Limbo Line
A downloadable odd predicament for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Welcome to SSL, one of Limbo's many offices! Assuming control of our protagonist, Nine, you must serve your sentence by taking on support calls from denizens of the multiverse.
Help, harm, or hinder clients
(then find out later how you impacted their lives)
Chat with your fellow operators during break time
(some may even reveal secrets)
Try your luck dialling numbers on your desk phone
(and discover hidden numbers throughout the game)
Play with your booth's PC
(and discover more secrets)
34 CGs to unlock in the gallery
(56 including variations)
Full English voice acting with realistic telephone calls
(audio is designed for headphones)
15 original BGM tracks
Choose a voice for your manager
(between feminine or masculine)
9 different endings depending on your choices
(6 bad ends, 1 'good' end, and 2 secret ends)
Gender-neutral protagonist
Limbo Line contains a combination of dark humour and psychological horror. New recruits are advised to take heed of the following warnings:
- Bad language
- Threatening behaviour
- References to self-harm & suicide
- References to abortion
- Mild sexual references
- Depictions of blood
- Disturbing sounds
- Mild flashing lights
- Possible jump scares
- Loss of life
If you feel unsure about any of the above, please consider carefully if working at SSL is the best choice for you.
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Writer, Creator, OST
Melancholy Marionette
@Marionette_Mask
(some of the story elements are based on an episode of Inside No.9 & expanded upon with my own original story branches + additional original writing)
Sprite, Camera Feed, Background, itchio page, UI Art
Lazy Polar Bear
@LazyBearLand
CG Art
LazyCrocodile
Chibi Art
sophrossynes
Additional Art
DestiniDraws
@DestiniDraws
Photos
Clonker Honker (aka My Dad)
Voice Director
Anthony Rodriguez
@Cryshulvo
Niard
Emma K. Blakeslee
Acheros, Deadly Desires Rep01, Hell's Hotline, Dirk the Vampire, Monster Noises
Ron Guan
@rongvoice
Nyari, Tabitha, Old Cat Lady, Remi the Reaper
Rebecca Chiara Marano
@rcmvoice
Kiol (masculine voice option), Romeo the Incubus, Alli the Alligator, Demon
Heath Anderson
Kiol (feminine voice option)
Tarra "Miche" Ward
@miche_arts
Tava, Heaven's Hotline, Pookie
Elissa Park
@AdoxTalks
Ubel, Burdened Caller
Anthony Rodriguez
@Cryshulvo
Maddie, Deadly Desires Rep02
Mel Valentine
Troubled Caller, Reiko the Werewolf
Lindsay Marie
Deadly Desires Recorded Message, Gina the Djinn
Krystal Martinez
@CaptainLadyLuck
Lefu, Additional Voices & Effects
Melancholy Marionette
Thank you so much to everyone on the team! You're all incredible and I couldn't have done this without you :3 You've all helped me bring Limbo to life and I love you all <3
(and extra thanks to Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton who wrote the episode of Inside No.9 that inspired me to make this! They are a pair of absolute legends :3)
Need a walkthrough for the game? Go here!
Having trouble opening the game on Mac? Check out this post containing all the information I've managed to gather from helpful Mac users and general web scouring.
Does your game freeze or crash after reaching a loading screen when you first meet Nyari (pink-haired catgirl)? Please try downloading the file for your respective system marked 'Potato Version'. This version of the game is split into smaller chunks with more loading screens in order to help lessen the strain on lower-spec systems :3
General Controls:
Spacebar/mouseclick/scrollwheel = advance
Scrollwheel also rewinds
L = Log
H = Hide the text box
To report any pesky bugs or typos, head here to see what I'm already aware of + to submit new reports.
If you need help with anything, or just wanna drop me a message about the game, feel free to post a comment, or send me an email: melancholicmarionette@gmail.com
If you enjoyed playing through the game (or even if you didn't xD), I'd really appreciate hearing your feedback in the comments + ratings are much appreciated too ^-^
And if you'd like to explore more of Limbo, Deadly Desires: LOVESTARVED (demo) is out now! It's set in the same universe & even takes place around the same time as Limbo Line's events at SSL :3
You don't have to have played one to play the other, as each game has its own story & cast of characters. In LOVESTARVED, you play as a human residing in Limbo's Arcadia district who encounters an enigmatic sithys escort by the name of Erys.
This game will always be available to download for free! If you enjoyed playing it, you're welcome to buy me a coffee, or support other projects I'm working on by becoming a patron :3
I couldn't have made this game alone, please also consider supporting the amazing people who helped me bring Limbo to life <3
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- New 'Potato Version' for lower-spec systems!Mar 03, 2022
- All Wrapped Up + Jam RecommendationsNov 03, 2021
- Bugs & StuffOct 02, 2021
- Full Walkthrough Guide Up + Linux VersionOct 02, 2021
- Walkthrough GuideOct 02, 2021
- Opening the game on MacOct 02, 2021
- Limbo Line - Just in time!Oct 02, 2021
Comments
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This is killing me I've searched through all the comments and linked videos for this demon code and I still don't get it this is pretty much the only part I haven't gotten. I unlocked the SSL account and found the phone number
135but then I couldn't figure out the password I listened to the voice attachment and it kept saying nine repeatedly so I entered NINE and Nine and nine and 9 but that wasn't it. This is probably a super simple puzzle and it's just flying completely over my head :/ Do the geese have something to do with it?Oh, man, I wish the geese had something to do with it x3 I think I remember what it is, so I'll put it below spoilers :3 Thanks so much for checking out the game and taking the time to complete the random side stuff like this <3
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It sounds like you pretty much did most of the steps. I know you said you listened to the audio clip, so I don't know if you will have also done this, but as far as I can remember, you need to download the audio clip and reverse it to hear the true message.
BUT... to be honest, even if you do that, it's still somewhat difficult to hear the password being spelled out >.< It's probably a pain in the butt to sit and listen to, and it makes the tiniest bit more sense if it's a word heard before in a bonus section of a couple of my other games. Just in case you wanted to try and get it yourself, I'll put it a little below.
Hoping my memory isn't betraying me here since it's a long time ago that I made this game, but I think it's:
Anathema
I can't remember if it needed to be typed exactly like that or with all caps/all lowercase or anything like that though >.<
kiol sounds like i name i would come up with lmao
Hehe :3 I kinda just needed a really quick and cheeky anagram at the time, and that’s what stuck x3 Sometimes I spend waaaay too long agonising over names >.<
i also cant come up with names
used to be good at it though, dont know how the fuck im bad at this shit now
Kiol's male voice got me on chokehold and niard's voice is lovely <333 and i can't seem to get the last cg?? i think i missed something Tv
Yay, you gave Niard a compliment :D Niard would be very happy with that, hehe x3
Hmm, it's been such a long time since I worked on this that I can't remember off the top of my head exactly which CG that would be >.< I'm wondering if it's one of the ones I thought I had fixed in an old update but isn't fixed after all T_T Cos there were 2 CGs in particular where a tiny error in my code meant that once you unlocked one of them, you couldn't unlock the other. I could have sworn I managed to fix it, but it's probably still awkward to actually unlock both if you don't happen to have a save in a handy place :(
I think there's also a CG tied to a side quest which involves investigating elements outside of the game itself, so it could be that one! It's a side quest sorta thing related to Maddie's story, but I don't know if the ARG aspects of it still work because part of it used a Twitter account, which may well have been deleted due to inactivity >.< I can't actually remember the password or anything to check if it's still up xD
Maybe you will have found that last CG by now, but if not, feel free to post a screenshot of your gallery because then I should be able to determine which one it is that's missing and possibly how to get it if I can remember, haha. If you do decide to do that, maybe put a spoilers heading or something in case the thumbnails for the CGs spoil anything x3
Thanks so much for playing the game!! :3
Heyaa! your game is super cool! the image below is the last part of the gallery :> the first two were already filled so i guess what im missing rn is cg 34? Thank you so much for this!!!
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I'm glad you like it ^-^
Hmm, okay, I think I do know which one it is that's missing! I just can't remember exactly what the unlock conditions are without looking at the game files, haha >.<
Unfortunately, my main PC is broken atm, but I do have the project files on a portable hard drive I think, so when I get a chance later, I'll plug it into the potato laptop and take a look! :3
I would do it now, but I'm typing on my phone and just about to head out with my pops for a walk >.< As soon as I've had a look though, I'll let you know what I find :3
Hope you get to have a great weekend!!
Thank you so much!! your games are so addicting i literally just replayed bitter/sweet blythe cuz i missed the two blythe's voice so much 😭🫶
I’m sorry it’s taken me longer than I said to look into this >.< I ended up with a migraine for most of the weekend, so I didn’t actually make it onto the laptop to look at anything. I’m feeling better now though, so I’ve just had a poke through the files! :3
I’m so glad you like Bitter/Sweet too ^-^ Blythe will always have an extra special place in my heart with that game being more personal than most of what I’ve made x3 If you happen to like the voice of the Blue Blythe, the same VA plays a main character in The Graveyard Shift too (the protagonist if you pick Shearsmith to be male!) :D
Anyways, regarding that last CG, if it was number 34, I looked at the code, and it says that the unlock condition is related to the support video call with Reiko the werewolf! The call with Reiko yields 3 different CGs depending on your choices with her :3
The choice that unlocks that last CG is if you simply listen to Reiko during the call, rather than attempting to provide any sort of advice. Helpful/Harmful advice unlocks the other 2 chibi CGs related to Reiko. Just listening unlocks Reiko’s special CG.
Hopefully, that helps :3
Your games never miss I swearrr
Great story, characters and art. VA, UI and OST are all superb as usual. Everything comes together so well 💚
The whole team did great!
Would you prefer payment here or on kofi? I can do whichever
That means so muuuuuch <3 especially considering you’re pretty much playing all of my least-played games, haha.
This one is still the project I personally feel is the one I’m most proud of even if hardly anyone looks at/downloads it x3 It was such a blast to work on and the whole team was so amazing I wish I could’ve worked with everyone forever!
I’m actually hoping to make a spinoff story set in the same universe but with a totally different MC and outside of SSL for this year’s otome/josei jam. Well, I had hoped it was gonna be for the 2nd yanjam/stained red, but I don’t think I’m gonna have time to make it for that >.< at least not without absolutely destroying myself in the process xD So it makes sense to shuffle my schedule a little bit to push back working on CiQ until June so I can try and make the spinoff for otome/josei jam.
You’re so sweet ^-^ Kofi is always better just because they don’t deduct anything over there so folks get 100% of what you send. Whereas on itch, they don’t take anything themselves if you choose that, but they do have to deduct US tax, and since I’m not a US taxpayer, they set the threshold at the max of 20%. Which means any donations via itch always lose 20% of what’s sent >.<
Please don’t feel as though you have to send something though cos you’ve already supported me before, which I massively appreciate <3
Thanks so much for checking out this one too + for your support in general :3
Ohh good to know about itch, 20% is a lot :0 I usually try to buy kofi for creators if they have it, but wasn't sure how much difference it makes.
If you ever make a spinoff, I'll check it out for sure.
Also, dw about money, I'm in a privileged enough position to support others so Imma do it while I can 🫶 Plus tbf, if I could, I'd sponsor the whole game creation because it feels like whatever you do, I'm THE target audience. Like I couldn't ask for more if I commissioned it, and it all lives in my head rent-free.
Yeah, I think if you can submit like a tax code or something, then you don’t necessarily have to have 20% taken away in US tax, but because I’m considered too poor to pay tax in the UK, I don’t have anything like that to submit to itch as I've never been given one, so they have no choice but to take the maximum of 20% so they’re covered legally or something >.<
It helps that Ko-Fi is a UK company I think :3 And they basically tell you that taxes and stuff are your own responsibility so if you’re selling stuff on there, you need to keep on top of it yourself.
As far as I’m aware though after having spoken to an advisor on stuff like that a couple of years ago, because I’m receiving donations rather than selling things for an income, and because I don’t receive an amount in donations that breaches a certain figure, I don’t have to think about any of that sort of thing, and a good job too cos I wouldn’t have the clue wtf I was doing x3
Well, it’s very kind of you to consider supporting creators cos a lot of people probably still wouldn’t choose to even if they were in a position to do so :3
I’m actually just about to make a post over on Ko-Fi and set a brand new funding goal since the current one was just reached today! ^-^
And man, that means so much to me I don’t even have the words x3 I guess we have pretty similar tastes, haha. Somehow, I still haven’t managed to make the ultimate yandere that always lurks somewhere in the back of my mind just out of reach xD but maybe I’ll get there someday!
I truly have no words; well, I do,as soon you will here me absolutely yap my praises. But this truly feels like something I ought to have paid to play. The art and voice acting is of professional quality, and fits the aesthetics of the game so well. And dont EVEN get me started on the OST; what absolute BANGERS. As for the story, it is extemely unique and nothing like anything I have ever experienced before; a welcome deviation to be sure! While this may have just been me being a bit blind to obvious hints in retrospect, the twist really did catch me offguard. I guess I really fit into 9's shoes, with my line of thinking; I was CONVINCED it would be the masked person!(terrible at remembering names). Quite sure I didn't get all the endings but I want to write this in the spur of the moment, so take this with a grain of salt; GOD I loved the silly little robot administrator! The Silly! So precious, spend the entirerty of my first playthrough hanging out with him, while most would've done this to find out more about Maddie, I just wanted to spend time with the goober!
Aaaaa x3 Well, I don’t have the words to thank you enough for checking out the game and then leaving such a lovely comment <3 I'm so glad you had fun with it! :D
I still feel deep down like this is probably the best project out of everything I’ve managed to make so far, and I’m soooo proud of the jam team, but it will never stop annoying me that this is one of my least played games, haha.
It honestly means a lot that you think it’s of commercial game standard :3 I poured my heart and soul into it, and I know everyone on the jam team who worked on it did too. With my low self-esteem, I often doubt that the things I’ve done are any good until people tell me otherwise, and as I’ve recently learned while attending a post-ASD diagnosis support group, autistic people like me are often unpaid or underpaid for what they do because of lacking the social skills to ‘make it’ >.<
It means the world as well that you like the OST! I think Limbo Line’s music was the second OST I ever worked on, so I was still in the process of learning as I tried to create tracks, but I tried my best at the time, haha. One day, I will actually get around to uploading my missing OSTs to YouTube!
There are a fair few endings and little hidden side stories and stuff all over the place in this one, haha. I’m not sure how long it would take to find everything, but it definitely requires multiple playthroughs picking different options at break times and stuff :D
That’s so cool that you had fun with Admin Acheros :D I don’t think he gets that many shoutouts compared to some of the other characters, but I agree, he’s definitely precious, hehe.
Thank you so much for playing & for all your kind words <3
The game was absolutely cool but too bad I didn't get to date Tava as I wanted :P
Aww, sorry about that x3 Tbh, it would've been a lot of fun to make a dating sim spinoff of this! Heck, LPB and I wanted to make something set in the same universe with the same cast of characters and have them as romance options, but we've just never gotten around to it cos we're always busy with other projects and such, haha.
So glad you had fun with it though! Thanks so much for playing & hope you have happy holidays :3
Perhaps you could start now?
Sadly, I just don’t have the time, and I don’t think LPB does either :( I’ve got other project commitments to attend to (finishing Clarity in Qualia, Darling Duality, Bitter/Sweet, Yandere Heaven fangame, and making more progress with the Masked Marionette) >.< And all that is gonna take me at least 2-3 years I reckon, possibly more. Would be handy to be able to pause time so I could work on more stuff cos there's never enough time in the world x3
Hope 2024 is going well for you so far!
I haven't played this one yet but soon I will !!
Noice :D Hope you end up having fun with it whenever you do :3
I came back to this after a while... ahhh I'm going to start it now hehe :3
Woo! ^-^ Lemme know if you happen to find any really bad bugs, haha. I’m gonna try and export fresh builds of this in a few months cos I know some small things need tweaking and I need to lock resolution on it to stop UI scaling issues going on when it’s not played 1920x1080 16:9 >.<
Working on a concept for a spinoff of this atm with Lazy Polar Bear :D so I wanted to make sure the original version works as well as it can in case anyone ends up playing the spinoff and then decides to check out this one after x3
I had wonderful time in this game and i think YOU my friend deserved a nice golden star pin and for whole crew 10/10 for there work.
1 detail: I dont understand what happened after two last choices because of same cloaks of 2.
(trying to be vague for sake of others who didnt played yet)
Its looked like crutch if you ask me but i didnt get all endings so i dunno maybe somewhere it explained already.
(I absolutely love 669 voice its beautiful)
Aww, thanks so much for checking out this one and for all your kind words! It really means a lot ^-^ We certainly worked our butts off on this one, haha. There’s no way on earth we could’ve done it without such a wonderful team.
Hmm, did you go through the walkthrough? If that’s no help, you’re welcome to drop me a message any time and I’ll do my best to help if I can :3
i love niard their voice is so lovely i'm simping
And Niard loves you too :P as long as you give them plenty of compliments x3
Probably one of the most awkward effects I’ve ever done on a voice actor’s recordings, haha. I can’t even remember everything I did at this point, but it was a lot. The VA was incredible though :3 No number of fancy FX would’ve worked if it hadn’t been for the brilliant voice work recorded in the first place :D
this is incredible!! the overarching mystery was engaging, I love the premise (inside no9 inspo is 10/10 taste) and all the charas were so fun. nine grew on me so much over time and tava is just the best ever, they were my favorites so fast lol. thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for checking it out and taking the time to type up such a kind comment <3 It never fails to make me mega happy whenever I see someone has played and enjoyed this one since it’s still my personal favourite, but one of my least-played projects x3
Also, *high five* for the Inside No.9 love ^-^ Interesting about Tava too! I was worried that they would wind up becoming the most unloved in the cast, haha. I don't know why, but I thought folks might like Nyari best, but then I read some stuff where people had said she's too bitchy and two-faced so they don't like her much xD
Hey just wanted to say that the text goes sometimes off screen
What system are you playing on, and in what resolution? :o It was designed to be played 1920x1080 16:9, so, unfortunately, if played in anything else, some of the UI can get a bit screwy :( Sadly, it rarely seems to scale properly to accommodate other resolutions, which is why I decided to lock it to 16:9 only in my most recent release and have black bars for others instead. Annoyingly, it still doesn't help with square resolutions entirely >.<
i had my suspicions but it took me until the old woman calling about the dead cat for me to realize this is literally the inside no9 episode cold comfort lmao
*High five* for getting that :3 Even if you hadn't, I think I did name the episode in the credits doc, haha. It's not the only Inside No.9 VN adaptation I've done either! Though it is the most elaborate one since this one has a heck of a lot of differences to the original.
Really wanted to go off in a lot of different directions with this one and build a different world while still incorporating the original story and ending from that episode ^-^ And none of it would've been possible without the awesome team I got to work with! I just thought it would be a really fun episode to build off of and I loved the way the story was told on the CCTV feeds.
Apartment No.9 is an adaptation of the ep Tom and Gerri. And The Graveyard Shift is an adaptation of the ep The Stakeout :D Tbh I'd love to do adaptations of all the eps, but that would take a ridiculous amount of time >.< even if I didn't add extra choices, paths, endings, characters, or settings and just went for a kinetic version following the episode scripts without deviation, that'd still take forever with how many episodes there are now T_T I will probably do at least a few more though over time!
For some reason my load save etc on the bottom of thr screen has dissapeared, it was there when i first opened the game but when i closed the game the whole thing dissapeared. ive tried redownloading the game and changing the screen size but it just poofed gone. Anyway i can fix this??
Sorry it's taken a while for me to get back to you. I've been ill since before Christmas and still am now >.< can't go on my PC, so I'm stuck trying to look at stuff and type on my laggy old phone, haha. I don't suppose you happen to have found a way to fix it?
It's weird >.< I'm probably not going to be able to help much cos I'm not particularly techy, so when weird UI bugs occur that I haven't encountered myself during testing, it's super hard to figure out what's causing them for others, and even harder to fix them T_T
There is a hide UI button that's on one of the keyboard shortcuts by default, but I doubt that would stay active when restarting the game even if it was pressed accidentally >.<
You could maybe try deleting everything before redownloading if you haven't already. I know you said you redownloaded it, but unless you also went into your appdata folder and deleted the game data there, any fresh downloads would just use existing data from that folder, so I guess the bug would still be present. Whereas if you completely delete that data, I'd like to hope that it would resolve itself. However, it would mean losing all of your save data if you had any >.<
I can't remember for sure without checking on my PC, which I can't do right now, but that folder is usually hidden by default, so you have to set your PC to show hidden files and folders, go to AppData/LocalLow and you should see a folder called Melancholy Marionette, and inside that, a Limbo Line folder. That's the one you wanna delete (not just the downloaded folder with the exe and stuff in it) cos if you don't delete that folder in Appdata, any new downloads will always just try to keep loading the old data.
Still, it would be better if you didn't have to delete everything and start over >.< Were you playing on Windows or Mac?
If it was Mac, there's even less chance of me being able to help cos I don't even own one myself to test on :( If it's Windows, I can try sending you a dev build and if your PC spat out any error logs, you could save those and send them to me.
Another thing you could do is try the potato version if you haven't already (or if you started with the potato version, you could try to normal one).
Do you remember where you were in the game and what was happening before you closed it and lost the bar with the options on?
Also, thanks for checking the game out :3
I am on mac and tried both potato and normal verson. I opened the game when i first downloaded it and noticed my screen was cutting off some of the words so i closed the game, and when i re opend it boom the whole save load thing was gone :/ ive been a little discouraged when trying to find out what happened to since im not much of a tech person either, but maybe ill try and figure it out. thanks for trying to help me anyways, and i hope you get better soon, get lots of rest!
This has rightfully earned a spot on my list of all-time favourite games. All of the characters are so distinctly interesting, and I really appreciate the abundance of non-binary characters! There's usually only one non-binary character in these types of games (often the MC), so it's really great that you showed that genderqueer characters can coexist with each other :D
Aww, well, I'm honoured <3 it means a lot cos I love this project to bits, but it's still one of my least played games alongside Apartment No.9, so I'm always chuffed whenever it gets some love ^-^ The team worked crazy hard to get it finished in time for the end of the jam. I'd really love to be able to do some spin-off type stuff with it because it was such a fun world to live in for the month, and I'd like to spend longer with it cos all the characters really grew on me by the end of the jam, haha.
And I'm glad you approve of the non-binary characters :3 I've had a very small amount of hate over it for some reason >.< 1 or 2 nasty comments and a couple of abusive 1* reviews from folks who clearly don't like that aspect of it! But I've had that in the past for some of my older games for simply having pronouns unstated, or for having a choice of pronouns. I don't know why anyone would get angry about either of those things because I mean, what's wrong with having more inclusive options? T_T But anyways, I have a few friends who are non-binary, so it made sense to try and have a more diverse cast of characters :3
I love this game! You did such an amazing job! Brilliant, just brilliant <3 Thank you so much for sharing it with us
P.S. Also hello from fellow "Inside No. 9" fan)
So happy you had fun with it ^-^ It always gives me fuzzies when I see some Limbo Line love, haha. It was such a fun project to work on.
Also, *high five* for the Inside No. 9 love :D I haven't seen the new Christmas special yet, but I'm excited to! Hoping it's a gooden :3 It's such a good shoooow <3
Thank YOU for taking the time to check the game out and write such a kind comment ^-^
Okay, okay! I've played it for a bit. I'll definitely finish it at some point but my workload needs to get decreased some more before I even could T^T So anyway, first off, I feel like I've been duped after receiving that ending when I made that
first choiceweeeeeelp, I've also been duped the second time lol. It seems I can't randomly give out compliments (tho that person deserved it because that person definitely looks fabulous). I'll be writing another comment soon! When I finish. I'll definitely remember these embarrassing outcomes of my choices for sure!!!! 😂Hehe, there is rather a lot of silly mixed in with the serious in this one x3 It's been so long that I can't even remember all of the choices and the endings now xD I do remember confusing the crap out of myself trying to make sure everything lead to the correct places though, haha.
Anyways, hope your workload doesn't squish you too much so you can survive and have time to relax x3
A month?? I find it really impressive that you made this in a month, you did an amazing job. ^^ Honestly this is one of my favorite games now. <3
Aww, woo! So glad to hear it <3 It's probably still my favourite project of all the ones I've worked on so far x3 and yet still one of the least played T_T haha. It wouldn't have been possible without the awesome jam team! We sure worked our butts off to get it done in time, haha.
OK, so whoever isn't the dev and is reading this: HERE BE SPOILERS.
Wow, this is excellent! Unless you look very closely (or look at itch.io's handy sidebar of links), you'd be hard-pressed to say this was made in one month - or even for a game jam! The characters, the lore, the puzzles...oh, it's so good! I love how the admins of Limbo are basically Great Old Ones, that Loki, upon his (their?) timely demise, got locked into a particular form, dumped into manager detail for all eternity, and foisted with a decidedly-uninspired pseudonym, the janitor is better at sucking up compliments than actual garbage, and the resident symbiote is not an ice queen by choice, but rather because literally having multiple persons inside a single host body means displaying emotion is chaotic and decidedly undemocratic (they can't all be Dax from Star Trek, I suppose :P ).
The side puzzles and content on the PC and the phone truly elevate this game beyond a typical VN, making it closer to something like Snatcher (the good parts). And the micro-ARG/unfiction puzzle was clever as well...though I will say the password was difficult to understand once translated, even when slowing down the tempo and upping the volume. Thank goodness I got close enough Google auto-corrected my answer to the real one!
Anyways, love the MC's reaction to Deadly Desires' "funeral package". Honestly, I would've loved for that number and its choices to lead to a number of comedic bad ends, whether it be from being damned for having a private orgy with Romeo during probation or the MC being completely insane and accepting the "funeral package".
My two complaints are nitpicks, especially given this was done within the timeframe of a one-month game jam: I wish there was even more and more fleshed-out content, and the male voice actor for Loki has worse line delivery than the female voice actress. In fact, it sounded like the latter was doing a bad impression of the former.
Lastly, my one actual critisism, which was to let Loki speak as they preferred instead of sticking to one type of voice - I mean, the player got assaulted by an energy demon and introduced to Limbo by a robot-headed being of some kind, so hearing a voicechanger's natural voice couldn't possibly be weirder than that - but having gotten all the endings and artwork, I see now that would ruin the revelation the player can come to in that "Kiol" is really Loki.
Huzzah \^_^/ So glad you ended up having fun with it! Yeah, that was one wild September xD Now you can probably see why I tried to tell myself this year that surely making 2 shorter games couldn't be more difficult than making 1 longer one x3 cos I was thinking in terms of Limbo Line, haha. That was really pushing the limit of what could be squeezed into a 1 month jam game though x3
Again, it would've been impossible without having such an awesome team! Everyone worked craaazy hard. I remember being up at like 4/5am and saying to the lead artist, you should go to bed, and she was like, well, YOU should go to bed xD How on earth everyone managed to produce as much art as they did in that month, or how the VAs recorded all those lines, I do not know, but clearly, everyone was as crazy as me, haha.
I was so desperate to try some new things I'd never tried before, which is where a lot of the side stuff came from. I have this rule/challenge I set myself to try and learn something new every time I take part in a jam. But I went a little wild on that front with this project! I still think if proper coders saw my code for the phone stuff they would probably laugh their asses off at me because I know there must've been a more efficient way of doing that! But I was just happy I managed to figure something like that out on my own really x3 even if it is probably backwards as heck.
“The janitor is better at sucking up compliments than actual garbage”
This made me laugh out loud when I was reading through everything you wrote xD
And it's funny you should mention Star Trek because my family and I had actually been watching Star Trek Discovery around the time Spooktober was going on last year, and it was actually seeing the character of Adira Tal that made me want to include some kinda host x symbiote type character in the mix somewhere!
I guess I should probably put everything else under a big ol'....
!!SPOILERS WALL!!
Totally agree with you on that password, so thank feck for Google auto-correcting I guess x3 Doesn't help that my mic is not the best, but also all the effects kinda drown out the whispering too much >.< I had a lot of fun with the mini ARG though, haha. I remember when I walked down to the place to put the poster with the number to call puzzle, my dad was really paranoid we were gonna get security telling us off xD The place I put it is public land, but the spring borders an extremely posh estate who have cameras everywhere, one of which is directly facing that spring. He kept telling me to hurry up with the photos because it looked like we were acting suspiciously and someone was probably watching x3
I would've liked to have done more with it because I had hoped to add the Architect from a couple of my other games to the end of that particular puzzle, but there just wasn't time in the end.
Oh man, it's been so long that I can't even remember what Nine's reaction to the DD funeral package was xD Not gonna lie, I too would love to have done more with all the Deadly Desires stuff, haha. So much of all the side/extra parts were rushed because of the jam's time limits >.< Some of it wasn't even remotely planned, haha. It's just I kept having random ideas of things I wanted to add, especially when the team was discussing various things in the team discord server cos there were several occasions when someone said something and I immediately thought, ooo, I know, we're gonna add this! It eventually got to a point where I had to force myself to stop adding things if we wanted to get everything finished in time.
But hey, there's no saying stuff can't be explored in the future at least :3 In fact, the lead artist and I really want to return to the project and its characters at some point in the future! We were hoping to possibly add DLC or spinoff scenarios themed around other jams, so like the possibility of romance and stuff when Valentine's sorts of jams happen in Feb (though that didn't work out this year, and I ended up doing Yandere Jam instead!) or even making a spinoff or alternate reality kinda story one year for a future Spooktober. LPB has been super swamped with college work though + commissions, so it's not really been possible for either of us to get together and team up to work on new stuff. But yeah, we'd both like to :3
That's interesting your opinion on Kiol's VAs :o I don't think I could pick a favourite if I were just completely unbiased myself. As a player though, personally I would pick/prefer the masculine voice option just cos if a game tells me to pick between male/female masc/fem for a character that isn't MC, I will always pick masc, haha. And for MC I will always pick fem. Just cos those are my personal preferences.
Yeah, with Kiol's voice, I knew I wanted to give the player a choice because ever since making Impostor, I've tried my best to give players an option, whether there's romance in the game or not. Kiol seemed like the perfect character to be given multiple voices + I figured it would also help solve the issue with Mallory on the phone, as I feel like if the VA for each version had just used a slightly different voice, it still might have been recognisable and given the game away far too early >.< So using both voices helped with that problem too.
I'm just really glad you decided to check it out and that you ended up enjoying it overall :3 LPB recently made some anniversary art that she posted on Twitter and I retweeted to try and get the game some more plays. A few more downloads did trickle in, but not many T_T haha. It's so frustrating because I feel like maybe people who like my other games avoid this one because it's not a dating sim/there's no romance? And that's fair enough if they're only interested in playing stuff that has that sort of content, but I do wish I could tempt more people into checking out Limbo Line somehow x3
Anyways, thanks for all your kind words again <3
i just realised i didnt post a comment under this game which is ??? mindblowing ?? bc this is my fav vn from my fav dev on itchio ???? anyway this game is so good and underrated, if you're reading this and you're considering downloading this game but you're hesitating bc you generally dont play VNs without romance (or bc you've come to expect yandere romances), this is your sign, DO NOT PASS IT UP !!!! just trust me, this game is so good!!
hint: follow the secret side quest ;)
Aww x3 I feel honoured to be anyone's favourite dev on itch <3 gives me the super fuzzies ^-^ Glad you decided to check this one out too cos it's probably the one I'm most proud of still :3 It's harder to choose now I've released another couple for Spooktober Jam this year, haha. But I reckon Limbo probably still takes the top spot just cos of all the extra bits and bobs I was able to put in there!
And I'm really glad you enjoyed it so much :3 Here's to hoping some folks might read what you wrote and decide to check it out too cos it's still one of my least downloaded projects T_T A few more downloads trickled in after LPB made the awesome anniversary art for the game that she put up on Twitter and I retweeted it recently :3 But I kinda wish I could grab everyone who has played any of my other games and just go, come here, play this one xD
Hehe, tis quite the rabbit hole that side quest :P
Thanks so much for your kind words <3
i actually played it quite a long time ago now but somehow forgot to comment TwT .. which doesnt make any sense bc this game is easily one of my faves on this platform ?? i'm glad you're proud of this game bc it really is deserving of pride!! and i really do wish more people would check this out :') i just wanna go "hey guys !!!!! check out my fav dev !!!!!!!!!" also yeah, that side quest is so fun xDD so !!! thank you for your response, and keep up the great work!!
I forget stuff all the time x3 and also mean to do things one day, but then repeatedly put it off for whatever reason (quite often just forgetting xD) and then before I know it, ages has passed!
Hehe :3 Well, even if not many people ever see it or play it, I'm glad that those who have given it a go have had fun with it ^-^
A VN with no romance? Quite odd or rather uncommon. But if you say so with caps, then it seems nice enough to try.
And there's a secret side quest...? OoO
it is quite uncommon, but trust me, you wont regret playing this game at all :D!! those caps were the result of me channeling all the earnestness in my heart xDD .. there's no romance, but the game does a good job in hooking you and making you care about the characters, i even 100% completed the game and got all the endings, even though i rarely enjoy VN's without romance!! and yeah, there is an ARG-style secret side quest that involves looking through resources outside of the game to continue... and you can see the walkthrough posted here in the devlog if you get stuck :)!! enjoy :D!!
I can't believe your caps worked! :3 The game still gets next to no downloads T_T Itch analytics show folks tend to check out DD, Yandere Heaven, and more recently hits on Impostor, which is surprising given how old and clunky it is >.< But yeah, the little graph shows those are the main 3 getting views and downloads! And I'm sat here like, but, but! Limbo Liiiiiine, peopleeee T_T haha.
Thank you again though for putting that there for anyone who does happen to click on the page and make it down to the comments ^-^
i can't believe my caps worked either xDD i hope limbo line gets more exposure, your games are so good and they deserve it :D!! also, i just remembered that i recommended it to an irl friend as well!!
<3 Well, I hope that friend liked it if they ended up checking it out :3 Imagine if they did but they were just like, wtf is this shit? xD It's kinda weird cos none of my irl friends or family have ever played any of my games, haha. Well, my dad tried to play a tiny bit of Impostor, but the laptop was so old it couldn't really handle it x3 He said he wants to, but all he's got that he can play on is his iPad, and I still don't know how the heck to get builds working on mobile T_T Would really love to put one or two of em on Switch if I could! I don't know how though >.<
Hope you end up having fun if you do decide to play it :D
I haven't played it yet but I would like you to know I've downloaded it! I even shared it with friends! I'll definitely be asking for progress once the Sem break starts. I'm basically an advertising maniac. MWAHAHAHAHA
Hello! So, i will pass to the spoilers right away so don't read my review if you don't have play the game ! :)
/!\ Spoilers /!\ Spoilers /!\ Spoilers /!\
I played Limbo the 16 April, so i will say right away i'm sorry if my review is wonky it's be a long time i write the review somewhere in my phone and i don't remember well the story to correct it well, so sorry ^^'!
So, just the homepage (menu), i like it! It's throw you in the atmosphere!
Poor Nine for being between realms as an sentence on a support line, well it's can be a worse job but no thanks lol
Anyway at my first try, i end in the bad endings with Kiol. When they keep you in their locker. Hahaha <_< I like their design buuuut get away for me, please, thanks, goodbye!
And i have one of the good end? With Niard. Meh. Not so bad, i guess. ...Probaly.
For the chara! Poor Soul... </3 But for me, i like it! ^^
I have the bad ending when Mallory (Kiol, then?) kill Nine? Because i being a ass to Malory so yeah, i was surprise and doing that in the night so i was creep out a little, haha.
I have the good ending!... i think? The one with credits? Anyway, i loved this game ! And, well even if Kiol creep me out a little a little, i like their character in a way! I having all the good ending for the characters that Nine call in their work and, well idk how many ending this game have, but, i have four ending? Two bad ending, a good ending? And happy ending with the credits? I liked all the characters ! :) Anyway, thanks the team for the game!
It's totally fine :D I think it's just really sweet that you decided to come back and leave such a lovely review ^-^
I guess I better say the rest under...
!!!SPOILERS!!!
Hehe, yeah, I don't think many people would really wanna be stuck in Kiol's locker forever x3 And I'm not sure many people would really wanna be saved by Niard either xD but I suppose it's better than living the rest of your life in a cupboard! I don't think I'd mind being saved by Niard though cos the character really grew on me while I was putting everything together x3
Yeah, that's one of the bad endings where Mallory/Kiol kills Nine :P I had fun putting that one together with all of LPB's awesome art :D And the bad end with Lefu! That was so fun to make, haha.
You're right though, if the credits roll and you have the little chibi of Nine in charge of the office, that's the good ending :D
To be honest, without checking the guide, I can't remember all the endings myself xD There are a bunch of main endings where most of em are bad, and the only sorta good ones are the one you got with the credits + the one where Niard rescues you from Kiol's cupboard x3 Pretty much everything else is a bad end! And some of them are bad ends that have nothing to do with the main story, like if you interact with the djinn or you mess up with the demon on the phone, haha.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it anyways :3 Thank you so much for playing <3
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A certain manager is going to give me stress lines. Aside from that, I loved this game!! The characters were all lovely, and the callers were surprisingly non-aggressive. Thank you for making this game
Hehe x3 oops! Thank YOU for playing it :3 And for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment <3
Здравствуйте, уважаемые разработчики!
Мне очень понравилась эта игра. Я наткнулся на нее на YouTube и решил сыграть сам. И мне очень понравилась игра, особенно сами персонажи. Мне больше всего нравился Ашерос, но мне было грустно, потому что я не узнал о нем больше в игре. Что ж, мне очень понравилась игра.
Могу ли я узнать, будут ли обновления в этой игре? Или добавить что-то к сюжету? Также я думаю, что игра может стать довольно популярной, если выйдет в Steam. Что ж, желаю вам прогресса в игре и ее популярности :)
Hey hey! :3 I used Google translate to read your comment, so I hope that I'm not making any mistakes here. It seemed like the translation was pretty good though because everything made sense :D
Thank you so much for playing the game and taking the time to leave such a sweet comment ^-^ I really appreciate it. I'm so glad you decided to play the game yourself after seeing it on YouTube, and even more happy that you ended up enjoying it :3
Sadly, it's one of my least played games, but it's my favourite one that I've made so far, and the one I'm most proud of!
The lead artist (LazyPolarBear) and I did want to explore the Limbo Line world and characters more at some point. We even hoped to make a sort of spin-off for a Valentine's jam or something, potentially with some romance, but we both ended up being too busy and burned out to do that this year. Both of us would really like to make some sort of new content related to the game at some point though! I'm just not sure when we'll end up having the time to work on it >.<
It would be really cool to have this and some of my other games on Steam, but sadly, the $100 fee is really offputting, especially when it's a free game so we would never get the money back :( I also totally suck at marketing and social media, so the game would probably get buried quite easily on there, and then no one would know it exists >.< One day though I might be able to add it :3
Thanks again for all your kind words ^-^ I hope you have a great week!
Oooh dear... Poor Nine x3 I haven't seen the video yet, but yeah, I can see the oops from the thumbnail, haha. But hey, at least that particular bad end is one that's pretty easy to avoid :D If I'm remembering correctly, I think that's the one where you just don't answer that one call and go investigating instead x3
So glad you've been enjoying it :D It's by far the most fun I've had yet working on a project, though, I think maybe I should have tried to make something a bit shorter cos I gave myself, the artists, and the VAs waaaaay too much work for 1 month xD I hardly slept last September cos I knew I wouldn't finish in time for the jam deadline if I did, haha. Definitely my favourite jam I've taken part in so far though :3 And I couldn't have done it without all the awesome folks who helped me bring the project to life!
I'm gonna try and make something for Spooktober VN jam again this year, but probably not as long as this one, haha.
Thanks so much for playing it cos it's one of my least downloaded games (which totally sucks cos I personally think it's the best one of all of em x3) and I hope you end up having fun with the rest of it :D
PS. I noticed the settings UI was a bit wonky in the first video >.< I really wish I could get it to work properly cos it's supposed to adapt to any window size changes and stuff, but it always seems to go a bit wonky on anything other than 1920x1080 fullscreen no matter what I do T_T I saw the PC UI and text box UI seemed to be okay though, so hopefully, you don't get too many issues with that.
Hey I'm been having a blast playing this game hopefully can finish the next episode soon and yeah my fist video of this game did act up a bit but thankfully my other videos don't seem to have that same problem hopefully my next video of this game continues to go smoothly and definitely one of my favorite games of yours since I started playing your games Imposter and Yandere Heaven were great but this one takes it another level seriously I didn't think a game about a phone line would be fun. Keep up the great work :)
I'm glad it managed to fix itself at least :3 I wish I could make perfectly working UI that never goes messed up, but it seems impossible xD
Maybe that could be one of the reasons why not many people have played this one cos people might look at the page and think it doesn't sound that fun, so then they don't check it out >.< haha. I did kinda struggle with how to describe the game! And I guess with my other projects it's more obvious what the story and stuff is about, whereas with this one, it's kinda hard to tell from the title. I do wish more people would give it a chance though cos I'm so proud of this one and of all the people who helped me bring it to life :3
Hope you manage to make it to one of the good endings! Though, to be fair, some of the bad endings are more fun :D
having a lot of fun with this game uploaded a part 2 I'm enjoying this game a lot
I definitely recommend to anyone to play this game this was such an interesting idea and this was amazing. :)
AAa sorry to bother, but the mac download isnt working for me somehow?? Like i download it, but there isnt anything in my files to open and play the game? ;-;
No worries, it's no bother at all. I just replied to your other comment in the bugs section with a link to a guide of helpful tips for opening my games on Mac, but I will link it here too in case anyone reads your comment and also has the same problem :3 Hopefully at least one of the bits of help on there will work for everyone.
https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/darling-duality-winter-wish/devlog/227880/...
So, love the game so far and not sure if I'm missing something, but the game started out normally however for a second I switched to a windowed ver not the full screen, since my laptop needs me to manually take any SS, but now the menu seems.. broken? Idk what happened, but now whenever I'm in the starting screen, whenever I try to load something or used the arrows to go up or down, it's all tilted to the left side and clipping through borders? Also, I'm able to only load my game from the start menu as the menu bar does not show up during my game at all anymore, meaning I can't save any further than I did before it broke. I'm only able to read logs or go back and forth using the mouse wheel. I deleted and redownloaded the game and somehow my progress saved, but so did the glitch?? I'm using the normal and not the potato ver, so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the issue I'm having?
Again, love the game, sry to bother, but I tried to look for a solution and I'm unsure of what to do at this point. Should I just try the potato version instead? Will that maybe help?
Glad you were enjoying it before it decided to go silly on you x3 Unfortunately, I'm not really sure why it would do that >.< I know there are sometimes UI layout issues if a player is playing in a different resolution to what I've designed the UI in cos for some reason, the UI scaling sometimes goes really weird! Which is one of the reasons I lock resolution to 1920x1080 16:9 in the build settings. Somehow though, that doesn't seem to make a different when it comes to windowed mode and resizing windows >.< The UI is supposed to scale with whatever the player has for their screen, but even in testing, I find it rarely displays correctly and I have no idea why :( So frustratingly, it's probably not something I'm going to be able to fix >.<
I might still be able to help somewhat though to get it back to how it was in the first place! At least I really hope I can.
I know you said you deleted the game and stuff and redownloaded it, then found that your save was still there and it was still all messed up. That could potentially be because of where some of the files end up hidden on a PC! Again, I'm not a techy person, so I don't really know why this happens, but I wound up having to look into why saves don't disappear while testing games in the past, and people said it's because just deleting the game .exe and folder doesn't actually delete the data. You have to go searching for that in a different place >.<
I can't say for sure, but whenever I download Unity games (same goes for the ones I've made) by default, the data seems to go under:
C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\LocalLow\MelancholyMarionette\LimboLine\NaninovelData\Saves
The appdata folder is hidden by default I think though, so you'd have to go into your folder and file settings and tick the box to enable hidden folders to show up. You can just delete the whole Limbo Line folder to completely get rid of save data and start from scratch. Then whenever you restart the game, it'll just generate a brand new folder.
But trying the potato version might be an easier way of starting over because it should technically register as a different game on your PC to the normal version, and so it shouldn't recognise any save data from the normal version, and it should allow you to start from scratch without having to go hunting down that pesky hidden folder and deleting it!
Sorry I can't be of more actual help though >.< It's always next to impossible for me to fix bugs if I can't recreate them on my PC since I'm a solo dev that isn't even an actual coder, and only have 1 PC and 1 really crap laptop to test stuff on x3 And thank you for checking out the game + attempting to persist with it even though it went crazy on you! :3
Thanks for such a quick reply, it's rly appreciated :] , I tried the first option with my files as I thankfully wasn't too far into the game, so it wasn't as big of a deal for me to start over, but now it seems to work alright now that the actual file was replaced! If it does happen again (though I'll try to not glitch it out weirdly again), then Idm going for the potato ver. either way tho. Still, the game is rly great, it's always amazing to see individuals or rly small teams come up with one, as I find they're usually much more authentic and have a lot of love/effort put into them :3. Honestly, it's rly inspiring . One of my favourite parts are probably the plot and characters when it comes to this genre of games and this game proved to be outstanding in both. It's one of my favourite experiences when I find I game with plot, so interesting I can't put it down. All chracters have depth and their personalities seem to just match perfectly in general, like nothing seems "forced" or "out of ordinary". I'm also a sucker for humour and this game did not disappoint, I was unironically bawling from laughter for a lot of these moments, (or it could just be my broken humour, but I think both tbh lol), but could truly connect to the character as well, whenever there was a clear switch in the mood. You can clearly see that, despite not all characters being human, they are all relatable and complex in one way or another, which rly conveys good writing. And the art /designs are just *chef's kiss* ToT
No worries! I'm not always on the ball with my responses cos I get so easily overwhelmed x3 but I do try to be as prompt as possible. It's always frustrating if people who are actually taking the time to check out my stuff run into problems cos half the time I likely don't know how to help with not being super code-savvy >.< and when I've put so much effort into what I make, it sucks if someone can't even play it properly cos of a bug, haha.
I'm glad it sorted itself out for you and I really hope it doesn't bug out on you again >.< I wish I could be more helpful in that department, but usually when bugs are reported that I haven't encountered myself while testing, whenever I start looking up potential causes and how to fix them, I either can't find relevant info, or the stuff I'm looking at is discussed by folks who actually know what they're doing with code, and I can't understand a word that they're saying x3
I'm so glad you've been enjoying the game anyhow! It's been the most fun project that I've worked on so far ^-^ And I'm super happy and relieved that you liked the humour in it because I worried that because it can be so dark at times, folks might not always get that it's supposed to be that sorta dark humour and mistake it for insensitivity or something >.< I know it wouldn't be to everyone's taste x3 I've always loved that sorta thing though, but that could be cos I'm British xD
I can't take 100% credit for the entire plot or the humour though since the overall story was inspired by an episode of one of my favourite anthology series' (Inside No 9 - Cold Comfort). I kinda wanted to make an adaptation that stayed true to the original story while trying my best to put my own spin the idea by adding new characters, many different branches and possibilities, a completely different world setting, and, of course, a protagonist with their own thoughts and feelings. And then I tried to stick with the general tone of the original work in terms of the bleak comedy elements. That's where the voice acting also really added to some of the humourous elements because they were able to add extra layers and improvisations to things like the phone calls.
I could never had made something like this alone. Everyone worked crazy hard during the jam to bring it all to life :3 I'm still in awe of the fact that everyone was willing to jump on the crazy train with me and put so many hours into it x3 and extremely grateful that they did! I remember quite a few nights where I'd still be up at 3/4am working away on it, and realise that our lead artist was also still awake working. We'd both tell each other to go to sleep, but then still stay up another hour or so, haha. The amount of art she created for this in the space of a month is absolutely mindblowing. And everyone had their own ideas and inputs that took the project to places I hadn't envisioned alone. For example, I was discussing some stuff with the team about Maddie, and someone said oh, it would be so cool if... I can't remember how the whole conversation went, but their suggestion was enough to spark an idea for the entire Maddie side story and the ARG that accompanied it xD That wasn't even planned in the initial planning stage of the jam. Maddie started out as a character to be briefly mentioned and then never really seen again! And she wound up with her own side story, haha.
So yeah, working with a team was so much better than working solo :3 Not only did everyone's combined talents allow me to construct something I never could have by myself, it also made me able to get more work done that I could ever have imagined in that space of time from the sheer support and encouragement everyone gave me! When I look back at the project, I can hardly believe we managed to pull it off in time to submit something for the end of the jam xD It was one of the most exhilarating months I've ever spent working on a project though :3
So yeah, thanks so much for checking it out, for persisting with it despite the damn bug, and for all your kind words ^-^
I PRETTY MUCH LOVE THIS ESPECIALLY KIOL AND NINE'S RELATIONSHIP XD there's so many things to uncover about this and that's what makes you draw in! the effort you guys put into this was ASTOUNDING! I'm pretty much in love with the bloopers! so addicting!!!! GREAT GAME, DEF RECOMMEND IT TO PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOODY OL' MYSTERIES!
Woo! I'm glad you had fun with it :D It was definitely my favourite project so far to work on :3 It was just amazing to have the opportunity to work with such an awesome team to bring it all to life cos I sure as heck couldn't have made this one on my own with the huuuuge amount of art and voice acting involved!
I'm so proud of everyone, and for once in my life, even proud of myself for what I managed to learn while working on this, haha. I was determined to figure out how to have things like the phone, the PC, and the ARG, haha. But going into the jam, I had no idea how to actually get stuff like that to work xD I'm sure the way I coded them is probably extremely messy and totally wrong. There had to be an easier way to do it, but just the fact that I managed to figure out a way to make it work made me happy x3
I'm a big fan of bloopers in anything, haha. If I buy a DVD and there aren't any bloopers in the extras, I'm disappointed xD So I always ask any voice actors I'm working with to keep their bloopers if they don't mind them going in a blooper reel :D
It still makes me a bit sad that this is one of my least played projects x3 cos I personally feel like it's the best one, but it's not had many downloads at all >.< So thank you very much for taking the time to check it out and leave such a lovely comment ^-^
ITS FREAKING AWESOME!!!! I loved it so much, I'm gonna make my friends play it ^^ <333333
Woo! Glad you enjoyed it :D Making it was so much fun, even if I didn't get much sleep that month xD
I hope your friends end up enjoying it too then :3 Thanks so much for taking the time to play it + comment <3
Also, you have to apologize because now my simp list became longer thanks to Kiol AND...
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Also still a great game <33
Hehe, oops! Apologies x3 That is so sweet though! I'm loving the love for Nine ^-^ I still have a soft spot for Niard, stupid snake >.> Don't even know how that happened, haha.
Love the game! First ending caugth me really off guard!
Glad you had fun :D Hehe, man, all those endings were soooo fun to make :3 And because we had such amazing artists on the team for the jam, it meant it was possible to give things a much more cinematic look!
I haven't had a chance to check out your videos for it yet, but I will do when I have more time :3 Thanks so much for showing Limbo Line some love cos it's my least played game for some reason >.< It even has less downloads than Yandere Heaven, despite YH only just being released this Feb when LL was out last year >.< It's like for some reason, people skim past it x3 but I feel like it's probably my best project so far since I was able to team up with so many wonderful people for the jam to really bring everything to life together :3
Thanks so much for checking it out :3 I haven't had a chance to watch any of your video yet, but I will when I can!
Glad you can see the love :D We all worked craaaazy hard on it, haha. Many, many late nights were had that month x3 It's also my least played game for some reason >.< so I really appreciate you showing it some love :3
Hey! I saw on a few previous posts of yours that you include the "yandere" trope in each of your games with at least one character. I'm a huge fan of the yandere stereotype and unfortunately I'm having a difficult time finding games like that. I was wondering if this game, as well as your other game Clarity in Qualia would happen to have one of those characters? I've already played all of your other games and they're amazing :)
As you can probably guess, it's my favourite trope x3 along with the yangire, haha.
It's a tough one to answer with Limbo Line because while I personally believe that one of the characters can be described as a platonic yandere, some folks out there would say that there can be no such thing as a platonic yandere >.<
I can sorta see both sides of the argument! But being asexual myself and knowing how strongly I can feel about certain subjects or people, I personally believe that platonic yandere types can exist, and that you can absolutely have strong (unhealthy) feelings for someone without there being a sexual or romantic element to them necessarily. Certainly strong enough to be considered detrimental to your own + the object of your feelings'mental health x3
So yeah, make of that what you will, haha. Just know that there is no actual romance in Limbo Line! But there is absolutely a character in there with obsessive and other yandere-type traits :3
It's easier to answer regarding Clarity in Qualia, haha. There is 1 true yandere character in the mix + 1 character with yandere-like traits who I still haven't decided quite how far to take their yandere-ness! However, I wouldn't recommend playing the current demo for CiQ as it is incredibly outdated. I've since changed the sprites + added VA for the new version of the demo (which is currently finished, but unreleased due to general lack of interest in the project.) I would say with CiQ, you're better off waiting until I've eventually released the whole game. Even if I were to release the new demo, the yandere character doesn't display any of their yandere-ness within the introductory portion of the game.
I'm not gonna completely abandon CiQ. Not when the story is already written, the new sprites are complete, and the characters all have VAs cast >.< There's too much work gone into the project to just leave it behind. But it is sorta just paused at the moment while I focus on getting some updates for DD out first.
Thanks so much for playing my other stuff :3 I'm so glad you've had fun with them!
10/10 Extremely amazing!!!
I'm so glad you think so :D The team worked crazy hard on the project to get it finished in time for the jam deadline, haha. And it's probably the project I'm most proud of so far! I learned a hell of a lot throughout the jam, and getting to work with so many amazing people to bring the world to life was just the best ^-^ Thanks so much for playing!
You all did such a good job! It was honestly the first time I've played something like this and it was sooooo good! Thank you!
scrolling thru rambling roses twitter page trying to find the phone number rn U_U im definetely not good at riddles
If you still need help, head here to the walkthrough, and if you scroll down to the comments and look for comments by a user called "Luca_the_sinner" you'll find some hints that I gave when they asked + the actual answers if you'd prefer that to just hints :3
Thanks for playing the game by the way! Hope you're enjoying it so far ^-^
Tysmm :D that really made it a lot more easier, great game btw! I got all of the endings without taking any breaks because of how interesting the whole thing was
I'm so glad you enjoyed it :D The whole team worked crazy hard to get everything done in time for the end of the jam, haha. And I'm so, so proud of everyone :3 Thank you so much for taking the time to play through it!
Hello Mari i hope you had a good day or night so far! just wanted to say how much i really enjoy yah games! i started playing your games at around 13/10/2020 and have been playing them since then you really know how to make a story interesting and you do amazing work! Tho do remember to take care of yourself tho for i see yah being a game making machine so i am a little concerned about yah so be sure to eat right and sleep well now bye bye!
Hey hey! I remember your username ^-^ Thank you so much for continuing to play my games and posting such lovely comments! I really appreciate it :3
That's so sweet of you :3 I'm actually a tiny bit ill at the moment, haha. I finally got to meet up with a friend that I hadn't seen for 2 years, and we went out and about, and now I have a cold xD I guess because we've been being so careful with covid around that now we all have weakened immune systems so as soon as we go places we get ill from all the bugs >.<
I did take most of October off after finishing Limbo Line at the end of September for the jam :3 But I kinda wound up playing all of the jam games which became quite hard since there were so many xD I'm supposed to be going back to working on DD now, but I have lots of brain fog and just tired all the time even though I've been getting plenty of sleep >.< I'll take it slow though :3
Thanks again for all your kind words! I hope you're well and that your week is going great so far :3