I love love love the game sooo much, more than I realise. I took me forever to play this game but I enjoyed it thoroughly.
MAJOR SPOILERS LIKE THIS WOULD RUIN THE WHOLE GAME EXPERINCE IF U READ THIS. WARNING WARNING.
Finally putting my art gcse into use.
Lololol it's messy but I like it. Idk I felt so bad for dollmaker Kuro and clone 339. The world was against them, and they went up against the world, they gave their lives for love. The love of shiro and Mc.
I just find it so sad because they only had such short moments of happiness in hell. They've only know pain and suffering, waking up in a war....I wished they had a proper happy ending, but ngl I understand why they didn't have a happy ending.
Idk I just like dollmaker Kuro out of everyone, because he genuinely cares about Mc from the bottom of his heart, and in a world full of darkness his clinging onto what little hope there is... warmed my heart.
Nahhh and when I found out that Bad end 6 was actually a bad end cause although they're free, theyr were going to be eaten/destroyed by monsters. NOOOOOOO
So I drew this cause in another lifeee, they would be aliveeee. Any ways my drawing is the canon Cg for good ending 3, where my babies are alive
Also the game's theme song is really really good.
I wish you the best and stay safe during these crazy times
I’m glad you decided to check it out & that you had fun with it ^-^ Thanks so much for playing! And also thanks for sharing that awesome art!! It’s beautiful <3
I guess I should also say...
SPOILERS below x3
Tbh, I also felt really bad for them xD And at the same time, I also feel bad for players that I didn’t give them an option of a happier ending x3 It makes me feel kinda evil, haha.
Then again, it was supposed to be a pretty bleak story of despair, sooooo *insert evil laughter here* :P
But yeah, to me, that particular pairing was my OG couple, even if they weren’t technically the OGs, haha.
I’m happy you ended up liking dollmaker Kuro the best because he was also my favourite Kuro :D I’m not usually into characters who look or act more childlike, but the more I wrote for him, the more heart kinda just bled for the poor fella because he’s so innocent and his love is so pure, bless him!
Your drawing is so sweet & gorgeous! Absolutely love it ^-^
Glad you like the theme song too! I was rewatching Spirited Away the other day & it suddenly hit me how similar SR’s opening instrumental part is to Haku’s theme x3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSHC4l0qAk
I only wrote the lyrics & performed the female vocals on that, so it wasn’t my fault, haha. My friend wrote the music itself & did male vocals. And now I am wondering if it is a coincidence or if he somehow had Spirited Away’s soundtrack in his head influencing him subconsciously xD
Thank you so much for taking the time to type up such a lovely comment & for playing the game anyhow! I wish the best to you too & hope you are also able to stay safe + well :3
Hello TvT do you still have all the route sprites of kuro and shiro? I wanted to make a video of them and also the mc if you still have can you send it to me? :D
Hmm, I actually don’t know x3 I really hope so somewhere!! But because all my SR project files were on an ancient USB, I can’t remember if I backed them up to a hard drive, haha. I must’ve done, but I haven’t finished sorting out a lot of my files since getting my new PC >.<
Even if I can find them though, I’d have to put them on backgrounds or something to send because even though they were made in the generator I purchased, the artist still stated in their terms of use that any characters you make in the generator must not be posted anywhere on their own as PNGs/JPEGs, etc. >.< They have to be in a game, in a video, on a web page sorta thing, unfortunately :(
I’m guessing it wouldn’t be very helpful to send them with backgrounds though >.<
Yeah, that’s fine :3 I mean, I doubt the artist would ever even know about it if I did just send the sprites without a background, but it’s just one of those things where I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to do it cos it would be morally wrong after agreeing to the terms of use x3
It might take me a little while to actually locate the files cos I’ve got a lot of irl stuff to catch up on this month that I’ve been neglecting >.< but as soon as I have them, I’ll send them your way :3
Im kinda confused this is the GxB wherein Kuro is male? im so sorry to ask I dont mean to offend, but am I the one in the teaser pictures or is it kuro? the character looks like a girl or he is just long haired?
Yup, Kuro is male :3 And no worries at all! I know the sprites are a little odd in this, haha. I like androgynous-looking characters anyhow, but because this was my first-ever game, I didn’t have much choice but to use what I could find >.<
Basically, I couldn’t find a single sprite set from any artist that contained enough sprites to cover all the different worlds I hoped to portray in the project (my own dumb fault for trying to make such a long story for my first game >.<), but I did come across a sprite generator with a looooot of customisation options, enough to cover what I needed. I pretty much had no choice but to use it, haha.
I made every character sprite using the generator. It was cool because it had a wide range of hair pieces to combine to create different hairstyles, and also a decent number of clothing options, but it was lacking in the style of the eyes + the body models >.<
All the ones at the top of the page where it says “Choose your heroine. Choose your fate…” Then some pictures of heads with the captions of: “The Student, The Mage, The Princess, The Detective, The Gamer, and ???” are headshots of the heroine/MC/protagonist.
All the headshots below where it says “Your guardian spirit, Kuro, takes many forms…” are headshots of the different versions of Kuro from the different world routes in the same order as the headshots for MC are listed :3
So blue-haired Kuro = student route Kuro, green = mage route, yellow = clan princess route, magenta = detective route, purple = gamer route, and ??? = the hidden route.
Despite the fairly feminine appearance of Kuro, the voice acting actually matches the sprites really well :3
But yeah, Kuro is definitely a guy, but he does have long hair in a couple of the world routes, haha. Longest hair = mage route Kuro cos it’s down past his butt! x3
The most masculine-looking one is actually in the hidden route, haha.
I do hope to remake this someday since it was my first game and I have a lot more knowledge + use a different engine now, but it’s not a priority. Just something that would be really nice to eventually do when I’ve finished some of the projects I’ve currently got on the go.
Oh my goodness. I seriously needed to leave a comment after finally getting every ending. That was...beautiful. Absolutely wonderful!! I can't stop thinking about everything. I had a blast playing! That last part of the true ending made me sequel. I LOVE when games do that kinda thing. Such a fun way to freak someone out!! There was a lot of fun twists too. I may not totally understand what happened here 100%, but I had a damn fun time. Leaving with a ton of answers yet still getting some more questions is all part of the fun sometimes! You and everyone that took part in this game made something wonderful! Can't wait to play more of what you've done and check out everyone else's work!
<3 <3 <3 Thanks so much for checking it out & leaving such a kind comment ^-^ With this being my first-ever project and it looking a little dated now, I always imagine if anyone comes across it, they probably pass it up x3 So yeah, it means a lot that you gave it a chance and stuck with it :D
Glad you liked the freaky stuff too, haha. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm a sucker for that sort of thing, hehe.
If you do end up checking out more of my stuff, I hope you end up enjoying it just as much (or even more! x3)
Sorry I’m so slow >.< I’m suuuuuper behind on all my replies atm, and my PC died towards the end of April, so that hasn’t helped, haha. Now I’m working on something for otome jam, so I’m absorbed in that, but because I still don’t have a new PC up and running properly, I’m trying to do everything atm on the family potato laptop which is awful xD
I’m actually not sure what Shiro’s mbti would be! I’d have to go back through all the types and read up on everything again cos I don’t remember most of the info off of the top of my head x3
I know when I did mine yearsago, it said I was INFP-T, haha.
If I had to guess off the top of my head without researching more, I would guess Shiro would possibly be INFJ or ISFJ, but I couldn’t say for sure >.<
i cannot resist the urge to make another fan art of this game soo...xD
they look so lovely here full of love and affection wahhh TvT idk why i am so attached to this game actually i think it made me very comfortable when i played this game and i was so desperate to get to the ??? route LMAO thank you for making this beautiful game i am so shocked that you made this years ago.
And the amount of effort you made for this game is just it, i never seen any visual novel that had many effort's sometimes i just wonder why they aren't any fandom of this when you created this beautifully and the words got me dwelling lol
I cannot be much more sad that it isn't popular in tiktok it'd be nice if many many thousands of people know about this game and many fan arts of this
and if you recreate in this game in the future i hope it will be much more popular amongside thousands of people i mean this game has many players who played this before but it was before i actually got a glimpse of the old kuro design and it was great but i prefer kuro's style now i think that artstyle is 2000's anime artstyle if i am correct
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this game is so unique but we still don't know much about that guy on the end who kicked me out of the game (LOL) i was so scared that time and i was like what...?
And i wonder who is the guy and girl who speaks on the first route on ??? and who is Anathema exactly
is that guy some sort of uhm a guardian angel or something? or he is just watching our journey for fun or could he be the one behind this all?
i heard him say after i finished the game he said "No one can't love you like i do"
maybe perhaps he might be the real lover of Anathema? this is such a mystery that's why i love this game anyways just a question when will you recreate this game?
I give kudos to the voice actors and to you for you're all dedication of this game and the amount of time it must have taken is crazy...
anyways i give this game a 5 star i love this game sooo much i will always be back to play this >w< !!
And is that guy from the gamer route he sounds like it very much and he also called the player "Anathema" once so if my theory is correct he might be it
Actually are you still indeed of a CG Artist? you can hire me for free if you want >w< !! i want to support you i saw on your patreon bio that you're indeed of an Artist so maybe you can hire me! if you want anyways please if you made up you're mind please add me on my dc account it's rjifjriojrgitigtig#4901 it would be my pleasure to work with you! <3!
Oooo :o That one is so cool too! :D They do look so passionate and in love <3 hehe.
I'm glad you like it that much ^-^ I always think that people will just ignore it because it's old now, haha.
There's probably not much in the way of fandom for any of my games x3 It doesn't help that I tend to avoid social media because I find it too overwhelming >.< Because many devs are quite active on different social media platforms and are able to actively advertise and promote their projects, whereas I can't do that. So the only way anyone ever even finds out about my games is if they happen to just come across them on itch or if someone else recommends them somewhere I guess.
So yeah, I think the biggest problem is just that not many people actually know my games exist, haha.
It would be super cool if more people knew about this and my other games :3 And even cooler if there was more fan art :D I think my heart would explode with joy if I got fan art more often x3
I guess it must be a big help for visibility if you're able to promote your stuff on tiktok or if others talk about it on there with how popular it is! I don't even have a tiktok account >.< haha.
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You can meet that same character who harassed you in this game in one of my other projects (Apartment No.9 :D) and the character is also referenced but not actually seen/heard in Limbo Line too. The character is called The Architech (or Archie if you prefer something cuter x3) but they're currently hibernating. I plan to include more stuff related to them sometime in some of my other games though!
Anathema is technically you, the player :3 It's just what Archie calls you, kind of like a pet name, hehe.
Archie basically likes to stalk players through my different games x3 Even when Archie isn't physcially there speaking to you, Archie is always watching >.<
It will probably be quite a long time before I start working on the remake of this game because I need to finish some of my other long-term projects first. Once I've completed Clarity in Qualia, Darling Duality, and Bitter/Sweet, I might try to work on the remake then :3 But yeah, it's probably not gonna be for at least a couple of years >.< And when I do get started on it, it'll take me a while to finish since I will have to pretty much remake it from scratch as I can't use the code from Tyranobuilder in Naninovel x3
Yeah, the voice actors really poured their souls into their performances and the game wouldn't be the same without them all! :3 Cutting up and implementing all the voice lines took soooo long xD
Aww, well, thank you so much :3 It makes me super happy to know you like the game so much!
You're kind of correct because it's the same voice actor :P Just 2 different characters.
I'm always looking to work with different people on different projects, so it would be an honour to have an opportunity to work together with you on something at some point :D If it's a long-term project though, I couldn't possibly expect you to do a bunch of work for free >.< That wouldn't be fair to you!
When it comes to game jams and shorter projects, I tend to team up with people and we're all just working together for free just to try and make something cool together :3 But with long-term stuff, I have to try my best to pay people something, even if it's not much x3
I'll add you on Discord anyhow :3 Just know that I don't have notifications or anything on there, so I don't always know when I've got messages, and I tend to be quite slow to reply a lot of the time cos I get so easily overwhelmed >.< (edit: I tried to add you, but it failed x3 You're welcome to try adding me instead though if you want to :3 My name on there is just: melancholymarionette but I don't know what has happened to the numbers you used to get at the end of your name >.< )
Thank you again! :3 Hope you're having a good week so far :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH !! TvT i would like to help you remake this game (SR) i will volunteer to be the CG Artist and i don't really need payment or whatsoever lol i just do this for fun and you really inspired me TwT and i think Archie is mysterious yet thrilling lol xD and i would like to make a fanart of Archie and Player (Anathema) in the future if they have a game and character sprites!
And omg i didn't think that you would accept my silly volunteer and i'm really so HAPPY RIGHT NOWWW
Ohhh! it's okay i add you on discord! :3
And if you want me to draw some characters so far please just me their character spirtes and what expression or emotions they are feeling and the background :3 !
You don't need to thank me x3 I love working with different people :3 Working with others is one of the coolest things about making games cos you get to make something together :D
In all honesty though, it's probably not going to be for a few years at least before I can even start on remaking SR >.< I've got to finish everything I've already started first, and I know it's gonna take a long, long time.
I need to finish CiQ first, but after that, I've got to finish Darling Duality as well, and that's a pretty big project, so it's gonna take me over a year I reckon x3
I had hoped at one point to show a sprite of Archie in a game in the future, but I don't know if that's going to possible anymore >.< It's more likely I will be replacing Archie with a character that is related to them or something x3 but we shall see I guess!
Today i finished reading this VN, and it was wonderful! Even in the rough edges i feel like i can see the main ideas that they want to convey. My favorite route was the detective one as well, although my love for bad ends makes me fancy the student route as well xD! I played it from Windows 11, and everything went well (thought that information may be useful)
Playing a novel with these graphics(background and sprites) felt really nostalgic, i don't usually dwell in those feelings that much, but it was refreshing, and the CG's reminded me of Higurashi they were endearing! There were parts when the 4th wall breaking really got to me (usually when MC is doubting her reality, i was about to think that the ??? route wasn't the end and there was another route even if it wasn't listed here LOL)
Overall as a lover of yandere characters, i really like this novel :D! It's always nice to see more takes on this trope, it makes sense that someone develop this type of character in such dires escenearios. It would make sense that a character develops a extreme personality, grim situations bring harrowing consequences. Kudos to everyone that worked in this project, the effort and results are amazing and that is visible to me.
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Shiro and MC (the original ones), were pretty nice! Him accompannying you to the end in the anhilation route, accepting your dream world or protecting you at the cost of his life in the true end, it's a nice way to show his devotion even if he was subject to give up on hope for a long time. Other moment i really like is when he tries to help MC to manage her anger, so that she doesn't loose herself (even if it feels like vindication is the correct thing, it makes sense that MC would put the wellbeing of others above herself, since that's pretty much what the good endings of the other routes tell you)
Coming to think about it, most of the route good ends include options that encourages ideas like: "if you fail try again, trust Kuro, think that you have the power to overcome". Maybe it's intentional or not, but i can see some foreshadowing to the ??? route, probably i would be able to find more connections when i re-read it again :D. Speaking about that, it's kinda nice to see how the different Kuro's are handling the different simulations, i remember thinking that Mage route Kuro, had double personality out of nowhere, but in perspective if he was able to remember the many iterations of MC, then i see how that Kuro ended up coping in that way with his situation.
I also remember seeing the opening trying really hard to match all characters to one of the sprites of Kuro/Shiro and MC, but i ended up not being able to do so for the last one (did someone had a "x" clip on their hair?) then again it makes sense that we do not see all the iterations of Anathema lol and Kuro xD.
In the end although we didn't spend that much time with the original goods, i feel like we got to know them in the different routes played before. So i didn't feel detached from them (but i guess they feel a bit like skin walkers if i see them like that xD)
Now me, inserting hard in MC(don't kill me Kuro!): I usually feel some sort of Ego death on daily basis, not like "is anything real or not" kind and crisis of identity, but more like my sense of self just disolves? or sometimes i can see me from a distance (de-personalization) it's kinda weird to describe tbh, so this MC felt really reassuring to me, in her descriptions of oblivion or when he gattered herself together to make a comeback, it's kinda inspiring in some sense!
I'm a bit confused about the voice calling us Anathema, but seeing other comments, i see that is somewhat of a ongoing plot for your games! From what i can gather it seems like this entity will follow the player that it's interested on having fun in other fictional stories :P. Well i guess now i have a yandere following me through games although you tried to save me Dx
Firstly, I have to say that I’m loving your profile pic on here x3 ducks are the best!!! I swear I would be a happier person if I had some pet ducks, haha.
But anyways, thanks so much for playing this and taking the time to leave such a lovely comment too ^-^
That’s really interesting to know that it worked on Windows 11 :o That means it’s not specifically a Windows version problem that has prevented some folks from playing then >.< I dunno for the life of me why it won’t work for some people and is totally fine for others though :( Games made with Tyrano just seem to be strange like that >.<
So glad you ended up enjoying it :3 It feels so long ago now since I started and finished it, haha. Back then, I had pretty much consumed all the yandere content that was available to me at the time and decided I wanted to try and make my own x3 Fast forward to the present and there’s been an explosion of yandere stuff, especially in indie games! Now I’m spoiled for choice and have a huge backlog of yandere games to play xD I can’t believe how much has changed in that time, haha.
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I’m so glad you gave the whole game a chance cos I remember waaay back when I first released it, someone played the student route and gave up cos they said Kuro wasn’t a yandere, just a psycho, and that really hurt because if that person had kept playing, they would have learned so much more about the character and why the different iterations are the way they are >.< They even had a go at me saying I was wrong to tag the game with the yandere tag T_T
It just really stung because the whole point of this game was to show both the crazy and the loving side of a yandere character in different shades since I had come across many yanderes in games as a player where it was all crazy/psycho behaviour and seemingly no actual love or reason for behaving that way >.< For me to enjoy a yandere, I need there to be a reason for the creepy/crazy side of the behaviour, so I made it my mission and worked backwards on the story, starting with the hidden route stuff, and trying to show the consequences of it in the other routes.
So yeah, it sucked that that person didn’t give it enough of a chance to see that Kuro isn’t just a psycho >.<
Yeeeah, the voice is a character called The Architect (or Archie x3) and pops up in a few other places (next biggest appearance is in Apartment No.9), but they’re kinda on hiatus now, haha. It’s okay though cos they have a relation who will be making an appearance at some point x3
Thank you again for playing and I hope 2024 is going great for you so far! <3
Ah, that’s so awesome that you managed to finish it in the end :D
Hmm, I’m not sure how to even rank him tbh x3 I guess he’d probably score lower than all the Kuros, haha. But yeah, I don’t really know how to give him a score like I did the others.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and happy you managed to make it to the true end ^-^ Thanks so much again for playing it and for the awesome fan art <3
it's no big deal lol i usually love drawing fanarts of characters i obsess with lol i thought he was more dangerous than all the kuro's XD i got attached to this game actually anyways have a good day!
I actually enjoyed the game i'm in the brink of finishing the game and also the loop when i needed to kill kuro stopped and when i was able to finish it says "game over" since i think i needed to see the bad endings cgs and actually i made a fan art of shiro and mc and farro and mc! i love this game to be completely honest this is the best game i ever played everything and everything of this is really good i think i'm obessesed with shiro now lol by the way here's the fan art
I’m glad you’ve been enjoying it :3 And omg your fan art is so cute!! ^-^ Both of them look so adorable :D Thank you so much for showing me those! They’re amazing <3 I especially love how poor Farro is like a scared little kitty cat, hehe.
That really means a lot! I’m so happy you had fun with the game :3 I hope you’re able to see all the endings if you want to!
This was the first ever game that I made, so it’s a little bit rough x3 I hope to remake it someday with extra content now that I have learned a lot more about game dev :D
Thank you again for playing this one, for sending such cool fan art, and for all your kind words <3 I hope you get to have a fantastic February ^-^
omg your literally like a therapist your words get through me as though finishing the game i think it will be impossible since my sister is gonna sell my laptop and she wouldn't let me go near it T^T
i will really have a hard time finishing it but i think i come back for this actually ><
and i really think it would be cool you can remake the game someday i really love this game but please don't push yourself too hard T_T
and i enjoyed it especially the detective route but i really have to say this it's too much gory BUT but i really LOVE IT OMG ^^
anyways just a little feedback😔 when i leave the game my saves are all gone but nevertheless this game is really enjoyable i didn't even sleep just to get all the bad cgs and ending LMAO
That sucks that your sister is going to sell your laptop :( If you have a good enough phone, there is a thing you can get called Winlator that can manage to run some of the Windows versions of games here on itch.io, but usually only smaller games. I haven’t used it myself, but I know someone who has managed to play a few of my games using Winlator since they don’t have access to a computer.
Hehe, the detective route actually ended up being my favourite route to write, so I’m glad you had fun with that one :D Sometimes I forget how gory some of the moments in this game can be xD because most of my games aren’t tooooo gory, haha.
That’s so weird about your saves disappearing when you leave the game :o I have no idea what would cause that >.< I didn’t have any issues with the saves when I tested it on my computer years ago, but I know the engine I made the game in was a bit dodgy. Some people can’t even open the game on their computers and I have no idea why :( It’s one of the big reasons I switched to using a different software to make games, because Tyranobuilder seemed to have too many weird bugs for different people even though everything worked fine for me. Hopefully, if I can eventually remake the game in a different engine, it will solve all those strange problems :3
Thanks again for all your kind words ^-^ I hope you get to have a good week ahead!
i can't finish this game i'm stuck in a loop in the ??? route i kept killing kuro... i think i'm going insane i might not be able to finish it is there a way to stop the loop i cried now that i know kuro had suffered so many times i really feel sorry for him what should i do..? i just finished all the bad cgs and the good cgs it took me hours to finish this when i finally reached the ??? route i'm so super stuck in a loop i'm going insane really..
Sorry about that >.< This was my first-ever game that I made, so it's hard to remember all the details, but I think this part will loop forever if you don't click on the hidden object!
There should be an image of a knife on the screen somewhere. It's an intentionally sneaky hidden choice x3
You have to click on the knife instead of killing Kuro to break the loop and continue the story :3
I still come back to this game every while. I haven't been able to 100% it yet, but one day... anyways, feel free to take as long to reply as you need. ;_;)b
It’s definitely taken me a while to reply, and I’m still gonna apologise for that even though you said to take as long as I need, so yeah, I’m sorry about that x3
I pretty much just got overwhelmed and too stressed in the buildup to Christmas with family meetings and other stuff, and I kind of went into shut down mode like an overloaded computer and just crashed xD It’s taken all this time to FINALLY start feeling like I can face doing things again >.<
But damn, that's amazing that you'd want to keep coming back to it! I have a few games that I started a loooong time ago and still haven't managed to finish yet even though I want to... like Mass Effect Andromeda, haha.
I hope you do get to 100% it one day though :D And I hope that 2024 has started out amazingly for you :3
hi hi sorry im not sure if you'll answer but might as well try um I can't open any version and I don't think its my laptop because its new but I don't know :(
Sorry my answer is pretty slow >.< I've been quite overwhelmed with everything atm so I'm really behind on replying to stuff :(
Unfortunately, I don't know if I'm going to be of much help T_T It might actually be because your laptop is new that the game isn't working x3 I can't say for sure. It's just the game was made quite a while ago in an old engine that I don't use anymore >.< It still opens and plays on my current PC, but my PC is pretty old xD
I know some people had trouble opening games made with the Tyranobuilder engine because it just opened a weird box that said nodekit or json or something >.< and no one could ever figure out why it worked fine for some people and not others. Some devs posted about it on the engine's forums hoping that the software devs would be able to help, but the only answer we got was that it does that sometimes... >.< sooo yeah, not very helpful x3 It's one of the reasons I stopped using the engine, haha.
But yeah, if double-clicking the .exe file doesn't work, then I don't really know what might make it work >.<
Sorry about that and I hope you get to have happy holidays! :3
Is there a hint somewhere for the password to the ??? part in the extras? I've been dying to know what's on the page after finishing the game, but can't figure it out.
Honestly, it’s been so long since I made this game that I can’t remember if there’s a hint anywhere x3 But I can give you one :3 It’s basically the name that the entity refers to you by!
If you didn’t catch it though, I’ll write it further down in this comment! Thanks so much for playing btw <3
Yeah, unfortunately, the page doesn't allow me to accept different ways of typing it >.< haha. Otherwise, I would have put lowercase and other combos too x3
Sorry my reply is so slow >.< I’ve just been mega-focused on this year’s spooktober VN jam! Hoping to release the project later today :3
Hmm, tbh, it’s so long since I made it that I couldn’t say for sure xD Especially since I don’t know what’s allowed and what isn’t on different streaming platforms >.<
It doesn’t have any sexual content in it, I know that much! But there is some gory/bloody imagery! I’m glad you like it anyhow :3
Hi! I've just started playing Solipsis with the Princess route, and I'm super curious about who the voice actors are since they're really good! I like how you can choose between flavors of Yandere too.
Hey hey! Glad you're enjoying the voice acting :3 The game wouldn't be the same without all the amazing people who helped bring the characters to life with their voices :D
I might be wrong here, but as far as I remember, I included a credits text document with all the download folders, so there should be a file in there somewhere that's just called 'Credits.txt' and inside that there are the full game credits with links to social media and stuff for all the voice actors :3 (well, for those who wanted links including anyhow - not everyone wanted to have links in there.)
I hope you end up enjoying the game! Thanks for checking it out ^-^
You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear you say that x3 It was actually me and my friend that wrote and sang the opening theme, haha. But both of us really wanted to try and sound a bit like Vocaloids xD So my friend spent aaaages editing our vocals to try and give them a bit of a Vocaloid kind of sound! Glad to hear it paid off :D I wish I could be Luka x3
woa すごい I really thought they were Vocaloid voices :O I'm a huge fan of vocaloids and when I heard the song I was "Is it them?!" It's very well edited! I loved the melody and the lyrics :) I showed it to a friend and she was like "That's a good song!" I'm glad my little comment makes you happy! If I tell you the truth, after writing it, I worried about how stupid the question was and I got depressed qwq but I'm glad you answered me ^^ thank you
Well, I’m glad it worked then :D I wish I actually did sound like Luka when I sing, haha. The song was a real team effort between myself and my (sadly) ex-friend. It’s a long story, but he basically doesn’t talk to me anymore and I will never really know why because the last time we saw each other in person, everything was fine >.< he just pretty much ghosted me even though we used to live together! I know he got a girlfriend, so maybe that was part of the reason, but still. It sucks to have lost him as a friend :(
But yeah, anyways, he wrote the music, and I wrote the lyrics :3 Then we sang it individually because I was too embarrassed to sing my parts in front of him, so I made him leave the house while I recorded xD And once everything was recorded and he’d made the backing track, he edited our voices to try and make them sound more Vocaloid-like.
I wanted to try and sort of tell the story of the game in the lyrics without giving away spoilers, haha. I really love songs that tell stories, so I was inspired by stuff like Puppet in the Dark by FELT and world.execute(me); by Mili.
You should never feel stupid for asking questions x3 I know it’s easier said than done though >.< But if we didn’t ask questions, we’d never learn anything :3
qnq Something similar happened to me with an ex-friend, it was a somewhat silly fight xD Do you know Wadanohara and the great blue sea? (I think it was called the game) we were fighting because she liked a character (Fukami I think his name was) and my other (Samekichi) and well after that she completely blocked me and we lost contact, that's been a while year and I have not been able to speak to her again, I am very sorry for it
The song really expresses the story very well without any spoilers with very good lyrics ùvú I liked it a lot and I have repeated it too much xD
To me I wish my singing voice was more like IA or Kaai Yuki xD
I also love songs that tell stories, I especially like Vocaloids and Utaites a lot
Thank you Marie, if I have any questions I won't hesitate to ask uwu
That sucks about your ex-friend :( I do know of that, yeah! I’ve never played it myself, but it’s been on my list of things to check out for aaaages!! It always popped up on lists I read about recommendations of games with creepy characters or yanderes in, haha.
That’s a shame you guys lost contact. Whenever that happens to me I always worry if the other person is okay. Cos usually, it’s not like anything really bad has happened or we’ve had a big argument or anything, it’s just more like getting ghosted I guess. It really sucked with my friend cos we were super close years ago. Getting ghosted online is fairly normal for me, but I never imagined I’d get ghosted by someone I knew so well irl when we had such a good friendship. I guess he must’ve just got sick of me and decided he didn’t want me in his life anymore x3
I hope you have other friends who will always stick around at least :3
As for singing, weeeell, I do wish I had a higher-pitched voice, haha. But Luka is probably the closest Vocaloid to my natural singing voice. I just hate having a deep voice in general really T_T
The small version does run on my pc! Yei! xD I've only played a little but it's really a good game! It reminds me a bit of Amnesia with the theme of worlds! I really like the drawings (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧ and the background music is quite nice! I was quite surprised that all the characters had voices <3 there are many Game overs xvx I don't know how many times I've already died :D! but it's quite fun to try again! And anyway I love your games! (≧▽≦)
Huzzah :D Well, I'm glad that version works at least :3 As far as I can remember there wasn't a huge difference, mainly just files shrunk a lot more, but there's not much visual difference other than in the videos.
Amnesia was actually partly what inspired me to make this as my first game :3 Mainly my love for Ukyo xD
I was very lucky to get to work with Destini who did all that epic art and all the voice actors who helped me out too :3 Wouldn't have been possible without everyone!
Yeah, I kinda have a thing for bad ends xD so I thought it would be fun to try and make a game where the point is to collect them all, haha.
Thank you so much again for checking out my stuff and being so sweet ^-^
Idon't really understand why the normal version of the game didn't run on my pc :( I guess it sure is a mystery xD So you like Ukyo :D he is very sweet xD I also like Bad endings even though in Amnesia I got stuck so much for them
I say it again (Maybe I'll repeat it a lot )xD I love your games! and this is one of my favorites <3 kuro is sweet maybe I'll cheer up and play the BxG version and share the game with my friends friends even if they don't really like VN qwq
Hehe, yeah, I think Ukyo is probably still one of my all-time favourites :3 I’m quite behind on otome games now, but I used to play them a lot before I started trying to make games x3 Quite often though, I wasn’t really that interested in a lot of the characters. The most recent one I finished was Cafe Enchante, and while I didn’t fall in love with any of the main characters, I enjoyed the overall story. Shiraishi from Collar x Malice was another one that I liked a lot :D I didn’t really enjoy most of Collar x Malice, but it was worth it for Shiraishi, haha.
Aww, you’re too kind x3 Sadly, you won’t be able to play the BxG version though cos I’m not even close to finishing it >.< It’s completely on hold at this point, but I do hope to try and make it someday! There’s just never enough time T_T
It’s frustrating trying to get friends who don’t like VNs to check them out, haha. I’ve tried in the past but they just turn their noses up at them and say stuff like they’re not proper games x3
xD amnesia was really my first otome game, personally I loved Ikki and Shin a lot and even toma although Kento only bored me x-x
I really don't have friends who like otome VNs or others that sometimes is something sad not having someone to share with
Ah! If you like the voice of Ukyo's voice actor and you know something about Japanese you should play Glass heart princess even though it's from PSP
I haven't heard of those otome games :O I tried to search the internet for Collar x Malice to download it but I haven't I've been lucky qvq (or I haven't searched well I guess xD)
The truth is that I haven't been playing much maybe my last game was Dynamic Chord feat Kyohso
I really admire that I admire that you make games ! I would love to be able to do the same ovo✨ sometimes good ideas come to me but I don't dare to do it qq
If you ever finish the GxB version rest assured that I will play it ÒvÓb
Sorry for the very long message, I hope don't mind me acting so friendly qvq and again thanks for reading and responding to my comments
Awww, poor Kent x3 I actually liked him, haha. I just thought he was kinda cute and sweet, haha. Ikki is the one I thought I’d like the most based purely on looks, but nope, I wound up hating him and his stupid fanclub xD
I played Collar x Malice on PSVita, but I’m pretty sure it’s been rereleased on Nintendo Switch with extra content :3 And it was Switch that I played Cafe Enchante on! I think most otome games seems to be releasing on Switch over here now actually.
You could always get something easy to use like Tyranobuilder or maybe even mess around with Renpy since it’s free :3 You don’t have to put pressure on yourself to release anything, but you could just experiment and see how some of your ideas turn out :D
You have nothing to apologise for x3 and I don’t mind at all :3
Hello ! melancholy marionette I really need your help! I recently downloaded the game to play it on my pc but I don't know how to run it and the internal of my pc started to fill up and I really don't know what to do ｡ﾟ( ﾟஇωஇﾟ)ﾟ｡
Hey hey! Sorry if this is too late to help, I don't tend to go on my PC at weekends >.< I'm hoping you managed to get it working by now, but if not I can try to help, though, I don't know much help I can be because this project is really old and some people's computers seem to have problems opening it :(
If you're on Mac, I probably can't help at all cos I don't own a Mac to test on >.<
If you're on Windows, you should be able to download either the Solipsism Reigns – GxB – Windows or Solipsism Reigns – GxB – windows (smaller version). Once downloaded, unzip the folder like you usually would by right-clicking it and extracting the files.
Once you've extracted the files to a folder, you should have something that looks like this:
Then you double-click on the exe here:
And the game should run.
BUT, depending on your computer's specs, it could take a looong time to actually do anything >.< On my old laptop, it took something crazy like a full 5-7 minutes to actually launch the game after clicking the exe. It looks like it's not doing anything, but it does eventually open. Unless the computer doesn't have enough memory, then it might just not do anything >.< Even on my PC which has relatively decent specs, it still takes about 20 seconds to actually launch though.
If your folder doesn't look like that after extracting the files though, or if clicking the exe opens up something that isn't the game, then it probably means you're one of the unlucky people who has the weird error that I don't know how to fix T_T
thanks for answering ! I'll try to download the smaller version and I'll try again owo, by the way maybe what happened is that since my pc is not very good (only 4GB of ram) the version that weighed more didn't run xD sorry for bothering you with this little error! qvq again thanks for the help ^^
Maybe >.< but still, I would like to hope that 4GB of ram would be enough to run most visual novels :( I know the download size is quite large and it takes a while to start up, but once it's actually running, even the original version should work on most computers. My old potato laptop was a super potato with extremely low specs, but even though it took forever to actually launch after clicking the exe, it did eventually run x3 and once it was running, it was smooth. It was just the startup that caused problems.
Anyways, you have nothing to apologise for x3 I hope that the smaller version ends up working for you at least! :3
Thanks so much ^-^ That's super sweet of you to say <3 The giant no-confidence part of myself wants to shake my head in denial and declare it impossible for anyone to put any of my games in their favourites x3 but I really appreciate that anyone would consider them that way :3 Still hope I will eventually get to remake this one someday, but I don't know when I'm supposed to find the time to do it x3
I played this a while ago and I'm back here to download again so I can replay it, so I figured I'd leave a comment!
I've played most of your games (the other ones are pending!) and they're all really good, but Solipsism Reigns has really made its way into my heart. I love yandere games, and the normal routes definitly gave me that but the '???' route and true end got me so hooked up I stayed up all night to finish them. Definitely one of my favorite games ever, I can't believe it's free (๑>ᴗ<๑)
Aww, well, that's super sweet of you ^-^ And it means a lot that you'd even want to replay it!! If you ever end up playing everything, you'll have to let me know which one winds up being your favourite :3 it's always intriguing to know what sorta stuff different people prefer, haha. Like, Limbo Line is my personal favourite, though, I grew extremely fond of Bitter/Sweet, but some people I've spoken to who have played a few of my games said they liked X game a lot, but then they tried another one of my games and they just couldn't get into it, haha.
I'll always have a soft spot for this project though with it being my very first :3 I can't believe it's gonna be 3 years old this summer o.o I dunno where the time has gone! Honestly don't know what I was thinking trying to make something this long as a first game >.< And I've never managed to make anything of the same length since, although, while it's been on hold for what seems like forever, the writing for CiQ was finished aaaages ago, and I reckon it is probably similar in length to SR, just had a heck of a lot of problems turning it into a game T_T
I'm glad the ??? route was interesting enough to keep you engaged :3 I did worry a little that it might drag a bit or something, or be too weird, I dunno, haha. The whole ??? route was my initial idea for the game though, but then I thought, I can't just do that on its own, there needs to be stuff before it for it to have any sort of impact >.< So I had to try and work backwards from there x3
Funnily enough, my dad said the same thing when I first released the game about it being free xD He still says that now every time I release stuff. It usually goes along the lines of "You're mad! You work yourself half to death and you're not even getting paid for it!!" hehe. He means it in an affectionate way, of course! But at the same time, it does make him sad that I can't make a living from it with all the hours I put in x3
Anyways, I will hush my rambling and just say thank you so much for playing in general and your kind words! Hope you get to have an awesome rest of your April :3
Is anyone else having trouble loading into the game. I was able to install it yet when I try to launch it, it just shows NW.JS and that's about it. If anyone know anything please let me know.
Sorry my reply is quite slow >.< my arm is still broken, so I'm not able to stay on top of stuff very well atm :(
I'm hoping you might have been able to get it to work by now, but I'm guessing probably not because if it was asking you to install something, then it's already gone wrong because you shouldn't have to install anything to play >.< It should just work when you click the. exe file T_T
I know a few people had the same issue in the past though! Not just with my game, but games by other devs made with the Tyranobuilder engine. It's one of the reasons why I decided to stop using the engine and start making stuff with a different engine entirely.
I have no idea what causes this for some people :( and back when someone first brought it up, I tried to find a fix, and made a post with some stuff in, which you can find here :3
I have no idea if any of it works though! And no one ever did get back to me when I queried the engine devs about it. Another reason I stopped using Tyrano >.<
Maybe something will work for you, but I don't hold out much hope :(
I love this game so much! I just wish that there was a BxB version sks- But I love this game! It's incredible how you were able to do all of this, and make it free! I'm definitely going to download this again. I absolutely love yanderes and there's a severe lack of them, well, everywhere. I've been following your itch.io content for a long time, and I'm excited to see what you make in the future! ^w^
I wish I could've made all different kinds of versions >.< I had originally planned to at least have GxB, BxG, BxB, and GxG, but by the time I finished the GxB/otome version, it became clear that it would just take too much time because of how long the game is T_T The BxG version is still in development (albeit very slowly because it's not a priority project), but I had to make the decision to drop the other versions or it would take me years and years to make then and I wouldn't have time to make anything else :( Tbh, it was pretty stupid of me to make such a long game for my first-ever go at making games xD At least with the shorter ones I've made since then, I've managed to be more inclusive with different options :3
I'm glad you still had fun playing it though ^-^ I don't really know how I managed to motivate myself enough to finish it really, haha. It was far too long for a first project, and I did almost give up several times! It was actually the covid lockdown that made me go into overdrive and try to get the last of it finished because it helped take my mind off of how crap everything was >.<
Hehe, lack of yanderes (especially ones with English male voices) was one of my main reasons to get into game dev :D It seems like there are quite a few around nowadays, with more popping up all the time, which is awesome :3 But back when I started this project, I couldn't really find many at all >.< most of the male yanderes I found were in Japanese titles, and even then, there still weren't THAT many in games that had been translated. So I figured I'd try to make one myself x3
I never really intended to end up making multiple games xD it's just after I finished my first project, I kinda wound up addicted to it, and I figured, screw it, I'm just gonna make it my mission to keep adding more and more English-voiced yandere characters to the world, haha.
That's so cool that you've been following my stuff! I appreciate the support <3 I always try to have at least 1 yandere character in my games, or if not a full yandere, then a character with some yandere qualities, haha. Although, I didn't with The Graveyard Shift in the end, but then that was supposed to be an adaptation more than anything and I was pushed for time x3
Hopefully, any stuff I make in the future won't turn out to be disappointing, haha. Thanks for playing this one too ^-^
ahh, i'm sorry for the late reply! suddenly, you've motivated me to finally get on figuring out how to code a game. thank you so much! and i wish you the best of luck with your projects!
I have to say, the different levels of Yandere present kind of gave me whiplash!
Have done the first four routes so far.
Student route: Kuro killed me for agreeing to have a group lunch that included a boy
Mage route: Kuro killed me for being polite and praying to the god that the cleric who was coming with me on an impromptu suicide mission to save the day wanted me to pray to
Detective route: Kuro killed me for trying to find my detective partner before looking for a missing child
Princess route: I literally attacked Kuro and he...apologized for not better understanding my feelings.
I almost felt like I was the Yandere on that route lol
Of course I prefer lower levels of Yandere but it made the route much harder since I couldn't always figure out which choices would get me killed lol
xD I can definitely believe that, haha. Because this was my first-ever game and it's a few years old now, when I look back on it, there's a lot I would change about the writing, especially in the Student route! Cos I pretty much despise that one x3 I would ramble on about the various reasons why I wanted to include all the varying degrees of yandere in the routes, but I don't want to accidentally spoil anything, haha.
I really appreciate you hanging in there and sticking with it though :D Trust me, there is a reason for it all in the end, haha. All I can say without being too spoilery is that everything will make sense when you unlock the ??? route. Don't worry about all the blood, death, and suffering along the way x3 Getting through all those bad ends is the key :3
hi!! i loved this game, its so interesting and i loved how kuro was a lil different in every route <3 just wanted to ask if you could maybe put subtitles for the man (?) that talks sometimes after the route and at the very ending, since english isnt my first language and his voice kina echos and is static a lil it was a bit hard to hear what he said sometimes, just an idea !! still i loved it very much <333
Hey hey! So glad to hear you enjoyed the game :3 Thank you so much for playing <3
If I could add the subtitles, then I would, but sadly, I don't have access to the game files anymore, so I can't make any changes T_T Because this was the first game I made, I had all the files on my old laptop, and unfortunately, I wound up losing them >.< I also don't use the Tyranobuilder Engine anymore.
With it being my first game, I was a bit of an idiot and didn't really think about the fact that it might be helpful to have subtitles for those scenes >.< I do plan to eventually remake the entire game one day though, and I will definitely be sure to include subtitles when I do :3
ahh that’s completely okay !! i’m sorry u lost all the files :(( but i’m glad to know that’s it’s something you would do in the future <33 i hope u have a great day <3
I really like this game and to find a game with a male Yandere in it! I noticed that this game isnt completed released but the BxG version is still continuing. So this this version of the game wont continue?
The GxB/otome version (this version) with a female protagonist and male yandere is completed and released :3 It was the first game I ever made :D And ever since then, I have continued to include both male and female yandere characters in almost all of my games ^-^
The BxG version of this project where the protagonist is male and the love interest is a female yandere is still in development, but very casually, so it won't be ready any time soon x3 but it is happening and will have different sprite art and stuff.
I also hope to remake the released otome version one day with new routes and new sprite art, but that's a loooong way off cos it's my longest game, so it would take ages to completely remake it in the engine I use now >.<
Whats the name that voice in every bad ending calls you? I tried sounding it out and spelling it but a friend of mine thinks i said eczema TT I like how it sounds but i just dunno what the name is
It's 'Anathema' :3 That's funny though xD and, funnily enough, I have eczema, haha. Got it real bad on my hands T_T got ill before Christmas and am still ill now, and having a stupid eczema flare up on both hands really isn't helping things :( that's why I'm so slow to reply, haha.
Sorry it's taken me ages to get back to you >.< I was ill before and during Christmas, and still am now somehow (much better though now, thankfully!) I've not been on my PC, I tried and failed to catch up on stuff on my phone, it's just kinda old and laggy, so it's not the easiest thing to type on x3
Anyways, thanks so much for playing! Glad you enjoyed it :3 I'll do my best to answer your questions ^-^
1) Firstly, it's been a long time, but as far as I can remember, there shouldn't be any major differences between the large and small versions other than the download size. And possibly the little videos and some of the art being of slightly lower quality from being compressed much more in the small version. The larger version should technically be the better one with the higher-quality assets in.
Aaaaand
SPOILERS
2) Cody is actually me x3 I very rarely use my name in stuff because I hate it xD And the main reason I hate it is cos it largely seems to be a male name, but I'm female >.< haha. Annoyingly, there seems to be an alternate (more feminine I guess) spelling of the name that tends to be given to girls (Codie) but nope, my mum went and spelled it the dude way >.> My dad hated it, haha. He wanted to call me Anya! But my mum won. Apparently, she got the name from a female character in an Australian soap that she loved! But in all my life, I've never met another girl called Cody where it was spelled the masculine way like that, only ever dudes and people's male dogs xD
Had the game been made more recently, I have no doubt I would've just used 'Melancholy' or some other shortened version of my dev name instead, but as far as I can remember, I didn't even have a dev name at the time I wrote all of this since it was my first game x3
3) It's really tough to answer your third question with it being so long since I made the game. I think the extras is unclickable until you've completed the game and gotten the main ending, and I know that I put in like a false title screen for the first time you start up the game after having seen that scene with the Architect, but once you've clicked one of the options and discovered that it's a fake title screen, a genuine title screen should replace it where everything works as it should. So if that's not the case, I guess you must've come across some weird sort of bug >.< There are some parts that are intentional for messing with UI and such, but all saves should be accessible when on the not fake version of the title screen.
I'm trying to remember how it was set but I don't know if I'm getting the order right >.< I think once you've seen the scene you mentioned with the Architect, the game is supposed to give you a point in the background that tells the game you've finished it, and that should then persist once the game fake crashes and you restart it. So maybe something went wrong with that somehow and it didn't save the global point to tell the game you've completed it. I don't know why it would do that though because it worked okay when I tested it years ago >.<
It does sound like something has gone wrong though if you can't access the extras. I know some people were having issues with saves because they were reloading older saves when they encountered bad ends, and you don't need to do that, in fact, it's the opposite, you're supposed to be collecting the bad ends, so if you hit one and reload to pick different choices, you'll never be able to unlock all the stuff you need to unlock to get the hidden route since to start that, you need to have X amount of bad ends registered, and to register them, you need to let them play out and just be sent back to whatever world you were in before you hit the bad end x3 But I wouldn't have thought that would be what was causing any issues in your game since you've already seen the Archi stuff!
But yeah, as far as I can remember, you had to unlock everything else and complete the game to unlock extras, but save files shouldn't be getting wiped :(
I wish I could get to the bottom of it and fix it for you somehow, but I don't even have the files anymore >.< it was all on my old laptop that died and I lost everything on it, same goes for Impostor. I have odd files here and there on a USB and portable hard drive from where I made a couple of backups, but not the complete lot to be able to actually work on it. I also don't have Tyranobuilder on any of my systems anymore cos I switched to making stuff with Naninovel in Unity >.< so there's nothing I can do :(
I hope to remake SR in Nani someday now that I have a lot more experience cos there's a lot I'd like to change. I could certainly make it more polished + tweak the writing I'm not happy with (especially student route) + add some new content like a new route or 2 + new sprite art :3 That won't happen any time soon though, and even when I do start working on it, it'll likely take a long, long time to finish >.<
4) As far as I can remember, Anathema was the only name-related easter egg, but it's not the only one of my games that it gets a mention, same goes for Archie ;3 which brings me to your last question!
5) Solipsism Reigns is my first ever game and the first of my projects that Archie appears in, but the character can also be encountered in the GxB/Otome version of Apartment No.9 (though it's much briefer than in SR, so probably not really worth searching for unless the game also interests you!) And then there are some extremely vague references in Limbo Line as well without Archie actually being there.
It's a character I hoped to include more in my projects than I've been able to >.< the problem is that my projects are often made for/during game jams with tight time limits, so the voice actor who plays the character isn't always available within the timeframe of development. It worked out for A9, but hasn't since :( I do hope that I can include Archie more though because the character has a whole story of their own in my head! So yeah, there's a whole lot more to discover about him, it just might be quite awkward to get it all out there x3
I hope you got to have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year yourself! ^-^ With any luck, I won't be ill for much longer because it's getting silly now, haha. I'm really happy you enjoyed the game anyhow! Thank you so much for taking the time to play it and leave a comment <3
And I agree about Dollmaker :P somehow he grew on me so much by the time I finished writing x3 like he worked his way into my heart, haha.
Its such a rarity to come across games that has spooks, yandere's (Is currently a big yandere fan lol), and long interesting story that manages to captivate mah interest :O
Is such a rollercoaster of feels, me had many happy feels and sad feels along da way ; - ;
Yeeeah, I'm a big fan of horror, spooky stuff, yanderes, but also cute things, hehe x3
I used to be a huuuge otome fan too, but I've slowly lost interest in the genre in recent years >.< I think just cos a lot of the stuff I was playing seemed like kinda copy/pasted stories and characters in different settings, so it was like, nah, I'm not gonna fork out £30 for the next release on Switch or whatever, and that's used, heck no way I'm paying £50 for new when they're all kinda samey and I have very little money! Maybe some of the releases in recent years have been amazing though? I dunno. I missed stuff like Cupid Parasite, which admittedly looked intriguing. I did try Cafe Enchante cos I thought it looked adorable, but I got bored fast T_T The big name releases are just waaaaay too expensive to take gambles on really, so I wind up playing indie Vns more than anything nowadays! :3
But anyways, I'm rambling x3
I'm honoured that you feel that way about my stuff ^-^ means a lot! When I started out making this project, it was my very first attempt at creating a VN, I didn't know wtf I was doing, and a huge part of why I made it was because I was sad about the lack of male yanderes out there in the games I was playing, especially English-speaking ones x3 So I was like, screw it, I'm gonna attempt to make a game that is ALL about a romance with a male yandere, haha. And then as you can probably tell, I accidentally got addicted to making VNs in general xD
I honestly didn't think back then that anyone would even play it, haha. I just figured I'd make the sort of thing I wanted to play and just release it out into the wild x3 Told myself that if anyone else happened to play and enjoy it, then that would be a super lovely bonus :D
Fast forward to the future and now it looks so old compared to my more recent stuff x3 I think you can see I learned a lot over the years if you play something like this and then play one of the releases from this year, haha. But this will always be my special baby since it was my first x3 and while there's a lot about it I would like to edit and add to whenever I eventually get around to remaking it, I still can't believe I actually managed to complete a project of that length in the first place, haha. It was a very silly thing to try and do as a first project x3 and I did very nearly wind up abandoning it at several points! It was actually the pandemic and lockdown that kinda booted me up the ass to get a move on and finally finish it.
Thank YOU for playing it and for your kind words <3
Also, happy holidays and I hope you have a super happy new year ^-^
Yee, indeed Otome's haven't been very interesting these day's since it all sorta feels the same. I'm having difficulty finding VN's that are as amazing as urs, not saying they aren't talented as well, they just don't capture my short attention span (╥﹏╥)
The fact that this is your first project is heckin amazing!!! It is indeed special like u said :O
I hope u has happy holidayz + new yearz 2!!! May u have many happy days in the years to come! 🥂🎊
Man it has been a long time I've played this game and when I tried to play it again it's seems quite different from what i remembered? The overlay and the UI system i mean.
Nothing should have changed on this since it was released cos I haven't uploaded any new builds or updated it at all :o Pretty much all of my projects have stayed the same as they were when they were first uploaded aside from Darling Duality, which recently got a small update and a complete overhaul of the UI and choices :3
But yeah, nothing should have changed with SR because I've not touched it. Unless you happened to have played the reeeeally old demo version that I put out years ago before the full release of the game. Cos that was super rough and probably did have quite different UI and stuff x3
I see you decided to check this one out after DD <3 This one was the first game I ever made, so it's not as polished as DD in terms of how it looks and plays, but there's certainly more of a story to sink your teeth into at least since it's a full-length game :3
I hope you end up having fun with the rest of it ^-^
Yup! Just started the third route, and wow, it's really well-done for your first game! Really love your creations, keep up the good work and thank you :)
It works fine on Windows for me on both my PC and our family potato laptop >.< Could it possibly be a compatibility issue? I only ask because this is my oldest game, made in an engine I no longer use, and someone recently commented on one of my other old games made in the same engine saying that it didn't work for them on Windows 11 until they went into properties and ran the compatibility shooter, so you could try that I guess. If that doesn't work, I'd need a lot more information about what's happening to try and get to the bottom of why it won't run for you, and even then, I still likely wouldn't be able to fix it because, as I said, I don't use that engine anymore :(
I am trying soo hard yet I am still not being able to play... each time I try to open the game from the folder I keep getting a message on something called nodewebkit or so and it keeps on telling me, "cannot extract package"... I have enough memory, its not my antivirus, I have even tried other methods etc etc... Do you have any suggestions? :(
Hey! Sorry my reply is so slow >.< I'm working on some stuff for Spooktober VN Jam again this year, so I haven't really been checking here since I've been super busy with that.
I don't suppose you managed to get it to work in the end?
Unfortunately, there probably isn't any advice I can offer, which sucks :( I know that what you said it a common-ish problem with games made in Tyranobuilder because back when I used that engine, I was searching for answers myself and came across several support threads on their Steam pages from other devs asking the same thing. As far as I'm aware, it was never fixed >.< The devs of the engine just said to people, yeah, that happens sometimes and we don't really know why, but usually it fixes itself... It was that sort of attitude towards fixing bugs in the engine that made me decide to stop using it (among other reasons.)
So yeah, I have no idea why it does that for some people and not for others :( Are you on windows or mac? Cos I think it probably happens to more people on mac, though I've seen it can still happen to windows users. All I know is that you're not even supposed to see the nodewebkit bit. The game is just meant to launch when you click the exe >.< If the nodewebkit thing is coming up, something has somehow gone very wrong.
I can't even do any investigating because I don't use the engine anymore >.< I made SR and Impostor with it, then got fed up with how buggy it was and switched to Nani x Unity. So I'm sorry I can't be of more help :( It really sucks to be powerless to do anything when someone actually wants to check out one of my games >.<
There is no need to apologise. After all, I am quite late as well :') . Ah well, that is a shame. I was looking forward to your game. Guess I will settle for your other games... which seem to be amazing! Also, I wish you best of luck for the stuff you are working on! Do not overwork yourself though. :)
Yeah, sorry about that though that I wasn't able to help you get it working :( It really sucks! I hope my more recent games that I've made since switching engines will work for you at least x3 especially since I just released another two for Spooktober VN Jam yesterday!
And thank you :3 I kinda did massively overwork myself throughout September for the jam, which is why I'm so late to respond again x3 but now that it's over, I definitely plan to take it easier and try to rest up and recover :3
Hey there! Sorry to make this random reply 2 months later, but someone posted something in the IMPOSTOR comments that made me wonder if it might possibly make a difference in getting this to open for you since both SR and that were made with the same engine :3
The person said that they couldn't get IMPOSTOR to open and that they're on Windows 11. They said that they went into properties and did the compatibility troubleshooter, which solved the problem and it opened fine for them after that!
It might not work for your situation with this one, but I figured I'd give you a shout just in case :3
….. Let us ignore the fact that I am replying this late. Thank you for your suggestion! It did not work, but I could have done something wrong. I will try again later and inform you if things do change! Thank you for your consideration!
Also, I played 'Dawn of the damned' recently and I must say your work is wonderful! I really enjoyed the plotline and the design of the game is really gorgeous! I will soon be playing 'The graveyard shift' as well. Thank you for all your efforts and take care! :D
Don't worry about that x3 my replies are almost always late, haha. I'm dreadful at managing to keep up with everything because I just get overwhelmed far too easily, and then it's like my brain short circuits and I have to wait for it to reboot xD
That sucks that it didn't work >.< Now I'm wondering how many people might be trying to play it only for it to not even run for them :( If it were quick, I'd just remake the whole thing in the new engine as it is, but even if I didn't change a single thing, it'd probably still take me months to do that >.<
That's awesome though, so glad you enjoyed Dawn of the Damned :3 It was a lot of fun to make! Hope you end up enjoying The Graveyard Shift too! Thanks for your kind words ^-^
Aww, that's so great to hear! I'm really glad you enjoyed it ^-^ Even though it's been quite some time since I released it, my dad actually said to me again this weekend just gone, I still can't believe you released a game of that length for free xD I've lost track of the number of times he's said that over the years, haha. I'm just overjoyed that anyone is still playing and having fun with it!! Back when I was making it, I kinda just figured only a few of my friends would play it! That it would go unnoticed by the rest of the world x3
your dad's right and he sounds so incredibly sweet, i wish you both good health! i saw my friend play a commercial vn that costs $10 and they completed it + all the endings in just under a day lol.. huge waste of money, and it just reminded me of this game and how much more fun i had for free xD the selfish uni student part of me that knows i couldnt have played it if it costed money is really happy that it's free, but i also cant deny that it's worth more than most commercial games i've seen playthroughs of.. also, i know people have asked about why kuro physically looks so feminine, but i actually like him that way and that's why (among other reasons ofc) detective kuro and ??? kuro r my faves!! also looking forward to seeing more of the architect!
He really is, bless him, and thanks :3 Yeah, my brother has said he's bought stuff before (though not VNs, just indie games in general) that has cost around the same and he's finished it all in one night, and then been a bit disappointed.
I mean, when it comes to big commercial releases, I can't even afford to buy games new anymore xD Been priced out, haha. I'm waiting to play The Quarry, but I just can't afford to spend more than £30 max on a game and they release at like £50 nowadays >.<
Anyways, I'm just glad you enjoyed SR and happy that you think it's worth more than some of the commercial VNs out there :3 It sure would be nice if I could somehow make a living making stuff like that, but it seems as though that's unlikely to ever be a possibility with the way things work in my country and my personal circumstances :(
I'm glad you like Kuro's feminine look! I was kinda annoyed that I had to make him that way initially, but as I worked on the project, the sprites kinda grew on me, haha. Then I couldn't imagine him looking any other way.
Oh, and if you haven't already checked it out, Archie does make a brief appearance in Apartment No 9 (otome version), but it's quite a depressing sorta story in that one with a lot of trigger warnings, so it's probably not worth doing all the stuff required to see Archie if the story doesn't sound like your cup of tea, haha.
Question for a new player: is there any way to turn off the voice acting but not the sound effects or background music? I've always felt more comfortable when I can just read the dialogue aloud in my head, and I don't want to fully turn off the music or sound effects unless there's no other option
Thanks for checking out the game :3 As far as I can remember, you'd have to turn off all SFX to get the voices muted as well. Don't quote me on it, but I think you can still keep the BGM volume up. It's been so long that I can't quite remember though >.< I just remember the fact that at the time of making the game, Tyranobuilder (the engine I used to make it) had no option built-in to let a dev differentiate voice acting from other SFX, so I think it all had to go in the same category, unfortunately!
It's one of the many reasons why I wound up switching to using a different engine in the end, cos with what I use now, not only can I put the voice acting on a separate channel to SFX, but I can even easily add individual volume sliders for each character, which is sooo much better! But yeah, it's not an option in SR, sadly :(
This game was really fun! I really loved the '???' route but the princess and mage routes were close to my heart too. The Kuro in the mage route was my favourite yandere, but the soft fox yandere in the princess route was really lovely too. The school route was the shortest but I really loved the everyday feel and Lana really warmed my heart even though we couldn't have much screentime with her. I would have loved to see more of Shiro and the original MC/Anathema together, I really liked their story and wish that we could see more of their backstory. Shiro was so cool and I can see how strong his love was, and the good endings where we saw sneak peeks of him melted my heart - I just wanted to give a big hug to him. By the way, who is '???' and why are they always calling out for Anathema?
Glad you enjoyed it :3 And that's awesome that you liked the contrasting mage and princess route Kuros :D I really wanted there to be at least 1 softer, much calmer version of Kuro in there while still making sure he was a yandere, haha. I was worried that the whole princess route might come off as boring compared to the other routes though >.< so that's great you still had fun with it!
The student route is the first route I ever wrote for the game, which I guess is why it came out so much shorter than the others + is probably the worst written of them all >.< It's something I hope to improve on if/when I ever get around to remaking the game with new art and extra content :3 I'm glad you still liked that route though. Lana is kinda the friend I never had but wished I did while at school, haha. It certainly would've made life much easier to have someone like that around :3
Expanding on original MC's story is also something I'd like to do in the remake, perhaps through epilogues or flashbacks of some sort as well :3
I guess I should probably put a spoilers thing here to answer your last question x3
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The character who calls out for Anathema is my 4th wall-breaking character who doesn't yet have an official name, but has been nicknamed Archie (short for Architect). So when the character is speaking to Anathema, rather than speaking to a character within the game, they are speaking to you, the player. You are Archie's 'Anathema' :3 The character also features briefly in one of my other games (Apartment No.9 GxB/otome version), and I hope to continue trickling bits of him into my projects as time goes on ^-^
Thanks so much for taking the time to play through the game and leave such a lovely comment :3
Omg so excited to see you reply!!! That makes sense, the school route was short but I really enjoyed it and wanted to see more of it. School!Kuro was the hottest one hahah imo except XXX was great too (trying to avoid spoiling their name). I would definitely love to see OG!MC story being expanded!
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I loved the XXX route, it was so good and left me wondering so much about them and their LI. Like Shiro was amazing, I really thought I got his name when I had 4 letters, I was like SHION. But Shiro makes more sense lol, because Kuro vs. Shiro. Shiro shitting on Kuro and the clones hurt because they are copies but I can understand why he seems them as abominations or like fake copies, I can't imagine the pain of watching clones of your love being manipulated and hurt and just not having their memories of you? Would have broken me. But it's also why I really liked Shiro and god, he really did have a presence when he came. I could see the darker parts of him and his deep love too for MC, like what we see yandere!Kuro does when he just literally agrees to destroying the world with MC if that's what she wants and how much he loves her and will support any decision he made. I WAS SO ANGRY AT DAD THO, ALL THE MONSTER HE CREATED AND NEEDED TO BE DESTROYED, HE WAS THE CAUSE ARGHHGHKSDFHJS I wanted to flip at him so bad. I was like you hot and I had a crush on you but now screw you to pieces. Hehe thank you for sharing this game with us!
Omg, rambled so much and forgot about the Architect, ohh, that's so cool, I was reading his letter and him chasing us through games make so much sense now because Shiro can't do that. I've been meaning to play Apartment 9 so I am looking forward to seeing him there too (I shouldn't be but he's interesting hahahahahah).
I'm glad you still enjoyed that route :3 Yeah, hopefully, Ill manage to get there one day with a full remake! I really wanted to make a version with fem Kuros as well at some point, but it's so much work T_T I wish I could clone myself to work on different stuff at the same time, haha.
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Yeah, Kuro and Shiro's names are a bit corny x3 but I couldn't help it, haha. I just figured it was perfect for them.
And yeah, Isaac is definitely one heck of a giant asshole xD He certainly deserves much more than a few slaps for all the trouble he caused everyone and the pain he put em all through!
Thanks so much again for playing :3 I really appreciate it!
They were a little bit awkward to use because I had to buy each one individually. At the time, the dev/s who made the sprite maker didn't have a bundle, but that was years ago, so maybe they have now! A bundle of some sort at a discounted price sure would've been nice. I think they were like $10 each or something. They're also all in Japanese, but since you can see the changes as you make them to the character, you sorta just get used to which sections are which and memorise it. The worst thing was that it was quite laggy to use, but that could have just been my awful laptop x3
This is the site I first saw the stuff! I think it was linked from lemmasoft forums or something on a thread about free use backgrounds for VNs because the creator made a couple of pieces of background art that anyone can download and use for free. From there, I found the sprite stuff by just sorta generally browsing through the site with Google translate on x3 http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~gakai/index.htm
This section lists all the stuff they've released for sale. It looks like they've made even more since I last purchased anything! https://gakaiblog.at.webry.info/
I don't think you have to use the maker that's packaged with each download though. As far as I can remember, they included a giant PSD file as well!
EDIT - I should probably also mention that not all the sprites are from the T.O.P. sprite makers. If you look at the screenshots and notice some of them look a slightly different style, it's because I also used other sprite resources from someone called Blue Forest to make some of the characters that I couldn't manage to with the T.O.P. ones. Mainly all the side characters. Only the MC and Kuro sprites are T.O.P.
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I love love love the game sooo much, more than I realise. I took me forever to play this game but I enjoyed it thoroughly.
MAJOR SPOILERS LIKE THIS WOULD RUIN THE WHOLE GAME EXPERINCE IF U READ THIS. WARNING WARNING.
Finally putting my art gcse into use.
Lololol it's messy but I like it. Idk I felt so bad for dollmaker Kuro and clone 339. The world was against them, and they went up against the world, they gave their lives for love. The love of shiro and Mc.
I just find it so sad because they only had such short moments of happiness in hell. They've only know pain and suffering, waking up in a war....I wished they had a proper happy ending, but ngl I understand why they didn't have a happy ending.
Idk I just like dollmaker Kuro out of everyone, because he genuinely cares about Mc from the bottom of his heart, and in a world full of darkness his clinging onto what little hope there is... warmed my heart.
Nahhh and when I found out that Bad end 6 was actually a bad end cause although they're free, theyr were going to be eaten/destroyed by monsters. NOOOOOOO
So I drew this cause in another lifeee, they would be aliveeee. Any ways my drawing is the canon Cg for good ending 3, where my babies are alive
Also the game's theme song is really really good.
I wish you the best and stay safe during these crazy times
I’m glad you decided to check it out & that you had fun with it ^-^ Thanks so much for playing! And also thanks for sharing that awesome art!! It’s beautiful <3
I guess I should also say...
SPOILERS below x3
Tbh, I also felt really bad for them xD And at the same time, I also feel bad for players that I didn’t give them an option of a happier ending x3 It makes me feel kinda evil, haha.
Then again, it was supposed to be a pretty bleak story of despair, sooooo *insert evil laughter here* :P
But yeah, to me, that particular pairing was my OG couple, even if they weren’t technically the OGs, haha.
I’m happy you ended up liking dollmaker Kuro the best because he was also my favourite Kuro :D I’m not usually into characters who look or act more childlike, but the more I wrote for him, the more heart kinda just bled for the poor fella because he’s so innocent and his love is so pure, bless him!
Your drawing is so sweet & gorgeous! Absolutely love it ^-^
Glad you like the theme song too! I was rewatching Spirited Away the other day & it suddenly hit me how similar SR’s opening instrumental part is to Haku’s theme x3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSHC4l0qAk
I only wrote the lyrics & performed the female vocals on that, so it wasn’t my fault, haha. My friend wrote the music itself & did male vocals. And now I am wondering if it is a coincidence or if he somehow had Spirited Away’s soundtrack in his head influencing him subconsciously xD
Thank you so much for taking the time to type up such a lovely comment & for playing the game anyhow! I wish the best to you too & hope you are also able to stay safe + well :3
Hello TvT do you still have all the route sprites of kuro and shiro? I wanted to make a video of them and also the mc if you still have can you send it to me? :D
Hmm, I actually don’t know x3 I really hope so somewhere!! But because all my SR project files were on an ancient USB, I can’t remember if I backed them up to a hard drive, haha. I must’ve done, but I haven’t finished sorting out a lot of my files since getting my new PC >.<
Even if I can find them though, I’d have to put them on backgrounds or something to send because even though they were made in the generator I purchased, the artist still stated in their terms of use that any characters you make in the generator must not be posted anywhere on their own as PNGs/JPEGs, etc. >.< They have to be in a game, in a video, on a web page sorta thing, unfortunately :(
I’m guessing it wouldn’t be very helpful to send them with backgrounds though >.<
it's okay if it was sent it a background TvT i just use a background remover is that all right? :^
Yeah, that’s fine :3 I mean, I doubt the artist would ever even know about it if I did just send the sprites without a background, but it’s just one of those things where I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to do it cos it would be morally wrong after agreeing to the terms of use x3
It might take me a little while to actually locate the files cos I’ve got a lot of irl stuff to catch up on this month that I’ve been neglecting >.< but as soon as I have them, I’ll send them your way :3
Haii !! :3 i redraw farro's and mcs fanart! https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYHtSCHQ/
That’s so cool :D I was able to watch it through the link you posted, but I don’t have an account on tiktok, so I can’t like it on there T_T
Im kinda confused this is the GxB wherein Kuro is male? im so sorry to ask I dont mean to offend, but am I the one in the teaser pictures or is it kuro? the character looks like a girl or he is just long haired?
is it the mage route or detective route? i'm pretty sure on the mage route kuro's hair is long
Yup, Kuro is male :3 And no worries at all! I know the sprites are a little odd in this, haha. I like androgynous-looking characters anyhow, but because this was my first-ever game, I didn’t have much choice but to use what I could find >.<
Basically, I couldn’t find a single sprite set from any artist that contained enough sprites to cover all the different worlds I hoped to portray in the project (my own dumb fault for trying to make such a long story for my first game >.<), but I did come across a sprite generator with a looooot of customisation options, enough to cover what I needed. I pretty much had no choice but to use it, haha.
I made every character sprite using the generator. It was cool because it had a wide range of hair pieces to combine to create different hairstyles, and also a decent number of clothing options, but it was lacking in the style of the eyes + the body models >.<
All the ones at the top of the page where it says “Choose your heroine. Choose your fate…” Then some pictures of heads with the captions of: “The Student, The Mage, The Princess, The Detective, The Gamer, and ???” are headshots of the heroine/MC/protagonist.
All the headshots below where it says “Your guardian spirit, Kuro, takes many forms…” are headshots of the different versions of Kuro from the different world routes in the same order as the headshots for MC are listed :3
So blue-haired Kuro = student route Kuro, green = mage route, yellow = clan princess route, magenta = detective route, purple = gamer route, and ??? = the hidden route.
Despite the fairly feminine appearance of Kuro, the voice acting actually matches the sprites really well :3
But yeah, Kuro is definitely a guy, but he does have long hair in a couple of the world routes, haha. Longest hair = mage route Kuro cos it’s down past his butt! x3
The most masculine-looking one is actually in the hidden route, haha.
I do hope to remake this someday since it was my first game and I have a lot more knowledge + use a different engine now, but it’s not a priority. Just something that would be really nice to eventually do when I’ve finished some of the projects I’ve currently got on the go.
Thanks for your interest in the game :3
Oh my goodness. I seriously needed to leave a comment after finally getting every ending. That was...beautiful. Absolutely wonderful!! I can't stop thinking about everything. I had a blast playing! That last part of the true ending made me sequel. I LOVE when games do that kinda thing. Such a fun way to freak someone out!! There was a lot of fun twists too. I may not totally understand what happened here 100%, but I had a damn fun time. Leaving with a ton of answers yet still getting some more questions is all part of the fun sometimes! You and everyone that took part in this game made something wonderful! Can't wait to play more of what you've done and check out everyone else's work!
<3 <3 <3 Thanks so much for checking it out & leaving such a kind comment ^-^ With this being my first-ever project and it looking a little dated now, I always imagine if anyone comes across it, they probably pass it up x3 So yeah, it means a lot that you gave it a chance and stuck with it :D
Glad you liked the freaky stuff too, haha. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm a sucker for that sort of thing, hehe.
If you do end up checking out more of my stuff, I hope you end up enjoying it just as much (or even more! x3)
Thanks again :3
i just played the game again !! just a question what do you think is shiro's mbti?? :3
Sorry I’m so slow >.< I’m suuuuuper behind on all my replies atm, and my PC died towards the end of April, so that hasn’t helped, haha. Now I’m working on something for otome jam, so I’m absorbed in that, but because I still don’t have a new PC up and running properly, I’m trying to do everything atm on the family potato laptop which is awful xD
I’m actually not sure what Shiro’s mbti would be! I’d have to go back through all the types and read up on everything again cos I don’t remember most of the info off of the top of my head x3
I know when I did mine yearsago, it said I was INFP-T, haha.
If I had to guess off the top of my head without researching more, I would guess Shiro would possibly be INFJ or ISFJ, but I couldn’t say for sure >.<
Another one !!
i cannot resist the urge to make another fan art of this game soo...xD
they look so lovely here full of love and affection wahhh TvT idk why i am so attached to this game actually i think it made me very comfortable when i played this game and i was so desperate to get to the ??? route LMAO thank you for making this beautiful game i am so shocked that you made this years ago.
And the amount of effort you made for this game is just it, i never seen any visual novel that had many effort's sometimes i just wonder why they aren't any fandom of this when you created this beautifully and the words got me dwelling lol
I cannot be much more sad that it isn't popular in tiktok it'd be nice if many many thousands of people know about this game and many fan arts of this
and if you recreate in this game in the future i hope it will be much more popular amongside thousands of people i mean this game has many players who played this before but it was before i actually got a glimpse of the old kuro design and it was great but i prefer kuro's style now i think that artstyle is 2000's anime artstyle if i am correct
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this game is so unique but we still don't know much about that guy on the end who kicked me out of the game (LOL) i was so scared that time and i was like what...?
And i wonder who is the guy and girl who speaks on the first route on ??? and who is Anathema exactly
is that guy some sort of uhm a guardian angel or something? or he is just watching our journey for fun or could he be the one behind this all?
i heard him say after i finished the game he said "No one can't love you like i do"
maybe perhaps he might be the real lover of Anathema? this is such a mystery that's why i love this game anyways just a question when will you recreate this game?
I give kudos to the voice actors and to you for you're all dedication of this game and the amount of time it must have taken is crazy...
anyways i give this game a 5 star i love this game sooo much i will always be back to play this >w< !!
And is that guy from the gamer route he sounds like it very much and he also called the player "Anathema" once so if my theory is correct he might be it
Actually are you still indeed of a CG Artist? you can hire me for free if you want >w< !! i want to support you i saw on your patreon bio that you're indeed of an Artist so maybe you can hire me! if you want anyways please if you made up you're mind please add me on my dc account it's rjifjriojrgitigtig#4901 it would be my pleasure to work with you! <3!
Oooo :o That one is so cool too! :D They do look so passionate and in love <3 hehe.
I'm glad you like it that much ^-^ I always think that people will just ignore it because it's old now, haha.
There's probably not much in the way of fandom for any of my games x3 It doesn't help that I tend to avoid social media because I find it too overwhelming >.< Because many devs are quite active on different social media platforms and are able to actively advertise and promote their projects, whereas I can't do that. So the only way anyone ever even finds out about my games is if they happen to just come across them on itch or if someone else recommends them somewhere I guess.
So yeah, I think the biggest problem is just that not many people actually know my games exist, haha.
It would be super cool if more people knew about this and my other games :3 And even cooler if there was more fan art :D I think my heart would explode with joy if I got fan art more often x3
I guess it must be a big help for visibility if you're able to promote your stuff on tiktok or if others talk about it on there with how popular it is! I don't even have a tiktok account >.< haha.
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You can meet that same character who harassed you in this game in one of my other projects (Apartment No.9 :D) and the character is also referenced but not actually seen/heard in Limbo Line too. The character is called The Architech (or Archie if you prefer something cuter x3) but they're currently hibernating. I plan to include more stuff related to them sometime in some of my other games though!
Anathema is technically you, the player :3 It's just what Archie calls you, kind of like a pet name, hehe.
Archie basically likes to stalk players through my different games x3 Even when Archie isn't physcially there speaking to you, Archie is always watching >.<
It will probably be quite a long time before I start working on the remake of this game because I need to finish some of my other long-term projects first. Once I've completed Clarity in Qualia, Darling Duality, and Bitter/Sweet, I might try to work on the remake then :3 But yeah, it's probably not gonna be for at least a couple of years >.< And when I do get started on it, it'll take me a while to finish since I will have to pretty much remake it from scratch as I can't use the code from Tyranobuilder in Naninovel x3
Yeah, the voice actors really poured their souls into their performances and the game wouldn't be the same without them all! :3 Cutting up and implementing all the voice lines took soooo long xD
Aww, well, thank you so much :3 It makes me super happy to know you like the game so much!
You're kind of correct because it's the same voice actor :P Just 2 different characters.
I'm always looking to work with different people on different projects, so it would be an honour to have an opportunity to work together with you on something at some point :D If it's a long-term project though, I couldn't possibly expect you to do a bunch of work for free >.< That wouldn't be fair to you!
When it comes to game jams and shorter projects, I tend to team up with people and we're all just working together for free just to try and make something cool together :3 But with long-term stuff, I have to try my best to pay people something, even if it's not much x3
I'll add you on Discord anyhow :3 Just know that I don't have notifications or anything on there, so I don't always know when I've got messages, and I tend to be quite slow to reply a lot of the time cos I get so easily overwhelmed >.< (edit: I tried to add you, but it failed x3 You're welcome to try adding me instead though if you want to :3 My name on there is just: melancholymarionette but I don't know what has happened to the numbers you used to get at the end of your name >.< )
Thank you again! :3 Hope you're having a good week so far :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH !! TvT i would like to help you remake this game (SR) i will volunteer to be the CG Artist and i don't really need payment or whatsoever lol i just do this for fun and you really inspired me TwT and i think Archie is mysterious yet thrilling lol xD and i would like to make a fanart of Archie and Player (Anathema) in the future if they have a game and character sprites!
And omg i didn't think that you would accept my silly volunteer and i'm really so HAPPY RIGHT NOWWW
Ohhh! it's okay i add you on discord! :3
And if you want me to draw some characters so far please just me their character spirtes and what expression or emotions they are feeling and the background :3 !
THANK YOU SO MUCH AHHH😊😊😊💗💗💗
You don't need to thank me x3 I love working with different people :3 Working with others is one of the coolest things about making games cos you get to make something together :D
In all honesty though, it's probably not going to be for a few years at least before I can even start on remaking SR >.< I've got to finish everything I've already started first, and I know it's gonna take a long, long time.
I need to finish CiQ first, but after that, I've got to finish Darling Duality as well, and that's a pretty big project, so it's gonna take me over a year I reckon x3
I had hoped at one point to show a sprite of Archie in a game in the future, but I don't know if that's going to possible anymore >.< It's more likely I will be replacing Archie with a character that is related to them or something x3 but we shall see I guess!
I hope you are having a good weekend so far :3
Today i finished reading this VN, and it was wonderful! Even in the rough edges i feel like i can see the main ideas that they want to convey. My favorite route was the detective one as well, although my love for bad ends makes me fancy the student route as well xD! I played it from Windows 11, and everything went well (thought that information may be useful)
Playing a novel with these graphics(background and sprites) felt really nostalgic, i don't usually dwell in those feelings that much, but it was refreshing, and the CG's reminded me of Higurashi they were endearing! There were parts when the 4th wall breaking really got to me (usually when MC is doubting her reality, i was about to think that the ??? route wasn't the end and there was another route even if it wasn't listed here LOL)
Overall as a lover of yandere characters, i really like this novel :D! It's always nice to see more takes on this trope, it makes sense that someone develop this type of character in such dires escenearios. It would make sense that a character develops a extreme personality, grim situations bring harrowing consequences. Kudos to everyone that worked in this project, the effort and results are amazing and that is visible to me.
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Shiro and MC (the original ones), were pretty nice! Him accompannying you to the end in the anhilation route, accepting your dream world or protecting you at the cost of his life in the true end, it's a nice way to show his devotion even if he was subject to give up on hope for a long time. Other moment i really like is when he tries to help MC to manage her anger, so that she doesn't loose herself (even if it feels like vindication is the correct thing, it makes sense that MC would put the wellbeing of others above herself, since that's pretty much what the good endings of the other routes tell you)
Coming to think about it, most of the route good ends include options that encourages ideas like: "if you fail try again, trust Kuro, think that you have the power to overcome". Maybe it's intentional or not, but i can see some foreshadowing to the ??? route, probably i would be able to find more connections when i re-read it again :D. Speaking about that, it's kinda nice to see how the different Kuro's are handling the different simulations, i remember thinking that Mage route Kuro, had double personality out of nowhere, but in perspective if he was able to remember the many iterations of MC, then i see how that Kuro ended up coping in that way with his situation.
I also remember seeing the opening trying really hard to match all characters to one of the sprites of Kuro/Shiro and MC, but i ended up not being able to do so for the last one (did someone had a "x" clip on their hair?) then again it makes sense that we do not see all the iterations of Anathema lol and Kuro xD.
In the end although we didn't spend that much time with the original goods, i feel like we got to know them in the different routes played before. So i didn't feel detached from them (but i guess they feel a bit like skin walkers if i see them like that xD)
Now me, inserting hard in MC(don't kill me Kuro!): I usually feel some sort of Ego death on daily basis, not like "is anything real or not" kind and crisis of identity, but more like my sense of self just disolves? or sometimes i can see me from a distance (de-personalization) it's kinda weird to describe tbh, so this MC felt really reassuring to me, in her descriptions of oblivion or when he gattered herself together to make a comeback, it's kinda inspiring in some sense!
I'm a bit confused about the voice calling us Anathema, but seeing other comments, i see that is somewhat of a ongoing plot for your games! From what i can gather it seems like this entity will follow the player that it's interested on having fun in other fictional stories :P. Well i guess now i have a yandere following me through games although you tried to save me Dx
Totono, Aoi dark route(?) xDFirstly, I have to say that I’m loving your profile pic on here x3 ducks are the best!!! I swear I would be a happier person if I had some pet ducks, haha.
But anyways, thanks so much for playing this and taking the time to leave such a lovely comment too ^-^
That’s really interesting to know that it worked on Windows 11 :o That means it’s not specifically a Windows version problem that has prevented some folks from playing then >.< I dunno for the life of me why it won’t work for some people and is totally fine for others though :( Games made with Tyrano just seem to be strange like that >.<
So glad you ended up enjoying it :3 It feels so long ago now since I started and finished it, haha. Back then, I had pretty much consumed all the yandere content that was available to me at the time and decided I wanted to try and make my own x3 Fast forward to the present and there’s been an explosion of yandere stuff, especially in indie games! Now I’m spoiled for choice and have a huge backlog of yandere games to play xD I can’t believe how much has changed in that time, haha.
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I’m so glad you gave the whole game a chance cos I remember waaay back when I first released it, someone played the student route and gave up cos they said Kuro wasn’t a yandere, just a psycho, and that really hurt because if that person had kept playing, they would have learned so much more about the character and why the different iterations are the way they are >.< They even had a go at me saying I was wrong to tag the game with the yandere tag T_T
It just really stung because the whole point of this game was to show both the crazy and the loving side of a yandere character in different shades since I had come across many yanderes in games as a player where it was all crazy/psycho behaviour and seemingly no actual love or reason for behaving that way >.< For me to enjoy a yandere, I need there to be a reason for the creepy/crazy side of the behaviour, so I made it my mission and worked backwards on the story, starting with the hidden route stuff, and trying to show the consequences of it in the other routes.
So yeah, it sucked that that person didn’t give it enough of a chance to see that Kuro isn’t just a psycho >.<
Yeeeah, the voice is a character called The Architect (or Archie x3) and pops up in a few other places (next biggest appearance is in Apartment No.9), but they’re kinda on hiatus now, haha. It’s okay though cos they have a relation who will be making an appearance at some point x3
Thank you again for playing and I hope 2024 is going great for you so far! <3
i finally finished the game! and though just a question
just how high shiro's yandere level (lol)
i really enjoyed it and especially the true end this will be forever in my memory i love it so much !!
Ah, that’s so awesome that you managed to finish it in the end :D
Hmm, I’m not sure how to even rank him tbh x3 I guess he’d probably score lower than all the Kuros, haha. But yeah, I don’t really know how to give him a score like I did the others.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and happy you managed to make it to the true end ^-^ Thanks so much again for playing it and for the awesome fan art <3
it's no big deal lol i usually love drawing fanarts of characters i
obsesswith lol i thought he was more dangerous than all the kuro's XD i got attached to this game actually anyways have a good day!Well, it’s a really cool thing to do :D
I guess he technically is the most dangerous, haha.
Hope you have a good day too :3
I actually enjoyed the game i'm in the brink of finishing the game and also the loop when i needed to kill kuro stopped and when i was able to finish it says "game over" since i think i needed to see the bad endings cgs and actually i made a fan art of shiro and mc and farro and mc! i love this game to be completely honest this is the best game i ever played everything and everything of this is really good i think i'm obessesed with shiro now lol by the way here's the fan art
I’m glad you’ve been enjoying it :3 And omg your fan art is so cute!! ^-^ Both of them look so adorable :D Thank you so much for showing me those! They’re amazing <3 I especially love how poor Farro is like a scared little kitty cat, hehe.
That really means a lot! I’m so happy you had fun with the game :3 I hope you’re able to see all the endings if you want to!
This was the first ever game that I made, so it’s a little bit rough x3 I hope to remake it someday with extra content now that I have learned a lot more about game dev :D
Thank you again for playing this one, for sending such cool fan art, and for all your kind words <3 I hope you get to have a fantastic February ^-^
omg your literally like a therapist your words get through me as though finishing the game i think it will be impossible since my sister is gonna sell my laptop and she wouldn't let me go near it T^T
i will really have a hard time finishing it but i think i come back for this actually ><
and i really think it would be cool you can remake the game someday i really love this game but please don't push yourself too hard T_T
and i enjoyed it especially the detective route but i really have to say this it's too much gory BUT but i really LOVE IT OMG ^^
anyways just a little feedback😔 when i leave the game my saves are all gone but nevertheless this game is really enjoyable i didn't even sleep just to get all the bad cgs and ending LMAO
i will literally be your biggest fan 😭🙌🙌
That sucks that your sister is going to sell your laptop :( If you have a good enough phone, there is a thing you can get called Winlator that can manage to run some of the Windows versions of games here on itch.io, but usually only smaller games. I haven’t used it myself, but I know someone who has managed to play a few of my games using Winlator since they don’t have access to a computer.
Hehe, the detective route actually ended up being my favourite route to write, so I’m glad you had fun with that one :D Sometimes I forget how gory some of the moments in this game can be xD because most of my games aren’t tooooo gory, haha.
That’s so weird about your saves disappearing when you leave the game :o I have no idea what would cause that >.< I didn’t have any issues with the saves when I tested it on my computer years ago, but I know the engine I made the game in was a bit dodgy. Some people can’t even open the game on their computers and I have no idea why :( It’s one of the big reasons I switched to using a different software to make games, because Tyranobuilder seemed to have too many weird bugs for different people even though everything worked fine for me. Hopefully, if I can eventually remake the game in a different engine, it will solve all those strange problems :3
Thanks again for all your kind words ^-^ I hope you get to have a good week ahead!
i can't finish this game i'm stuck in a loop in the ??? route i kept killing kuro... i think i'm going insane i might not be able to finish it is there a way to stop the loop i cried now that i know kuro had suffered so many times i really feel sorry for him what should i do..? i just finished all the bad cgs and the good cgs it took me hours to finish this when i finally reached the ??? route i'm so super stuck in a loop i'm going insane really..
Sorry about that >.< This was my first-ever game that I made, so it's hard to remember all the details, but I think this part will loop forever if you don't click on the hidden object!
There should be an image of a knife on the screen somewhere. It's an intentionally sneaky hidden choice x3
You have to click on the knife instead of killing Kuro to break the loop and continue the story :3
oh ok i see thanks i didn't notice it!
No worries :3
I don't know if you've seen it already or not, but if you happen to get stuck again, Maetropa wrote a brilliant guide on getting all the endings :D
I still come back to this game every while. I haven't been able to 100% it yet, but one day... anyways, feel free to take as long to reply as you need. ;_;)b
It’s definitely taken me a while to reply, and I’m still gonna apologise for that even though you said to take as long as I need, so yeah, I’m sorry about that x3
I pretty much just got overwhelmed and too stressed in the buildup to Christmas with family meetings and other stuff, and I kind of went into shut down mode like an overloaded computer and just crashed xD It’s taken all this time to FINALLY start feeling like I can face doing things again >.<
But damn, that's amazing that you'd want to keep coming back to it! I have a few games that I started a loooong time ago and still haven't managed to finish yet even though I want to... like Mass Effect Andromeda, haha.
I hope you do get to 100% it one day though :D And I hope that 2024 has started out amazingly for you :3
hi hi sorry im not sure if you'll answer but might as well try um I can't open any version and I don't think its my laptop because its new but I don't know :(
Sorry my answer is pretty slow >.< I've been quite overwhelmed with everything atm so I'm really behind on replying to stuff :(
Unfortunately, I don't know if I'm going to be of much help T_T It might actually be because your laptop is new that the game isn't working x3 I can't say for sure. It's just the game was made quite a while ago in an old engine that I don't use anymore >.< It still opens and plays on my current PC, but my PC is pretty old xD
I know some people had trouble opening games made with the Tyranobuilder engine because it just opened a weird box that said nodekit or json or something >.< and no one could ever figure out why it worked fine for some people and not others. Some devs posted about it on the engine's forums hoping that the software devs would be able to help, but the only answer we got was that it does that sometimes... >.< sooo yeah, not very helpful x3 It's one of the reasons I stopped using the engine, haha.
But yeah, if double-clicking the .exe file doesn't work, then I don't really know what might make it work >.<
Sorry about that and I hope you get to have happy holidays! :3
AWWWW you too HAPPY HOLIDAYS it's fine if it doesn't work, thank you for the reply tho!! HAVE A AWESOME COOL DAY!!!! :D
Is there a hint somewhere for the password to the ??? part in the extras? I've been dying to know what's on the page after finishing the game, but can't figure it out.
Honestly, it’s been so long since I made this game that I can’t remember if there’s a hint anywhere x3 But I can give you one :3 It’s basically the name that the entity refers to you by!
If you didn’t catch it though, I’ll write it further down in this comment! Thanks so much for playing btw <3
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As far as I can remember, it should be: Anathema
Thank you! I did try that but somehow I never considered capitalizing their name funnily enough.
Yeah, unfortunately, the page doesn't allow me to accept different ways of typing it >.< haha. Otherwise, I would have put lowercase and other combos too x3
i like to move it move it
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is the game safe to stream? i love the game alot but it's been a while since i've played it
Sorry my reply is so slow >.< I’ve just been mega-focused on this year’s spooktober VN jam! Hoping to release the project later today :3
Hmm, tbh, it’s so long since I made it that I couldn’t say for sure xD Especially since I don’t know what’s allowed and what isn’t on different streaming platforms >.<
It doesn’t have any sexual content in it, I know that much! But there is some gory/bloody imagery! I’m glad you like it anyhow :3
Twinkle twinkle little star
Let me see where your game are
Crossing path that you dont know
Merging souls that to me owe
Now im going to puppeter this MC `>`
Nice version of the rhyme there :D Hope you have fun puppeteering!! :3
Hi! I've just started playing Solipsis with the Princess route, and I'm super curious about who the voice actors are since they're really good! I like how you can choose between flavors of Yandere too.
Hey hey! Glad you're enjoying the voice acting :3 The game wouldn't be the same without all the amazing people who helped bring the characters to life with their voices :D
I might be wrong here, but as far as I remember, I included a credits text document with all the download folders, so there should be a file in there somewhere that's just called 'Credits.txt' and inside that there are the full game credits with links to social media and stuff for all the voice actors :3 (well, for those who wanted links including anyhow - not everyone wanted to have links in there.)
I hope you end up enjoying the game! Thanks for checking it out ^-^
oh! I forgot to ask the ones who sing the opening are Vocaloids? their voices resemble those of Luka and kaito ( ╹▽╹ )
You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear you say that x3 It was actually me and my friend that wrote and sang the opening theme, haha. But both of us really wanted to try and sound a bit like Vocaloids xD So my friend spent aaaages editing our vocals to try and give them a bit of a Vocaloid kind of sound! Glad to hear it paid off :D I wish I could be Luka x3
woa すごい I really thought they were Vocaloid voices :O I'm a huge fan of vocaloids and when I heard the song I was "Is it them?!" It's very well edited! I loved the melody and the lyrics :) I showed it to a friend and she was like "That's a good song!" I'm glad my little comment makes you happy! If I tell you the truth, after writing it, I worried about how stupid the question was and I got depressed qwq but I'm glad you answered me ^^ thank you
Well, I’m glad it worked then :D I wish I actually did sound like Luka when I sing, haha. The song was a real team effort between myself and my (sadly) ex-friend. It’s a long story, but he basically doesn’t talk to me anymore and I will never really know why because the last time we saw each other in person, everything was fine >.< he just pretty much ghosted me even though we used to live together! I know he got a girlfriend, so maybe that was part of the reason, but still. It sucks to have lost him as a friend :(
But yeah, anyways, he wrote the music, and I wrote the lyrics :3 Then we sang it individually because I was too embarrassed to sing my parts in front of him, so I made him leave the house while I recorded xD And once everything was recorded and he’d made the backing track, he edited our voices to try and make them sound more Vocaloid-like.
I wanted to try and sort of tell the story of the game in the lyrics without giving away spoilers, haha. I really love songs that tell stories, so I was inspired by stuff like Puppet in the Dark by FELT and world.execute(me); by Mili.
You should never feel stupid for asking questions x3 I know it’s easier said than done though >.< But if we didn’t ask questions, we’d never learn anything :3
qnq Something similar happened to me with an ex-friend, it was a somewhat silly fight xD Do you know Wadanohara and the great blue sea? (I think it was called the game) we were fighting because she liked a character (Fukami I think his name was) and my other (Samekichi) and well after that she completely blocked me and we lost contact, that's been a while year and I have not been able to speak to her again, I am very sorry for it
The song really expresses the story very well without any spoilers with very good lyrics ùvú I liked it a lot and I have repeated it too much xD
To me I wish my singing voice was more like IA or Kaai Yuki xD
I also love songs that tell stories, I especially like Vocaloids and Utaites a lot
Thank you Marie, if I have any questions I won't hesitate to ask uwu
That sucks about your ex-friend :( I do know of that, yeah! I’ve never played it myself, but it’s been on my list of things to check out for aaaages!! It always popped up on lists I read about recommendations of games with creepy characters or yanderes in, haha.
That’s a shame you guys lost contact. Whenever that happens to me I always worry if the other person is okay. Cos usually, it’s not like anything really bad has happened or we’ve had a big argument or anything, it’s just more like getting ghosted I guess. It really sucked with my friend cos we were super close years ago. Getting ghosted online is fairly normal for me, but I never imagined I’d get ghosted by someone I knew so well irl when we had such a good friendship. I guess he must’ve just got sick of me and decided he didn’t want me in his life anymore x3
I hope you have other friends who will always stick around at least :3
As for singing, weeeell, I do wish I had a higher-pitched voice, haha. But Luka is probably the closest Vocaloid to my natural singing voice. I just hate having a deep voice in general really T_T
The small version does run on my pc! Yei! xD I've only played a little but it's really a good game! It reminds me a bit of Amnesia with the theme of worlds! I really like the drawings (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧ and the background music is quite nice! I was quite surprised that all the characters had voices <3 there are many Game overs xvx I don't know how many times I've already died :D! but it's quite fun to try again! And anyway I love your games! (≧▽≦)
Huzzah :D Well, I'm glad that version works at least :3 As far as I can remember there wasn't a huge difference, mainly just files shrunk a lot more, but there's not much visual difference other than in the videos.
Amnesia was actually partly what inspired me to make this as my first game :3 Mainly my love for Ukyo xD
I was very lucky to get to work with Destini who did all that epic art and all the voice actors who helped me out too :3 Wouldn't have been possible without everyone!
Yeah, I kinda have a thing for bad ends xD so I thought it would be fun to try and make a game where the point is to collect them all, haha.
Thank you so much again for checking out my stuff and being so sweet ^-^
Idon't really understand why the normal version of the game didn't run on my pc :( I guess it sure is a mystery xD So you like Ukyo :D he is very sweet xD I also like Bad endings even though in Amnesia I got stuck so much for them
I say it again (Maybe I'll repeat it a lot )xD I love your games! and this is one of my favorites <3 kuro is sweet maybe I'll cheer up and play the BxG version and share the game with my friends friends even if they don't really like VN qwq
It is indeed a mystery x3
Hehe, yeah, I think Ukyo is probably still one of my all-time favourites :3 I’m quite behind on otome games now, but I used to play them a lot before I started trying to make games x3 Quite often though, I wasn’t really that interested in a lot of the characters. The most recent one I finished was Cafe Enchante, and while I didn’t fall in love with any of the main characters, I enjoyed the overall story. Shiraishi from Collar x Malice was another one that I liked a lot :D I didn’t really enjoy most of Collar x Malice, but it was worth it for Shiraishi, haha.
Aww, you’re too kind x3 Sadly, you won’t be able to play the BxG version though cos I’m not even close to finishing it >.< It’s completely on hold at this point, but I do hope to try and make it someday! There’s just never enough time T_T
It’s frustrating trying to get friends who don’t like VNs to check them out, haha. I’ve tried in the past but they just turn their noses up at them and say stuff like they’re not proper games x3
xD amnesia was really my first otome game, personally I loved Ikki and Shin a lot and even toma although Kento only bored me x-x
I really don't have friends who like otome VNs or others that sometimes is something sad not having someone to share with
Ah! If you like the voice of Ukyo's voice actor and you know something about Japanese you should play Glass heart princess even though it's from PSP
I haven't heard of those otome games :O I tried to search the internet for Collar x Malice to download it but I haven't I've been lucky qvq (or I haven't searched well I guess xD)
The truth is that I haven't been playing much maybe my last game was Dynamic Chord feat Kyohso
I really admire that I admire that you make games ! I would love to be able to do the same ovo✨ sometimes good ideas come to me but I don't dare to do it qq
If you ever finish the GxB version rest assured that I will play it ÒvÓb
Sorry for the very long message, I hope don't mind me acting so friendly qvq and again thanks for reading and responding to my comments
Awww, poor Kent x3 I actually liked him, haha. I just thought he was kinda cute and sweet, haha. Ikki is the one I thought I’d like the most based purely on looks, but nope, I wound up hating him and his stupid fanclub xD
I played Collar x Malice on PSVita, but I’m pretty sure it’s been rereleased on Nintendo Switch with extra content :3 And it was Switch that I played Cafe Enchante on! I think most otome games seems to be releasing on Switch over here now actually.
You could always get something easy to use like Tyranobuilder or maybe even mess around with Renpy since it’s free :3 You don’t have to put pressure on yourself to release anything, but you could just experiment and see how some of your ideas turn out :D
You have nothing to apologise for x3 and I don’t mind at all :3
Hello ! melancholy marionette I really need your help! I recently downloaded the game to play it on my pc but I don't know how to run it and the internal of my pc started to fill up and I really don't know what to do ｡ﾟ( ﾟஇωஇﾟ)ﾟ｡
Hey hey! Sorry if this is too late to help, I don't tend to go on my PC at weekends >.< I'm hoping you managed to get it working by now, but if not I can try to help, though, I don't know much help I can be because this project is really old and some people's computers seem to have problems opening it :(
If you're on Mac, I probably can't help at all cos I don't own a Mac to test on >.<
If you're on Windows, you should be able to download either the Solipsism Reigns – GxB – Windows or Solipsism Reigns – GxB – windows (smaller version). Once downloaded, unzip the folder like you usually would by right-clicking it and extracting the files.
Once you've extracted the files to a folder, you should have something that looks like this:
Then you double-click on the exe here:
And the game should run.
BUT, depending on your computer's specs, it could take a looong time to actually do anything >.< On my old laptop, it took something crazy like a full 5-7 minutes to actually launch the game after clicking the exe. It looks like it's not doing anything, but it does eventually open. Unless the computer doesn't have enough memory, then it might just not do anything >.< Even on my PC which has relatively decent specs, it still takes about 20 seconds to actually launch though.
If your folder doesn't look like that after extracting the files though, or if clicking the exe opens up something that isn't the game, then it probably means you're one of the unlucky people who has the weird error that I don't know how to fix T_T
thanks for answering ! I'll try to download the smaller version and I'll try again owo, by the way maybe what happened is that since my pc is not very good (only 4GB of ram) the version that weighed more didn't run xD sorry for bothering you with this little error! qvq again thanks for the help ^^
Maybe >.< but still, I would like to hope that 4GB of ram would be enough to run most visual novels :( I know the download size is quite large and it takes a while to start up, but once it's actually running, even the original version should work on most computers. My old potato laptop was a super potato with extremely low specs, but even though it took forever to actually launch after clicking the exe, it did eventually run x3 and once it was running, it was smooth. It was just the startup that caused problems.
Anyways, you have nothing to apologise for x3 I hope that the smaller version ends up working for you at least! :3
Came to revisit this game! I really enjoyed the voice acting and the story, I had fun looking at the QnAs :) the writing is also really nice <3
Aww, that's so sweet that you'd want to revisit it ^-^ Thanks so much for all your kind words <3
This has been my fav otome game for a long long time and I keep finding myself coming back to it, LOVE IT!! I love all your games <3
Thanks so much ^-^ That's super sweet of you to say <3 The giant no-confidence part of myself wants to shake my head in denial and declare it impossible for anyone to put any of my games in their favourites x3 but I really appreciate that anyone would consider them that way :3 Still hope I will eventually get to remake this one someday, but I don't know when I'm supposed to find the time to do it x3
Thank you very much for all your kind words :3
I played this a while ago and I'm back here to download again so I can replay it, so I figured I'd leave a comment!
I've played most of your games (the other ones are pending!) and they're all really good, but Solipsism Reigns has really made its way into my heart. I love yandere games, and the normal routes definitly gave me that but the '???' route and true end got me so hooked up I stayed up all night to finish them. Definitely one of my favorite games ever, I can't believe it's free (๑>ᴗ<๑)
Aww, well, that's super sweet of you ^-^ And it means a lot that you'd even want to replay it!! If you ever end up playing everything, you'll have to let me know which one winds up being your favourite :3 it's always intriguing to know what sorta stuff different people prefer, haha. Like, Limbo Line is my personal favourite, though, I grew extremely fond of Bitter/Sweet, but some people I've spoken to who have played a few of my games said they liked X game a lot, but then they tried another one of my games and they just couldn't get into it, haha.
I'll always have a soft spot for this project though with it being my very first :3 I can't believe it's gonna be 3 years old this summer o.o I dunno where the time has gone! Honestly don't know what I was thinking trying to make something this long as a first game >.< And I've never managed to make anything of the same length since, although, while it's been on hold for what seems like forever, the writing for CiQ was finished aaaages ago, and I reckon it is probably similar in length to SR, just had a heck of a lot of problems turning it into a game T_T
I'm glad the ??? route was interesting enough to keep you engaged :3 I did worry a little that it might drag a bit or something, or be too weird, I dunno, haha. The whole ??? route was my initial idea for the game though, but then I thought, I can't just do that on its own, there needs to be stuff before it for it to have any sort of impact >.< So I had to try and work backwards from there x3
Funnily enough, my dad said the same thing when I first released the game about it being free xD He still says that now every time I release stuff. It usually goes along the lines of "You're mad! You work yourself half to death and you're not even getting paid for it!!" hehe. He means it in an affectionate way, of course! But at the same time, it does make him sad that I can't make a living from it with all the hours I put in x3
Anyways, I will hush my rambling and just say thank you so much for playing in general and your kind words! Hope you get to have an awesome rest of your April :3
Is anyone else having trouble loading into the game. I was able to install it yet when I try to launch it, it just shows NW.JS and that's about it. If anyone know anything please let me know.
Sorry my reply is quite slow >.< my arm is still broken, so I'm not able to stay on top of stuff very well atm :(
I'm hoping you might have been able to get it to work by now, but I'm guessing probably not because if it was asking you to install something, then it's already gone wrong because you shouldn't have to install anything to play >.< It should just work when you click the. exe file T_T
I know a few people had the same issue in the past though! Not just with my game, but games by other devs made with the Tyranobuilder engine. It's one of the reasons why I decided to stop using the engine and start making stuff with a different engine entirely.
I have no idea what causes this for some people :( and back when someone first brought it up, I tried to find a fix, and made a post with some stuff in, which you can find here :3
I have no idea if any of it works though! And no one ever did get back to me when I queried the engine devs about it. Another reason I stopped using Tyrano >.<
Maybe something will work for you, but I don't hold out much hope :(
I love this game so much! I just wish that there was a BxB version sks- But I love this game! It's incredible how you were able to do all of this, and make it free! I'm definitely going to download this again. I absolutely love yanderes and there's a severe lack of them, well, everywhere. I've been following your itch.io content for a long time, and I'm excited to see what you make in the future! ^w^
I wish I could've made all different kinds of versions >.< I had originally planned to at least have GxB, BxG, BxB, and GxG, but by the time I finished the GxB/otome version, it became clear that it would just take too much time because of how long the game is T_T The BxG version is still in development (albeit very slowly because it's not a priority project), but I had to make the decision to drop the other versions or it would take me years and years to make then and I wouldn't have time to make anything else :( Tbh, it was pretty stupid of me to make such a long game for my first-ever go at making games xD At least with the shorter ones I've made since then, I've managed to be more inclusive with different options :3
I'm glad you still had fun playing it though ^-^ I don't really know how I managed to motivate myself enough to finish it really, haha. It was far too long for a first project, and I did almost give up several times! It was actually the covid lockdown that made me go into overdrive and try to get the last of it finished because it helped take my mind off of how crap everything was >.<
Hehe, lack of yanderes (especially ones with English male voices) was one of my main reasons to get into game dev :D It seems like there are quite a few around nowadays, with more popping up all the time, which is awesome :3 But back when I started this project, I couldn't really find many at all >.< most of the male yanderes I found were in Japanese titles, and even then, there still weren't THAT many in games that had been translated. So I figured I'd try to make one myself x3
I never really intended to end up making multiple games xD it's just after I finished my first project, I kinda wound up addicted to it, and I figured, screw it, I'm just gonna make it my mission to keep adding more and more English-voiced yandere characters to the world, haha.
That's so cool that you've been following my stuff! I appreciate the support <3 I always try to have at least 1 yandere character in my games, or if not a full yandere, then a character with some yandere qualities, haha. Although, I didn't with The Graveyard Shift in the end, but then that was supposed to be an adaptation more than anything and I was pushed for time x3
Hopefully, any stuff I make in the future won't turn out to be disappointing, haha. Thanks for playing this one too ^-^
ahh, i'm sorry for the late reply! suddenly, you've motivated me to finally get on figuring out how to code a game. thank you so much! and i wish you the best of luck with your projects!
No need to apologise x3 Thank you for the luck, I will certainly need it, haha. And I wish you the best of luck with your future endeavours too ^-^
I have to say, the different levels of Yandere present kind of gave me whiplash!
Have done the first four routes so far.
Student route: Kuro killed me for agreeing to have a group lunch that included a boy
Mage route: Kuro killed me for being polite and praying to the god that the cleric who was coming with me on an impromptu suicide mission to save the day wanted me to pray to
Detective route: Kuro killed me for trying to find my detective partner before looking for a missing child
Princess route: I literally attacked Kuro and he...apologized for not better understanding my feelings.
I almost felt like I was the Yandere on that route lol
Of course I prefer lower levels of Yandere but it made the route much harder since I couldn't always figure out which choices would get me killed lol
xD I can definitely believe that, haha. Because this was my first-ever game and it's a few years old now, when I look back on it, there's a lot I would change about the writing, especially in the Student route! Cos I pretty much despise that one x3 I would ramble on about the various reasons why I wanted to include all the varying degrees of yandere in the routes, but I don't want to accidentally spoil anything, haha.
I really appreciate you hanging in there and sticking with it though :D Trust me, there is a reason for it all in the end, haha. All I can say without being too spoilery is that everything will make sense when you unlock the ??? route. Don't worry about all the blood, death, and suffering along the way x3 Getting through all those bad ends is the key :3
Thanks so much for taking the time to play it <3
hi!! i loved this game, its so interesting and i loved how kuro was a lil different in every route <3 just wanted to ask if you could maybe put subtitles for the man (?) that talks sometimes after the route and at the very ending, since english isnt my first language and his voice kina echos and is static a lil it was a bit hard to hear what he said sometimes, just an idea !! still i loved it very much <333
Hey hey! So glad to hear you enjoyed the game :3 Thank you so much for playing <3
If I could add the subtitles, then I would, but sadly, I don't have access to the game files anymore, so I can't make any changes T_T Because this was the first game I made, I had all the files on my old laptop, and unfortunately, I wound up losing them >.< I also don't use the Tyranobuilder Engine anymore.
With it being my first game, I was a bit of an idiot and didn't really think about the fact that it might be helpful to have subtitles for those scenes >.< I do plan to eventually remake the entire game one day though, and I will definitely be sure to include subtitles when I do :3
Thank you again ^-^
ahh that’s completely okay !! i’m sorry u lost all the files :(( but i’m glad to know that’s it’s something you would do in the future <33 i hope u have a great day <3
Hello!
I really like this game and to find a game with a male Yandere in it! I noticed that this game isnt completed released but the BxG version is still continuing. So this this version of the game wont continue?
The GxB/otome version (this version) with a female protagonist and male yandere is completed and released :3 It was the first game I ever made :D And ever since then, I have continued to include both male and female yandere characters in almost all of my games ^-^
The BxG version of this project where the protagonist is male and the love interest is a female yandere is still in development, but very casually, so it won't be ready any time soon x3 but it is happening and will have different sprite art and stuff.
I also hope to remake the released otome version one day with new routes and new sprite art, but that's a loooong way off cos it's my longest game, so it would take ages to completely remake it in the engine I use now >.<
Whats the name that voice in every bad ending calls you? I tried sounding it out and spelling it but a friend of mine thinks i said eczema TT I like how it sounds but i just dunno what the name is
It's 'Anathema' :3 That's funny though xD and, funnily enough, I have eczema, haha. Got it real bad on my hands T_T got ill before Christmas and am still ill now, and having a stupid eczema flare up on both hands really isn't helping things :( that's why I'm so slow to reply, haha.
Sorry it's taken me ages to get back to you >.< I was ill before and during Christmas, and still am now somehow (much better though now, thankfully!) I've not been on my PC, I tried and failed to catch up on stuff on my phone, it's just kinda old and laggy, so it's not the easiest thing to type on x3
Anyways, thanks so much for playing! Glad you enjoyed it :3 I'll do my best to answer your questions ^-^
1) Firstly, it's been a long time, but as far as I can remember, there shouldn't be any major differences between the large and small versions other than the download size. And possibly the little videos and some of the art being of slightly lower quality from being compressed much more in the small version. The larger version should technically be the better one with the higher-quality assets in.
Aaaaand
SPOILERS
2) Cody is actually me x3 I very rarely use my name in stuff because I hate it xD And the main reason I hate it is cos it largely seems to be a male name, but I'm female >.< haha. Annoyingly, there seems to be an alternate (more feminine I guess) spelling of the name that tends to be given to girls (Codie) but nope, my mum went and spelled it the dude way >.> My dad hated it, haha. He wanted to call me Anya! But my mum won. Apparently, she got the name from a female character in an Australian soap that she loved! But in all my life, I've never met another girl called Cody where it was spelled the masculine way like that, only ever dudes and people's male dogs xD
Had the game been made more recently, I have no doubt I would've just used 'Melancholy' or some other shortened version of my dev name instead, but as far as I can remember, I didn't even have a dev name at the time I wrote all of this since it was my first game x3
3) It's really tough to answer your third question with it being so long since I made the game. I think the extras is unclickable until you've completed the game and gotten the main ending, and I know that I put in like a false title screen for the first time you start up the game after having seen that scene with the Architect, but once you've clicked one of the options and discovered that it's a fake title screen, a genuine title screen should replace it where everything works as it should. So if that's not the case, I guess you must've come across some weird sort of bug >.< There are some parts that are intentional for messing with UI and such, but all saves should be accessible when on the not fake version of the title screen.
I'm trying to remember how it was set but I don't know if I'm getting the order right >.< I think once you've seen the scene you mentioned with the Architect, the game is supposed to give you a point in the background that tells the game you've finished it, and that should then persist once the game fake crashes and you restart it. So maybe something went wrong with that somehow and it didn't save the global point to tell the game you've completed it. I don't know why it would do that though because it worked okay when I tested it years ago >.<
It does sound like something has gone wrong though if you can't access the extras. I know some people were having issues with saves because they were reloading older saves when they encountered bad ends, and you don't need to do that, in fact, it's the opposite, you're supposed to be collecting the bad ends, so if you hit one and reload to pick different choices, you'll never be able to unlock all the stuff you need to unlock to get the hidden route since to start that, you need to have X amount of bad ends registered, and to register them, you need to let them play out and just be sent back to whatever world you were in before you hit the bad end x3 But I wouldn't have thought that would be what was causing any issues in your game since you've already seen the Archi stuff!
But yeah, as far as I can remember, you had to unlock everything else and complete the game to unlock extras, but save files shouldn't be getting wiped :(
I wish I could get to the bottom of it and fix it for you somehow, but I don't even have the files anymore >.< it was all on my old laptop that died and I lost everything on it, same goes for Impostor. I have odd files here and there on a USB and portable hard drive from where I made a couple of backups, but not the complete lot to be able to actually work on it. I also don't have Tyranobuilder on any of my systems anymore cos I switched to making stuff with Naninovel in Unity >.< so there's nothing I can do :(
I hope to remake SR in Nani someday now that I have a lot more experience cos there's a lot I'd like to change. I could certainly make it more polished + tweak the writing I'm not happy with (especially student route) + add some new content like a new route or 2 + new sprite art :3 That won't happen any time soon though, and even when I do start working on it, it'll likely take a long, long time to finish >.<
4) As far as I can remember, Anathema was the only name-related easter egg, but it's not the only one of my games that it gets a mention, same goes for Archie ;3 which brings me to your last question!
5) Solipsism Reigns is my first ever game and the first of my projects that Archie appears in, but the character can also be encountered in the GxB/Otome version of Apartment No.9 (though it's much briefer than in SR, so probably not really worth searching for unless the game also interests you!) And then there are some extremely vague references in Limbo Line as well without Archie actually being there.
It's a character I hoped to include more in my projects than I've been able to >.< the problem is that my projects are often made for/during game jams with tight time limits, so the voice actor who plays the character isn't always available within the timeframe of development. It worked out for A9, but hasn't since :( I do hope that I can include Archie more though because the character has a whole story of their own in my head! So yeah, there's a whole lot more to discover about him, it just might be quite awkward to get it all out there x3
I hope you got to have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year yourself! ^-^ With any luck, I won't be ill for much longer because it's getting silly now, haha. I'm really happy you enjoyed the game anyhow! Thank you so much for taking the time to play it and leave a comment <3
And I agree about Dollmaker :P somehow he grew on me so much by the time I finished writing x3 like he worked his way into my heart, haha.
I love all your games so heckin much! \(> w <)/
Its such a rarity to come across games that has spooks, yandere's (Is currently a big yandere fan lol), and long interesting story that manages to captivate mah interest :O
Is such a rollercoaster of feels, me had many happy feels and sad feels along da way ; - ;
Tank u 4 creating dis master piece+(´^ω^`)+
Aww *high five* Well, I'm glad you do ^-^
Yeeeah, I'm a big fan of horror, spooky stuff, yanderes, but also cute things, hehe x3
I used to be a huuuge otome fan too, but I've slowly lost interest in the genre in recent years >.< I think just cos a lot of the stuff I was playing seemed like kinda copy/pasted stories and characters in different settings, so it was like, nah, I'm not gonna fork out £30 for the next release on Switch or whatever, and that's used, heck no way I'm paying £50 for new when they're all kinda samey and I have very little money! Maybe some of the releases in recent years have been amazing though? I dunno. I missed stuff like Cupid Parasite, which admittedly looked intriguing. I did try Cafe Enchante cos I thought it looked adorable, but I got bored fast T_T The big name releases are just waaaaay too expensive to take gambles on really, so I wind up playing indie Vns more than anything nowadays! :3
But anyways, I'm rambling x3
I'm honoured that you feel that way about my stuff ^-^ means a lot! When I started out making this project, it was my very first attempt at creating a VN, I didn't know wtf I was doing, and a huge part of why I made it was because I was sad about the lack of male yanderes out there in the games I was playing, especially English-speaking ones x3 So I was like, screw it, I'm gonna attempt to make a game that is ALL about a romance with a male yandere, haha. And then as you can probably tell, I accidentally got addicted to making VNs in general xD
I honestly didn't think back then that anyone would even play it, haha. I just figured I'd make the sort of thing I wanted to play and just release it out into the wild x3 Told myself that if anyone else happened to play and enjoy it, then that would be a super lovely bonus :D
Fast forward to the future and now it looks so old compared to my more recent stuff x3 I think you can see I learned a lot over the years if you play something like this and then play one of the releases from this year, haha. But this will always be my special baby since it was my first x3 and while there's a lot about it I would like to edit and add to whenever I eventually get around to remaking it, I still can't believe I actually managed to complete a project of that length in the first place, haha. It was a very silly thing to try and do as a first project x3 and I did very nearly wind up abandoning it at several points! It was actually the pandemic and lockdown that kinda booted me up the ass to get a move on and finally finish it.
Thank YOU for playing it and for your kind words <3
Also, happy holidays and I hope you have a super happy new year ^-^
Yee, indeed Otome's haven't been very interesting these day's since it all sorta feels the same. I'm having difficulty finding VN's that are as amazing as urs, not saying they aren't talented as well, they just don't capture my short attention span (╥﹏╥)
The fact that this is your first project is heckin amazing!!! It is indeed special like u said :O
I hope u has happy holidayz + new yearz 2!!! May u have many happy days in the years to come! 🥂🎊
Man it has been a long time I've played this game and when I tried to play it again it's seems quite different from what i remembered? The overlay and the UI system i mean.
Nothing should have changed on this since it was released cos I haven't uploaded any new builds or updated it at all :o Pretty much all of my projects have stayed the same as they were when they were first uploaded aside from Darling Duality, which recently got a small update and a complete overhaul of the UI and choices :3
But yeah, nothing should have changed with SR because I've not touched it. Unless you happened to have played the reeeeally old demo version that I put out years ago before the full release of the game. Cos that was super rough and probably did have quite different UI and stuff x3
Only finished the first route and I'm loving this game so far :)!
I see you decided to check this one out after DD <3 This one was the first game I ever made, so it's not as polished as DD in terms of how it looks and plays, but there's certainly more of a story to sink your teeth into at least since it's a full-length game :3
I hope you end up having fun with the rest of it ^-^
Yup! Just started the third route, and wow, it's really well-done for your first game! Really love your creations, keep up the good work and thank you :)
<3
This game doesn't launch on windows.
It works fine on Windows for me on both my PC and our family potato laptop >.< Could it possibly be a compatibility issue? I only ask because this is my oldest game, made in an engine I no longer use, and someone recently commented on one of my other old games made in the same engine saying that it didn't work for them on Windows 11 until they went into properties and ran the compatibility shooter, so you could try that I guess. If that doesn't work, I'd need a lot more information about what's happening to try and get to the bottom of why it won't run for you, and even then, I still likely wouldn't be able to fix it because, as I said, I don't use that engine anymore :(
I am trying soo hard yet I am still not being able to play... each time I try to open the game from the folder I keep getting a message on something called nodewebkit or so and it keeps on telling me, "cannot extract package"... I have enough memory, its not my antivirus, I have even tried other methods etc etc... Do you have any suggestions? :(
Hey! Sorry my reply is so slow >.< I'm working on some stuff for Spooktober VN Jam again this year, so I haven't really been checking here since I've been super busy with that.
I don't suppose you managed to get it to work in the end?
Unfortunately, there probably isn't any advice I can offer, which sucks :( I know that what you said it a common-ish problem with games made in Tyranobuilder because back when I used that engine, I was searching for answers myself and came across several support threads on their Steam pages from other devs asking the same thing. As far as I'm aware, it was never fixed >.< The devs of the engine just said to people, yeah, that happens sometimes and we don't really know why, but usually it fixes itself... It was that sort of attitude towards fixing bugs in the engine that made me decide to stop using it (among other reasons.)
So yeah, I have no idea why it does that for some people and not for others :( Are you on windows or mac? Cos I think it probably happens to more people on mac, though I've seen it can still happen to windows users. All I know is that you're not even supposed to see the nodewebkit bit. The game is just meant to launch when you click the exe >.< If the nodewebkit thing is coming up, something has somehow gone very wrong.
I can't even do any investigating because I don't use the engine anymore >.< I made SR and Impostor with it, then got fed up with how buggy it was and switched to Nani x Unity. So I'm sorry I can't be of more help :( It really sucks to be powerless to do anything when someone actually wants to check out one of my games >.<
There is no need to apologise. After all, I am quite late as well :') . Ah well, that is a shame. I was looking forward to your game. Guess I will settle for your other games... which seem to be amazing! Also, I wish you best of luck for the stuff you are working on! Do not overwork yourself though. :)
Thank you for the reply!
Yeah, sorry about that though that I wasn't able to help you get it working :( It really sucks! I hope my more recent games that I've made since switching engines will work for you at least x3 especially since I just released another two for Spooktober VN Jam yesterday!
And thank you :3 I kinda did massively overwork myself throughout September for the jam, which is why I'm so late to respond again x3 but now that it's over, I definitely plan to take it easier and try to rest up and recover :3
Hope you get to have a happy and spoopy October!!
Hey there! Sorry to make this random reply 2 months later, but someone posted something in the IMPOSTOR comments that made me wonder if it might possibly make a difference in getting this to open for you since both SR and that were made with the same engine :3
The person said that they couldn't get IMPOSTOR to open and that they're on Windows 11. They said that they went into properties and did the compatibility troubleshooter, which solved the problem and it opened fine for them after that!
It might not work for your situation with this one, but I figured I'd give you a shout just in case :3
….. Let us ignore the fact that I am replying this late. Thank you for your suggestion! It did not work, but I could have done something wrong. I will try again later and inform you if things do change! Thank you for your consideration!
Also, I played 'Dawn of the damned' recently and I must say your work is wonderful! I really enjoyed the plotline and the design of the game is really gorgeous! I will soon be playing 'The graveyard shift' as well. Thank you for all your efforts and take care! :D
Don't worry about that x3 my replies are almost always late, haha. I'm dreadful at managing to keep up with everything because I just get overwhelmed far too easily, and then it's like my brain short circuits and I have to wait for it to reboot xD
That sucks that it didn't work >.< Now I'm wondering how many people might be trying to play it only for it to not even run for them :( If it were quick, I'd just remake the whole thing in the new engine as it is, but even if I didn't change a single thing, it'd probably still take me months to do that >.<
That's awesome though, so glad you enjoyed Dawn of the Damned :3 It was a lot of fun to make! Hope you end up enjoying The Graveyard Shift too! Thanks for your kind words ^-^
yandere femboy bf and weeks worth of gameplay for free.... easily 10/10 and one of my faves on itchio :3
Aww, that's so great to hear! I'm really glad you enjoyed it ^-^ Even though it's been quite some time since I released it, my dad actually said to me again this weekend just gone, I still can't believe you released a game of that length for free xD I've lost track of the number of times he's said that over the years, haha. I'm just overjoyed that anyone is still playing and having fun with it!! Back when I was making it, I kinda just figured only a few of my friends would play it! That it would go unnoticed by the rest of the world x3
your dad's right and he sounds so incredibly sweet, i wish you both good health! i saw my friend play a commercial vn that costs $10 and they completed it + all the endings in just under a day lol.. huge waste of money, and it just reminded me of this game and how much more fun i had for free xD the selfish uni student part of me that knows i couldnt have played it if it costed money is really happy that it's free, but i also cant deny that it's worth more than most commercial games i've seen playthroughs of.. also, i know people have asked about why kuro physically looks so feminine, but i actually like him that way and that's why (among other reasons ofc) detective kuro and ??? kuro r my faves!! also looking forward to seeing more of the architect!
He really is, bless him, and thanks :3 Yeah, my brother has said he's bought stuff before (though not VNs, just indie games in general) that has cost around the same and he's finished it all in one night, and then been a bit disappointed.
I mean, when it comes to big commercial releases, I can't even afford to buy games new anymore xD Been priced out, haha. I'm waiting to play The Quarry, but I just can't afford to spend more than £30 max on a game and they release at like £50 nowadays >.<
Anyways, I'm just glad you enjoyed SR and happy that you think it's worth more than some of the commercial VNs out there :3 It sure would be nice if I could somehow make a living making stuff like that, but it seems as though that's unlikely to ever be a possibility with the way things work in my country and my personal circumstances :(
I'm glad you like Kuro's feminine look! I was kinda annoyed that I had to make him that way initially, but as I worked on the project, the sprites kinda grew on me, haha. Then I couldn't imagine him looking any other way.
Oh, and if you haven't already checked it out, Archie does make a brief appearance in Apartment No 9 (otome version), but it's quite a depressing sorta story in that one with a lot of trigger warnings, so it's probably not worth doing all the stuff required to see Archie if the story doesn't sound like your cup of tea, haha.
Question for a new player: is there any way to turn off the voice acting but not the sound effects or background music? I've always felt more comfortable when I can just read the dialogue aloud in my head, and I don't want to fully turn off the music or sound effects unless there's no other option
Thanks for checking out the game :3 As far as I can remember, you'd have to turn off all SFX to get the voices muted as well. Don't quote me on it, but I think you can still keep the BGM volume up. It's been so long that I can't quite remember though >.< I just remember the fact that at the time of making the game, Tyranobuilder (the engine I used to make it) had no option built-in to let a dev differentiate voice acting from other SFX, so I think it all had to go in the same category, unfortunately!
It's one of the many reasons why I wound up switching to using a different engine in the end, cos with what I use now, not only can I put the voice acting on a separate channel to SFX, but I can even easily add individual volume sliders for each character, which is sooo much better! But yeah, it's not an option in SR, sadly :(
I see... thanks for the reply anyhow! :D
This game was really fun! I really loved the '???' route but the princess and mage routes were close to my heart too. The Kuro in the mage route was my favourite yandere, but the soft fox yandere in the princess route was really lovely too. The school route was the shortest but I really loved the everyday feel and Lana really warmed my heart even though we couldn't have much screentime with her. I would have loved to see more of Shiro and the original MC/Anathema together, I really liked their story and wish that we could see more of their backstory. Shiro was so cool and I can see how strong his love was, and the good endings where we saw sneak peeks of him melted my heart - I just wanted to give a big hug to him. By the way, who is '???' and why are they always calling out for Anathema?
Glad you enjoyed it :3 And that's awesome that you liked the contrasting mage and princess route Kuros :D I really wanted there to be at least 1 softer, much calmer version of Kuro in there while still making sure he was a yandere, haha. I was worried that the whole princess route might come off as boring compared to the other routes though >.< so that's great you still had fun with it!
The student route is the first route I ever wrote for the game, which I guess is why it came out so much shorter than the others + is probably the worst written of them all >.< It's something I hope to improve on if/when I ever get around to remaking the game with new art and extra content :3 I'm glad you still liked that route though. Lana is kinda the friend I never had but wished I did while at school, haha. It certainly would've made life much easier to have someone like that around :3
Expanding on original MC's story is also something I'd like to do in the remake, perhaps through epilogues or flashbacks of some sort as well :3
I guess I should probably put a spoilers thing here to answer your last question x3
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The character who calls out for Anathema is my 4th wall-breaking character who doesn't yet have an official name, but has been nicknamed Archie (short for Architect). So when the character is speaking to Anathema, rather than speaking to a character within the game, they are speaking to you, the player. You are Archie's 'Anathema' :3 The character also features briefly in one of my other games (Apartment No.9 GxB/otome version), and I hope to continue trickling bits of him into my projects as time goes on ^-^
Thanks so much for taking the time to play through the game and leave such a lovely comment :3
Omg so excited to see you reply!!! That makes sense, the school route was short but I really enjoyed it and wanted to see more of it. School!Kuro was the hottest one hahah imo except XXX was great too (trying to avoid spoiling their name). I would definitely love to see OG!MC story being expanded!
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I loved the XXX route, it was so good and left me wondering so much about them and their LI. Like Shiro was amazing, I really thought I got his name when I had 4 letters, I was like SHION. But Shiro makes more sense lol, because Kuro vs. Shiro. Shiro shitting on Kuro and the clones hurt because they are copies but I can understand why he seems them as abominations or like fake copies, I can't imagine the pain of watching clones of your love being manipulated and hurt and just not having their memories of you? Would have broken me. But it's also why I really liked Shiro and god, he really did have a presence when he came. I could see the darker parts of him and his deep love too for MC, like what we see yandere!Kuro does when he just literally agrees to destroying the world with MC if that's what she wants and how much he loves her and will support any decision he made. I WAS SO ANGRY AT DAD THO, ALL THE MONSTER HE CREATED AND NEEDED TO BE DESTROYED, HE WAS THE CAUSE ARGHHGHKSDFHJS I wanted to flip at him so bad. I was like you hot and I had a crush on you but now screw you to pieces. Hehe thank you for sharing this game with us!
Omg, rambled so much and forgot about the Architect, ohh, that's so cool, I was reading his letter and him chasing us through games make so much sense now because Shiro can't do that. I've been meaning to play Apartment 9 so I am looking forward to seeing him there too (I shouldn't be but he's interesting hahahahahah).
I'm glad you still enjoyed that route :3 Yeah, hopefully, Ill manage to get there one day with a full remake! I really wanted to make a version with fem Kuros as well at some point, but it's so much work T_T I wish I could clone myself to work on different stuff at the same time, haha.
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Yeah, Kuro and Shiro's names are a bit corny x3 but I couldn't help it, haha. I just figured it was perfect for them.
And yeah, Isaac is definitely one heck of a giant asshole xD He certainly deserves much more than a few slaps for all the trouble he caused everyone and the pain he put em all through!
Thanks so much again for playing :3 I really appreciate it!
Would it be possible to know what sprite maker you used? I love that art style v much
Sure! They are by a person/group? called T.O.P.
They were a little bit awkward to use because I had to buy each one individually. At the time, the dev/s who made the sprite maker didn't have a bundle, but that was years ago, so maybe they have now! A bundle of some sort at a discounted price sure would've been nice. I think they were like $10 each or something. They're also all in Japanese, but since you can see the changes as you make them to the character, you sorta just get used to which sections are which and memorise it. The worst thing was that it was quite laggy to use, but that could have just been my awful laptop x3
This is the site I first saw the stuff! I think it was linked from lemmasoft forums or something on a thread about free use backgrounds for VNs because the creator made a couple of pieces of background art that anyone can download and use for free. From there, I found the sprite stuff by just sorta generally browsing through the site with Google translate on x3
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~gakai/index.htm
This section lists all the stuff they've released for sale. It looks like they've made even more since I last purchased anything!
https://gakaiblog.at.webry.info/
I don't think you have to use the maker that's packaged with each download though. As far as I can remember, they included a giant PSD file as well!
EDIT - I should probably also mention that not all the sprites are from the T.O.P. sprite makers. If you look at the screenshots and notice some of them look a slightly different style, it's because I also used other sprite resources from someone called Blue Forest to make some of the characters that I couldn't manage to with the T.O.P. ones. Mainly all the side characters. Only the MC and Kuro sprites are T.O.P.
Thank you!