3 Jus gotta finish some other projects first before I come back to this one x3
So glad you like Castor though! Thanks for playing <3
Like, you get to make out with the LI, get killed by the LI, get stabbed almost to death by the LI, and uh... I dunno
Also, unlocked all dialogues with both Castor and Castoria :DD (I think)
Thanks for playing! :3
It’s nowhere near finished yet, but in the full game, I plan for story branches to go all over the place :D I did a rough drawing a long time ago which is a complete mess, haha. But I will clean it up once I’m working on the project properly again.
But yeah, I’m hoping to include a loooot of choices :3 Some where they have an instant impact, and some where you won’t see the result of them until much later on.
Testing everything is gonna be a nightmare I think, haha. One thing’s for certain is that there will be plenty more dead ends cos I’m a total sucker for bad endings xD
Thanks again for checking it out <3
I love the art, va, and the stories. I couldn't take my eyes off from both of characters so i played it 4 times, 2 with Castor and the other 2 with Castoria. they both are adorable :3
Aww, I’m so glad you ended up liking both of them! I have more of a soft spot for Castor (sorry Castoria T_T) but I try to treat them both equally, haha. Sadly, the VA is probably going to be different once the full game is eventually released because there have been some issues that will mean I need to recast >.< but I’m sure the new VAs will do an awesome job too :3
Thanks so much for checking out the demo <3
This game has potential, I love the character design. If this is on Steam I would 1000% put it on my wishlist!!
Thanks for checking it out :3 I hope to eventually have all my games on Steam someday, but that $100 fee per game is a real killer >.< That's why itch is so helpful, cos they don't charge devs to upload their games here :D
I'm glad you like the look of the demo anyhow ^-^
Wow I didn't know you have to pay $100 just to sell a game on Steam... that hurts D:
Still, hope your game gets some more love in the future!
Yeah, it sucks >.< haha. I think you can claw the money back from them if your game manages to make X amount of sales, but that doesn’t help devs who are releasing stuff for free because they will never make anything x3
Thank you again <3
I loved it!!
I will play other games of yours until this one gets updated!!
I loved it so far!!
Keep up the good jooob!!
That’s awesome! I’m so glad you enjoyed the little demo :3 Thanks so much for checking it out <3
omg this game so good, i love the cover, the font and the art! i mean the character is good too, i hope this game will have more notice. thank u for made this <333
I’m so glad you think so ^-^ Thanks so much for checking it out and taking the time to write something so sweet! <3