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
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
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
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 throughthe 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
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
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!
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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!